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Capetians
Capetians , royal house of France that ruled continuously from 987 to 1328; it takes its name from Hugh Capet . Related branches of the family (see Valois ; Bourbon ) ruled France until the final deposition of the monarchy in the 19th cent. The first historical ancestor was Robert the Strong , c... Read more
Melun
Melun , town (1990 pop. 36,489), capital of Seine-et-Marne dept., N central France, SE of Paris. It is an important industrial center where automobile bodies, airplane engines, leather products, pharmaceuticals, and elastics are produced. An ancient town of Île-de-France , Melun was founded o... Read more
Valois
Valois , royal house of France that ruled from 1328 to 1589. At the death of Charles IV, the last of the direct Capetians , the Valois dynasty came to the throne in the person of Philip VI , son of Charles of Valois and grandson of Philip III. The direct Valois line ended (1498) with Charles V... Read more
Charles Martel
Charles Martel [O.Fr.,=Charles the Hammer], 688?-741, Frankish ruler, illegitimate son of Pepin of Heristal and grandfather of Charlemagne. After the death of his father (714) he seized power in Austrasia from Pepin's widow, who was ruling as regent for her grandsons, and became mayor of the pala... Read more
Angevin
Angevin [Fr.,=of Anjou], name of two medieval dynasties originating in France. The first ruled over parts of France and over Jerusalem and England; the second ruled over parts of France and over Naples, Hungary, and Poland, with a claim to Jerusalem. First House of Anjou The older house i... Read more
Clovis I
Clovis I , c.466-511, Frankish king (481-511), son of Childeric I and founder of the Merovingian monarchy. Originally little more than a tribal chieftain, he became sole leader of the Salian Franks by force of perseverance and by murdering a number of relatives. In 486 he defeated the Roman legion... Read more
Carolingians
Carolingians , dynasty of Frankish rulers, founded in the 7th cent. by Pepin of Landen , who, as mayor of the palace, ruled the East Frankish Kingdom of Austrasia for Dagobert I. His descendants, Pepin of Heristal , Charles Martel , Carloman , and Pepin the Short , continued to govern the terri... Read more
Orléans
Orléans city (1990 pop. 107,965), capital of Loiret dept., N central France, on the Loire River. A commercial and transportation center, it has food-processing, tobacco, machine-building, electrical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and textile industries. The old city is surrounded by sprawling mo... Read more
Bourbon
Bourbon , European royal family, originally of France; a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. One branch of the Bourbons occupies the modern Spanish throne, and other branches ruled the Two Sicilies and Parma. It takes its name from the now ruined castle of Bourbon, at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Allier... Read more
Gothic architecture and art
Gothic architecture and art structures (largely cathedrals and churches) and works of art first created in France in the 12th cent. that spread throughout Western Europe through the 15th cent., and in some locations into the 16th cent. The Nature of the Gothic The essential character of t... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Capetian"

Louis VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Crown on a firm foundation. The fifth Capetian king of France, Louis VI was a giant...thus assuring the succession in the Capetian family. Like his father, Louis was...the first substantial biography of a Capetian king. Louis became as heavy as his father...
Capetians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the beginning of the modern French state. Bibliography: See R. Fawtier, The Capetian Kings of France (1941, tr. 1960); A. Lewis, Royal Succession in Capetian France (1982); R. McKitterick, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians...
Louis IX
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Cambridge Medieval History (8 vols., 1911-1936). Louis IX and the other rulers of the Capetian dynasty are covered in Robert Fawtier, The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation, 987-1328 (trans. 1960). The best account of his...
Louis VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and repelled the aggressions of Henry II of England. Sixth Capetian king of France, Louis VII succeeded his father, Louis VI...Thirteenth Century (trans. 1936), and Robert Fawtier, The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation, 987-1328 (trans...
Philip II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Born in Paris on Aug. 21, 1165, Philip became the seventh Capetian king of France in 1180, when his father, Louis VII, died...Philip was able to live out his life in peace, certain of Capetian ascendancy. Internal Reforms While Philip was enlarging his...
Melun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ravaged often by the Normans. Melun became an early residence of the Capetian kings. The town has a Romanesque church (12th cent.) and vestiges of a Roman fortress and a Capetian castle. Nearby is the famous Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte...
Henry V
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...attempted an invasion of northern France itself. This provoked strong opposition and so rallied the northern French to their Capetian king that the imperial troops were forced to retreat without gaining any success. A year later, still childless, Henry V...
Eudes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Odo , c.860-898, count of Paris, French king (888-898). The son of Robert the Strong , he was an antecedent of the Capetian royal house in France. He defended Paris against the Norsemen (885), and after the deposition of Emperor of the West Charles...
Bouvines, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. Philip's victory laid open the way to Hohenstaufen dominance in Germany and Italy, confirmed the Capetian gains made at John's expense in Normandy, Anjou, and elsewhere in the years 1202–4, and set John upon the...
Hundred Years War
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...x2013;1453 was coined in the 1860s but has enjoyed universal acceptance ever since. When the last descendant of the main Capetian line died in 1328, Edward III had a claim to the French throne through his mother. The war which broke out in 1337 arose...

