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Brief Life History of Marie. When Marie de France was born on 6 April 1145, in Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France, her father, Louis VII le Jeune roi de France, was 25 and her mother, Aliénor d'Aquitaine Reine de France puis Reine d'Angleterre, was 22. She married Henri Ier dit 'le Libéral' comte de Champagne in 1164, in France.
Princess Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, second son of King Leopold I of Belgium, and she was the mother of King Albert I. [1]
Margaret of France. Eleanor of England. Agnes of France. Joan of England. Alys, Countess of the Vexin. Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony. Alice of France. John, King of England. Henry the Young King.
Delamotte is a Champagne house more than 260 years old (it is the sixth oldest Champagne house) founded in Reims in 1760 by François Delamotte, a vineyard owner. [1] Alexandre Delamotte brought the cellars, caves and offices of the House of Delamotte to a mansion at the end of the 18th century. In 1828, his brother, Nicolas Louis Delamotte ...
The Knight of the Cart contains a preface explaining how the story was assigned to him by Marie de Champagne. Marie de Champagne was well known for her interest in affairs of courtly love and is believed to have suggested the inclusion of this theme into the story.
Baldwin I ( Dutch: Boudewijn; French: Baudouin; July 1172 – c. 1205) was the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) from 1194 to 1205 and Count of Hainaut (as Baldwin VI) from 1195 to 1205. Baldwin was one of the most prominent leaders of the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the sack of ...
Courtly love ( Occitan: fin'amor [finaˈmuɾ]; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love".
