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[citation needed] Their four-year-old son was crowned King Louis XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but to general surprise entrusted the government to the chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, who was a protégé of Cardinal Richelieu and figured among the council of the regency. Mazarin took up residence at the Palais Royal near Queen Anne.
Anne of France (or Anne de Beaujeu; 3 April 1461 – 14 November 1522) was a French princess and regent, the eldest daughter of Louis XI by Charlotte of Savoy. Anne was the sister of Charles VIII , for whom she acted as regent during his minority from 1483 until 1491.
His death, however, was followed by a three-year-long civil war that ended with the Treaty of Verdun, which divided Francia into three kingdoms, one of which (Middle Francia) was short-lived. Modern France developed from West Francia, while East Francia became the Holy Roman Empire and later Germany. By this time, the eastern and western parts ...
Anne of Austria, Queen of France, wife of Louis XIII (by Peter Paul Rubens, 1625) On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of Philip III of Spain. [22] The couple were second cousins, by mutual descent from Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political alliances ...
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.
Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
September 22 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent of France (d. 1666) [123] September 27 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643) [124] October 7 – Florimond de Beaune, French mathematician and jurist (d. 1652) October 9 – Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter (d. 1659) October 24 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice ...
Anne of Austria (1601–1666), queen of France Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief) (c. 1650–c. 1725), Native American tribal leader in colonial Virginia Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667–1740), queen of Spain