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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine at the head of the people of Lorraine, the Germans, and the French from the north, followed the valley of the Danube, crossed Hungary, and arrived at Constantinople, 23 December, 1096.
In 1390 Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, took the cross, and at the instigation of the Genoese went to besiege el-Mahadia, an African city on the coast of Tunis.
In her letters to Bedford, the regent, and to the Duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc alluded to the union of Christendom against the Saracens, and the popular belief expressed in the poetry of Christine de Pisan was that, after having delivered France, the Maid of Orleans would lead Charles VII to the Holy Land.
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 FRANCIA
Charles IV The Capetians are usually reckoned to begin with Hugh Capet, but his family (the house of Paris or "Robertians," after Robert the Strong) had been nudging the Carolingians for some time, and his uncle (by marriage), grandfather, and great uncle had already been Kings of France.
Finally, the succession of Henry IV, to anticipate a bit, brings with it the remaining possessions of the Kingdom of Navarre and the Duchy and Counties of Vendôme, Foix, Albret, etc. By then, few fiefs within West Francia were left outside the control of the King.
Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After the 1274 death of King Henry of Navarre, who was also Count of Champagne, Philip III gave Henry's widow Blanche of Artois refuge at his court and arranged the marriage of her daughter Jeanne to his son Philip.
Henry began negotiating peace with France and asked for taxes for the huge papal debt of 135,541 marks he had to pay or have an interdict laid on England; but Sicily was taken over by Manfred, who was crowned at Palermo in 1258.
Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall was elected king of the Romans in 1257 and oversaw the negotiations with Louis IX that were conducted by Earl Simon de Montfort, Peter of Savoy, Hugh Bigod, and Henry's half brothers Geoffrey and Guy of Lusignan.
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 HENRY (1129-1195) - Online Information article about HENRY (1129-1195)
Henry, however, refused to give up the lands which he had seized belonging to the bishopric, and this conduct provoked a war in which Ulalrich was soon joined by See also:
October of the same year, however, he returned to Saxony, excusing himself by asserting that his lands had not been defended according to the emperor's promise.
He found many allies, took Lubeck, and soon almost the whole of Saxony was in his power.
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 What's new at Robert Frew Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Engraved title, pp.[4]+[1-]84 plus [iv] index to US maps, plus 49 (of 50, lacks the last) leaves of Index by John Bartholomew, dated 1862.
Title spotted, some margins slightly discoloured at outer edge (not affecting maps), Scotland map (32) split at centrefold, small ink-spot at head of one of the US maps (no.60).
Engraved title, pp.[4]+[1-]84 plus [iv] index to US maps, plus 50 leaves of Index by John Bartholomew.
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 April 17 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1942 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
1710 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d.
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 Timeline 1661-1699
Pupil of Giovanni Gabrielli from 1609-1672, he was employed by the Elector of Saxony in 1615 and became Kapellmeister two years later.
1685 Jul 6, James II defeated James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil.
1687-1691 Suleiman II succeeded Mehmed IV in the Ottoman House of Osman.
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 European Royal History: Our Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The story of the second Bourbon king of France, son of Henri IV and father of Louis XIV.
This is a detailed and updated genealogy on the Russian Imperial family, as well as a collection of pictures of the lesser known members of the Romanov dynasty.
Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist Pretender to the throne of Spain.
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