Duchy of Anjou
| Duchy of Anjou Duché d'Aniu | |||||||||
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| Capital | King of France | | |||||||
• 1360–1380 | Charles V | ||||||||
• 1461–1482 | Louis XI | ||||||||
Duke of Anjou | |||||||||
• 1360–1384 | Louis I of Anjou | ||||||||
• 1480–1481 | Charles IV of Anjou | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• County of Anjou raised to Duchy | 1360 | ||||||||
• Integrated into Kingdom of France | 1482 | ||||||||
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The Duchy of Anjou (
Duchy of Anjou
The county of Anjou was united to the
On 17 February 1332,
Province of Anjou
In red : the Maine-et-Loire current département.
| Province of Anjou Province of Anjou | |||||||||||||||||||
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King of France | | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1482 – 1483 | Louis XI | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1774 – 1791 | Louis XVI | ||||||||||||||||||
Duke of Anjou | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1515 – 1531 | Louise of Savoy | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1755 – 1791 | Louis Stanislas Xavier de Bourbon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early Modern | ||||||||||||||||||
• Integrated into Kingdom of France | 1482 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Decree dividing France into departments | 1791 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Unlike his predecessors, who had rarely stayed long in Anjou, René from 1443 onwards paid long visits to it, and his court at Angers became one of the most brilliant in the kingdom of France. But after the sudden death of his son
Later,
Government
At first Anjou was included in the gouvernement (or military command) of Orléanais, but in the 17th century was made into a separate one. Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate gouvernement, which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais. Attached to the généralité (administrative circumscription) of Tours, Anjou on the eve of the Revolution comprised five êlections (judicial districts):--Angers, Baugé, Saumur, Château-Gontier, Montreuil-Bellay and part of the êlections of La Flèche and Richelieu. Financially it formed part of the so-called pays de grande gabelle, and comprised sixteen special tribunals, or greniers à sel (salt warehouses):--Angers, Baugé, Beaufort, Bourgueil, Candé, Château-Gontier, Cholet, Craon, La Flèche, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Ingrandes, Le Lude, Pouancé, Saint-Rémy-la-Varenne, Richelieu, Saumur. From the point of view of purely judicial administration, Anjou was subject to the parlement of Paris; Angers was the seat of a presidial court, of which the jurisdiction comprised the sénéchaussées of Angers, Saumur, Beaugé, Beaufort and the duchy of Richelieu; there were besides presidial courts at Château-Gontier and La Flèche. When the Constituent Assembly, on 26 February 1790, decreed the division of France into departments, Anjou and the Saumurois, with the exception of certain territories, formed the department of Maine-et-Loire, as at present constituted.[6]
Under the
It occupied the greater part of what is now the
Region of Anjou
Since the end of the provincial system in 1791, the name of 'Anjou' has been used to describe the former region in which the duchy and province occupied. This region roughly correlates to several regions: Mayenne angevine (north west), Haut Anjou (centre-northern), Segreen (western), Baugeois (eastern), Les Mauges (south western), and Saumurois (south).
Gallery
References
- ^ "Anjou". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Anjou" (US) and "Anjou". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Anjou". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Arms of René d'Anjou on Šipan | Queens' College". www.queens.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-521-36289-4, retrieved 27 January 2024
- ^ a b c d e f Halphen 1911.
- ^ Baynes 1878.
Sources
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 58
- Collins, Paul, The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Halphen, Louis (1911), "Anjou", in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 55–58
Further reading
- The chronicles of Ordericus Vitalis(in Latin)
- The chronicles of Actus pontificum cenomannisin urbe degentium (in Latin)
- The Gesta consulum Andegavorum(in Latin)
- Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou, published by Marchegay and Salmon, with an introduction by E. Mabille, Paris, 1856–1871 (in French)
- Louis Helphen, Êtude sur les chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise (Paris, 1906) (in French)
- Louis Helphen, Recueil d'annales angevines et vendómoises (Paris, 1903) (in French)
- Auguste Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France (Paris, 1902), ii. 1276–1310 (in French)
- Louis Helphen, Le Comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle (Paris, 1906) (in French)
- Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin Kings (2 vols., London, 1887)
- A. Lecoy de La Marche, Le Roi René (2 vols., Paris, 1875). (in French)
- Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire (3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874–1878) (in French)
- idem, Préliminaires. (in French)
- Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England, its Causes and its Results (2d vol.)
- Luc d'Achery, Spicilegium, sive Collectio veterum aliquot scriptorum qui in Galliae bibliothecis, maxime Benedictinorum, latuerunt (in Latin)
