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Hace 6 días · Republic of Ireland. United Kingdom. The term Angevin Empire ( / ˈændʒɪvɪn /; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly all of present-day England, half of France, and parts of Ireland and Wales, and had further ...
Hace 1 día · Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the ...
Hace 2 días · Edward I [a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly ...
Hace 5 días · Definitions of Capetian dynasty. noun. a Frankish dynasty founded by Hugh Capet that ruled from 987 to 1328. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Capetian dynasty." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Capetian dynasty. Accessed 26 May. 2024. Copy citation. VocabTrainer™.
Hace 3 días · France is among the globe’s oldest nations, the product of an alliance of duchies and principalities under a single ruler in the Middle Ages. Today, as in that era, central authority is vested in the state, even though a measure of autonomy has been granted to the country’s régions in recent decades. The French people look to the state as ...
Hace 5 días · Hugh O’Flaherty. The Irish Priest Who Resisted the Nazis. By Fiorella De Maria. Ignatius Press, 2022. 196 pages, $12.95. To order: Hugh O’Flaherty (ignatius.com) The Rome of 1943 was a terrifying place. German soldiers, many of whom were members of the feared Nazi SS, were everywhere.
Hace 3 días · At first the prior was unwilling to part with him, for he was procurator of the house and much valued, and Hugh on his part regarding himself as unfit to undertake the task, definitely refused his consent; but the Bishop of Grenoble, John de Sassenage, had been won over, probably by Bishop Reginald, and at his entreaty the prior gave way and Hugh of Avalon started for England.
