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Orléans, Gaston, duc d' (gästôN` dük dôrlāäN`), 1608–60, son of King Henry IV Henry IV, 1553–1610, king of France (1589–1610) and, as Henry III, of Navarre (1572–1610), son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret ; first of the Bourbon kings of France.
..... Click the link for more information. and Marie de' Medici Marie de' Medici (mĕd`ĭchē)
..... Click the link for more information. , younger brother of Louis XIII Louis XIII, 1601–43, king of France (1610–43). He succeeded his father, Henry IV , under the regency of his mother, Marie de' Medici . He married Anne of Austria in 1615.
..... Click the link for more information. . He took part in many of the conspiracies of the great nobles against Louis XIII's minister, Cardinal Richelieu Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de (Cardinal Richelieu)
..... Click the link for more information. , and several times fled from France. Although Gaston was pardoned after each revolt, his associates did not fare so well; the younger Henri de Montmorency Montmorency, Henri, duc de, the younger, 1595–1632, admiral and marshal of France; son of the elder Henri de Montmorency. He became governor of Languedoc in 1613 and fought in the religious and foreign wars of Louis XIII's reign.
..... Click the link for more information. and the marquis de Cinq Mars Cinq Mars, Henri Coëffier Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de
..... Click the link for more information. were executed. After the death (1643) of Louis XIII, Gaston became lieutenant general of France and successfully campaigned against the Spanish. For his leading part in the Fronde Fronde (frôNd), 1648–53, series of outbreaks during the minority of King Louis XIV, caused by the efforts of the Parlement of
..... Click the link for more information. he was exiled (1652) to Blois. Gaston was the father of Mlle de Montpensier Montpensier, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de
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