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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier was appointed Duke Montpensier.
On 31st July 1824 Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier was born to King Louis Philippe I of France (age 50).
Adeline Horsey Recollections. It is said that few people achieve greatness, but that some have it thrust upon them. I can class myself with the latter, for I could have married a Prince of the Royal Family of Spain, the Count de Montemolin (age 26)1, who was at one time regarded as the rightful King of Spain.
Note 1. Carlos Luis Fernando de Bourbon, Count de Montemolin, born 1818, was the eldest son of the first Don Carlos (age 29), the legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne on the death of his brother, Fernando VII (age 33), in 1833. After the ending of the first Carlist war in the defeat of the legitimists and the establishment of [his future sister-in-law] Isabella on the throne, the old Don Carlos retired into private life and abdicated his claims in 1845 to his eldest son Montemolin, who thus became the second Don Carlos. He was a young man of some ability but weak and unstable. There was a strong party in Spain desirous to bring about a reconciliation of the two branches of the Royal Family by a marriage between the young Queen Isabella and her first cousin, Montemolin, but political passion and personal animosity stood in the way, and all Europe took part in the intrigue known as the Spanish Marriages. This ended of course in the disastrous marriage of Isabella with her cousin Francisco, and that of her sister [his future wife] Fernanda with the Due de Montpensier, the son of [his father] Louis Philippe (age 44), a defeat for English diplomacy which nearly caused a war with France. The Carlists had never been favourable to the idea of a marriage of Montemolin and Isabella, whom they regarded as a usurper, and they looked out a legitimist Royal Princess for him. His younger brother, Don Juan, married Princess Beatrix of Modena, and their son was the late Don Carlos. Queen Isabella married in 1846, and dissensions very soon broke out between her and her wretched husband, who really, like most of the Royal Family, was a Carlist at heart. Montemolin had issued a manifesto at Bourges in France in 1845, when he saw that he could not marry Isabella on his own terms, and his father had abdicated in the same year, and he soon after came to London, mustered his party, and began to organise a fresh Carlist rising in Spain. English diplomacy had suffered a great defeat and he found plenty of people here to help him; he was made much of in Society and became a lion for a time, being treated with full royal honours.
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1846. Franz Xaver Winterhalter (age 40). Portrait of Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier (age 21).
On 10th October 1846 two Spanish Princesses were married ...
Francisco de Asís King Consort Spain (age 24) and Isabella II Queen Spain (age 16) were married. They were double first cousins. She was forced to marry by the Moderare Party. She, apparently commented, "what shall I tell you about a man whom I saw wearing more lace than I was wearing on our wedding night?". She the daughter of Ferdinand VII King Spain and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies Queen Consort Spain (age 40). They were first cousins.
Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier (age 22) and Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier (age 14) were married. She the daughter of Ferdinand VII King Spain. He the son of King Louis Philippe I of France (age 73). They were fifth cousins.
On 26th August 1850 [his father] King Louis Philippe I of France (age 76) died.
On 24th June 1860 [his daughter] Maria de las Mercedes Queen Consort Spain was born to Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier (age 35) and [his wife] Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier (age 28).
On 23rd January 1878 [his son-in-law] Alfonso XII King Spain (age 20) and [his daughter] Maria de las Mercedes Queen Consort Spain (age 17) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Spain. She the daughter of Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier (age 53) and [his wife] Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier (age 45). He the son of Francisco de Asís King Consort Spain (age 55) and [his sister-in-law] Isabella II Queen Spain (age 47). They were half first cousins.
On 26th June 1878 [his daughter] Maria de las Mercedes Queen Consort Spain (age 18) died of typhoid.
On 5th February 1890 Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier (age 65) died.
On 2nd February 1897 [his former wife] Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier (age 65) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 21 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 27 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 22 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 4 Grand Son of Louis "Sun King" XIV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Bourbon I Duke Orléans 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philippe Bourbon II Duke Orléans 2 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Charlotte Palatinate Simmern Duchess Orléans Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis Bourbon Duke Orléans 3 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis "Sun King" XIV King France 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Françoise Marie Bourbon Duchess Orléans 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Françoise Athénaïs Marquise Montespan
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis Philippe "The Fat" Bourbon I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margravine Johanna Baden Baden Duchess Orléans
GrandFather: Louis Philippe II Duke of Orléans 5 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Father: King Louis Philippe I of France 6 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Antoine Orléans Duke Montpensier 7 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland