Third son of Henri 1st, King of France. Hugues took the cross at the assembly of Clermont in 1095. He joined the second army of crusaders which left the Ile de France at the end of September 1096 and whose leader was Robert Courteheuse. He did not want to stop with the Normans of Puglia and landed at Durazzo where he was arrested. Prisoner in Philippopolis until the arrival of Godefroi de Bouillon, he followed the great army of the crusaders in Asia and distinguished himself at the battle of Dorylée and the sieges of Nicaea and Antioch. He abandoned his companions and returned to France in 1099. Accused of cowardice, he returned to the Holy Land the following year. His troops were destroyed by the Turks in Asia Minor. Wounded near Nicaea, he died at Tarsus in Cilicia.
Daughter of King Louis XII and Duchess Anne of Brittany, she cannot as a daughter succeed her father on the throne of France. Heiress of Brittany, she is engaged to the Archduke Charles of Austria (the future Charles Quint). In 1505, wanting to avoid the encirclement of the kingdom and the loss of B