This man tapped Guillame Poyet, who had earlier helped his mother Louise of Savoy defeat a conspiracy against her, to help pass a major reform bill that phased out Latin as default language for official documents and contracts.
This man tapped Guillame Poyet, who had earlier helped his mother Louise of Savoy defeat a conspiracy against her, to help pass a major reform bill that phased out Latin as default language for official documents and contracts. That act, the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterets, was passed along with the Ordinance of Montpellier, which remanded a copy of every book published in France to this monarch's library. This victor at the Battle of Marignano sponsored the voyages of Verrazano and Cartier, founded the port city of Le Havre, and set a new precedent by besieging Nice after making an infamous alliance with the (*) Ottoman Empire. This man's court included a woman who would become a major figure in the reign of his jousting-enthusiast son, Diane de Poiters. Cesare Hercolani injured this monarch's horse in an engagement in which he faced the Landsknecht of George Frundsberg, which led to the humiliating Treaty of Madrid and occurred in the wake of a failed negotiation between Henry VIII and this man at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Famously captured by Charles V's forces at the Battle of Pavia, FTP, identify this father of Henry II, a French King who loved invading Italy and patronized Leonardo Da Vinci.
This man tapped Guillame Poyet, who had earlier helped his mother Louise of Savoy defeat a conspiracy against her, to help pass a major reform bill that phased out Latin as default language for official documents and contracts.
{Francis I} of France