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See also:VALOIS, See also:COUNTS AND See also:DUKES OF . The See also:French countship of Valois (pagus Vadensis) takes its name from Vez (Latin Vadum), its See also:early See also:capital, a See also:town in the See also:department of the See also:Oise. From the loth to the 12th See also:century it was owned by the counts of See also:Vermandois and of Vexin; but on the See also:death of Eleanor, See also:sister and heiress of See also:Count Raoul V. (d. 1167), it was See also:united to the See also:crown by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus. Soon detached from the royal domain, Valois was the See also:property of See also:Blanche of See also:Castile, widow of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis VIII., from 1240 to 1252, and of See also:Jean See also:Tristan, a younger son of Louis IX., from 1268 to 1270. In 1285 Philip III. gave the See also:county to his son See also:Charles (d. 1325), whose son and successor, Philip, count of Valois, became king of See also:France as Philip VI. in 1328. Sixteen years later Valois was granted to Philip's son, Philip, See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans; then passing with the duchy of Orleans in 1392 to Louis (d. 1407), a son of Charles V., it was erected into a duchy in 1406, and remained the property of the dukes of Orleans until Duke Louis became king of France as Louis XII. in 1498, when it was again united with the royal domain.
After this event the duchy of Valois was granted to several ladies of the royal See also:house. Held by Jeanne, countess of Taillebourg (d. 1520), from 1516 to 1517, and by See also:Marie, countess of See also:Vendome, from 1530 until her death in 1546, it was given to See also:Catherine de See also:Medici, the widow of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II., in 1562, and in 1582 to her daughter, See also:Margaret of Valois, the wife of Henry of See also:Navarre. In 163o Louis XIII. granted Valois to his See also:brother Gaston, duke of Orleans, and the duchy formed See also:part of the lands and titles of the dukes of Orleans from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time until the Revolution.
The house of Valois, a See also:branch of the See also:great Capetian See also:family, is thus descended from Charles, a son of Philip III., and has been divided into several lines, three of which have reigned in France. These are: (I) the See also:direct See also:line, beginning with Philip VI., which reigned from 1328 to 1498; (2) the Orleans branch, descended from Louis, duke of Orleans, a son of Charles V., from 1498 to 1515; (3) the See also:Angouleme branch; descendants of See also:John, another son of the same duke, from 1515 to 1589. Excluding the royal house, the most illustrious of the Valois branches are: the dukes of See also:Alencon, descendants of Charles, a younger son of Charles I., count of Valois; the dukes of See also:Anjou,
descendants of Louis, the second son of King John II.; and I the dukes of See also:Burgundy, descendants of Philip, the See also:fourth son of the same king.
End of Article: VALOIS, COUNTS AND DUKES OF
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