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Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Valois.
The Valois (
VAL -wah , also
va(h)l-WAH ,
[1]
[2] French:
[valwa] ; originally Pagus Valensis ) was a region in the valley of the
Oise river in
Picardy in the north of
France . It was a fief in
West Francia and subsequently the
Kingdom of France until its counts furnished a line of kings, the
House of Valois , to succeed the
House of Capet in 1328. It was, along with the counties of
Beauvais , the
Vexin ,
Vermandois , and
Laon , part of the "Oise line" of
fiefdoms which were held often by one individual or an individual family as a string of defences against
Viking assault on Paris.
The medieval county and
duchy of Valois was located in northern France. It was included in the northerneastern part of the government of
Île-de-France , while being part of the province of
Picardy .
[3] Its capital was
Crépy-en-Valois .
[4]
Counts of Valois
Carolingian counts
Counts of disputed origin
about 895–919
Ermenfroi , also count of
Amiens and the
Vexin
915–926
Ralph I of Ostrevent , also count of Amiens and the Vexin, married daughter, Eldegarde, of preceding
926–943
Ralph II , also count of Amiens and the Vexin, son of preceding
943-after 992
Walter I , also count of Amiens and the Vexin, apparently brother or son of preceding
about 998-after 1017
Walter II the White , also count of Amiens and the Vexin, son of preceding
1017/24–1038
Ralph III of Valois
1025–1074
Ralph IV , also
count of the Vexin and
Amiens after 1063, whose third wife was
Anne of Kiev , dowager queen of France (that marriage was childless)
1074–1077
Simon de Crépy , also
count of the Vexin and
Amiens , he became a monk, and his lands were dispersed, Valois going to his sister's husband
Adele of Valois – the sister of Simon
Vermandois Carolingian counts
Herbert IV (−1080),
Count of Vermandois , a descendant of Pepin II, became count of Valois by marriage with
Adele , daughter of Ralph IV
Odo I the Insane (1080–1085), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of previous, he was disinheredited by the council of Barons of France and then he was lord of Saint-Simon by marriage.
Adelaide – sister of previous, countess of Vermandois and Valois, wife of
Hugh .
Capetian counts
Hugh I Magnus (the Great) (1085–1101), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of
Henry I and
Anne of Kiev .
Raoul I the Valiant (1102–1152), also known as Le Borgne , Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of previous.
Hugh II (1152–1160), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Raoul I and
Eléonore of Blois .
Raoul II (1160–1167), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Raoul I and of
Petronilla of Aquitaine .
Philip of Alsace (1167–1185),
Count of Flanders (1168–1191), Count of Vermandois and of Valois by marriage
To the royal domain by king
Philip II
Valois counts
In royal domain
in royal domain
Dukes of Valois
in royal domain
François (Duke 1498–1515, King of France as Francis I, 1515–1547)
in royal domain but granted to several ladies of the royal house
in royal domain
Thus the house of Valois is descended from Charles I, and has been divided into several lines, three of which have reigned in France. These are:
the direct line, beginning with Philip VI, which reigned from 1328 to 1498
the Orléans branch, descended from
Louis XII , from 1498 to 1515
the Angoulême branch, descendants of
John, Count of Angoulême , from 1515 to 1589.
Other Valois branches are: the
dukes of Alençon , descendants of Charles, a younger son of Charles I, count of Valois; the
Dukes of Anjou , descendants of Louis, the second son of King John II; and the
dukes of Burgundy , descendants of Philip, the fourth son of the same king.
Notes
^
Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman.
ISBN
978-1-4058-8118-0 .
^
Jones, Daniel (2011).
Roach, Peter ;
Setter, Jane ;
Esling, John (eds.).
Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-15255-6 .
^ de Hesseln, Robert (1771).
"Dictionnaire universel de la France" . p. 481.
^ Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. "Valois".
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary . 9th ed. Springfield, MA:
Merriam-Webster Inc., 1985.
ISBN
0-87779-508-8 ,
ISBN
0-87779-509-6 (indexed), and
ISBN
0-87779-510-X (deluxe).
References
Anselme, (Père), Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne & de la maison du Roy , 1726.
Fouquier-Cholet, Eloi, Q.A. Histoire des comtes héréditaires de Vermandois , Saint-Quentin, 1832.
Mabillon, Jean, Annales ord. Sancti Benedicti. Ticinense. Lucae , 1739.
Moreri, Louis, Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique , Paris, 1743–1749.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Valois, Counts and Dukes of ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 864–865.