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DUKE OF LOUIS ORLEANS (1372–1407)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE OF See also:LOUIS See also:ORLEANS (1372–1407)  , younger son of the See also:French See also:king, See also:Charles V., was See also:born on the 13th of See also:March 1372 . Having been made See also:count of See also:Valois and of See also:Beaumont-sur-See also:Oise, and then See also:duke of See also:Touraine, he received the duchy of See also:Orleans from his See also:brother Charles VI. in 1392, three years after his See also:marriage with Valentina (d . 1408), daughter of Gian Galeazzo See also:Visconti, duke of See also:Milan . This See also:lady brought the See also:county of See also:Asti to her See also:husband; but more important was her claim upon Milan, which she transmitted to her descendants, and which furnished See also:Louis XII. and See also:Francis I. with a pretext for interference in See also:northern See also:Italy . When Charles VI. became insane in 1392, Orleans placed himself in opposition to his See also:uncle See also:Philip II., duke of See also:Burgundy, who was conducting the See also:government; and this See also:quarrel was not only the dominating See also:factor in the affairs of See also:France, but extended beyond the See also:borders of that See also:country . Continued after Philip's See also:death in 1404 with his son and successor, See also:John the Fearless, it culminated in the See also:murder of Orleans by one of John's partisans on the 23rd of See also:November 1407 . The duke, who was an accomplished and generous See also:prince, was suspected of immoral relations with several ladies of the royal See also:house, among them See also:Isabella of See also:Bavaria, the See also:queen of Charles VI . He had eight See also:children by Valentina Visconti, including his successor, Charles of Orleans, the poet, and one of his natural sons was the famous See also:bastard of Orleans, John, count of See also:Dunois . See E . See also:Jarry, La See also:Vie politique de Louis d'Orleans (See also:Paris, 1889) .

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