User:Rajofcanada/Regents: France and French States




 * NOTE: Being reorganized alphabetically by regent's name.

Kingdom of the Franks

 * 575-600: Brunhilda of Austrasia, Regent, 575-580s, for Childebert II; Regent, 599-600, for Theudebert II; Regent, 599-600, for Theuderic II
 * 584-590s: Fredegund, Regent Chlothar II
 * 639-642: Nanthild (610-642), Regent of the Franks for Clovis II.
 * 657-664: Balthild, Regent for her son Chlothar III who was a minor when he succeeded his father Clovis II.
 * 737-741: Charles Martel (689-741), Regent during the interregnum.
 * 741-751: Pepin the Short (714-768), Regent of the Franks

Kingdom of France

 * 954-966: Gerberga of Saxony (913-969), Regent of France
 * 954-956: Hugh the Great, Regent of France
 * 956-965: Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne, Regent of France
 * 1060-1066: Anna of Kiev, Regent for her son, Philip I of France
 * 1060-1066: Baldwin V of Flanders, Regent for Philip I of France
 * 1060-1066: Gervaise of Bellême, Regent for Philip I of France
 * 1147-1149: Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis (1081-1151), Regent of France for Louis VII of France who was absent on crusade.
 * 1190-1192: Adele of Champagne (1140-1206), Regent of France for her son, Philip II of France, when he went on a crusade
 * 1190-1191: William of Champagne, Archbishop of Reims, Regent of France for Philip II of France
 * 1226-1236: Blanche of Castile, Regent for her son Louis IX of France
 * 1248-1249: Alphonse of Toulouse, Regent of France
 * 1248-1254: Blanche of Castile, Regent for her son, Louis IX of France
 * 1270-1271: Matthew of Vendome, Abbot of Saint Denis, Regent of France
 * 1270-1271: Simon of Clermont, Lord of Nesle, Regent of France
 * 1316: Philip V of France, Regent of France for the posthumous John I of France
 * 1338: Joan the Lame, Regent of France for her husband, Philip VI of France, during his absence.
 * 1356-1360: Charles V of France, Regent for his father John II of France's captivity in France.
 * 1364: Charles V of France, Regent for his father John II of France's captivity in France.
 * 1380-1382: Louis I, Duke of Anjou, Regent of France Charles VI of France
 * 1380-1388: Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404), Regent of France, 1380-1388, 1393-1407, for Charles VI of France
 * 1380-1388: Louis, Duke of Anjou, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
 * 1393-1407: John, Duke of Berry, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
 * 1393-1407: Louis, Duke of Orleans (1371-1407), Regent of France for Charles VI of France
 * 1404-1407: John, Duke of Burgundy, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
 * 1417: Charles of France (1403-61), Dauphin, Regent of France for Charles VI of France
 * ?-?: Guillaume of Grandson (d.1428), Lord of Pesmes.  Regent of France
 * 1417-1420: Isabeau of Bavaria, Regent of France for her son, Charles VI of France
 * 1420-1422: Henry V of England, Regent of France
 * 1422-1453: Henry VI of England, Regent of France
 * 1422-1435: John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Regent of France
 * 1423: Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
 * 1483-1491: Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438-1503), Regent of France for Charles VIII of France
 * 1483-1491: Anne of France (1461-1522), Regent for her brother Charles VIII of France
 * 1483-1491: Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, Regent for his brother-in-law Charles VIII of France
 * 1515: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, Francis I of France, during his absence for his Italian campaigns.
 * 1522-1526: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, Francis I of France, during his Italian campaigns, including his captivity by the forces of the Emperor Charles V after the Battle of Pavia.
 * 1560-1563: Catherine de Medici, Regent for her son, Charles IX of France
 * 1574: Catherine de Medici, Regent for her son Henry III of France
 * 1589-1594: Charles of Lorraine (1554-1611), Lieutenant-General of France
 * 1610-1614: Marie de Medici, Regent for her son Louis XIII of France
 * 1643-1651: Anne of Austria, Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France
 * 1715-1723: Philippe II of Orleans, Regent for Louis XV of France who was five years old when he became king. HIs regency was the last in the kingdom of France.
 * 1812-1813: Marie Louise of Austria, Regent for her husband, Napoleon I of France

County of Angouleme

 * 1250-1256: Yolande of Brittany, Regent for her son Hugh XII de Lusignan
 * 1496-?: Louise of Savoy, Regent for her son, the future Francis I of France

Aquitaine

 * 781: Torson, Count of Toulouse, 778-790 (Deposed); Regent for King Louis I of Aquitaine, later Louis I France
 * 1039-1044: Agnes of Burgundy, Regent for her son, William VII of Aquitaine, when he succeeded his brother Odo of Gascony.

