Louis XI

XIVth century pilgrims returning from Boulogne-sur-Mer received permission to build a church in what was to become the Bois de Boulogne - thus accounting for the name Louis XI gave to the site.

Archive 2008-11-16 de Brantigny........................ 2008

XIVth century pilgrims returning from Boulogne-sur-Mer received permission to build a church in what was to become the Bois de Boulogne - thus accounting for the name Louis XI gave to the site.

St. Isabel of France de Brantigny........................ 2008

He moved in royal circles, painted a portrait of Charles VII now in the Louvre, and later worked for Louis XI.

Past the Crowds, the Louvre's Little Gem of a Show Judy Fayard 2011

Louis XI also granted Piero and his descendants the right to use the French royal fleur-de-lis emblem within the Medici crest in perpetuity as part of this gift from within the spirit family of the Order.

The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

Despite the protests of France's Louis XI, who was fearful of an alliance between the English and the Burgundians, Margaret of York was engaged to Charles the Bold, aka the Duke of Burgundy.

Nine Excessive Weddings to Which We Weren't Invited 2009

The main orders of chivalry under the Old Regime were the Ordre de Saint-Michel (created in the 15th c. by Louis XI) and the Ordre du Saint-Esprit (Holy Ghost), created in 1578 with a limit of 100 on the number of knights: it was the most prestigious order in France, usually forbidden to foreigners (but the Spanish Borbons were often made knights in the 18th c.)

Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

The main orders of chivalry under the Old Regime were the Ordre de Saint-Michel (created in the 15th c. by Louis XI) and the Ordre du Saint-Esprit (Holy Ghost), created in 1578 with a limit of 100 on the number of knights: it was the most prestigious order in France, usually forbidden to foreigners (but the Spanish Borbons were often made knights in the 18th c.)

L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit elena maria vidal 2009

His talents were recognized by Charles VII, King of France, and by about 1452 Ockeghem had moved to the French court, with which he remained for the rest of his life, serving three successive monarchs Charles VII, Louis XI, and Charles VIII.

Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

This was in conducting an important treaty betwixt Rene and Louis XI. of France, his nephew.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Louis XI. in particular, whose singular polidy seemed in some degree to give a character to the age in which he lived, was well known to have disguised his principal emissanes and envoys in the fictitious garbs of mendicant monks, minstrels, gypsies, and other privileged wanderers of the meanest description.

Anne of Geierstein 2008