# Margaret of Austria, ( 1480 – 1533 ), who was first engaged at the age of 2 to the French Dauphin ( who became Charles VIII of France a year later ) to confirm peace between France and Burgundy.

In April 1770, on the day of her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became Dauphine of France.

Despite the many things which Marie Antoinette did in her spare time, her primary concern became the health of the Dauphin, which was beginning to fail.

Upon the death of his father, who died of tuberculosis on 20 December 1765, the eleven-year-old Louis-Auguste became the new Dauphin.

His grandfather, Louis Le Grand Dauphin, had three sons with his wife Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria: Louis, Duke of Burgundy ; Philippe, Duke of Anjou ( who became King of Spain ); and Charles, Duke of Berry.

Agathe de Rambaud was chosen by the queen to be the Berceuse des Enfants de France of the Duke of Normandy, who became the new Dauphin at the death of his elder brother Louis-Joseph, in June 1789.

From birth to 1789, as a second son, he was known officially as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy and colloquially as the prince du sang ( prince of the blood ); then on becoming heir-apparent as a four year old after the death of his 7 year old older brother the Dauphin Louis Joseph from a quick acting illness on June 4, 1789 to October 1791 he became styled for the period officially as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France ( the seventeenth Dauphin of France ; the hereditary title under the Capet Monarchy of a French crown prince ).

At the death of his father in 1765, Charles's oldest surviving brother, Louis Auguste, became the new Dauphin ( the heir apparent to the French throne ).

His father, Louis, the Grand Dauphin, had the strongest genealogical claim to the throne of Spain when it became vacant in 1700.

He became the Dauphin when his grandfather Francis I died in 1547.

With the accession of his brother Charles X, Charles ' son and heir, Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, automatically became Dauphin.

Charles then became Dauphin of France.

According to the Dauphin County Board of Elections, in 2008 Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Dauphin County since 1964, receiving 9. 0 % more of the vote than John McCain.

Derry became a part of Dauphin County when it was established in 1785.

On January 2, 1952 Susquehanna became a First Class township via the Dauphin County Court.

During the smallpox epidemic of 1711, which killed Louis, le Grand Dauphin and three siblings of the future Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, Joseph became infected.

His predecessor in the post was a relation of Jacques Benigne Bossuet, and it is thought that the transaction was the cause of La Bruyère's introduction to the great orator Bossuet, who from the date of his own preceptorship of the Dauphin, was a kind of agent-general for tutorships in the royal family, introduced him in 1684 to the household of the Louis, Prince of Condé ( 1621 – 1686 ), to whose grandson Louis as well as to that prince's girl-bride Mlle de Nantes, one of Louis XIV's natural children, La Bruyère became tutor.

Savoy fought to regain the Faucigny region, but was unsuccessful and Faucigny became part of France in 1349 as part of the purchase from Humbert II de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin de Viennois of the Dauphiné lands.

D ' Estaing thus became close friends with the Dauphin and served in his retinue.

The birth of Claude's sons Francis ( who became Francis III, Duke of Brittany, as well as the Dauphin of France ) and Henry II of France represented a resolution to these contrasting succession issues but accelerated the loss of independence of Brittany and the eventual disappearance of the Ducal title as an independent sovereign Ducal crown.

The infant Henry VI of England became King of both England and France, but the Dauphin Charles also claimed the throne of France upon the death of his father.

These were followed by groups of infantry ( dismounted cavalry ) commanded, respectively, by the Dauphin ( later Charles V of France ), the Duke of Orléans and King Jean.

When she was only two years old she was promised to the Dauphin, the infant son of King Francis I of France, but the contract was repudiated after three years.

* October 21 – With the death of King Charles VI of France, Henry VI of England is proclaimed King of France in Paris, while the Dauphin, Charles, is proclaimed King Charles VII of France in Bourges.

She met the King, the Dauphin Louis-Auguste, and the royal aunts ( Louis XV's daughters, known as Mesdames ), one week later.

On 22 October 1781, the queen gave birth to Louis Joseph Xavier François, who bore the title Dauphin of France, as was customary for the eldest son of the King of France.

They reached Rheims the next day and the Dauphin Charles, with Joan at his side, was finally consecrated as King Charles VII of France on July 17, 1429.

Louis XVII ( Versailles 27 March 1785 – Paris 8 June 1795 ), from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy ; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France ; and from 1791 to 1792 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the second son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

The Dauphin, Louis Auguste, succeeded his grandfather as King Louis XVI.

