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the crown be met by reducing royal pensions and the number of offices. All three of the estates were in agreement on the demand for an end to the sale of government offices. By 7 March 1484, the King announced that he was leaving Tours because of poor health. Five days later the deputies were told that there was no more money to pay their salaries, and the
Estates General meekly concluded its business and went home. The Estates General of 1484 is called, by historians, the most important Estates General until the Estates General of 1789. Important as they were, many of the reforms suggested at the meeting of the Estates General were not immediately adopted. Rather the reforms would only be acted on when Louis XII came to the throne.
1086:. The French army plundered and raped Capua mercilessly. However, when news of the rape of Capua spread throughout southern Italy, resistance to the French vanished. Frederick fled and the French Army entered Naples unopposed. Louis XII claimed the throne of Naples and pursuant to the sharing agreement with Ferdinand II shared half the income of Naples with Spain. However, as Machiavelli had predicted, the agreement could not last and in early 1502 relations between France and Spain had gone sour. Negotiations were started between France and Spain over their disagreements about Naples. However, in April 1502, without waiting for the conclusion of these negotiations, Louis sent an army under the command of
1161:, on edifices, and on cannons. As it was common belief at the time that the porcupine could shoot its quills, the porcupine symbolized the offensive and defensive capabilities of the king. During his years of conquest, Louis portrayed his kingdom to the public as a porcupine – a supposedly invincible creature feared by all. However, by the second half of his reign, Louis began to relegate the aggressive porcupine into a simple heraldic symbol for identification. Seeking to paint himself as a pious and chivalrous king to the public, Louis adopted titles such as
1042:, he was forced to come to Italy himself . Not satisfied with having made the Church powerful and deprived himself of his friends, he went after the kingdom of Naples and divided it with the king of Spain (Ferdinand II). And where before he alone had been the arbiter of Italy, he brought in a rival to whom everyone in the kingdom who was ambitious on his own account or dissatisfied with Louis could have recourse. He could have left in Naples a caretaker king of his own, but he threw him out, and substituted a man capable of driving out Louis himself.
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Pisans put up such a determined resistance that
Beaumont despaired of ever taking Pisa. On 11 July 1500, the French broke camp and retreated north. The diversion to Pisa and the failure there emboldened opponents of the French in Italy. Pursuing the claim to the Kingdom of Naples had become politically impossible until some of the opponents were neutralized. One opponent in particular was Spain. It was at this point, in 1500, that Louis XII pursued the claim of his immediate predecessor to the Kingdom of Naples with Ferdinand II, the
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862:, the next fortified town on the road to the city of Milan. This time the massacre had the desired effect, as three more fortified towns surrendered without a fight. Marshall Trivulzio then brought the French Army up to the gates of town of Alessandro, and his batteries began battering the walls of the town on 25 August 1499. At first, a vigorous defense was mounted by the garrison, but on 29 August 1499, the city gave up and the garrison and the governor of the city slipped out of town before dawn.
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Florence because in the recent fight against Sforza, Florence had chosen to abandon France and remain strictly neutral. The French knew that they would need Florence in the coming campaign in the Kingdom of Naples – French troops would need to cross Florentine territory on their way to Naples and they would need Florentine agreement to do so. Accordingly, a French army including 600 knights and 6,000 Swiss infantrymen under the command of
611:". The Pragmatic Sanction had been first instituted by King Charles VII, the former King Charles VIII's grandfather. The Pragmatic Sanction excluded the papacy from the process of appointing bishops and abbots in France. Instead, these positions would be filled by appointment made by the cathedrals and monastery chapters themselves. All church prelates within France would be appointed by the King of France without reference to the pope.
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of the Swiss
Confederation heard about the coming battle and forbade any Swiss soldier from fighting against a fellow Swiss, which effectively subtracted all the Swiss from both sides for this particular battle. These troops then started to march back home to Switzerland. This had a much more damaging effect on Sforza's army, because his army was composed of a larger proportion of Swiss than the French army under La Trémoille.
