Search results for "Flanders" - New World Encyclopedia
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- two which have become world classics: Moll Flanders, the story of a young woman's descent into moral depravity and her eventual redemption in ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
- two largest regions are Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, with 58 percent ... The low-lying plain of Flanders is drained by the Leie, Schelde, and ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- | deathplace = Antwerp, Flanders | nationality = Flemish ... important in establishing Rubens as Flanders' leading painter shortly ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- in 1515 to participate in an embassy to Flanders to protect the interests ... Utopia was begun while More was an envoy in Flanders in May, 1515 ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- his degree, in order to travel to France and Flanders. He probably traveled abroad to France with his father who stayed with the exiled queen, Henrietta ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- before=Charles | title=Count of Flanders | years=1740-1780 | after=Joseph ==Notes== ==References== * Crankshaw, Edward. Maria Theresa. New York: ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- In 1037, Emma of Normandy took refuge in Bruges, in Flanders, and Harold was de facto king. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that Harold drove ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- triangle of northern France, eastern England, and Flanders. These earliest mills were used to grind cereals. The evidence at present is that the earliest ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Bokrijk] Leading open air museum of Belgium, Flanders. * [http://www.avonoldfarms.com/ Avon Old Farms website] * [http://www.hjerlhede.dk Hjerl ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- 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
