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- 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
- 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 (3,204 words) - 14:14, 7 May 2024