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853:. Marshall Trivulzio had been in the service of the French throne since the reign of Louis XI, but he had been born and raised in Milan. The French army that Marshal Trivulzio now commanded consisted of 27,000 men of which 10,000 were mounted. The French army was also supplied with 5,000 Swiss mercenaries. In the campaign of 1499, the French army surrounded the fortified town of
1038:. And he never realized that by this decision he was weakening himself, driving away his friends and those who had flocked to him, while strengthening the Church by adding vast temporal power to the spiritual power which gives it so much authority. Having made this first mistake, he was forced into others. To limit the ambition of Alexander and keep him from becoming master of
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the thus far secret Treaty of
Grenada, signed 11 November 1500, which divided the Kingdom of Naples between France and Spain. The Pope was pleased and enthusiastically issued a bull naming the two kings – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Spain – as the Pope's vassals in Naples. Indeed, the public announcement of the treaty in the Vatican was the first news that King
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1485:, France, on 9 October 1514. This represented a final attempt to produce an heir to his throne, for despite two previous marriages the king had no living sons. Louis died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after he married Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber, but more likely from the effects of
1821:, and concessions were made to the altered political landscape of the fictionalized series. The first season starts with Francis I already King of France, but in order to include Mary's short royal marriage and scandalous secret remarriage, the writers added a King of Portugal as her bridegroom, who bears no resemblance to
882:, heard about the surrender of Milan on 17 September 1499. He immediately left Lyon and on 6 October 1499, Louis XII made his triumphant entry into Milan. Marshal Trevulzio presented the key to the city to Louis, who in turn appointed Marshal Trivulzio as the temporary French governor of Milan. Later, Louis appointed
1196:. The King and Queen of France, identified as princes of Provence, are kneeling, the King has in his hands the crown that appears on the coins minted by the Mint of Milan. This is the only portrait, full-length, of a king of France, performed by a painter of the Italian Renaissance, who has come up to us.
899:"treasonous"), Louis XII was very generous to the city in victory. While Sforza had been in charge of Milan, the export of grain had been forbidden. Now the French reopened the trade in grain, setting off a decade of prosperity in Milan. Milan was to remain a French stronghold in Italy for twelve years.
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England. To meet his budget after having reduced taxes, Louis XII reduced the pensions for the nobility and for foreign princes. In religious policy, Louis XII reinstituted the Pragmatic Sanction, which established the Roman Catholic Church in France as a "Gallic Church" with most of the power
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King Louis XI died on 30 August 1483. He was succeeded to the throne of France by his thirteen-year-old son, Charles VIII. Nobody knew the direction which the new king (or more accurately his regent and oldest sister, Anne of France) would take in leading the kingdom. Accordingly, on 24 October 1483,
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The annulment, described as "one of the seamiest lawsuits of the age", was not simple. Louis did not, as one might have expected, argue the marriage to be void due to consanguinity (the general allowance for the dissolution of a marriage at that time). Though he could produce witnesses to claim that
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composed of 1,000 lances, 10,000 infantrymen including 5,000 Swiss troops to Naples in early June 1501. In May 1501, Louis had obtained free passage for his troops to march through
Bologne on the way to Naples. As the army approached Rome, Spanish and French ambassadors notified Pope Alexander VI of
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Consider how easy it would have been for the king to maintain his position in Italy if he had observed the rules , and become the protector and defender of his new friends. They were many, they were weak, some of them were afraid of the
Venetians, others of the Church, hence they were bound to stick
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in the western part of the Duchy of Milan. After five hours of bombardment by the French artillery batteries, the walls of Rocca di Arazzo were breached and the town was taken by the French. Louis XII had ordered his army to massacre the garrison and many civilians as a message to the other towns in
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The French army had been a potent force in 1494 when
Charles VIII had first invaded Italy. However, during the remainder of Charles VIII's reign, the army had been allowed to deteriorate through neglect. Ever since becoming king, Louis XII had been rebuilding the French army. Now he could put it to
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On this occasion he tried to conquer the Duchy of Milan, weakened by an economic crisis, and on 11 June 1495 he occupied with his troops the city of Novara, which was given to him for treason. He was on the verge of subjugating the Moro, who proved unable to cope with the situation, but clashed with
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Louis married the reluctant queen dowager, Anne, in 1499. Still only 22, Anne, who had borne as many as seven stillborn or short-lived children during her previous marriage to King
Charles, now bore a further four stillborn sons to the new king, but also two surviving daughters. The elder daughter,
