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Counts And Dukes Of Valois
The Valois ( , also , ; originally ''Pagus Valensis'') was a region in the valley of the Oise river in Picardy in the north of France. It was a fief in West Francia and subsequently the Kingdom of France until its counts furnished a line of kings, the House of Valois, to succeed the House of Capet in 1328. It was, along with the counties of Beauvais, the Vexin, Vermandois, and Laon, part of the "Oise line" of ''fiefdoms'' which were held often by one individual or an individual family as a string of defences against Viking assault on Paris. The medieval county and duchy of Valois was located in northern France. It was included in the northeastern part of the government of Île-de-France, while being part of the province of Picardy. Its capital was Crépy-en-Valois.Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. "Valois". '' Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary''. 9th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster Inc., 1985. , (indexed), and (deluxe). Counts of Valois Carolingian counts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason Comte Fr Valois
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the blazon, codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is , and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, irony, ironically reject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster's Dictionary
''Webster's Dictionary'' is any of the US English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), a US lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor. "''Webster's''" has since become a genericized trademark in the United States for US English dictionaries, and is widely used in dictionary titles. Merriam-Webster is the corporate heir to Noah Webster's original works, which are in the public domain. Noah Webster's ''American Dictionary of the English Language'' Noah Webster (1758–1843), the author of the readers and spelling books which dominated the American market at the time, spent decades of research in compiling his dictionaries. His first dictionary, ''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language'', appeared in 1806. In it, he popularized features which would become a hallmark of American English spelling (''center'' rather than ''centre'', ''honor'' rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph IV Of Valois
Ralph IV (; born 1025, died 1074) was a northern French nobleman who amassed an extensive array of lordships lying in a crescent around the Île-de-France from the border of the Duchy of Normandy in the northwest to Champagne in the southeast. Ralph was the count of seven counties: Valois (Crépy) from 1037/8, Bar-sur-Aube and Vitry from the 1040s, Montdidier from 1054, Vexin (Mantes) and Amiens from 1063 and Tardenois from an unknown date. He held suzerainty over a further seven counties: Corbie, Dammartin, Meulan, Montfort, Péronne, Soissons and Vermandois. In addition, he was the ''advocatus'' (defender) of five abbeys: Saint-Denis, Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille, Saint-Père-en-Vallée and Saint-Arnoul. Initially an enemy of the reigning Capetian dynasty, Ralph became a staunch royal ally after 1041. He was one of the royal domain's most powerful neighbours. The historian John Cowdrey likens Ralph's lands to a "clamp ... set upon the northern part of the Capet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph III Of Valois
Ralph III (; died 1038) was the count of Valois from his father's death until his own. He was the second son of Walter II, count of Valois, Vexin and Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somme Departments of France, department in the region ..., and his wife Adela. His father died between 1017 and 1024, leaving Vexin and Amiens to Ralph's older brother Drogo of Mantes. Ralph married Alix of Breteuil, heiress of the lordship of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin. They had two sons, Ralph (Raoul) IV and Theobald (''Thibaud''). Ralph IV succeeded to the county of Valois, while Theobald received Nanteuil, founding the house of Crépy-Nanteuil. Ralph III also divided the castle of Crépy itself between his sons. The house and the outbuildings went to Ralph, while the keep went to Theobald. Notes References * * * * * Further read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter II Of The Vexin
Walter II, the White (c. 955-c.1024), was a French Count of the Vexin, Amiens and Valois from 992 to around 1024. He was the son of Count Walter I of the Vexin and Adèle, daughter of Count Fulk II the Good of Anjou. Around 1006, he exempted the abbeys of Jumièges and Saint-Wandrille from taxes, indicating good relations with the Duchy of Normandy and the Archbishopric of Rouen. He also negotiated the marriage of his son Drogo to Godgifu, sister of King Edmund Ironside of England, who had taken refuge at the court of Normandy in 1013.Pierre Bauduin: ''La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté'', Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004, p. 474 He died between 1017 and 1024 during a feud between King Robert II and Count Eudes II of Blois, which influenced the division of his counties between his sons: Amiens and Vexin went to Drogo, a Capetian loyalist, and Valois went to R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter I Of The Vexin
Walter I (died 992) was a Count of the Vexin, Amiens and Valois from 943 to 992. For most of his life he lived in West Francia. He was the son of Count Ralph I of the Vexin and Hildegard. He succeeded his childless brother Ralph II of the Vexin in 943. He became Count of Amiens quite young, upon the death of his brother, killed in a battle. A loyal vassal to Hugh Capet, he was able to reconstitute the union of the three counties of Amiens, Vexin and Valois in 965. He maintained good relations with the Archbishop of Rouen, Hugh, Vexin being dependent on this diocese. In 991, his sister-in-law Liutgarde, whom held the viscounties of Mantes and Meulan in dower, died. Walter recovered Mantes, while Meulan returned to Liutgarde's son Galéran II.Pierre Bauduin: La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté, Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004, ISBN 2841331458, p. 474 Walter's first marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph II Of The Vexin
