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Before the 14th century, oversight of the collection of royal taxes fell generally to the baillis and sénéchaux in their circumscriptions. Reforms in the 14th and 15th centuries saw France's royal financial administration run by two financial boards which worked in a collegial manner: the four généraux des finances (also called général conseiller or receveur général) oversaw the ...
Antoine Escalin des Aimars March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. July 12 - King Francis I, after allying with Suleiman the Magnificent , declares war once again on Charles V, starting the Italian War of 1542–1546 .
30 Pr. 21 April 1743 An Act for vesting divers Lands and Hereditaments, in Ravensworth and Washton, in the County of York, in Andrew Perrot Gentleman, discharged of the Uses and Trusts of the Marriage Settlement of James Cooke the Younger; and for settling, in Lieu thereof, other Lands and Hereditaments, of greater Value, to the same Uses.
The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin: Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. [3]
Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1515–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec). She became well known after her subsequent rescue and return to France; her story was recounted in the Heptaméron by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet.
May 30 – France loses the siege of Genoa after 10 days against the Holy Roman Imperial armies of General Fernando d'Avalos. [ 6 ] June 19 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits King Henry VIII of England , and signs the Treaty of Windsor , pledging a joint invasion of France, bringing England into the ongoing Italian War of 1521–1526 .
January 1 (New Year's Day), Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, at the invite of king Frances I, visits Paris for the first and only time and stays for 2 months. [ 1 ] June 1 , Edict of Fontainebleau was issued by King Francis I branding Protestants as heretics and condemned to death.
Laudonnière, as depicted in 1846 La Floride françoise (French Florida), by Pierre du Val, 17th century. Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡulɛn də lodɔnjɛʁ]; c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.