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This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun , which gave rise to West Francia , until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
Map of France in 1477. 1461–1472: the king gives the Duchy of Berry in appanage to his brother Charles of France. Dissatisfied, Charles joins with other feudal nobles in the League of the Public Weal. At the Treaty of Conflans in 1465, Charles of France exchanges Berry for the Duchy of Normandy (1465–1469).
Marguerite of Provence, Queen of Louis IX, was the last French queen to use the title of Queen of the Franks. This is a list of the women who have been queens consort of the Frankish people. As all kings of the Franks have been male, there has never been a queen regnant of the Franks (although some women have governed as regents ).
Poor living conditions, famines, and disease made enslaved labor conditions particularly lethal across French colonies. French presence in Senegal began in 1626, although formal colonies and trading posts were not established until 1659 with the founding of Saint-Louis, and 1677 with the founding of Gorée. [27]
The archives has published inventories of some of its records, including those related to the colonial administration of Algeria, French Equatorial Africa, and French Indochina; the governmental Secrétariat d'Etat à la Marine and Ministère des Colonies ; bagnes (prisons); private organizations such as the Comité central français pour l ...
At the French court, she studied grammar, classics, history, and Holy Scripture. [14] Margaret learned to speak Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek in addition to her native French. [15] She was competent also in prose, poetry, horsemanship, and dance. She traveled with her family and the court in the grand tour of France (1564–1566). During ...
Constance was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, ... French royalty; Vacant. Title last held by. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen consort of France 1154–1160 Vacant.