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Moreover, Louis popularized the state portrait as a propaganda tool. He employed numerous artists to capture him and produce individualized, miniature portraits that can be found in manuscripts today. Furthermore, Louis's propaganda arsenal was greatly expanded with the addition of portrait coins –
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Faced with the return of the French and his own greatly reduced force, Sforza decided to slip out of Milan as he had done previously. This time, however, Sforza was captured and spent the rest of his life in a French prison. Despite Milan's openly warm welcome of Sforza (which Louis XII regarded as
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and sent him to recapture Milan. By the time Trémoille reached the forts west of Milan where Marshal Trivulzio and his force were holding out, the French army had swollen to 30,000 men by recruitment along the way. Many of these new recruits in the French army were Swiss mercenaries. The government
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Meanwhile, Ludovico Sforza had been gathering an army, mainly among the Swiss, to take Milan back. In mid-January 1500, his army crossed the border into the Duchy of Milan and marched toward the city of Milan. Upon hearing the news of Sforza's return, some of his partisans in the city rose up. On 1
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been a neutral party, Joan would likely have won, for Louis's case was exceedingly weak. Pope Alexander VI, however, had political reasons to grant the annulment, and ruled against Joan accordingly. He granted the annulment on the grounds that Louis did not freely marry, but was forced to marry by
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as an annual subsidy for simply allowing the French to recruit an unspecified number of troops in the Confederation. In exchange, Louis promised to protect the Confederation from any aggression from Maximillian and the Holy Roman Empire. Louis opened negotiations with the Duchy of Savoy and by May
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The deputies representing the Second Estate (the nobility) at the Estates General of 1484 wanted all foreigners to be prohibited from command positions in the military. The deputies of the Third Estate (the merchants and traders) wanted taxes to be drastically reduced and that the revenue needs of
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Louis XI, who had become king of France in 1461, became highly distrustful of the close relationship between the Orleanists and the Burgundians and began to oppose the idea of an Orleanist ever coming to the throne of France. However, Louis XI might have been more influenced in this opinion by his
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was codified and ratified by the royal proclamation of the Ordinance of Blois of 1499. The Ordinance of Lyon tightened up the tax collection system requiring, for instance, that tax collectors forward all money to the government within eight days after they collected it from the people. Fines and
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If France could have taken Naples with her own power, she should have done so; if she could not, she should not have split the kingdom with the Spaniards. The division of Lombardy that she made with the Venetians was excusable, since it gave Louis a foothold in Italy; the division of Naples with
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was sent to Pisa. On 29 June 1500, a combined French and Florentine force laid siege to Pisa and set up batteries around the town. Within a day of opening fire, the French batteries had knocked down 100 feet of the old medieval walls surrounding the city. Even with the breach in their walls, the
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commoners and the class of traders and merchants in France. Louis, the current Duke of Orleans and future Louis XII, attended as part of the Second Estate. Each estate brought its chief complaints to the Estates General in hopes to have some impact on the policies that the new King would pursue.
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Accordingly, Louis (much to the dismay of his wife) claimed that Joan was physically malformed (providing a rich variety of detail precisely how) and that he had therefore been unable to consummate the marriage. Joan, unsurprisingly, fought this uncertain charge fiercely, producing witnesses to
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but had been in constant revolt almost ever since. In 1494, the Pisans successfully overthrew the Florentine governors of the city. The Florentines requested aid from the French to recapture Pisa, as the city of Florence had long been an ally of France in Italian affairs. However, Louis and his
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The presence of several French garrisons in southern Italy, the remnants of Charles VIII's first invasion of Italy, provided Louis XII with a toehold in southern Italy from which he hoped to enforce his claim to the Kingdom of Naples. However, Louis first had to deal with a recurring problem in
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between France and Scotland that had been in existence since King Philippe IV of France first recognised Robert the Bruce (1306–1329) as King of Scotland in 1309. In early 1499, the old alliance between Scotland and France was renewed and the attentions of England were drawn northwards towards
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began to arrive in Tours, France. The deputies represented three different "estates" in society. The First Estate was the Church; in France this meant the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Estate was composed of the nobility and the royalty of France. The Third Estate was generally composed of
810:. Ferdinand was so hostile to France that he had founded the anti-French League of Venice in 1495. In August 1498, Louis XII succeeded in signing a treaty with Spain that ignored all the territorial disputes between France and Spain and merely pledged mutual friendship and non-aggression.
