User:Rajofcanada/Regents: France and French States

• Main page: User:rajofcanada/Annotated list of regents

• NOTE: Being reorganized alphabetically by regent's name.

Kingdom of the Franks

• • 575-600: Brunhilda of Austrasia, Regent, 575-580s, for Childebert II; Regent, 599-600, for Theudebert II; Regent, 599-600, for Theuderic II
  • 584-590s: Fredegund, Regent Chlothar II
  • 639-642: Nanthild (610-642), Regent of the Franks for Clovis II.
  • 657-664:
    Balthild, Regent for her son Chlothar III who was a minor when he succeeded his father Clovis II
    .
  • 737-741: Charles Martel (689-741), Regent during the interregnum.
  • 741-751: Pepin the Short (714-768), Regent of the Franks

Kingdom of France

• • 954-966: Gerberga of Saxony (913-969), Regent of France
  • 954-956: Hugh the Great, Regent of France
  • 956-965:
    Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne
    , Regent of France
  • 1060-1066:
    Anna of Kiev, Regent for her son, Philip I of France [5] [6] [7]
  • 1060-1066:
    Baldwin V of Flanders, Regent for Philip I of France [8]
  • 1060-1066: Gervaise of Bellême, Regent for Philip I of France [9] [10]
  • 1147-1149:
    Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis (1081-1151), Regent of France for Louis VII of France
    who was absent on crusade.
  • 1190-1192:
    crusade [11]
  • 1190-1191:
    William of Champagne, Archbishop of Reims, Regent of France for Philip II of France
  • 1226-1236: Blanche of Castile, Regent for her son Louis IX of France [12]
  • 1248-1249: Alphonse of Toulouse, Regent of France
  • 1248-1254: Blanche of Castile, Regent for her son, Louis IX of France
  • 1270-1271:
    Matthew of Vendome
    , Abbot of Saint Denis, Regent of France
  • 1270-1271: Simon of Clermont, Lord of Nesle, Regent of France
  • 1316: Philip V of France, Regent of France for the posthumous John I of France
  • 1338: Joan the Lame, Regent of France for her husband, Philip VI of France, during his absence.
  • 1356-1360: Charles V of France, Regent for his father John II of France's captivity in France. [13]
  • 1364: Charles V of France, Regent for his father John II of France's captivity in France. [14]
  • 1380-1382:
    Louis I, Duke of Anjou, Regent of France Charles VI of France
  • 1380-1388: Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404), Regent of France, 1380-1388, 1393-1407, for Charles VI of France
  • 1380-1388: Louis, Duke of Anjou, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
  • 1393-1407: John, Duke of Berry, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
  • 1393-1407: Louis, Duke of Orleans (1371-1407), Regent of France for Charles VI of France
  • 1404-1407: John, Duke of Burgundy, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
  • 1417: Charles of France (1403-61), Dauphin, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
  • ?-?: Guillaume of Grandson (d.1428), Lord of Pesmes. Regent of France
  • 1417-1420: Isabeau of Bavaria, Regent of France for her son, Charles VI of France
  • 1420-1422: Henry V of England, Regent of France
  • 1422-1453: Henry VI of England, Regent of France
  • 1422-1435:
    John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
    , Regent of France
  • 1423: Arthur III, Duke of Brittany [15]
  • 1483-1491: Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438-1503), Regent of France for Charles VIII of France
  • 1483-1491: Anne of France (1461-1522), Regent for her brother Charles VIII of France
  • 1483-1491: Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, Regent for his brother-in-law Charles VIII of France
  • 1515: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, Francis I of France, during his absence for his Italian campaigns. [16][17]
  • 1522-1526: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, Francis I of France, during his Italian campaigns, including his captivity by the forces of the Emperor Charles V after the Battle of Pavia. [18][19]
  • 1560-1563:
    Catherine de Medici, Regent for her son, Charles IX of France
  • 1574:
    Catherine de Medici, Regent for her son Henry III of France
  • 1589-1594: Charles of Lorraine (1554-1611), Lieutenant-General of France
  • 1610-1614:
    Louis XIII of France
  • 1643-1651:
    Louis XIV of France [20] [21]
  • 1715-1723:
    Louis XV of France who was five years old when he became king. HIs regency was the last in the kingdom of France. [22]
  • 1812-1813:
    Napoleon I of France

• • 1250-1256: Yolande of Brittany, Regent for her son Hugh XII de Lusignan [23]
  • 1496-?: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, the future Francis I of France

Aquitaine

• • 781:
    Torson, Count of Toulouse, 778-790 (Deposed); Regent for King Louis I of Aquitaine, later Louis I France
  • 1039-1044:
    William VII of Aquitaine, when he succeeded his brother Odo of Gascony. [24]

Artois

• • 1347-1360:
    Joanna I of Auvergne, Regent for her son Philip I, Duke of Burgundy

