Chimère sur les logis royaux - Crédit : Léonard de Serres
1454
Queen Marie of Anjou of France made the Royal Fortress of Chinon her main residence. She moved there without her husband.
She was then fifty years old and had given birth to fourteen children.
Mary of Anjou led a lifestyle in keeping with her tastes and her royal rank, as shown by the luxurious expenses incurred for her wardrobe, her bookshop, her appointed painter, and her royal chapel. His last two children, Charles, eight years old, and Madeleine, eleven years old, were the companions of his daily life and they accompanied him at the hunt.