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and publicity for the French crown. Louis XII had numerous large ceremonies for the various marriages, funerals, and other events that occurred under his reign. These occasions provided Louis with opportunities to project royal power and elevate Louis, which was largely done through
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As the Duke of Milan, Louis XII, he is portrayed in the painting of Alvise De Donati, Maria Maddalena, Marta, Lazarro and Maximino adored by the Prince and Princess of Provence, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona, originally in the church of San Bartolomeo in
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February 1500, Marshal Trivulzio decided that he could not hold the city, and the French retreated to the fortresses west of the city. Sforza was welcomed back into the city by a joyous crowd of his supporters on 5 February 1500. Louis XII raised another army under
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the Duchy against resistance to the French army. The legal rationale for the massacre at Rocca di Arazzo was that defenders of the town were traitors because they had risen up in arms against their rightful lord, Louis XII. The French repeated the episode at
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faction, greatly contributing to the stability of French government. In the Ordinance of Blois of 1499 and the Ordinance of Lyon issued in June 1510 he extended the powers of royal judges and made efforts to curb corruption in the law. Highly complex French
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all sought him out with professions of friendship. At this point the Venetians began to see the folly of what they had done, since in order to gain for themselves a couple of districts in Lombardy, they had now made the king master of a third of Italy.
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on 6 July 1495. As a result, Louis had come to hate Ludovico Sforza. Accordingly, even before he became King of France, Louis began to claim the Duchy of Milan as his own inheritance, which should have come to his by right of his paternal grandmother
709:. At the time, the Duchy of Milan was one of the most prosperous regions of Europe. Louis, the current Duke of Orleans and future King Louis XII, joined Charles VIII on this campaign. The French Kingdom was responding to an appeal for assistance from
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1499 had hammered out an agreement that allowed French troops to cross Savoy to reach the Duchy of Milan. The agreement with Savoy also allowed France to purchase supplies and to recruit troops in Savoy. Finally, Louis was ready to march into Italy.
849:, the French army crossed the border into the Duchy of Milan. Contrary to the wishes of the Second Estate (the nobles and royalty of France), expressed at the Estates General in 1484, this French army was being led by a foreigner,
1405:(his second cousin) to marry his daughter Joan of France. Charles VIII (son of Louis XI) succeeded to the throne of France in 1483, but died childless in 1498, when the throne passed to Louis XII. Charles had been married to
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for a funeral mass. The next day, during the funeral procession, the cart carrying the coffin broke down and there was a dispute over which party would receive the gold cloth that covered the coffin. Louis was interred in
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opposition to the entire Orleanist faction of the royal family than by the actual facts of this paternity case. Despite any alleged doubts that King Louis XI had, the King, nevertheless, became "godfather" of the newborn.
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determined that it was useless to continue resisting the French. Accordingly, on the night of 2 September 1499, Sforza and a band of cavalry fled Milan, heading northward to the Holy Roman Empire. Louis XII, staying in
2353:"The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33", pp. 42, 1854: "Louis XI compelled him to marry his deformed and sterile daughter Joan, threatening him with death by drowning, if he refused."
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In spite of his military and diplomatic failures, Louis proved to be a popular king. Historians often attribute Louis's popularity to his tax reduction policies. While Francis I eventually raised taxes, Louis's
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Spain was an error, since there was no such necessity for it. depriving the Venetians of their power (who never would have let anyone else into Lombardy unless they were in control), he thus lost Lombardy.
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802:, the Infanta of Spain. Thus he needed to detach Spain from its close relations with England before he could deal with Henry VII. Furthermore, Spain was then a member of the anti-French League of Venice.
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was to serve as regent until Charles VIII became 20 years old. From 1485 through 1488, there was another war against the royal authority of France conducted by a collections of nobles. This war was the
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with the Kingdom of France. To sustain this union, Louis XII had his marriage to Joan annulled (December 1498) after he became king so that he could marry Charles VIII's widow, Anne of Brittany.