Aumale

• • 1053-1063: Adelaide I (Aelis) of Normandy, Regent for her daughter Adelaide II of Aumale
  • 1127-?: Agnes of Aumale (d. before 1194), Regent for William I of Aumale

Bar

• • Edward I of Bar
    , who was a minor when he succeeded.
  • 1344: Joan the Lame of Burgundy, Regent of Bar
  • 1344-1348/49:
    Edward II of Bar
  • 1352-1354/55:
    Robert of Bar

Bearn

• • 1096-1099:
    Gaston IV of Béarn, when he participated in the First Crusade
    .
  • 1131-1134:
    Centule VI of Béarn
    who was a minor when he succeeded his father.
  • 1229-1240:
    Gaston VII of Bearn [25]
  • 1472-1483:
    Gaston IV of Foix
    .
  • 1483-1494:
    Francis I of Navarre
    .
  • 1582-1592:
    Catherine of Navarre, Duchess of Lorraine, Regent for her brother Henry IV of France

Blois and Chartres

• • 1096-1099:
    Stephen II, Count of Blois's campaigns during the First Crusade. ^[1]
  • 1101-1102: Adela of Normandy, Regent for her husband who went to the Crusade of 1101.
  • 1102-1120: Adela of Normandy, Regent for her sons, Guillaume, Count of Chartres and Theobald II, Count of Champagne, who was about 12 years old when he succeeded his father. ^[2][3]

Bourbon

• • Marie, Duchess of Auvergne, Regent of Bourbon, during the imprisonment in England of her husband John I, Duke of Bourbon.

Brittany

• • 1040-1062: Eudes of Brittany (999-1079), Count of Penthievre; Regent of Brittany
  • 1096-1101:
    Alan IV of Brittany who left to join the First Crusade in Palestine. ^[4]
  • Eudes II of Porhoet (d.1168), Count of Porhoet, Viscount of Rennes. Regent of Brittany.
  • 1203-1213:
    Guy, Duke of Brittany [26]
  • 1399-1402:
    John VI, Duke of Brittany [27]
  • 1399-1404:
    John VI, Duke of Brittany[28]

• • 1095-1101:
    Renaud II of Burgundy, who joined the First Crusade but died and was buried on the way to Jerusalem. [29]
  • 1148/49-?:
    William of Burgundy (d.1155), Regent for his niece Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy whom he tried to deprive of her inheritance. [30]
  • 1350-1360:
    Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy

Duchy of Burgundy

• • 1100-1103
    Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy, who left for the First Crusade in Palestine
    where he died.
  • 1162-1165:
    Marie of Blois, Regent for her son, Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy [31]
  • Marie of Champagne (Marie of Blois) (1128-90), Abbess of Fontevrault. Regent of Burgundy
  • 1306-1311: Agnes of France, Regent for her son, Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy, who was only 12 years old when he succeeded his father. [32]
  • 1218-1229:
    Alix of Vergy
    (1182-1251), Regent of Burgundy
  • 1350-1360:
    Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy
  • Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, Regent of Burgundy, 1465-1467 [33]

Champagne

• • 1093-?:
    Hugues of Champagne
  • 1179-1181: Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Regent for her husband, Henry I, Count of Champagne, who joined the Crusades
  • 1181-1187::
    Henry II of Champagne
    , who was a minor
  • 1190-1197: Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Regent when Henry II left for the Crusades
  • 1201-1222:
    Blanca of Navarre (daughter of Sancho VI), Regent for her son Theobald I of Navarre
  • 1253-1256: Margaret of Bourbon, Regent for her son Theobald II of Navarre [34]
  • 1274-1284: Blanche of Artois, Regent for her daughter Joan I of Navarre [35]
  • 1276-1284:
    Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Regent for Joan I of Navarre, was the second husband of Blanche of Artois. [36]

Foix

• • 1343-1347:
    Gaston III of Foix-Béarn, who was a minor when he succeeded his father. [37]
  • 1472-1483:
    Gaston IV of Foix
    .
  • 1483-1494:
    Francis I of Navarre
    .

