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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ViolaCountess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di BertolottiMendelssohn 1731 Stradivari CelloPiatti 1700 GoffrillerStanlein 1707 StradivariLadenburg ...
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  • 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
  • of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and emperor of Constantinople, the duke of Burgundy and six lords visited the abbey, the whole ...
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  • "sacrilegious pagan customs" in Flanders. In particular, he denounces the consultation of "magicians, diviners, sorcerers or incantators ...
    19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
  • of The Devils, starring Frank Langella and Ed Flanders. The stage as known as a thrust stage, with the auditorium's seats surrounding it on three ...
    21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
  • drive to invade France during the Flanders Campaign. Alan Forrest, ... On the northern front in the Flanders Campaign, the Austrians and ...
    65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
  • of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and on the seventy-sixth place in the Walloon version of the same competition Le plus grand belge. ...
    19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
  • to these attacks, and so Bernard traveled from Flanders to Germany to deal with the problem and quiet the mobs. Bernard then found Rudolf in Mainz and ...
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  • and the common populations, mostly in Flanders. The Spanish government ... with Protestant immigrants from Germany, Flanders and France and developed ...
    42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
  • prevented him from bringing the French in Flanders to a decisive battle. Domestically ... While Marlborough fought in Flanders, a series of personal and party ...
    54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
  • the help of Edward to suppress a revolt in Flanders, and withdrew her support of Scotland. In 1304, the Scottish leaders, seeing no prospect of victory ...
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  • on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways ...
    22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022

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