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- Saint Odo of Cluny (ca. 878 –– November 18, 942), a saint of the ... early education at the court of William I of Aquitaine or William the Pious ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England ... He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle ... The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080 – 1 May 1118) was the first wife and ... also commissioned the Gesta regum Anglorum of William of Malmsbury, considered ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort ... Matilda was daughter of count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adèle (1000 ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother, Richard I, for ...28 KB (4,528 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- [[image:Richard coeurdelion g.jpg|thumb|right|Richard I of England]] Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was king of England ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. The cathedral is noted for its unique feats of architecture, impressive sculptures ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth. He ... assertion without having a substantial body of documentation to support his ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most ... innovation, and his stated motto that "I am myself the matter of my ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury ... a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- in history for suppressing the order of the Templars, and as the Pope ... though he was and in many respects the pawn of the French king, did retain ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste.]] Feudalism is a political system of power dispersed and balanced between ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- injustice and tyranny. His band consists of a "seven score" group ... He has been the subject of numerous movies, television series, books ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong or plainchant ... Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western ...47 KB (7,182 words) - 13:41, 31 January 2023
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... processing, transportation and marketing of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks ... by community rules that stipulate the gender of the inhabitants and require ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