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the two were closely related due to various linking marriages, there was no documentary proof, merely the opinions of courtiers. Likewise, Louis could not argue that he had been below the legal
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army, allies of the Duchy of Milan, were crossing into the Duchy from the east in an attempt to aid the Milanese army before it was too late. Accordingly, Marshal Trivulzio marched his army to
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by him; and with their help, he could easily have protected himself against the remaining great powers. But no sooner was he established in Milan than he took exactly the wrong tack, helping
1806:. Despite his initial friendship with Cesare, their relations are strained by Cesare's conflicts with French interests, as well as Cesare's heavy-handed methods. After della Rovere becomes
1176:. In addition, Louis's personal colors were red and yellow (or gold). Thus, guard regiment uniforms, manuscript color schemes, flags, often adorned Louis's royal colors and his initial.
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Being a stern disciplinarian, Lord Stuart held the troops of his army to strict decorum during most of the march to Naples. However, discipline fell apart when the army passed through
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Although he came late (and unexpectedly) to power, Louis acted with vigour, reforming the French legal system, reducing taxes, and improving the government much like his contemporary
1563:; however, he cites no primary source for this statement. If it is correct, the son in question must have been different from the one who was born 21 January who is shown below.
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With Maximillian I neutralized, Louis wanted to turn his attention to King Henry VII of England. However, Henry was then pursuing a marriage between his eldest son, Arthur, and
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of appointment in the hands of the king or other French officials. As noted above, these reforms had been proposed at the meeting of the Estates General in 1484.
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as the permanent governor of Milan. In an attempt to win popularity with the public in Milan, Louis lowered the old Sforza taxes by as much as one-third.
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as his personal badge and as a royal beast. As a result, the popularity of the now royal creature exploded, resulting in the placement of porcupines in
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Joan's father Louis XI. Outraged, Joan reluctantly submitted, saying that she would pray for her former husband. She became a nun; she was
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permitted claims to the French throne only by male agnatic descendants of French kings. This made Louis, the great-grandson of King
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on 14 May 1509. However, things became much more difficult in 1510, when the army of
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3518:] (in French). Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Paris: La compagnie des libraires.
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The illuminated page: ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library
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and died later that evening. On 11 January Louis's body was taken to the
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and was compelled to be married to his disabled and supposedly
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3290:(in French). 1 (3rd ed.). Paris: La compagnie des libraires.
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Scotland rather than southwards towards continental Europe.
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and became queen consort to Francis. The younger daughter,
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in campaigns in Italy, leading the vanguards of the army.
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2928:. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: 1977. pp. 9–11.
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The First Estate (the Church) wanted a return to the "
3567:. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
3530:. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
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3463:]. Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 145.
2924:by Niccolò Machiavelli. Translated and edited by
1702:, on 12 September 1494, Francis I was the son of
1217:were longer-lasting. He duly earned the title of
1661:, from 1505, who died in 1511 and was buried in
1107:Litterae super abrogatione pragmatice sanctionis
567:Louis d'Orléans was born on 27 June 1462 in the
551:Louis kneeling in prayer, with saints, from the
437:. By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the
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2378:, (University of California Press, 2004), 105.
1577:The Journal de Louise de Savoie records that “
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2376:The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies
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1344:Learn how and when to remove this message
631:, Louis confronted the royal army at the
3348:Michaud & Poujoulat (1838), Tome V,
3299:Michaud & Poujoulat (1838), Tome V,
1629:mort-né au château de Blois janvier 1512
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1409:, in order to unite the quasi-sovereign
527:) for his reduction of the tax known as
515:. A popular king, Louis was proclaimed "
5039:People of the Italian Wars of 1499–1504
3528:Great Britain to 1688: A Modern History
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5044:People of the Italian War of 1494–1495
4979:Heirs presumptive to the French throne
4949:Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis
3286:Anselme de Sainte-Marie, Père (1726).
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1688:Tomb of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany
697:The French Kingdom under Charles VIII
591:upon the death of his father in 1465.
4989:Knights of the Order of the Porcupine
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2666:La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia
2487:, (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007), 37.
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1165:and compared himself to figures like
1113:Louis's greatest success came in the
918:northern Italy. In 1406, the city of
539:cadet branch of the House of Valois.
7:
4994:Military leaders of the Italian Wars
4892:Debatable or disputed rulers are in
1790:Louis is portrayed by English actor
1278:adding citations to reliable sources
1653:Louis XII had an illegitimate son,
1623:Père Anselme records a second son “
1187:Chateau de Blois, Louis's Porcupine
1473:After Anne's death, Louis married
1125:intervened. Julius II founded the
1088:Louis d' Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
776:the fierce opposition of his wife
25:
3535:Baumgartner, Frederic J. (1996).
1823:the King of Portugal at that time
724:Bronze cannon of Louis XII, with
571:, Touraine (in the modern French
488:and was forced to cede Naples to
3595:W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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1180:first minted in France in 1514.
633:Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
466:Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
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27:King of France from 1498 to 1515
4939:16th-century monarchs of Naples
3610:House of Valois, Orléans branch
1583:un fils...il avoit faute de vie
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5029:16th-century dukes of Brittany
5024:15th-century dukes of Brittany
3658:7 April 1498 – 1 January 1515
3591:Louis XI: The Universal Spider
1401:In 1476 he was forced by King
989:(of Bologna), the countess of
957:As portrayed in Machiavelli's
464:. At the royal victory in the
418:, who died childless in 1498.
406:from 1501 to 1504. The son of
1:
3383:De la maison royale de France
2105:Adolph III, Count of the Mark
906:agreed to the appointment of
492:in 1504. Louis, who remained
339:Michel, Archbishop of Bourges
69:7 April 1498 – 1 January 1515
5019:16th-century peers of France
5014:15th-century peers of France
5004:French patrons of literature
4929:16th-century kings of France
4924:15th-century kings of France
3315:Kerrebrouck, P. van (1990).
1686:. He is commemorated by the
1587:à l’issue d’un voyage à Lyon
1115:War of the League of Cambrai
1098:War of the League of Cambrai
629:Francis II, Duke of Brittany
455:Union of Brittany and France
4974:Military governors of Paris
3350:Journal de Louise de Savoye
3326:, pp. 167, 175 footnote 44.
3301:Journal de Louise de Savoye
1704:Charles, Count of AngoulĂŞme
1541:on 18 May 1514; had issue.
667:Louis XII on a coin of 1514
513:absolute monarchy in France
433:by his second cousin, King
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1609:in April 1528; had issue.
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1407:Anne, Duchess of Brittany
1072:Bernard Stuart of Aubigny
451:Anne, Duchess of Brittany
333:Renée, Duchess of Ferrara
266:Anne, Duchess of Brittany
39:
3810:Merged into royal domain
3783:Merged into royal domain
3565:France: A Modern History
3455:Ornato, Monique (1981).
2131:Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
1947:Charles, Duke of Orléans
1889:Louis I, Duke of Orléans
705:from the threats of the
581:Charles, Duke of Orléans
408:Charles, Duke of Orléans
366:Charles, Duke of Orléans
4984:House of Valois-Orléans
4305:List of French monarchs
3575:, collection "Époques"
3082:10.1111/1477-4658.00354
2707:Spain: A Modern History
1159:illuminated manuscripts
1090:against the Spanish in
476:for the control of the
474:second Italian campaign
328:Claude, Queen of France
4934:French Roman Catholics
4811:(1814–1815; 1815–1830)
4300:List of Frankish kings
4295:Simplified family tree
3976:
3215:Cite journal requires
3183:Cite journal requires
3148:Cite journal requires
3116:Cite journal requires
1983:Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1838:Ancestors of Louis XII
1766:Order of the Porcupine
1745:Order of Saint Michael
1743:– Grand Master of the
1380:Queen Anne of Brittany
1188:
1110:
1048:
851:Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
756:
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486:Ferdinand II of Aragon
480:. Louis conquered the
402:from 1498 to 1515 and
4199:Parthenopean Republic
3975:
3945:Louis Philippe Joseph
3579:: Champ Vallon, 2006
3335:C. W. Previté-Orton,
1659:Archbishop of Bourges
1633:grossesse tourne mal
1557:le cardinal d’Amboise
1479:Henry VIII of England
1466:(1510–1575), married
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892:Louis de La Trémoille
808:Isabella I of Castile
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699:invaded Italy in 1494
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4290:Detailed family tree
3615:Cadet branch of the
3587:Kendall, Paul Murray
2982:Norwich, John Julius
1813:The first season of
1721:in right of his wife
1684:Saint Denis Basilica
1631:”, commenting that “
1579:Anne reine de France
1549:late 1500/early 1501
1456:Francis of AngoulĂŞme
1366:Queen Joan of France
1274:improve this section
1231:Father of the People
1219:Father of the People
1163:Father of the People
1017:, and the people of
517:Father of the People
449:and instead married
441:cadet branch of the
251: 1476;
219:Saint Denis Basilica
206:HĂ´tel des Tournelles
4726:Henry VI of England
3691:Massimiliano Sforza
3442:, pp. 205–208.
