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3 days ago · Vermandois & Ponthieu French Royal Domain John Tristan, Count of Valois (1268-1270) Charles, Count of Valois (1284-1325) 10 Counts of Vermandois: Vermandois & Ponthieu Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois (1183-1214) Added to the French Royal Domain
4 days ago · Biography Ada was born around 1123, the daughter of William (II) de Warenne, earl of Surrey (d.1138), and his wife, Isabel de Vermandois (d.1147) widow of Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and earl of Leicester (d.1118), and daughter of Hugues le Grand, count of Vermandois, and granddaughter of Henri I of France.
4 days ago · Frederick Barbarossa is arguably one of the most important German rulers of the Middle Ages, and certainly one of the best known. Still, English-speaking readers have had to wait a long time for a biography of this Holy Roman Emperor.
2 days ago · House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and ...
- 11th century
- Ludwig III
1 day ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
3 days ago · Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, French saint whose visions led to the founding of the Marian shrine of Lourdes. Celebration of her feast is optional in the Roman calendar, though Lourdes is a major pilgrimage center for those seeking healing. Learn about her life and legacy.
5 days ago · Howell deals subtly with the swings and roundabouts of thirteenth-century European alliances and carefully measures the disadvantages and advantages of the match. Henry III and Eleanor were married at Canterbury on 14 January 1236. Undoubtedly the strongest theme throughout this book is family.