Ralph II (died 943) was a French Count of the Vexin, County of Amiens, Amiens and Counts and dukes of Valois, Valois from 926 to 943. He was the son of Ralph I of the Vexin, Ralph I de Gouy, Count of Ostrevent, Vexin, Amiens and Valois. He married a woman named Liutgarde but died without issue. He built the fortress of Crépy-en-Valois. In 941, Eudes de Vermandois, Count of Vienne, captured Amiens. Ralph attacked him to retake the city, but he was killed during a battle. According to other sources, he tried to take advantage of the death of Count Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, Herbert II of Vermandois to seize Saint-Quentin, Aisne, Saint-Quentin, but was killed by Herbert's son Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, Adalbert, Castellan of Ribemont. His widow remarried to Galéran I of Meulan, Viscount of County of Meulan, Meulan. In 944, Eudes was chased from Amiens by royal troops. A few years later, Walter I of the Vexin, Walter, Ralph's brother, reunited the three counties. Ralph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph I Of The Vexin
Ralph I (died 926) was a French Count of the Vexin, Amiens and Valois. He was the son of Heilwise, daughter of Eberhard, Margrave of Friuli and Hucbald de Gouy, Count of Ostrevent. Biography Rudolf is first mentioned in 915 in a royal diploma to the Saint-Clément monastery in Champagne. The following year, he became part of King Charles the Simple's entourage in Herstal. The chronicler Flodoard Flodoard of Reims (; 893/4 – 28 March 966) was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are ... records him as being a follower of Duke Hugh the Great in 925, when he sealed a treaty with the Normans. He died in 926. Family In 924 he married Hildegard, daughter and heiress of Count Ermenfroi of Vexin, Amiens and Valois. Ralph administered the counties on behalf of his wife.Édouard de Saint Phalle, "Les comtes de Gâtinais aux Xe e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Vexin
The Vexin, county of the Vexin was a France in the Middle Ages, medieval French county that was later partitioned between the ''Vexin Français'' (French Vexin) and the ''Vexin Normand'' (Norman Vexin). The count of the Vexin was the ruler of said county. List of counts Carolingian counts * 753–764 Romuald, survivor of the Battle of Poitiers (732) * in 790 Griffon * 796 Riferus * (date unknown) Regnauld * about 851–864 Geilenus, count of County of Meulan, Meulan Nibelungs * 864-after 879 Nibelung IV * Theodoric I, his son * 886 Adelram III and Theodoric II, defenders of Pontoise, nephews of Theodoric I House of Valois-Vexin-Amiens * {{circa, 895 – 919 Ermenfroi, also count of County of Amiens, Amiens and Counts and dukes of Valois, Valois * 915–926 Ralph I of the Vexin, Ralph I d'Ostrevent, also count of Amiens and Valois, son-in-law of preceding * 926–943 Ralph II of the Vexin, Ralph II, also count of Amiens and Valois, son of preceding * 943 – after 992 Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Amiens
The County of Amiens (also: ''Amiénois'') was a feudal state centred on the city of Amiens, northern France, that existed from the 9th century until 1077 when the last count became a monk and the county reverted to the French crown. In 1185 the county was united with the French crown under King Philip II of France. List of counts of Amiens * Richard (801-825) ancestor of the House of Buvinids * Ermenfroi (before 895–919) also count of Vexin and Valois * Ralph I of Gouy (915-926), also probably Count of Ostervant, from 923 also count of Valois and Vexin, possibly brother-in-law or son-in-law of Ermenfroi (first house of Valois) * Ralph II of Vexin (Raoul de Cambrai) (926-944), Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, son of Ralph I. * Odo of Vermandois (941-944), son of Count Herbert II of Vermandois, usurped the county in 941, ejected by royal troops in 944. * Herluin (941-944), Count of Ponthieu ( House of Montreuil) * Walter I of Vexin (945-after 992), from 965 Count of Valo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert I, Count Of Vermandois
Herbert I (c. 848/850 – 907) or Heribertus I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Soissons, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin and Saint-Crépin. He was a Carolingian aristocrat who played a significant role in Francia. Herbert was the son of Pepin of Vermandois and one great-grandson of Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne. He was possibly a matrilineal descendant of the Nibelungids. His early life was unknown. Herbert became count of Soissons and count of Vermandois before 889, including the strongholds of Péronne and Meulan, and was probably charged with defending the Oise against Viking intrusions. A contemporary of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders he had the advantage of being a Carolingian, a great-grandson of Pepin of Italy, a son of Charlemagne. Herbert controlled both St. Quentin and Péronne and his activities in the upper Somme river valley, such as the capture and murder (rather than ransom) of his brother Raoul in 896, may have caused Baldwin II to have him assassinated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepin II, Count Of Vermandois
Pepin II (845–893) was a Frankish count. He was a son of Pepin, Count of Vermandois and Valois and thus a grandson of Bernard of Italy, who was himself a grandson of Charlemagne. He was the Count of Senlis and Count of Vermandois (850 – 893); Lord of Valois (877 – 886), and later Count of Valois (886 – 893). The brothers of Pepin II were Herbert I, Count of Vermandois Herbert I (c. 848/850 – 907) or Heribertus I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Soissons, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin and Saint-Crépin. He was a Carolingian aristocrat who played a significant role in Francia. Herbert was the son of Pepi ... and Bernard II, Count of Laon. Pepin II of Vermandois's wife's name and origin are unknown; their son was: *Pepin III of Senlis (876 – 922), Count of Senlis. Notes References * * Herbertien dynasty Counts of Vermandois 845 births 893 deaths Counts of Valois Carolingian dynasty {{noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
