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Maurice II De Craon
Maurice II de Craon (–1196) was Lord of Craon, Mayenne, Craon, Governor of County of Anjou, Anjou and Maine (province), Maine under Henry II of England, Henry II, a military figure and Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman of the century. Maurice II also possessed Fee (feudal tenure), fiefs in England which he held courtesy of Henry II. Biography The Lord of Craon Maurice II, took possession of the seigneury of Craon on the death of his brother Guérin II de Craon, Guérin, when Henry II of England, Henry II Plantagenet, born in Le Mans in 1133, became Counts and dukes of Anjou, Count of Anjou in 1151. Maurice was still a minor at the time, but in 1158, he took part in the siege of the town of Thouars, and then took a number of deeds in favour of the Abbey of La Roë. Maurice Il's taking possession of the seigneury of Craon came after a long period of minority which had lasted two decades due to the premature death of his father and the death of his heirs. This situation, common at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chansonnier
A chansonnier (, , Galician and , or ''canzoniéro'', ) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally " song-books"; however, some manuscripts are called chansonniers even though they preserve the text but not the music, for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyrics. The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadours and trouvères used in the medieval music. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France, but also in Italy, Germany and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count Of Anjou
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Fair (), Plantagenet, and of Anjou, was the count of Anjou and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage claim and conquest, from 1144. Geoffrey married Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, king of England and duke of Normandy. Geoffrey and Matilda's marriage led, through their son Henry II, to the 300-year long reign of the Plantagenet dynasty in England. Although it was never his family name or last name, "Plantagenet" was taken for the dynasty from Geoffrey's epithet, long after his death. Geoffrey's ancestral domain of Anjou in north central France gives rise to the name Angevin, and what modern historians name as the Angevin Empire in the 12th century. Early life Geoffrey was the elder son of Fulk V of Anjou and Ermengarde of Maine. The chronicler John of Marmoutier described Geoffrey as handsome, red haired, jovial, and a great warrior. King Henry I of Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John, King Of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The First Barons' War, baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta, a document considered a foundational milestone in English and later British constitution of the United Kingdom, constitutional history. John was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland () because, as a younger son, he was not expected to inherit significant lands. He became Henry's favourite child following the failed revolt of 1173–1174 by his brothers Henry the Young King, Richard I of England, Richard, and Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Geoffrey against their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loire
The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the southeastern quarter of the French Massif Central in the Cévennes range (in the departments of France, department of Ardèche) at near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at St Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the rivers Nièvre (Loire), Nièvre, Maine (river), Maine and the Erdre on its right bank, and the rivers Allier (river), Allier, Cher (river), Cher, Indre (river), Indre, Vienne (river), Vienne, and the Sèvre Nantaise on the left bank. The Loire gives its name to six departments: Loire (department), Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, and Saône-et-Loire. The lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Sol
The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus. Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language. Roman antiquity The '' solidus'' is a coin made of 4.5 g of gold, created by emperor Constantine to replace the '' aureus''. Early Middle Ages Doing honour to its name, the new currency earned the reputation of unalterability, crossing almost unchanged the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the great invasions and the creation of Germanic kingdoms throughout Europe. Not only was it issued in the Byzantine Empire until the 11th century under the name of ''nomisma'', but the ''solidus'' was imitated by the barbarian kings, particularly the Merovingians, albeit most often in the form of a "third of a sou" ('' tremissis''). Facing a shortage of gold, Charlemagne introduced a new "stabiliza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice III De Craon
{{short description, French noble house The Craon family was a French noble house, known to date back to the 11th century, originating in Craon in the Mayenne region of Anjou, northern France. Its most famous member is Pierre de Craon, and its last representative governed Burgundy for a time under Louis XI, after the death of Charles le Téméraire. When the Craon family died out, with the death of Antoine de Domart et Clacy (ca 1440-1480), the Beauvau family The House of Beauvau was the name of a historic French nobility, French noble family originating in Duchy of Anjou, Anjou, whose members held significant political and military positions in Kingdom of France, France, Spain and the Holy Roman Emp ... took the title of Craon since one of its members had married the heir to that name. Jeanne de Craon, dying at the birth of her son Jean IV de Beauvau, demanded that he take the arms of the Craon family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaury De Meulan