Artois

 * 1347-1360: Joanna I of Auvergne, Regent for her son Philip I, Duke of Burgundy

Aumale

 * 1053-1063: Adelaide I (Aelis) of Normandy, Regent for her daughter Adelaide II of Aumale
 * 1127-?: Agnes of Aumale (d. before 1194), Regent for William I of Aumale

Bar

 * John of Bar, Regent for his nephew, Edward I of Bar, who was a minor when he succeeded.
 * 1344: Joan the Lame of Burgundy, Regent of Bar
 * 1344-1348/49: Yolande of Flanders (1344-1411), Regent for her son Edward II of Bar
 * 1352-1354/55: Yolande of Flanders(1344-1411), Regent for her 2nd son Robert of Bar

Viscounty of Bearn

 * 1096-1099: Talesa of Aragon, also known as Talese of Aybar, Regent for her husband, Gaston IV of Béarn, when he participated in the First Crusade.
 * 1131-1134: Talesa of Aragon, Regent for her son Centule VI of Béarn who was a minor when he succeeded his father.
 * 1229-1240: Garsende, Regent for Gaston VII of Bearn
 * 1472-1483: Magdalena of Valois, Regent for her son, Francis I of Navarre, who was only 6 years old when he succeeded his grandfather Gaston IV of Foix.
 * 1483-1494: Magdalena of Valois, Regent for her daughter, Catherine of Navarre, who was only 15 years old when she succeeded her brother Francis I of Navarre.
 * 1582-1592: Catherine of Navarre, Duchess of Lorraine, Regent for her brother Henry IV of France

Blois and Chartres

 * 1096-1099: Adela of Normandy, Regent during her husband Stephen II, Count of Blois's campaigns during the First Crusade.
 * 1101-1102: Adela of Normandy, Regent for her husband who went to the Crusade of 1101.
 * 1102-1120: Adela of Normandy, Regent for her sons, Guillaume, Count of Chartres and Theobald II, Count of Champagne, who was about 12 years old when he succeeded his father.

Bourbon

 * Marie, Duchess of Auvergne, Regent of Bourbon, during the imprisonment in England of her husband John I, Duke of Bourbon.

Brittany

 * 1040-1062: Eudes of Brittany (999-1079), Count of Penthievre; Regent of Brittany
 * 1096-1101: Ermengarde of Anjou (1067-1147), Regent for her husband Alan IV of Brittany who left to join the First Crusade in Palestine.
 * Eudes II of Porhoet (d.1168), Count of Porhoet, Viscount of Rennes. Regent of Brittany.
 * 1203-1213: Guy, Duke of Brittany
 * 1399-1402: Joanna of Navarre, Regent for her son John VI, Duke of Brittany
 * 1399-1404: Philip II, Duke of Burgundy during the minority of John VI, Duke of Brittany

County Palatine of Burgundy or Franche-Comte

 * 1095-1101: Stephen I, Count of Burgundy, Regent for his older brother, Renaud II of Burgundy, who joined the First Crusade but died and was buried on the way to Jerusalem.
 * 1148/49-?: William of Burgundy (d.1155), Regent for his niece Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy whom he tried to deprive of her inheritance.
 * 1350-1360: Joanna I of Auvergne, Regent for her son, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, who was only 3 years old when he succeeded his grandfather Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy

