Counts and dukes of Anjou

Robertian dynasty The Robertians, or Robertian dynasty, comprised: === House of Ingelger === Agnatic descent Cognatic descent ==== House of Plantagenet ==== In 1204, Anjou was lost to king Philip II of France. It was re-granted as an appanage for Louis VIII's son John, who died in 1232 at the age of thirteen, and then to Louis's youngest son, Charles, later the first Angevin king of Sicily. === Capetian dynasty === ==== House of Anjou ==== In 1290, Margaret married Charles of Valois, the younger brother of king Philip IV of France. He became Count of Anjou in her right. ==== House of Valois ==== In 1328, Philip of Valois ascended the French throne and became King Philip VI. At this time, the counties of Anjou, Maine, and Valois returned to the royal domain. On 26 April 1332, Philip granted the county to his eldest son, John: Following John's ascension to the throne as John II in 1350, the title again returned to the royal domain. == Dukes of Anjou ==

The dukes contributed greatly to social reform in the 1300s and 1400s. === First creation: 1360–1481 – House of Valois-Anjou === On the death of Charles IV, Anjou returned to the royal domain. === Second creation: 1515–1531 – House of Savoy === === Third creation: 1566–1576 – House of Valois-Angoulême === === Fourth creation: 1576–1584 – House of Valois-Angoulême === === Fifth creation: 1608–1626 – House of Bourbon === === Sixth creation: 1640–1660 – House of Orléans === === Seventh creation: 1668–1671 – House of Bourbon === === 8th creation: 1672 – House of Bourbon === === 9th creation: 1683–1700 – House of Bourbon === === 10th creation: 1710–1715 – House of Bourbon === === 11th creation: 1730–1733 – House of Bourbon === === 12th creation: 1755–1795 – House of Bourbon === == Dukes of Anjou without legal creation ==

=== 1883–present – House of Bourbon === After the death of Henri, Count of Chambord, only the descendants of Philip V of Spain remained of the male line of Louis XIV. The most senior of these, the Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, became the eldest of the Capetians. Some of them used the courtesy title of Duke of Anjou, as shown below: At the death of Alfonso Carlos in 1936, the Capetian seniority passed to the exiled King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. In 1941, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, succeeded his father Alfonso XIII (Alphonse I of France according to the Legitimists) as the heir male of Louis XIV and therefore as the Legitimist claimant to the French throne. He then adopted the title of Duke of Anjou. === 2004–present – House of Bourbon-Orléans === On 8 December 2004, Henry, Count of Paris, Duke of France, Orléanist Pretender to the French throne, granted the title Duke of Anjou to his nephew, Charles-Philippe d'Orléans. Since he did not recognize his cousin's courtesy title, in his view, the title was available since 1795. == References ==