However, since the Grand Dauphin and Philip's older brother, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, could not be displaced from their place in the succession to the French throne, King Charles II of Spain named Philip as his heir in his will.

At the time the new Dauphin was grandson of current King Philip VI of France and son to his Heir Apparent, the later John II of France.

In 1775 Charles Emmanuel married Marie Clotilde of France, the daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France and Princess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, and sister of King Louis XVI of France.

On 24 April 1558, the fourteen-year-old Dauphin was married to the Queen of Scots in a union that could have given the future kings of France the throne of Scotland and also a claim to the throne of England through Mary's great-grandfather, King Henry VII of England.

File: Scotland Arms 1559. svg | Royal arms of Francis, Dauphin and King consort of Scots

The title of Dauphin de Viennois descended in his family, the Princes of Ivetot, until 1349, when Humbert II sold his seigneurie, called the Dauphiné, to King Philippe VI on condition that the heir of France assume the title of le Dauphin.

A Dauphin of France would unite the coat of arms of the Dauphiné, which featured Dolphins, with the French fleurs-de-lys, and might, where appropriate, further unite that with other arms ( e. g. Francis, son of Francis I, was ruling Duke of Brittany, so united the arms of that province with the typical arms of a Dauphin of France ; Francis II, while Dauphin, was also King of Scots by marriage to Mary I, and so added the arms of the Kingdom of Scotland to those of the Dauphin of France ).

During his period as Dauphin, Louis, son of Charles VII, defied his father by remaining in the province longer than the King had permitted and by engaging in personal politics more beneficial to the Dauphiné than to France.

Instead, he remained south of the Loire River, where he was still able to exert some small amount of power, maintaining an itinerant court in the Loire Valley at castles such as Chinon, being customarily known as " Dauphin " still, or derisively as " King of Bourges " ( named after the town where he generally lived ), periodically considering flight to the Iberian Peninsula, and allowing the English to advance in power.

The future French king, Charles VII, assumed the title of Dauphin – the heir to the throne – at the age of fourteen, after all four of his older brothers died in succession.

At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.

* 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.

The heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.

* May 6 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne ( b. 1490 )

As part of the Treaty of Arras, Maximilian betrothed his three-year-old daughter Margaret to the Dauphin of France ( later Charles VIII ), son of his adversary Louis XI.

The Dauphin, now Charles VIII, was still a minor, and his regent until 1491 was his sister Anne of France.

* August 26 – Old Zürich War – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: Charles VII of France, seeking to send away troublesome troops made idle by the truce with England, sends his son the Dauphin with a large army into Switzerland to support the claims of Emperor Frederick III.

Louis's son the Grand Dauphin, as nephew to the late king, was closest heir, and Charles willed the kingdom to the Dauphin's second son, the Duke of Anjou.

Louis Charles was visibly stronger than the sickly Dauphin, and the new baby was affectionately nicknamed by the queen, chou d ' amour.

With his mother at his side, the seven-year old boy passed away at Meudon on 4 June, succumbing to tuberculosis, and leaving the title of Dauphin to his younger brother, Louis Charles.

In 1475, Louis XI agreed to let her marry his son, Charles, the Dauphin of France, but Louis reneged on the promise in 1482.

In 1428 after setbacks on the battlefield Charles VII of France sent a distinguished embassy led by Renault of Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims to Scotland to persuade James to renew the alliance — the terms were to include the marriage of the princess Margaret to Louis the Dauphin of France and a gift of the county of Saintonge to James.

However, the French failed to capitalize on the aftermath of Montargis, in large part because the French court was caught in an inner power struggle between the constable Arthur de Richemont and the chamberlain Georges de la Trémoille, a new favorite of the Dauphin Charles.

Once again, the Dauphin Charles was advised to sue for peace with Burgundy and should that fail, to consider abdicating and retiring to the Dauphiné, perhaps even going into exile in Scotland.

It was on the very day of the Battle of the Herrings that a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was meeting with Robert de Baudricourt, the Dauphinois captain of Vaucouleurs, trying to explain to the skeptical captain her divinely-ordained mission to rescue the Dauphin Charles and deliver him to his royal coronation at Rheims.

On March 9, she finally met the Dauphin Charles, although it would be a few days more before she had a private meeting where the Dauphin was finally convinced of her " powers " ( or at least, her usefulness ).