Louis, Duke of Orléans
Also known as: Louis I, Duke of Orleans / duke Lewes · Family: France · Role: duke · First appears: Henry IV 9
Life events
- c. 1411 · John the Fearless had Louis I, Duke of Orleans, murdered, intensifying France’s factional troubles.(Henry IV 25)
- With: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
- “Neither tooke those troubles end by the death of the duke of Orleance (murthered at length through the practise of the duke of Burgognie) but rather more perilouslie increased.”
Henry IV 9
- child: Charles, Duke of Orléans “Charles, sonne to Lewes duke of Orleance”
- with Isabella of Valois (interaction) “from whence the duke of Orleance conueied hir to Paris, vnto the presence of the king hir father, and the queene hir mother”
Henry IV 25
- child: Charles, Duke of Orléans “For the yoong duke of Orleance Charles, sonne to duke Lewes thus murthered”
- enemies with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy “the death of the duke of Orleance (murthered at length through the practise of the duke of Burgognie)”
Henry VI 29
- child: Charles, Duke of Orléans “Charles duke of Orleance (as yet prisoner in England for the death of duke Lewes his father)”
- enemies with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy “whome duke Iohn, father to this duke Philip cruellie murthered in the citie of Paris”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.