3070:Renaissance Studies
2988:A History of Venice
2971:, pp. 125–126.
2851:, pp. 116–117.
2824:, pp. 115–116.
2595:, pp. 202–204.
2547:, pp. 100–101.
2283:Margaret of Bavaria
2067:Louis XII of France
1863:Charles V of France
1561:Philip I of Castile
1539:Francis I of France
1119:Battle of Agnadello
1077:Frederick of Naples
1052:Niccolò Machiavelli
945:Niccolò Machiavelli
827:Swiss Confederation
804:Ferdinand of Aragon
800:Catherine of Aragon
506:Chevalier de Bayard
136:Massimiliano Sforza
114:6 September 1499 –
18:Louis XII of France
4999:Monarchs of Naples
4873:House of Bonaparte
4783:House of Bonaparte
4713:House of Lancaster
4279:Monarchs of France
4030:Monarchs of Naples
3977:
3955:Ferdinand Philippe
3905:Charles Maximilian
3813:Title next held by
3786:Title next held by
3759:Title next held by
3543:St. Martin's Press
3506:de Gibours, Anselm
3092:– via JSTOR.
2705:Rhea Marsh Smith,
2163:Margaret of JĂĽlich
2041:Isabella of Valois
2009:Valentina Visconti
1800:Borgia (TV series)
1189:
1153:Louis adopted the
1111:
884:Georges d' Amboise
770:Valentina Visconti
757:
744:Louis XII leaving
738:
707:Republic of Venice
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609:Pragmatic Sanction
565:
553:Hours of Louis XII
5009:People from Blois
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4862:Louis Philippe II
4785:(1804–1814; 1815)
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4240:Monarch of Sicily
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3983:Current claimants
3910:Alexandre Édouard
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3715:Succeeded by
3688:Succeeded by
3661:Succeeded by
3571:Hochner, Nicole,
2607:, pp. 95–97.
2559:, pp. 84–87.
2535:, pp. 88–90.
2511:, pp. 51–56.
2499:, pp. 39–49.
2474:, pp. 27–31.
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1921:Joanna of Bourbon
1758:Kingdom of France
1741:Kingdom of France
1651:
1650:
1641:Battle of Ravenna
1448:Emperor Charles V
1411:Duchy of Brittany
1354:
1353:
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1328:
1223:Le Père du Peuple
979:Marquis of Mantua
941:Treaty of Granada
922:was conquered by
912:Kingdom of Naples
793:Holy Roman Empire
785:Great Italian War
765:Battle of Fornovo
637:King Charles VIII
525:Le Père du Peuple
502:third Italian War
498:Italian Peninsula
478:Kingdom of Naples
447:Pope Alexander VI
393:
392:
46:Louis XII in 1514
16:(Redirected from
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4964:Dukes of Orléans
4856:Louis Philippe I
4847:House of Orléans
4809:House of Bourbon
4737:House of Bourbon
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4470:(Charles I)
4468:Charlemagne
4420:Chlothar IV
4375:Sigebert II
4365:Chlothar II
4350:Chilperic I
4340:Charibert I
4228:(3rd reign)
4209:(2nd reign)
4193:(1st reign)
4183:Charles VII
4110:Ferdinand I
4089:(2nd reign)
4076:(1st reign)
4068:Charles III
1655:Michel Bucy
1614:Unnamed son
1574:21 January
1571:21 January
1568:Unnamed son
1546:Unnamed son
1293:"Louis XII"
1148:iconography
1127:Holy League
746:Alessandria
559:, 1498–99,
160:Predecessor
122:Predecessor
84:Predecessor
79:27 May 1498
4908:Categories
4792:Napoleon I
4772:Louis XVII
4751:Louis XIII
4697:Charles IX
4692:Francis II
4657:Charles VI
4623:Charles IV
4598:Philip III
4588:Louis VIII
4553:Hugh Capet
4546:(987–1328)
4479:Charles II
4463:Carloman I
4445:Robertians
4370:Dagobert I
4355:Sigebert I
4335:Chlothar I
4177:Charles VI
4165:Philip III
4147:Charles IV
4141:Joanna III
4115:Alfonso II
4047:Charles II
3803:1465–1498
3776:1465–1498
3746:1465–1498
3712:1501–1504
3685:1499–1512
3605:Louis XII
3552:0312120729
3007:0679721975
2996:. p.
