<P> Elsewhere, the marriage of Louis XII with Ann of Brittany, followed by that of their daughter Claude to Francis I in 1514 permitted the attachment of the Duchy of Brittany to France again (1532). </P> <P> At the time of his accession in 1589, Henry IV of France brought the possessions of the last remaining great feudal house, the Albrets, to the royal domain . He was the heir by his mother, Joan of Albret . These possessions were Béarn, Armagnac and Limousin . </P> <P> Having each developed a strong identity, like Languedoc, these later additions, Béarn, Burgundy and Brittany retained their own institutions such as states and parliament, until the Revolution . </P> <P> The house of Austria showed a wish for supremacy in Europe, giving an impression of a militant bastion of Catholicism faced with the emergent Protestant states . The French monarchy was more worried that this claim would find echoes in Catholic circles in France . Besides, Habsburg possessions encircled its territory: Spain, the Netherlands, Franche - Comté and more distantly, Milan . Until the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588, it was not clear that England would not become part of this encirclement . </P>

Where was much of the territory added from in the 17th and 18th centuries