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Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de
(Encyclopedia) Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et deMontesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et deshärl lwē də səkôNdäˈ bärôNˈ də lä brĕd ā də môNtĕskyüˈ […Bordeaux
(Encyclopedia) Bordeaux Bordeaux bôrdōˈ [key], city, capital of Gironde dept., SW France, on the Garonne River…Louis the Younger
(Encyclopedia) Louis the Younger, c.830–882, German king, ruler (876–82) over Saxony, Franconia, and Thuringia, son of Louis the German. He shared the succession to his father's lands with his…Charles III, king of Naples
(Encyclopedia) Charles III (Charles of Durazzo), 1345–86, king of Naples (1381–86) and, as Charles II, of Hungary (1385–86); great-grandson of Charles II of Naples. Adopted as a child by Joanna I of…Louis the German
(Encyclopedia) Louis the German, c.804–876, king of the East Franks (817–76). When his father, Emperor of the West Louis I, partitioned the empire in 817, Louis received Bavaria and adjacent…Joanna I
(Encyclopedia) Joanna I, 1326–82, queen of Naples (1343–81), countess of Provence. She was the granddaughter of King Robert of Naples, whom she succeeded with her husband, Andrew of Hungary. The…Charles II, emperor of the West and king of the West Franks
(Encyclopedia) Charles II or Charles the Bald, 823–77, emperor of the West (875–77) and king of the West Franks (843–77); son of Emperor Louis I by a second marriage. The efforts of Louis to create a…Lothair I
(Encyclopedia) Lothair ILothair Ilōthârˈ [key], 795–855, emperor of the West (840–55), son and successor of Louis I. In 817 his father crowned him coemperor. He was recrowned (823) at Rome by the…Comines, Philippe de
(Encyclopedia) Comines, Philippe deComines, Philippe defēlēpˈ də kōmēnˈ [key], c.1447–c.1511, French historian, courtier, and diplomat. In 1472 he left the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to…Louis I, king of Naples
(Encyclopedia) Louis I, 1339–84, king of Naples (1382–84; rival claimant to Charles III), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, second son of John II of France. He founded the second Angevin line in…