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Tracy Adams refers to the house of Anjou-Valois as “fierce Armagnacs”; more accurately, they were “fierce Angevins,” dedicated to the survival and expansion of their House, whose interests dovetailed generally with those of the house of France and, specifically, with those of their son-in-law, Charles of Ponthieu, later Charles VII.2 Alliances were pragmatically and meticulously established and discarded or retained, according to their efficacy in securing the fortunes of the second house of Anjou.
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Rohr, Z.E. (2016). No Woman Merits Comparison with Her. In: Yolande of Aragon (1381–1442) Family and Power. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499134_3
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