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French Royals Sampler
(a representative coin or two from each ruler represented on the site. Sub-pages, particularly the Carolingians, have additional coin images)

Carolingians

Carolingians: Louis the Pious, Lotharingia, Aquitaine and Provence and the South
Carolingians: Francia - Charles the Bald, Eudes, Charles III and the West
An abbreviated Carolingian (numismatic) genealogy

Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious Home Page
Coins of Louis the Pious
Rarity estimates of Louis the Pious class 2 deniers by Andy Singer
A Simple Genealogy
A Brief History
The end of empire: Fontenoy (841), Verdun (843) Mersen (870)
Division of the Empire (with maps and historical notes)
Division of the Empire - 817
Duties of the Coloni - 817
On Tithes - 817
Two Grants to Extract Salt  - 821 - 832
Fishing Rights - 832

Charles the Bald
Rarity estimates of Charles the Bald/Charles III Deniers
Text for the Edict of Pitres 864
Coin Weights and Attribution for CB/C III

Eudes
Eudes Home Page
An abbreviated genealogy for Eudes
Eudes' Coinage
Rarity Estimates of Eudes' Deniers
A Map Showing the Location of Eudes' Mints
Setting the Stage: the Unraveling of Carolingian Hegemony
Eudes and the Siege of Paris
Eudes as King

General Carolingian
KRLS Carolingian monograms
Temple Motifs in Carolingian and French and German Feudal Coinage
The Carolingian's Decade Horribilis: 877 - 887
Siege of Chartres: 911
Melle: Mine, Mint, Money
The Fecamp Hoard
Roman Campgates and Carolingian Gates
Carolingian Era Islamic Coins from Spain
A millennium Ago: 1004
Carolingian and Early French Forgeries
Charles III and immobilized coins from Lons-le-Saulnier
Unique Coins

Visitor's Guide to Carolingian France
A (Partial) Visitor's Guide to Carolingian France (and Germany)
Paris and the North
Burgundy
Normandy and Brittany
The Loire, Touraine and Vicinity
Aquitaine, Perigord and South
Alsace Lorraine and the Alps
Savoie
St. Agaune - Switzerland
Germany

Royals
Capetians
Valois I
Valois II
Bourbons

Anglo-Gallic

Feudal Coins
French Feudal Home Page and Lotharingia
Feudal Regions (maps and rationale for placement)
The Birth of French Feudal Coinage in the 10th Century
Aquitaine

Languedoc
    The Albigenian Crusade in languedoc
        Historia Albigensis
        Song of the the Cathar Wars
Bearn
Anjou
Maine
Blois
Auvergne
Limousin-Poitou-Bourges
Provence
Normandy
Brittany
North: Picardy
Provins
Alsace Lorraine
Flanders
Burgundy
Burgundy Home Page
Burgundy: Rome to Charles the Bald
Lotharingian Burgundy to the Early Germanic Influence
The Duchy of Burgundy and its Capetian Dukes
Valois Dukes of Burgundy(coins only)
Philippe le Hardi(coin, life and times)
Jean sans Peur (coin. life and times)
Philippe le Bon  (life, coin and times)
Charles the Bold (life, coin and times)
Burgundy Neighbors: People and Place
Burgundy and Provence: Ecclesiastical Coinage
Abbey of St. Maurice d'Agaune
Nevers
Nevers Home Page
Maps of France and Nevers Over Time
History of Nevers
Counts of Nevers and Kings who had Nevers Coinage
Coins of Nevers
The Early Holy Roman Empire and Germanic Burgundy

Serial Entropy: Angouleme

Romanesque Churches (not numismatically focussed)
Romanesque Churches of Burgundy
Romanesque Churches of the Jura
Romanesque Churches of Switzerland

French Revolution and 19th C.

Battles
French Feudal Battle Sites
Battle of Moussais (Poitiers II): October 732
Siege of Paris: 885
Siege of Chartres: 911
Battle of Pontlevoy: 1016
Battle of Bouvines: 27 July 1214
Battle of Crecy: 26 August 1346
Battle of Poitiers (Poitiers III): 18 September 1356
Battle of Cocherel (May 16, 1364)
Battle of Agincourt: 25 October 1415
Battle of Castillon: 17 July 1453
Battle of Nancy: 5 Janaury 1477

Paris in Conflict: Siege, Revolution and Civil Conflict

The Hundred Year's War
The Hundred Year's War: numismatic and historical notes with maps
Royal English and French Coinage of the Hundred  Years War
Anglo Gallic Coinage (from pre-war to Henry VI)
France in 1337
Battle of Crecy
Battle of Poitiers
France in 1360
Battle of Cocherel 1364
Battle of Agincourt
France in 1429
Battle of Castillon: 17 July 1453
Endgame

Paris
Paris Home Page
Rules who had identifiable Paris coinage
Coins from the Paris mint
Siege and conflict and the contemporary coinage
Siege of Paris: 885-6
Jacqueries: 1358
Paris in the Hundred Years War: 15th C
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: 1572
Siege of 1465 (Louis XI)
Siege of 1590
The Fronde: 1648-53
Revolution of 1789
The Reign of Terror
July Revolution of 1830
1848
Paris and the Franco-Prussian War: 1870
The Paris Commune: 1871
Paris in World War II

Paris Annals: A Chronology from 1860 - 1899 (minimally numismatic)

NonFrench Feudal (but related to the site)

Gold

Addendum: New Images in 2003

Addendum: New Images in 2004

Addendum: New Images in 2005

Addendum: New Images in 2006

Addendum: New Images in 2007