Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. The second dukedom of Orléans was created in 1392 by Amédée René, Les princes militaires de la maison de France, Paris, 1848, p. 49Didier Le Fur, Louis XII : un autre César, Perrin, 2001 p. 40.Auguste Bailly, François Ier : restaurateur des lettres et des arts, Livre club du librairie, 1961, p. 9.Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici. Known as princes of the blood (princes du sang), the title of Duke of Orléans was given, when available, to the King of France's eldest brother.
The latter was never punished for his role in Louis' assassination, and Charles had to watch as his grief-stricken mother Valentina Visconti succumbed to illness not long afterwards. London and New York: Longman, 1998, 104-108.A.L. Charles Duke of Orleans's biography and life story.Charles of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke … La Pléiade, p. 378. Charles grew up in the fractious French royal family.
Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orléans (Order of the Golden Fleece).svg 1,057 × 1,331; 4.35 MB Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orléans.jpg 1,053 × 696; 93 KB Charles I of Valois.jpg 338 × 336; 52 KB Acceding to the duchy at the age of thirteen after his father had been assassinated, he was expected to carry on his father's leadership against the Burgundians, a French faction which supported the Duke of Burgundy. He died at Versailles in 1723. 106-108.Knecht, R. J. Catherine de' Medici. In 1692, Philippe married his first cousin, Françoise Marie de Bourbon – the youngest legitimised daughter of Philippe's uncle Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. During the early years of his reign as duke, the orphaned Charles was heavily influenced by the guidance of his father-in-law, After his capture, his entire library was moved by It was during these twenty-four years that Charles would write most of his poetry, including melancholy works which seem to be commenting on the captivity itself, such as The majority of his output consists of two books, one in French and the other in English, in the Finally freed in 1440 by the efforts of his former enemies, He made an unsuccessful attempt to press his claims to Asti in Italy, before settling down as a celebrated patron of the arts. Charles of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. He died at Charles is a minor character in the historical fiction novel Charles is referenced as the author of "the first known Valentine" in Netflix original A. E. B. Coldiron, Canon, Period, and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans: Found in Translation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), p. 11.
George Allen and Unwin, 1963, p. 69.Nicolas Le Roux, «La cour dans l'espace du palais: l'exemple de Henri III», Palais et pouvoir, de Constantinople à Versailles, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2003, pp. Charles was born in Paris. He is also referred to as le Régent. He was the son of Louis, duc d’Orléans (brother of Charles VI of France). Charles, duc d’Orléans, last, and one of the greatest, of the courtly poets of France, who during exile in England also earned a reputation for his poems in English. Named regent of France for Louis XV until Louis attained his majority on 15 February 1723, the period of his de facto rule was known as the Regency. University of California Press, 1991, p. 192.François de Malherbe, Lettres à Peiresc, éd. Charles succeeded to the title in 1407, when his father was Moote, Louis XIII, The Just p 192. The “valentine” itself was actually a few lines in a poem, written by Charles, the Duke of Orléans, in 1415, when he was 21 years old. of France), and of Valentina Visconti, daughter of Galeaso of Milan.He was born on 26th May 1391. At her deathbed, Charles and the other boys of the family were made to sw