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5 days ago · Jodie Comer's character in The Last Duel, Marguerite de Thibouville .was the only daughter of Robert de Thibouville, a wealthy Norman lord viewed as a traitor for siding against the French king in territorial disputes with England. Contemporaries described the real character Marguerite as “young, beautiful, good, sensible, and modest.
4 days ago · Arnulf de Montgomery (born c. 1066; died 1118/1122) was an Anglo-Norman magnate. [note 1] He was a younger son of Roger de Montgomery and Mabel de Bellême . Arnulf's father was a leading magnate in Normandy and England , and played an active part in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Wales in the late eleventh century.
5 days ago · September 1573. 1149. The Duke of Alençon. Statement of the chief obstacles to the marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Duke of Alençon, particularly the great difference of age, the possibility of his person being distasteful to the Queen, the diversity of religion, and the great misliking of her subjects thereof, through the late massacre ...
1 day ago · Summarize This Article St. Joan of Arc (born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France—died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May) was a national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to ...
3 days ago · This Saturday, 7 Jan., received a letter from the capt. of Boulogne, asking for a safe-conduct for the chancellor of Alençon's servant to come hither, and prepare lodgings and passage for his master, which Berners has sent. Encloses Du Bies' letter. Asks how the Chancellor shall be received. Calais, 7 Jan., 12 noon. Hol., p. 1. Add.: To my ...
5 days ago · Name of the castle – Castle of Gratot. Construction – Medieval castle built in the 16th century and modified by several generations (same family until the end of the 18th century) Location – La Manche, west coast 1 hour drive south of Cherbourg. Why I included it – It is not the most famous castle in Normandy.
3 days ago · Summarize This Article. Robert the Bruce (born July 11, 1274—died June 7, 1329, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland) was the king of Scotland (1306–29), who freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and ultimately confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
