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3 days ago · 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 ...
- House of Ingelger
The House of Ingelger (French: Ingelgeriens), also known as...
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the...
- Plantagenet (Disambiguation)
History. Angevin Empire, also referred to as the Plantagenet...
- House of Beaufort
The House of Beaufort (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t /) is an English...
- Angevin Kings of England
The Angevin kings of England (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ v ɪ n /; "from...
- Early Modern Britain
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great...
- English Throne
The Throne of England is the throne of the Monarch of...
- English Renaissance
The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of...
- The Anarchy
The Anarchy was a civil war in England and Normandy between...
- House of Ingelger
5 days ago · The Germanic peoples shared a native script from around the first century or before, the runes, which was gradually replaced with the Latin script, although runes continued to be used for specialized purposes thereafter. Traditionally, the Germanic peoples have been seen as possessing a law dominated by the concepts of feuding and blood ...
1 day ago · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh , who both died when Alfred was young.
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
- Osburh
5 days ago · Philipp III. von Nassau-Weilburg, Graf von Nassau-Weilburg, born on 20 September 1504, died on 4 October 1559, 55 years old. Married on 17 August 1541 to. Amalie zu Isenburg-Büdingen, born on 23 June 1522, died on 18 May 1579, 56 years old.
- Male
- March 12, 1602
- Weilburg
5 days ago · The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim -controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate. However, a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army's ...
- 1202–1204
- Crusader victory
- Balkans, Anatolia, Dalmatia
5 days ago · The name Nora is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "honor or meaning unknown". Nora is a lovely, refined name that conjures up images of Belle Epoch ladies in fur-trimmed coats skating in Central Park. Long seen as a quintessentially Irish name though its roots are not in Ireland, Nora is a quietly stylish favorite that's tiptoed to the top ...
5 days ago · Lǐbàitiān (or Lǐbàirì ) Several Sinitic languages refer to Saturday as 週末 "end of the week" and Sunday as 禮拜. Examples include Shenyang Mandarin, Hanyuan Sichuanese Mandarin, Taishanese, Yudu Hakka, Teochew, Ningbonese, and Loudi Old Xiang. Some Hakka varieties in Taiwan still use the traditional Luminaries.