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Tiercé en chef, au 1. facé d’argent Et de gueules de huit pieces, pour Hongrie. Au 2. semé de France au lambel de trois pendant de gueules, pour Anjou Sicile. Au 3. d’argent à la croix potencée d’or, cantonnée de quatre croisettes de mè mei pour Jerusalem. Soutenu au 1. de la pointe et semé de France à la bordure de gueules pour Anjou. parti d’or a quatre pals de gueules, pour Arragon.

Charlotte de Savoie

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Charlotte de Savoie was much less gifted and more unfortunate than her predecessor. Charles VII., with all his faults, was neither cruel, avaricious, nor disagreeable, and his wife was free to amuse herself and direct her children and household as she pleased. But Louis XI. was a cruel, remorseless tyrant, and the only consolation of the unfortunate Charlotte de Savoie was that she seldom saw him. She lived in seclusion and with little state at Loches and Amboise, and when his death gave her freedom she was already in bad health, and only survived him for a few months. Of her six children only three lived to grow up: Charles VIII., Anne de Beaujeu, Regent of France, and Jeanne, the deformed wife of Louis XII.

De gueules à la croix d’argent.