Dictionary entries related to "Capetian"

Capetian
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Capetian (987–1328) The dynasty of French kings who succeeded the CAROLINGIANS . It was not until the reign of Louis VI...
Angevin empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...ever greater implications in their feudal relationship to the Capetian kings of France, so far as their French fiefs were concerned...made for the comparative abilities of John and Philip II, the Capetian king at the time. Philip was much more of a match than his...
France
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...MEROVINGIAN king. It became part of the empire of CHARLEMAGNE and, after repeated assaults from VIKINGS and SARACENS , a CAPETIAN dynasty emerged in 987. Fierce competition with the rival rulers of Brittany, BURGUNDY , and, after 1066, with the Norman...
Angevin
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...England, was the first of an English royal dynasty. The power of the Angevins under Henry was formidable, overshadowing the CAPETIAN kings of France. Anjou remained in English hands until 1203 when Philip Augustus wrested it from John. Louis gave the Angevin...
Periodization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...legendary Pharamond, youth to the end of the Merovingian dynasty, maturity under the Carolingians, and old age under the Capetian. On the political level the commonest way of describing the structure of history was through the biblically inspired conceit...
Hundred Years War
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...kings of France), and Edward III's claim, through his mother, to the French throne, following the death of the last CAPETIAN king. Rivalry over the lucrative Flanders wool trade and provocative French support for the Scots against England also contributed...
hundred
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...kings attempted to dominate France, and began when Edward III claimed the throne of France following the death of the last Capetian king. Despite a number of English military successes, most notably Crécy, Poitiers, and (in 1415) Agincourt...
Louis IX, St
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1250. His involvement in the Crusades was recounted by JOINVILLE . He later mounted another Crusade to Tunis where he died. He was canonized by Pope Boniface VIII in 1297, his sanctity conferring immense prestige on the Capetian dynasty.
touching for the king's evil
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History touching for the king's evil was an instant medieval royal tradition. On learning that their rivals the Capetian kings of France claimed divine healing powers, the kings of England, from Henry I onwards, followed suit. Curiously it was...
Valois
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Valois the French royal house from the accession of Philip VI, successor to the last Capetian king, in 1328 to the death of Henry III (1589), when the throne passed to the Bourbons.

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Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the...filling whatever appetite existed for a Capetian royal saint. In recent years, Sean L...perspective on the culture and religiosity of the Capetian court. T
Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century. By Sean L. Field. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame...
Le Roi, C'est Moi; French Pretender Preserves His Dynasty
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/28/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...century cha^teau, the count marked his Capetian Dynasty's first millennium and moved...exercise fully the rights and duties of the Capetian House, as I did myself." Prince Henri...but she received no title. In the Capetian line, women remain outside the path...
Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...French speaking courts of the Norman and Capetian ruling families and that the historical...twelfth-century Anglo-Norman and Capetian dynasties deserves attention because...explores state formation in the Norman and Capetian 'empires,' formations marked by...
Philip Augustus: King of France, 1180-1223.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...in 1214, a triumph that secured the Capetian dynasty on the throne and laid the foundations...light. He rightly warns against anti-Capetian bias in the more abundant contemporary...England ruled more of France than his Capetian overlord; by his death in 1223 Philip...
France in the Middle Ages: 987-1460. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...argues for economic changes transforming the potentialities of Capetian power, almost when the kings were not looking. No less significant...marriage; and the increasing sophistication of twelfth-century Capetian government partly in terms of the secular assimilation of ecclesiastical...
The Medieval world.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...Palgrave. 32.50 [pounds sterling]). Kathleen Nolan edits Capetian Women (Palgrave, 40 [pounds sterling]), a series of essays...argue that far from being restricted by their royal milieu, Capetian women in France were able to exert influence over social...
Richard I. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...of his mother's appanage of Aquitaine. According to Robert Fawtier (The Capetian Kings, London 1964, p. 143) Louis VII's reign (1137-1180) "saw no Capetian territorial expansion at Angevin expense." With the death of his elder brother...
France in the Middle Ages: 987-1460.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...is an enjoyable book, containing some useful insights into Capetian kingship, but it is also a deeply infuriating one, with more...language of the day, but he seems to enjoy and share a vision of Capetian and French power as God-given, and it does not seem coincidence...
Elizabeth Dachowski, First among Abbots: The Career of Abbo of Fleury.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...much discussed is his role as an influential supporter of the Capetian kings against the last of the Carolingians in West Francia...tenth century, and shows how Abbo himself helped in shaping Capetian policies towards the monastic movement. Her conclusion is...