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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
