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  • Her new book, "Paris to the Past," covers sites in and around Paris in chronological order, bringing to life characters like Louis XII, who lived frugally so he could lower taxes but banished his infertile wife to a nunnery.

    Sites and Sightings: New on the Travel Scene Sara Clemence 2011

  • Prioris presumably held that position for at least four more years; the chronicler Jean d'Auton placed him, again identified as maistre de chapelle, with Louis XII at the siege of Genoa in April 1507.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Henry's sister Margaret was sent to marry James IV when she was fourteen, and Mary Tudor his other sister to Louis XII at the age of 18.

    Today in #Herstory: The Wedding Catherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • French troops, fighting to recapture the duchy of Milan that François's predecessor Louis XII had lost, were surrounded and roundly defeated by Charles V's army.

    The Captive King Julianne Douglas 2009

  • French troops, fighting to recapture the duchy of Milan that François's predecessor Louis XII had lost, were surrounded and roundly defeated by Charles V's army.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

  • He is mentioned in connection with the French royal court in a letter from Louis XII in 1507.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • They were wonderful places for storing rowing machines, exercycles and steppers, she thought, affectedly, as if she were Louis XII.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • On 8 June 1503 the Ferrarese ambassador to the court of Louis XII wrote to Duke Ercole I that he was sending, as promised, a mass by ‘Prioris, suo i.e., the king's maystro de capella’.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Divitis's next known appointment was as master of the chapel of Anne of Brittany, wife of the French king Louis XII 1510.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • François I had a dream, a single goal that motivated the foreign policy of his entire reign: the recovery of the duchy of Milan, a region of Italy he had inherited from his great-grandmother, Valentina Visconti, and which had been lost by his predecessor, Louis XII.

    The Impossible Dream Julianne Douglas 2009

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