From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10473 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, January 7 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10473 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Order Now To Get A Special 5O% OFF ["Translator" Subject: Order Now To Get A Special 5O% OFF Order Now To Get A Special 5O% OFF http://keragenis.rest/6PB5eSOB1EyBlkGzPOm6DLtQ_Q3oZNnxaI0iby0L5ffKbprmHw http://keragenis.rest/hENMXgPYypcmtHbfMsLigU7J8sdPCtIFDZTZCmNk2TmJgbPzgw he Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (whom Pope Innocent IV had recently excommunicated for his alleged "crimes against the Church"), Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and other neighbouring rulers proposed themselves or their sons as husbands for the young Countess. Her mother put her under the protection of the Holy See. Louis IX and Margaret suggested that Beatrice should be given in marriage to Charles. To secure the support of France against Frederick II, Pope Innocent IV accepted their proposal. Charles hurried to Aix-en-Provence at the head of an army to prevent other suitors from invading Provence, and married Beatrice on 31 January 1246. Provence was a part of the Kingdom of Arles and so of the Holy Roman Empire, but Charles never swore fealty to the emperor. He ordered a survey of the counts' rights and revenues, outraging both his subjects and his mother-in-law, who regarded this action as an attack against her rights. Being a younger child, destined for a church career, Charles had not received an appanage (a hereditary county or duchy) from his father. Louis VIII had willed that his fourth son, John, should receive Anjou and Maine upon reaching the age of majority, but John died in 1232. Louis IX knighted Charles at Melun in May 1246 and three months later bestowed Anjou and Maine on him. Charles rarely visited his two counties and appointed baillies (or regents) to administer them. While Charles was absent from Provence, Marseilles, Arles and Avignonbthree wealthy cities, directly subject to the emperorbformed a league and appointed ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10473 ***********************************************