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- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- Hugh Capet (c. 940 – October 24, 996) was the first King of France ... Capet is regarded as the founder of the Capetian dynasty. The direct ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- 6, 1492) was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance era and ... While details of his early life are largely conjectural, he was probably ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- The Battle of Agincourt (IPA pronunciation: [/ɑːʒɪn'kuːʁ/] #039;s Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from ... One consequence of the fluidity of the political situation, with Henry ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought ... The Wars were fought largely by the landed aristocracy and armies ...33 KB (5,447 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2022
- ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ... his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of southeastern France, located ... The coastal area of Provence was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- (Latin: regnum Francorum, "Kingdom of the Franks"), Frankish ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- (after Lake Balaton). The southern shore of the lake is in France, taking ... that can suddenly raise or lower the level of the lake. A region of great ...16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- center, as well as the administrative heart of the European Union (EU). All ... Brussels has grown from a seventh century chapel into a metropolis ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the ... times. He was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in France. After he ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... with a constitutional monarchy, ruled by a Grand Duke. Luxembourg lies ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Charlemagne (742 or 747 – January 28, 814) (also Charles the Great; ... from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus), son of King Pippin ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
