 Also many places in the region bear names of Alan origin.In the Merovingian era, the city was capital of the Kingdom of Orléans following Clovis I's division of the kingdom, then under the Capetians it became the capital of a county then duchy held in appanage by the house of Valois-Orléans.The Valois-Orléans family later acceded to the throne of France via Louis XII then Francis I.