Amaury (from the Old French ''Amalric'') or Amauri may refer to: People Surname *Philippe Amaury (1940–2006), French publishing tycoon Given name *Amaury du Closel (1956–2024), French composer, conductor and writer *Amaury Duval (1760–1838), French writer * Amaury Duval (1808–1885), French painter * Amaury, Count of Valenciennes, 10th-century noble in Hainaut *Amaury de Montfort (other), several people, lords of Montfort and counts of Évreux * Amaury Filion (born 1981), Dominican basketball player *Amaury Guichon (born 1991), Swiss-French pastry chef *Amaury Gutiérrez (born 1963), Cuban singer and musician *Amaury of Jerusalem (Amalric; 1136–1174), king of the Crusader state of Jerusalem *Amaury Kruel (1901–1996), Brazilian military officer and politician *Amaury Nolasco (born 1970), Puerto Rican actor *Amaury Pasos (1935–2024), Brazilian basketball player and coach *Amaury Telemaco (born 1974), Dominican baseball player *Amaury Vassili (born 1989), Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Meulan
In the Middle Ages, the county of Meulan was a county of Île-de-France. Geography The geographical extent of the county associated with the castle and town of Meulan becomes evident in the time of Robert I (1081–1118) and Waleran de Beaumont (1118–1166). The county then ran west along the right bank of the Seine as far as the lordship of La Roche Guyon, and included the priory of St-Martin-la-Garenne, of which Robert I was a patron. To the south of the town, the count controlled the riparine lands of the Méresais. The count had the allegiance of two powerful viscounties. The viscount of Meulan, with his own castle at Mézy-sur-Seine, was the chief tenant of the county. But the count also controlled the viscount of Mantes, and river traffic at its bridge too, although the town and the associated Mantois was in fact mostly Capetian demesne. Somehow the detached lordship of Neauphle-le-Château north of Versailles in the Yvelines was also a dependency of the county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waleran De Beaumont, 1st Earl Of Worcester
Waleran de Beaumont (1104–1166) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. In his early adulthood, he was a member of the conspiracy of Amaury III of Montfort; later in his career, he participated in the Anarchy and the Second Crusade. During the reign of Henry II of England, Waleran's close ties to Louis VII of France caused him to fall out of grace. Early life Waleran was born in 1104, the elder of twin sons of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester. On their father's death in June 1118, the boys came into the wardship of King Henry I of England. They remained in his care till late in 1120 when they were declared adult and allowed to succeed to their father's lands by a division already arranged between the king and their father before his death. By the arrangement, Waleran succeeded to the county of Meulan upriver on the Seine from the Norman border, and the principal family Norman honors of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont Audemer. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidus (coin)
The ''solidus'' (Latin 'solid'; : ''solidi'') or ''nomisma'' () was a highly pure gold coin issued in the Later Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire. It was introduced in the early 4th century, replacing the aureus, and its weight of about 4.45 grams remained relatively constant for seven centuries. In the Byzantine Empire, the solidus or nomisma remained a highly pure gold coin until the 11th century, when several Byzantine emperors began to strike the coin with debasement, less and less gold. The nomisma was finally abolished by Alexios I Komnenos in 1092, who replaced it with the hyperpyron, which also came to be known as a "bezant". The Byzantine solidus also inspired the zolotnik in the Kievan Rus' and the originally slightly less pure gold dinar first issued by the Umayyad Caliphate beginning in 697. In Western Europe, the solidus was the main gold coin of commerce from late Roman times to the Early Middle Ages. In Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the solidus also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girard De Montclar
Girard may refer to: Places in the United States *Girard, Alabama * Girard, Georgia *Girard, Illinois *Girard, Kansas * Girard, Michigan * Girard, Minnesota *Girard, Ohio *Girard, Pennsylvania *Girard, Texas * Girard, West Virginia * Girard Township, Macoupin County, Illinois * Girard Township, Michigan * Girard Township, Minnesota * Girard Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania *Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania * Girard Avenue, a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served by two SEPTA stations: ** Girard station (Broad Street Line), a subway station on serving the Broad Street Line **Girard station (SEPTA Market-Frankford Line), a rapid transit station on Market-Frankford Line **SEPTA Route 15, a trolley line also known as the Girard Avenue Line *Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, was known as Girard until 1941 People * Girard I of Roussillon (died 1113), count of Roussillon * Girard II of Roussillon (died 1172), count of Roussillon * Gerard la Pucelle (1117 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaury I Of Jerusalem
Amalric (; 113611 July 1174), formerly known in historiography as , was the king of Jerusalem from 1163 until his death. He was, in the opinion of his Muslim adversaries, the bravest and cleverest of the crusader kings. Amalric was the younger son of King Fulk and Queen Melisende and brother of King Baldwin III. Baldwin was crowned with Melisende after Fulk's death in 1143. Melisende made Amalric the count of Jaffa, and he took her side in her conflict with Baldwin until Baldwin deposed her in 1152. From 1154 Amalric was fully reconciled with his brother and made count of both Jaffa and Ascalon. In 1157 he married Agnes of Courtenay despite the misgivings of the Church and had two children with her, Sibylla and Baldwin. When his brother died in 1163, Amalric was obliged to leave Agnes in order to be recognized as king. He was crowned on 18 February. Amalric's reign was marked by a ceaseless struggle with the Muslim atabeg of Damascus and Aleppo, Nur al-Din Zengi, and persisten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
