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- Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort of England and the wife of William I the Conqueror. She and William had ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
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- Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort of England and the wife of William I the Conqueror. She and William had ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- was provided by an Anglican priest.Henry Flanders, The Lives and Times of ... and the Americans were vastly outnumbered.Flanders, 561. ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- Colonel John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields, which describes ... In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- (1154–1212)Infanta Teresa, Countess of Flanders (1157–1218)Infante João ... |Infanta Teresa (Theresa)||1157||1218||Countess consort of Flanders ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- godfather. The English queen Matilda of Flanders, her future mother-in-law ... before = Matilda of Flanders title = Queen consort of England | years ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- ===Flanders=== [[Image:Jan Vermeer van Delft 024.jpg|thumb|left|A lady ... A revolution in harpsichord construction took place in Flanders some ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- association that derives from the poem In Flanders Fields that described poppies ... the completion of which a choir sings In Flanders Fields. The various parties ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- the Conqueror's wife Matilda of Flanders it is now believed to have ... *Matilda of Flanders ==Notes== ==References== * Beech, George. Was ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- Germany, believed that an attack through Flanders (a region overlapping parts ... of Ludendorff's planned invasion of Flanders and was the first step in ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- wars against the English and against Flanders. Convinced that, as King ... ==In Flanders== [[Image:Philippe IV Le Bel.jpg|200px|thumb|left|200px ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen consort of Edward III of England. Born in Hainaut, Flanders (today France ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- On Saint Martin's Day (November 11), children in Flanders, the ... In the Belgian province of East-Flanders (Aalst) and the west part ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- He married his cousin, Matilda of Flanders, against the wishes of ... Many English aristocrats fled to Flanders and Scotland, others may ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- of Egmont was a general and statesman of Flanders who came from one of the ... Parma re-conquered the major part of Flanders and Brabant, as well as ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- After about four months he returned to Flanders, but moved on in late ... court painter of the Hapsburg Governor of Flanders, the Archduchess Isabella ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- Gravelines was then part of Flanders in the Spanish Netherlands, close to the border with France and the closest Spanish territory to England ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- The Count of Flanders invaded and briefly occupied Brussels. After ... By 1430, after the wedding of heiress Margaret III of Flanders with ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- While most of Obrecht's appointments were in Flanders in the Netherlands, he made at least two trips to Italy, once in 1487 at the invitation ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- a border province facing the County of Flanders. Godfrey of Bouillon ... is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- As news of rebellions of the lower classes in France and Flanders reached England, some peasants there readied themselves to rise against the ...10 KB (1,583 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- indicating that Wright had left Italy for Flanders by this time. (The addition ... Wright probably arrived back in Flanders, with any acquisitions he ...28 KB (4,262 words) - 00:34, 10 February 2023
- Many conversos traveled to Flanders, attracted by its flourishing cities, such as Antwerp, where they settled at a relatively early date, and ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- life generally, soon spread from Holland to Flanders, Spain, and France. In Japan, the greatest epoch for still-life painting began in the seventeenth ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- once again a Low Country (Burgundian Flanders) mercantile and Estuary opposition in the heirs of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk and their Dudley ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, probably also in 1281. The treaty arranging the marriage, signed in December 1281, included ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- churches. He revived the abbey of Turholt in Flanders and established a school there. After Louis the Pious died in 840, his empire was divided, to Ansgar ...11 KB (1,722 words) - 05:16, 31 July 2023
- series of paintings to travel with the king to Flanders. When he returned he took up residence in the the small Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- become a commercial crossroads between Bruges (in Flanders), Cologne, and France. English wool, French wines and German beer were sold in the harbor and ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 – 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera in Spanish and as ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- English by the comic song "The Gnu" by Flanders and Swann, in which all words starting with n have a g prepended: "I'm a g-nu, I ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- #039;s work, and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) are also considered ... century English picaresque. Like Moll Flanders, Thackeray's best-known ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- not just as a cause of trade (Flam-Flanders, 1991). And, again, "in ... *Flam, Harry & M. June Flanders. 1991. "Introduction" ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- | after=Dolores Grayfor Carnival in Flanders }} {{succession box | title=Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 19:15, 16 December 2022
- additional Kontors in Bruges (Flanders), Bergen (Norway), and London ... honey, wheat, and rye from the east to Flanders and England with cloth ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- [[Image:German POWs captured in Flanders by Brits2.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Germans soldiers captured by the British in Flanders]] During World ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) was a French painter best known for his invention of a new genre, the fête galante ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 06:44, 31 July 2023
- Argyll Regiment had surrendered to the French in Flanders, putting Campbell, Drummond and Duncanson beyond the reach of Scots law. The conclusion of ...14 KB (2,279 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- knights from the main event. Count Philip of Flanders, for example, made a practice in the 1160s of turning up armed with his retinue to the preliminary ...13 KB (2,087 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- the myth which described Anne as "The Flanders Mare"—a monument to her supposed ugliness. This view persisted, and it is still a popular ...14 KB (2,263 words) - 04:57, 31 July 2023
- Lyons, Arles, Venice, Compiegne, and Roenay in Flanders boast the possession of the martyr's relics. ==Legacy== [[Image:St. Cyprian CC Phila ...14 KB (2,280 words) - 19:36, 22 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...20 KB (3,198 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- "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 ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- 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
