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Demography. At the end of the Middle Ages, France was the most populous region [clarification needed] in Europe—having overtaken Spain and Italy by 1340. [2] In the 14th century, before the arrival of the Black Death, the total population of the area covered by modern-day France has been estimated at 16 million. [3]
List of French monarchs. From top; left to right: Robert I, Hugh Capet, Louis IX, Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Napoleon III. The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in ...
v. t. e. Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, Medieval literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. The material and cultural conditions in France and associated territories around the year 1100 ...
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language , Old French was a group of Romance dialects , mutually intelligible yet diverse .
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. 9th-century French women (1 C, 18 P) 10th-century French women (2 C, 36 P) 11th-century French women (2 C, 70 P) 12th-century French women (4 C, 93 P) 13th-century French women (5 C, 132 P) 14th-century French women (3 C, 115 P) 15th-century French women ...
Margaret of Artois. Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France. Margaret of France, Queen of England. Margaret of the Palatinate. Margaret, Countess of Brienne. Marguerite de Carrouges. Marie I de Coucy, Countess of Soissons. Marie de Bourbon, Princess of Achaea. Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol.
Catherine of Alençon. Catherine of Austria, Lady of Coucy. Catherine of France, Countess of Montpensier. Catherine of Valois–Courtenay. Alixandre de Caumont. Raymond-Guilhem de Caupenne. María de la Cerda. Luis de la Cerda. Charles IV of France.
Jeanne de Clisson (1300–1359), also known as Jeanne de Belleville and the Lioness of Brittany, was a French/Breton noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by King Philip VI of France. She crossed the English Channel targeting French ships and often slaughtering their crew. It was her practice ...