2922:The Prince
2332:References
1815:The Tudors
1694:Succession
1679:Notre-Dame
1675:sacraments
1552:died young
1475:Mary Tudor
1427:witchcraft
1394:Mary Tudor
1304:newspapers
1215:parlements
1143:propaganda
1137:Propaganda
1057:The Prince
987:Bentivogli
966:The Prince
959:The Prince
950:The Prince
748:to attack
693:Early wars
659:Governance
573:department
543:Early life
291:Mary Tudor
75:Coronation
5034:Annulment
4829:Louis XIX
4823:Charles X
4766:Louis XVI
4756:Louis XIV
4702:Henry III
4682:Francis I
4677:Louis XII
4652:Charles V
4642:Philip VI
4603:Philip IV
4583:Philip II
4578:Louis VII
4558:Robert II
4489:Louis III
4451:(751–987)
4400:Clovis IV
4380:Clovis II
4318:(509–751)
4219:Joachim I
4171:Charles V
4159:Philip II
4130:Louis III
4125:Frederick
4104:Alfonso I
4094:Joanna II
4086:Ladislaus
4073:Ladislaus
4041:Charles I
3735:Charles I
3701:Frederick
3664:Francis I
3538:Louis XII
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2344:dynasty."
1645:Old Style
1483:Abbeville
1438:in 1950.
1436:canonized
1261:does not
1242:Marriages
1227:honorific
1211:redaction
1167:St. Louis
1155:porcupine
732:in 1830.
726:porcupine
673:Henry VII
648:Charles V
644:Salic Law
537:AngoulĂŞme
535:from the
533:Francis I
396:Louis XII
382:Signature
170:Successor
164:Frederick
132:Successor
98:Francis I
94:Successor
35:Louis XII
4761:Louis XV
4746:Henry IV
4687:Henry II
4667:Louis XI
4618:Philip V
4593:Louis IX
4573:Louis VI
4568:Philip I
4524:Louis IV
4514:Robert I
4484:Louis II
4449:Bosonids
4325:Clovis I
4214:Joseph I
4153:Philip I
4081:Louis II
4057:Joanna I
3964:François
3960:Philippe
3930:Philippe
3925:Philippe
3870:Philippe
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1717:suo jure
1712:suo jure
1635:” after
1620:January
1617:January
1605:Married
1537:Married
1460:Brittany
1403:Louis XI
1015:Piombino
1011:Camerino
975:Lombardy
924:Florence
867:Venetian
829:and the
815:Scotland
435:Louis XI
4894:italics
4836:Henry V
4647:John II
4608:Louis X
4563:Henry I
4534:Louis V
4529:Lothair
4519:Rudolph
4474:Louis I
4345:Guntram
4063:Louis I
3989:Jacques
3895:Charles
3880:Charles
3790:Francis
3581:Accueil
3577:Seyssel
3271:3780504
3055:3780504
1798:series
1794:in the
1727:Honours
1663:Bourges
1318:scholar
1282:removed
1267:sources
1194:Caspano
1040:Tuscany
1036:Romagna
791:of the
730:Algiers
681:Bourbon
625:Mad War
462:Mad War
439:Orléans
429:cousin
427:sterile
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4613:John I
4238:*Also
4099:René I
4052:Robert
3920:Gaston
3817:Gaston
3807:Vacant
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1200:Legacy
1109:, 1512
1092:Apulia
1007:Rimini
1003:Pesaro
999:Faenza
985:, the
981:, the
860:Annone
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529:taille
521:French
410:, and
372:Mother
362:Father
341:(ill.)
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1772:Media
1669:Death
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1481:, in
1464:Renée
1325:JSTOR
1311:books
1131:Swiss
1084:Capua
1023:Siena
1019:Lucca
991:Forlì
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654:Reign
490:Spain
351:House
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4060:with
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847:Asti
620:Anne
431:Joan
253:ann.
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