KING LOUIS XIV AUTOGRAPH ON PARCHMENT SIGNED JUNE 15, 1650 König von Frankreich

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MILITARY ORDER
ON PARCHMENT SIGNED BY KING LOUIS XIV ON JUNE 15, 1650.
Countersigned
by the Secretary of
State of the Royal Household and Naval Minister Henri de Guenegaud
King Louis XIV of
France (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), authentic,
autographed manuscript document dated April 26, 1694. King Louis XIV was
well
known as King Louis the Great or the Sun King.
He ruled as King from 1643
until his death - a tenure of over 72 years and the longest of monarchs in major
countries
in European history.
After the death of his
Chief Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, Louis began his own personal rule of France. A champion of the system of absolute
monarchical
rule, much
of his
success was
brought upon by eliminating
the remnants of feudalism and by inviting several
members of the nobility to live at the Palace of Versailles, for which
King
Louis had moved his family and the court of government to in 1682.
The
Royal Families of France remained at Versailles until the outbreak of the
French Revolution in October of 1789.
During Louis' reign,
France became the leading power of the European countries and participated in
three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League
of Augsburg and
the War
of the Spanish Succession. Louis and his wife Maria Theresa of Spain
had six children, all for which only one survived to adulthood.
Upon his death,
he was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV.
The
Maison du Roi
("The King's Household") was the royal
household of the
King of France. It comprised the military, domestic and
religious entourage of the French royal family
during the Ancient Regime and Bourbon.
Henri du Plessis-Guénégaud, Lord of the Plessis-Belleville, Marquis de La Garnache
(1610 – 16 March 1676) was a French scholar who was Secretary of State of the Royal Household, and Naval Minister.
He supported Anne d’Autriche during the Fronde and was made Garde des Sceaux in 1656, but was disgraced in 1669, when he was succeeded as Secretary of State by Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Size: 15.5" x 6.5" (39 cm x 16.5 cm)