-
Capetian cadets did
aspire for kingship,
their ambitions were
directed not at the
French throne, but at
foreign thrones. As a result, the
Capetians have...
-
House of
Capet (French:
Maison capétienne) were also
called the
Direct Capetians (Capétiens directs), the
House of
France (la
maison de France), or simply...
-
Anjou was a
western v****al
state of the
Kingdom of France,
which the
Capetians had
wrested from the
House of
Plantagenet only a few
decades earlier....
- of the
Capetian dynasty. They
succeeded the
House of
Capet (or "Direct
Capetians") to the
French throne, and were the
royal house of
France from 1328 to...
- arms of the
French king. The most
basic marks of
difference used by the
Capetians were the label,
bordure and bend.
Charges and
variations were
added by...
- the many wars that came with it led to the
gradual "reconquest" by the
Capetians of most of
their own kingdom, and later, the Plantagenet's
attempts at...
- the
early years of the
Direct Capetians, the
French kingdom was more or less a fiction. The "domaine royal" of the
Capetians was
limited to the
regions around...
- The
Capetian House of Courtenay, also
known simply as the
House of Courtenay, was a
royal house and
cadet branch of the
Capetian dynasty.
Founded by Peter...
-
officially from 1204. From then,
France was
continuously ruled by the
Capetians and
their cadet lines under the
Valois and
Bourbon until the monarchy...
- Jim Bradbury, The
Capetians:
Kings of France, 987-1328 (Hambledon Continuum,
London & New York, 2007), p. 40 Jim Bradbury, The
Capetians:
Kings of France...
