Search results for "Flanders" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders Fields. This is because the corn poppy was one of the only plants that grew on the battlefield ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- with a minor Dutch admixture (particularly from Flanders). They are predominantly Roman Catholic. High population density and limited economic opportunities ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- and coins to his father, and in Flanders, during his return journey from London, he acquired gold medallions from "the first dynasty of ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- and Robert II, Count of Flanders. Marshall M. Knappen, "Robert ... The crusaders represented northern and southern France, Flanders, ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- he was appointed bishop of Ypres (Ieper) in West Flanders by the Pope and the Spanish Court. In 1638, two years after his elevation to the episcopate ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- Baptiste Pierre Le Brun in 1776. After a trip to Flanders and Holland in 1781 she became deeply impressed with the use of color by Rubens, and Van Dyck ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- them both to withdraw from the French court to Flanders, where they obtained assistance for an invasion of England. Landing in England in September ...18 KB (2,777 words) - 02:39, 16 December 2022
- (alias Elfrida) who married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. Every monarch of England and subsequently every monarch of Great Britain and the United ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman conquest of England. The location was Senlac Hill, approximately six miles ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- forces controlled a 35 km length of Flanders territory along the coast ... *Barton, Peter, Peter Doyle, and John Vandewalle. Beneath Flanders ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders. In this incomplete poem, dated sometime between 1180 and 1191, the object has not yet acquired ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- to flee, leaving for the court of the Count of Flanders. She had relatives there. She may have preferred to live on their hospitality rather than on ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- Saint Nicholas tradition in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern Belgium) he rides a horse over the rooftops, and this may be derived from Odin& ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Lothier, Luxembourg, Count of Artois, Burgundy, Flanders, Hainaut and Namur) |- after=United Provinces|as=sovereign ruler of Groningen and Ommelanden ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- of duty, Chaucer traveled in France, Spain and Flanders, possibly as a messenger and perhaps as a religious pilgrim. In 1367, Chaucer became a valet ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- ViolaCountess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di BertolottiMendelssohn 1731 Stradivari CelloPiatti 1700 GoffrillerStanlein 1707 StradivariLadenburg ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- composer to the regions of the Danube River and to Flanders. Monteverdi married the court singer Claudia de Cattaneis in 1599, and had two sons ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- the king of France, but the counts of Anjou and Flanders. Each did his best to diminish Normandy's holdings and power, leading to years of conflict ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Louis XIV, France easily conquered both Flanders and Franche-Comté. Shocked ... accumulate a string of victories from Flanders in the north to the Rhine ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- After 1628 Gassendi traveled in Flanders and in Holland, the only time he left France. During this period he wrote, at the request of Marin Mersenne ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