Forez

• • 1101-?: Ponce of Gevaudan, Regent for Artaud III of Forez. Ponce married Theodeberge, widow of Artaud II of Forez who was Artaud III's father. [38]
  • 1203-1215: Renaud of Forez, Regent of Forez [39]
  • 1272-1278: Jeanne of Montfort (c1225-1270), Regent of Forez for her son Jean I of Forez [40]
  • 1362-1372: Renaud II of Forez (d.1369), Regent for his nephew Jean II of Forez

• References

[41]

Gascony

• • Eleanor of Provence, Regent of Gascony [42]

Lorraine

• • 915-919; Alberada (d.919), Regent for her sons, Giselbert and Reginar II
  • 1142-1153: Lutgardis of Sulzbach, Regent of Lorraine
  • 1251-1255: Catherine of Limburg (1215-55), Regent for her son Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine who was only 11 years old when he succeeded.
  • 1329-1331: Elisabeth of Austria (1285-1352), Regent for her son, Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, who was only 9 years old when he succeeded.
  • 1331-1335:
    Edward I of Bar
    (1295-1336), Regent of Lorraine
  • 1445-1452:
    Christine of Denmark (1521-90), Regent for her son, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
    , who was only 2 years old when he succeeded

Maine

• • 1032/35-1036:
    Hugh IV of Maine. [43] [44]

• • 1322-1332:
    Hugh of Burgundy, Regent for his nephew Othenin of Burgundy, Count of Montbeliard [45]
  • 1322-1332:
    Henry of Montfaucon, Regent for his brother-in-law Othenin of Burgundy [46]

Normandy

• • c928-?:
    William I of Normandy [47]
  • The future
    Robert II, Duke of Normandy, was only 7 years old when his father died on his return home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. William succeeded to Normandy under the tutelage of three guardians: [48]
  • 1035-1037:
    Robert II, Archbishop of Rouen
  • 1035-1040: Gilbert, Count of Brionne
  • 1035-1040: Osbern de Crepon (976-1040), also known as Osbern the Seneschal or Osbern the Steward, who was killed during the assassination attempt on William the Conqueror [49] [50]
  • 1035-1040: Alan III, Duke of Brittany
  • 1066: Roger de Montgomery (1030-95), Regent when William of Conqueror invaded England

Ponthieu

• • 1054-1056: Guy of Ponthieu, Bishop of Amiens, 1058-75; Regent for his nephew, Guy I, who was captured and imprisoned by Henri I of France.

Provence

• • 1144-1157:
    Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona
    , Regent for his nephew who reached the majority in 1157.

Rousillon

• • 1102: Arnaldo Gausfredo of Rousillon, Regent [51]
  • 1113-1121: Arnaldo Gausfredo of Rousillon, Regent for his nephew Gausfred III of Roussillon, who was a child when he succeeded his father Girard I of Roussillon.

Savoy

• • 1148-?:
    Humbert III of Savoy
    who was only 12 years old when his father, Amadeus III, died in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1148.
  • 1253-1259:
    Amadeus IV of Savoy [52]
  • 1366-1367:
    crusade [53]
  • 1383: Bonne of Bourbon, Regent for her son Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
  • 1391-1395: Bonne of Bourbon, Regent for her grandson, Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, who was only 8 years old when he acceded. [54]
  • 1466-1469, 1471-1478: Yolande of Valois, Regent for her husband Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy and then for their son Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, who was a minor when his father died.
  • 1490-1496: Bianca of Montferrat (1470-1519), Regent for her son Charles II, Duke of Savoy, 1490-96.
  • 1637-1648:
    Christine Marie of France, Regent of Savoy for her sons Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy and Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy
  • 1675-1685:
    Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia

Toulouse

• • 1095-1098, 1100-1105:
    Raymond IV of Toulouse who left for the First Crusade
    .

• • 1023-1027:
    Fulk III of Anjou
    (972-1040), Regent for his grandson Bouchard II.
  • 1066-1075: Guy of Nouastre, Regent for Bouchard III, Count of Vendome, 1066-1085
  • 1102-1105: Euphrosine of Vendome, Regent for her son Geoffrey III of Vendome, 1102-37
  • 1202-1211:
    Geoffrey of Vendome
    , Regent for Jean II, Count of Vendome, 1202-1211
  • 1371-1372:
    Catherine of Vendome
    (d.1412)
  • 1477-1484: Louis of Joyeuse, Regent for Francis of Bourbon, Count of Vendome, 1477-1495
  • 1495-?:
    Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme
    , who was only 5 years old when he suceeded his father.

Viennois

• • 1142-1153: Marguerite of Burgundy (d.1164), Regent for her son Guigues V who was a minor when his father died. [55]
  • 1162-1164: Marguerite of Burgundy (d.1164), for her granddaughter, Beatrix of Albon (1161-1228), daughter of Guigues V, who was only one year old when her father died. [56]
  • 1237-?: Beatrice of Montferrat, Regent for her son Guigues VII of Viennois (1225-1269)
  • 1269-1273: Beatrice of Savoy, Regent for her son, John I of Viennois (1263-1282), who was only 6 years old when he succeeded his father. Her regency ended when she married, as her 2nd husband, Gaston VII, Viscount of Bearn. [57]
  • 1273-?: Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, Regent for John I of Viennois [58]
  • 1319: Henri of Viennois, Bishop of Passau and Metz; Regent for his nephew, Guigues VIII of Viennois, who was only 10 years old when his father died. [59] [60]

Notes

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