René d’Anjou, dying at seventy-one at Aix-en-Provence …
Years: 1480 - 1491
René d’Anjou, dying at seventy-one at Aix-en-Provence on July 10, 1480, leaves two romances in prose and verse.
The extinction of the princely house of Anjou will bring the French crown substantial territory and eliminate another dangerous rival to Louis XI, who himself dies on August 30, 1483.
France acquires Aix aome six years after the death of René, when the crown finally annexes the county of Anjou.
