The people in this atlas range from counts and queens to bishops, captains and administrators, each attached to the dates where the corpus mentions them. Queen Jeanne and René of Anjou dominate the dynasty theme, Charles I of Anjou runs through war and institutions, Belsunce links religion to society: most major figures appear across several themes at once.
This entry allows each person to be followed from one theme to another, reconstructing, through their dated appearances alone, the place they occupy in the history of Provence.
Raimond Bérenger V
17 passages of Busquet's volume
19 August 1245
Death of Raimond Bérenger V, passage of the county to his daughter Beatrice and founding of the first house of Anjou
Charles Ier d'Anjou
14 passages of Busquet's volume
René d'Anjou
11 passages of Busquet's volume
1436
René sets out to conquer his kingdom of Naples
24 July 1474
Testament of René bequeathing Provence to his nephew Charles of Maine
10 July 1480
Death of René
Jules César
9 passages of Busquet's volume
Guise
9 passages of Busquet's volume
22 October 1595
The king appoints Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, son of le Balafré, as governor of Provence
Gaspard de Pontevès, comte de Carcès
9 passages of Busquet's volume
Reine Jeanne
8 passages of Busquet's volume
1328
Death of Charles, duke of Calabria, leaving his rights to Jeanne and Marie
1333
Marriage of Jeanne to Andrew of Hungary
4 June 1365
Coronation of Charles IV of Luxembourg as king of Arles at Saint-Trophime, guaranteeing Queen Jeanne her rights over Provence
27 July 1382
Death of Queen Jeanne, put to death in prison, passage of the county to Louis I of Anjou
Casaulx
8 passages of Busquet's volume
October 1591
Casaulx becomes first consul of Marseille, start of the Marseille dictatorship
from 1593
Casaulx merges the hospital of the Saint-Esprit with that of Saint-Jacques de Galice, founding the Hôtel-Dieu of Marseille
1595
Casaulx introduces printing to Marseille, until then dependent on Avignon and Aix, and has the Obros et rimos provençalos of Bellaud de la Bellaudière printed there
early January 1596
Secret instructions from Henri IV to Étienne Bernard to secure Casaulx's rallying, offers conveyed and left unanswered
17 February 1596
Assassination of Casaulx by Libertat at the Porte Réale of Marseille, ending the Marseille dictatorship
Louis de Tarente
8 passages of Busquet's volume
Raimond VII de Toulouse
8 passages of Busquet's volume
Louis IX
8 passages of Busquet's volume
Robert le Bon
7 passages of Busquet's volume
Richelieu
7 passages of Busquet's volume
Romée de Villeneuve
7 passages of Busquet's volume
Louis XI
7 passages of Busquet's volume
10 December 1481
Charles III dictates his testament making Louis XI universal legatee
19 December 1481
Louis XI charges Palamède Forbin with taking possession of Provence in the king's name
29 and 30 December 1481
Meeting of the Estates convened at Aix by the seneschal Pierre de la Jaille, who announces the designation of Louis XI as heir of Charles III
30 August 1483
Death of Louis XI, Charles VIII succeeds him
Annibal
7 passages of Busquet's volume
Frédéric II
7 passages of Busquet's volume
Théodoric
6 passages of Busquet's volume
Charles du Maine
6 passages of Busquet's volume
Hugues de Baux
6 passages of Busquet's volume
Alfonse Ier (comte de Provence, roi d'Aragon)
6 passages of Busquet's volume
Comte d'Alais
6 passages of Busquet's volume
Gontran
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Mazarin
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Raimond de Baux
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Belsunce
5 passages of Busquet's volume
1 November 1720
The bishop of Belsunce, having left his episcopal palace, celebrates mass in the open air, barefoot, at the far end of the Cours
Charles de Duras
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Raimond Bérenger III
5 passages of Busquet's volume
1162
Recognition of the title of count of Provence for Raimond Bérenger III
Raimond d'Agoult
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Foulques d'Agoult
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Hubert de Vins
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Alphonse de Poitiers
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Auguste
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Henri IV
5 passages of Busquet's volume
5 January 1594
The Parlement d'Aix, the first of the rebel parlements of the kingdom, still a Leaguer body and not reunified, recognises Henri IV
early January 1596
Secret instructions from Henri IV to Étienne Bernard to secure Casaulx's rallying, offers conveyed and left unanswered
October 1596
Henri IV sends Étienne Bernard to preside at Marseille over the restored sovereign Chamber of Justice
Pompée
5 passages of Busquet's volume
Mercœur
5 passages of Busquet's volume
P. Lavalette
5 passages of Busquet's volume
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