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3 days ago · The plan disturbed the rulers of the lands along the Upper Rhone, especially Duke Robert II and Count Otto IV of Burgundy. Charles had meanwhile inherited the Principality of Achaea from William II of Villehardouin, who had died on 1 May 1278. He appointed the unpopular senechal of Sicily, Galeran of Ivry, as his baillif in Achaea.
- 1246–1285
- Louis VIII of France
- Charles II
- Blanche of Castile
4 days ago · At that cross the Judges have sometimes sat to try pleas. The palace which you can just see to the left is the Savoy, so called from Peter, Count of Savoy, who built it in the reign of our Henry III., whose Queen was the Count's niece. Now the Duke of Lancaster is the owner thereof, and John, the captive King of France, lodged there not long since.
2 days ago · Joan, Countess of Blois (1280-1291) with husband Peter I, Count of Alençon: Hugh II, Count of Blois (1291-1307) Counts of Boulogne Normandy Kings of France Ida (1173-1216) Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne (1216-1223 in her own right) Philip I (1223-1235) Afonso (1235-1253) Robert I (1261-1277) Robert II (1277-1314) Counts of Bordeaux Aquitaine
2 days ago · In Stow's "Chronicles," under the date of 1364, we find the following passage:—"The 9th day of April, died John, King of France, at the Savoy; his corpse was honourably conveyed to St. Denis, in France." In 1377 the Savoy stood a narrow chance of being demolished by the citizens of London, who had flocked thither, "evidently bent on mischief ...
23 hours ago · A standard reference is Peter der Eremite. Ein kritischer Beitrag zur Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (1879) by pioneering German historian Heinrich Hagenmeyer (1834–1915). Peter and his crusade achieved a popular status in the 19th century through such works as Heroes of the Crusades (1869) by Barbara Hutton. The references shown above for ...
4 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.
2 days ago · As part of our temporary exhibition, immerse yourself in the world of Leah Linh.