Duchy of Burgundy
The duchess also negotiated tooth and nail with her son to ensure that she would receive half of the acquisitions that her husband had made during their marriage, as well as her dower in its entirety. She insisted on recuperating both the ten thousand livres from her dowry and the income generated from her dower. In 1315, Eudes IV succeeded his brother at the head of the duchy, but Agnes continued to participate actively in political decision-making, especially regarding the issue of the succession of the king of France. The Dowager of Burgundy, the last of Saint Louis' surviving children, then tried to use all her influence in support of her granddaughter, Jeanne of France, Marguerite's daughter, who in 1314 had been imprisoned with her cousins following the "scandal of Philip the Fair's daughters-in law". When Louis X ("the Quarrelsome") died in 1316, Agnes demanded the guardianship of her granddaughter, who had lost both her parents and was heiress to the French throne. However, several months later her uncle, Philip of Poitiers (Philip V, known as the Tall) seized power. Before giving in, Agnes tried to rally the nobility of Champagne, then actively supported the compromise which was reached: the attribution of Navarre to Jeanne, in compensation for the renouncement of her right to the French throne. Agnes even initially profited from the transformation of the county of Angoulême into a duchy-peerage for her grand-daughter's benefit, a first in the history of that institution. Agnes seems to have attached great importance to the memory of her father, Louis IX: she owned his Psalter, which she then passed down to her daughter Jeanne. She founded the chapel of Saint-Louis in the Sainte-Chapelle in Dijon and had a mass performed there every year. Agnes died on 19 December 1325, and was buried next to her husband in Cîteaux. First chroniclers and then historians, especially Paul Lehugeur in his writings on the reign of Philip V, have emphasized Agnes' intervention in favour of Jeanne of France, rather than the role she played as regent of the duchy of Burgundy.”-->
 * 1100-1103 Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, Regent for his father, Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy, who left for the First Crusade in Palestine where he died.
 * 1162-1165: Marie of Blois, Regent for her son, Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy
 * Marie of Champagne (Marie of Blois) (1128-90), Abbess of Fontevrault. Regent of Burgundy
 * 1306-1311: Agnes of France, Regent for her son, Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy, who was only 12 years old when he succeeded his father. <!--“Agnes of France, youngest daughter of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) and Marguerite of Provence, born around 1265, married Robert II, Duke of Burgundy in 1279. She had nine children: Jean, Hugues (future Duke of Burgundy), Eudes (his successor), Louis of Burgundy (King of Thessalonica, Prince of Achaia and Moree), Robert (count of Tonnerre), Blanche (wife of Edouard, count of Savoy), Marguerite (wife of King Louis X of France), Jeanne (wife of Philip VI of Valois) and Marie of Burgundy (married to Edouard, count of Bar). At the death of her husband in 1306, Agnes became regent of the duchy and was given control of her children. The heir, the future Hugues V, was only twelve years old. The duchess then negotiated the best possible matches for her daughters' marriages: in particular, she arranged the marriage of Marguerite to the oldest son of Philip the Fair, and in 1313 the union of Jeanne and Philip, the nephew of the King of France (the future Philip VI). During her regency, Agnes very strictly applied the royal edict concerning the assets of Jews, which she had seized and inventoried, whereas her husband Robert had refused to carry out the order. In his will, her son, Duke Hughes V, promised to return some of these possessions.
 * 1218-1229: Alix of Vergy (1182-1251), Regent of Burgundy
 * 1350-1360: Joanna I of Auvergne, Regent of Burgundy for her son, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, who was only 3 years old when he succeeded his grandfather Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy
 * Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, Regent of Burgundy, 1465-1467

Champagne

 * 1093-?: Stephen II, Count of Blois, Regent of Champagne for Hugues of Champagne
 * 1179-1181: Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Regent for her husband, Henry I, Count of Champagne, who joined the Crusades
 * 1181-1187::Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Regent for her son, Henry II of Champagne, who was a minor
 * 1190-1197: Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Regent when Henry II left for the Crusades
 * 1201-1222: Blanca of Navarre (daughter of Sancho VI), Regent for her son Theobald I of Navarre
 * 1253-1256: Margaret of Bourbon, Regent for her son Theobald II of Navarre
 * 1274-1284: Blanche of Artois, Regent for her daughter Joan I of Navarre
 * 1276-1284: Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Regent for Joan I of Navarre, was the second husband of Blanche of Artois.

Foix

 * 1343-1347: Eleanor of Comminges, Regent for her son, Gaston III of Foix-Béarn, who was a minor when he succeeded his father.
 * 1472-1483: Magdalena of Valois, Regent for her son, Francis I of Navarre, who was only 6 years old when he succeeded his grandfather Gaston IV of Foix.
 * 1483-1494: Magdalena of Valois, Regent for her daughter, Catherine of Navarre, who was only 15 years old when she succeeded her brother Francis I of Navarre.

Forez

 * 1101-?: Ponce of Gevaudan, Regent for Artaud III of Forez. Ponce married Theodeberge, widow of Artaud II of Forez who was Artaud III's father.
 * 1203-1215: Renaud of Forez, Regent of Forez
 * 1272-1278: Jeanne of Montfort (c1225-1270), Regent of Forez  for her son Jean I of Forez
 * 1362-1372: Renaud II of Forez (d.1369), Regent for his nephew Jean II of Forez


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Gascony

 * Eleanor of Provence, Regent of Gascony

Lorraine

 * 915-919; Alberada (d.919), Regent for her sons, Giselbert and Reginar II
 * 1142-1153: Lutgardis of Sulzbach, Regent of Lorraine
 * 1251-1255: Catherine of Limburg (1215-55), Regent for her son Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine who was only 11 years old when he succeeded.
 * 1329-1331: Elisabeth of Austria (1285-1352), Regent for her son, Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, who was only 9 years old when he succeeded.
 * 1331-1335: Edward I of Bar (1295-1336), Regent of Lorraine
 * 1445-1452: Christine of Denmark (1521-90), Regent for her son, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, who was only 2 years old when he succeeded

Maine

 * 1032/35-1036: Heribert "Baco" of Maine, Regent for his great-nephew, Hugh IV of Maine.