- Among the seventh-century pagans of Flanders and the Netherlands, it was the custom to exchange gifts on the first day of the new year. On the ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- bringing forces back from the war with France in Flanders to deal with the Jacobite rebellion. After a lengthy wait, Charles persuaded his generals ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- * Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: John Jay Through John Rutledge VI. Kessignger ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- Germany, Switzerland and Austria as well as in Flanders and Latvia. The combat, which uses a cutting weapon known as the schläger, uses sharpened blades ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Force (BEF). Haig favored a British offensive in Flanders—it was close to BEF supply routes via the Channel ports and had a strategic goal of driving ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- living on alms. In 1528 and 1529 he went to Flanders to beg from Spanish merchants there, and in 1530 he visited England for the same purpose. In Paris ...26 KB (4,095 words) - 19:47, 22 December 2022
- promises of spiritual rewards. He also preached in Flanders and the Rhine provinces. One reason for his extended preaching tour into Germany was the rabble ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 16:03, 29 September 2023
- was sent at the head of the Army of Flanders to intervene. Thus, Spain ... in the Netherlands. The Army of Flanders, which represented the finest ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- crossed the channel to take up its positions in Flanders and France where, eventually, and despite numerous setbacks, they helped to defeat Germany in 1918. ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- France, first built in 1236 by Joan, Countess of Flanders. It is now a museum on the history of the hospice.]] The word "hospice" derives ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- begin to appear in paintings, notably from Italy, Flanders, England, France, and the Netherlands. Carpets of Indo-Persian design were introduced to Europe ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- who helped to spread the devotion in France, Flanders, and the Netherlands between 1460 and his death in 1475. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246a ...35 KB (5,735 words) - 21:43, 16 April 2023
- Sour Cream Trio (led by Frans Brüggen), the Flanders Recorder Quartet and the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet have programmed remarkable mixtures ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- . She also appeared in the PBS production Moll Flanders, and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. From 1989 until ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- * Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2004. ISBN 9780393052091. ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- ), Duke of Saxony, and Robert III of Flanders, nicknamed "The Lion of Flanders"—a major Flemish national icon up to the present. ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Atlantic in the twentieth century like Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in the United Kingdom and Tom Lehrer in the United States. The influence of Gilbert ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country," a "nation," or a "state." But technically ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- produced by settlers from Portugal, France, Flanders and Genoa. Above all, gold brought home from Guinea stimulated the commercial energy of the Portuguese ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound that is found as a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It consists of simple molecules, each of which has ...34 KB (5,140 words) - 19:07, 26 November 2023
- who may have been the model for Moll in Moll Flanders (1722). In the same year, Defoe produced A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), which summoned ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- his journey to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, France, Spain. Having reached the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, he gave information about the ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- privately calling her a "Flanders Mare." She was painted totally without any signs of her pox marked face. Nevertheless, he married ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders. By the end of the century, Venice was famous for the splendor of its music, as exemplified ...34 KB (5,043 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- "a real disgrace" says minister] Flanders News, March 1, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2022. In Portugal, some Praxe rituals have been accused ...40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
- powers against Philip, including Baldwin IX of Flanders, Renaud, Count of Boulogne, and his father-in-law King Sancho of Navarre, who raided Philp& ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- Matilda of Scotland (1100-1118) · Matilda of Flanders (1066-1083) |category = }} 125550820 [[Category:English royal titles templates|Consorts]] ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- involved in mischievous conflicts. The crusade in Flanders aroused the Reformer's biting scorn, while his sermons became fuller-voiced and dealt ...43 KB (7,079 words) - 08:06, 3 August 2022
- from the industrial region of Lille in French Flanders. The "de" in "de Gaulle" is not a nobiliary particle, although the ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- the term's etymology include connections with Flanders (flamenco also means Flemish in Spanish), believed by Spanish people to be the origin of the ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- fiefs: Aquitaine, Brittany, Burgundy, Catalonia, Flanders, Gascony, Gothia, the Île-de-France, and Toulouse. After 987, the kingdom came to be known ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- impacting life in places like Flanders and Burgundy as much as the Black Death was later to impact all of Europe. A typhoid epidemic was to be ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- 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 ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- Godfred the opportunity to harass Frisia and Flanders with pirate raids. He also subdued the Frank-allied Wiltzes and fought the Abotrites. He invaded ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- In central and northern Italy and in Flanders the rise of towns that were self-governing to some degree within their territories stimulated ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- From Gdańsk, ships, mostly from the Netherlands and Flanders, carried the grain to ports including Antwerp and Amsterdam. Gdańsk ships accounted ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- who may have been the model for Moll in Moll Flanders (1722). In the same year, Defoe produced A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), which summoned ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- 10 April 1918, part of the German offensive in Flanders. Photographed by 2nd Lt. T.L. Aitken.]] Throughout 1915-1917 the British Empire and France ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- . It was named after the river in Flanders. Protecting the Flemish coast seemed the least one could do; on the other hand it created an enormous ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- Northern Ireland ( Tuaisceart Éireann ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, and consists of six ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
