11) Saint Felix de Valois. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Saint Felix de Valois (se fai-LEEKS duh vahl-WAH), village (1991 pop. 1,625), S Que., Canada, 10 mi/16 km N of Joliette; 46°10'N 73°25'W. Dairying; lumbering; tobacco,...
12) Margaret of Valois. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Queen consort whose marriage (1572) to Henry of Navarre, later Henry IV of France, was dissolved in 1599....
13) Angouleme, Charles de Valois, comte d'Auvergne, duc d'. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Angoulême, Charles de Valois, comte d Auvergne, duc d , (sharl d valwa´ koNt dovern´y duk daNgoolem´) (KEY) , 1573-1650, illegitimate son of King Charles IX of France....
14) Margherit'a di Valois. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Henri the Bearnais, afterwards Henri IV. of France. During the wedding solemnities, Catherine de Medicis devised the massacre of the French Protestants, and Margherita...
15) d. France. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...d. France (See 1480)LAST VALOIS KINGS (1498-1589) 1483-98 CHARLES VIII. Death of the duke of Brittany (1488) called forth a coalition of the empire, Spain and England...
16) Dau'phin. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...The heir of the French crown under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties. Guy VIII., Count of Vienne, was the first so styled, because he wore a dolphin as his cognisance....
17) c. France. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...(See 1312) 1314-16 LOUIS X (the Quarrelsome). The real ruler was Louis's uncle, Charles of Valois. A reaction against the monarchy forced concessions from the king....
18) 1573-74. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1573-74 HENRY OF VALOIS was elected king on condition of signing the Pacta Conventa, formally recognizing the right of the nobility to elect kings and strictly limiting...
19) Marguerite des Marguerites [the pearl of pearls]. Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable. 1898
...So Francois called his sister (Marguerite de Valois), authoress of the Heptameron. She married twice: first, the Duc d Alencon, and then Henri d Albret, king of Navarre,...
20) Capetians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...from 987 to 1328; it takes its name from Hugh Capet. Related branches of the family (see Valois; Bourbon) ruled France until the final deposition of the monarchy...
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