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  1. 5 days ago · Mary of Burgundy (French: Marie de Bourgogne; Dutch: Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 ...

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  2. 4 days ago · Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of Aumale, Countess of Buckingham and Countess of Essex: Edward of Woodstock The Black Prince 1330–1376: Joan 4th Countess of Kent 1328–1385 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell Princess of Wales and of Aquitaine: Blanche of Lancaster c. 1347 –1368 Duchess of Lancaster: John of Gaunt 1340–1399 Duke of Lancaster ...

  3. 1 day ago · e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...

  4. 1 day ago · Chicago, IL, Chicago University Press, 2009, ISBN: 978025276179; 224pp.; Price: £47.00. The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe is a collection of papers which originated in a 2005 conference at the University of Miami. The women examined in the essays include queens regnant, consorts and various regents all of whom exercised power either in ...

  5. 3 days ago · Joan of Arc: A History. London, Faber and Faber, 2014, ISBN: 9780571284627; 328pp.; Price: £20.00. If Jeanne d’Arc had stuck to embroidery under her mother’s petticoats, then Charles VII would have been overthrown and the war would have ended. The Plantagenets would have reigned over England and France, which would have formed one ...

  6. 4 days ago · Language. English. In 15th century England, seemingly out of nowhere, four royal women were all accused of witchcraft. Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Woodville were alleged to have turned to dark arts to kill or influence the king... by people who wanted to use the accusations for their own politic.

  7. 3 days ago · Who were Joan of Arc’s parents? Joan of Arc’s parents were simple peasants, Jacque d’Arc and Isabel Romée. They were farmers and owned sheep, which Joan of Arc tended in her youth. Did Joan of Arc have any siblings? Does she have any living descendants? Joan of Arc had three brothers named Jacquemin, Pierre, and Jean, and one sister ...

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