Montbeliard or Mompelgard

 * 1322-1332: Hugh of Burgundy, Regent for his nephew Othenin of Burgundy, Count of Montbeliard
 * 1322-1332: Henry of Montfaucon, Regent for his brother-in-law Othenin of Burgundy

Normandy

 * c928-?: Bernard the Dane, Regent for William I of Normandy
 * The future William the Conqueror, illegitimate son and designated successor of Robert II, Duke of Normandy, was only 7 years old when his father died on his return home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. William succeeded to Normandy under the tutelage of three guardians:
 * 1035-1037: Robert II, Archbishop of Rouen
 * 1035-1040: Gilbert, Count of Brionne
 * 1035-1040: Osbern de Crepon (976-1040), also known as Osbern the Seneschal or Osbern the Steward, who was killed during the assassination attempt on William the Conqueror
 * 1035-1040: Alan III, Duke of Brittany
 * 1066: Roger de Montgomery (1030-95), Regent when William of Conqueror invaded England

Ponthieu

 * 1054-1056: Guy of Ponthieu, Bishop of Amiens, 1058-75; Regent for his nephew, Guy I, who was captured and imprisoned by Henri I of France.

Provence

 * 1144-1157: Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona, Regent for his nephew who reached the majority in 1157.

Rousillon

 * 1102: Arnaldo Gausfredo of Rousillon, Regent
 * 1113-1121: Arnaldo Gausfredo of Rousillon, Regent for his nephew Gausfred III of Roussillon, who was a child when he succeeded his father Girard I of Roussillon.

Savoy

 * 1148-?: Amadeus, Bishop of Lausanne, Regent for Humbert III of Savoy who was only 12 years old when his father, Amadeus III, died in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1148.
 * 1253-1259: Cecilia of Baux, Regent for her son, Boniface of Savoy, who was only 9 years old when he succeeded his father Amadeus IV of Savoy
 * 1366-1367: Bonne of Bourbon, Regent for her husband, Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, when he went on a crusade
 * 1383: Bonne of Bourbon, Regent for her son Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
 * 1391-1395: Bonne of Bourbon, Regent for her grandson, Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, who was only 8 years old when he acceded.
 * 1466-1469, 1471-1478: Yolande of Valois, Regent for her husband Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy and then for their son Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, who was a minor when his father died.
 * 1490-1496: Bianca of Montferrat (1470-1519), Regent for her son Charles II, Duke of Savoy, 1490-96.
 * 1637-1648: Christine Marie of France, Regent of Savoy for her sons Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy and Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy
 * 1675-1685: Marie Jeanne of Savoy-Nemours, Regent for her son Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia

Toulouse

 * 1095-1098, 1100-1105: Bertrand of Toulouse, Regent for his father Raymond IV of Toulouse who left for the First Crusade.

Vendome

 * 1023-1027: Fulk III of Anjou (972-1040), Regent for his grandson Bouchard II.
 * 1066-1075: Guy of Nouastre, Regent for Bouchard III, Count of Vendome, 1066-1085
 * 1102-1105: Euphrosine of Vendome, Regent for her son Geoffrey III of Vendome, 1102-37
 * 1202-1211: Geoffrey of Vendome, Regent for Jean II, Count of Vendome, 1202-1211
 * 1371-1372: Jeanne of Ponthieu, Regent for her granddaughter, Catherine of Vendome (d.1412)
 * 1477-1484: Louis of Joyeuse, Regent for Francis of Bourbon, Count of Vendome, 1477-1495
 * 1495-?: Marie de Luxemburg, Regent for her son, Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, who was only 5 years old when he suceeded his father.

Viennois

 * 1142-1153: Marguerite of Burgundy (d.1164), Regent for her son Guigues V who was a minor when his father died.
 * 1162-1164: Marguerite of Burgundy (d.1164), for her granddaughter, Beatrix of Albon (1161-1228), daughter of Guigues V, who was only one year old when her father died.
 * 1237-?: Beatrice of Montferrat, Regent for her son Guigues VII of Viennois (1225-1269)
 * 1269-1273: Beatrice of Savoy, Regent for her son, John I of Viennois (1263-1282), who was only 6 years old when he succeeded his father. Her regency ended when she married, as her 2nd husband, Gaston VII, Viscount of Bearn.
 * 1273-?: Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, Regent for John I of Viennois
 * 1319: Henri of Viennois, Bishop of Passau and Metz; Regent for his nephew, Guigues VIII of Viennois, who was only 10 years old when his father died.