The Valois
[1328-1589]
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The
Valois
[1328-1498]
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Philippe
VI of Valois [1328-1350] Grandson of
Phillippe III; Nephew of Philippe
IV; In 1337, the
Hundred Years' War started;
At the
Battle of Crécy, the French were defeated by the English.
The bubonic plague, or Black Death, began in 1348 and lasted until 1352.
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Jean
II, the Good [1350-1364] Son of Philippe VI;
King during part of the
Hundred Years' War;
In 1360 he made the area of
Terre d’Auvergn into a duchy for his son Jean.
Laid seige to the town of
Evreux in 1356;
Captured by the English at
Poitiers
in
1356; In 1358, the Jacquerie peasant uprising took
place in northern France. In the same year, Etienne Marcel
led the Bourgeois uprising in
Paris.
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Charles
V, the Wise [1364-1380] Son of Jean II; Prevailed over the English mostly due
to Du Guesclin. In 1370 he bought the
département of Yonne. In 1372 he
reconquered the area previously ceded to the English.
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Charles
VI, the Beloved, the Mad [1380-1422]
Son of Charles V;
Married Isabeau de Baviere; went mad. During the
Hundred
Years' War, Henry V of England defeated the French, at the
Battle of Agincourt,
in 1415. In 1420, in the Treaty of Troyes, Charles
made
Henry V of England his heir.
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Charles
VII, the Victorious [1422-1461]
Son of Charles VI; Initially
used
Blois as his capital;
Moved the Parliament from
Paris to Poitier in 1423; Served by
Jeanne d’Arc {1429-1430}
who met him at
Chinon;
Crowned king of France in 1429; In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc was burned
at the stake, in
Rouen, by the English. The French ousted
the English from northern France; In 1444, the
people of
Metz sided with Charles VII. When the Hundred Years' War
ended, in 1453, only Calais remained English (End of
Hundred Years' War).
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Louis
XI, the Cruel [1461-1483] Son
of Charles VII; Vanquished Charles the Reckless.
The
first printing press, in France, was set up in 1470
in Strasburg.
In 1477, the
Dukes of Burgundy were defeated. They had
tried to set up a
kingdom between Germany and France.
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Charles
VIII, the Affable [1483-1498] (Son of Louis XI; Began the Italian wars). The Italian
Wars, between France and Austria for control of Italian
territories, lasted from 1494 to 1559.
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The Valois-Orléans
[1498-1515]
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Louis
XII, the father of the people [1498-1515]
Great-grandson of
Charles V; Son of duke Charles
of Orléans;
Continued the Italian wars.
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The Valois-Angoulême
[1515-1589]
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François
I [1515-1547]
Son of Charles of Angoulême; Was the
embodiment of the French renaissance; Aided Cellini and
Leonardo da Vinci, who died in his arms in 1519; Embellished
Fontainebleau; Established royal absolutism; Calais is finally
captured by the French. John Calvin began his Institutes of the
Christian Religion in 1536. This led to a new version of
Protestantism in France. French was made the official
state language by the Edict of Viller in 1539.
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Henri
II [1547-1559] Wed Catherine de Medicis who became the mother
of Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III and Queen Margaret, the
wife of Henry IV; Catherine persuaded Charles IX to massacre
the Huguenots; Diane de Poitiers was his mistress.
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François
II [1559-1560]
Son of Henri II; Married Mary, Queen of Scots in 1558; The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis ended the
Italian Wars in 1559.
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Charles
IX [1560-1574] Brother of
Francois II and Henri III;
Catherine de Medici was the regent [1560-1563].
The Wars of Religion, between Protestants and Catholics, began
in 1562. The St-Bartholomew's Eve Massacre of Protestants
took place in
Paris in 1572.
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Henri
III [1574-1589] Brother of
Charles IX and Francois II; Assassinated.
The Bourbons
[1589-1715]
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