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  FRANCIA
The Carolingians of Lorraine did not last much longer than the royal lines, though their blood continued in their in-laws among the local nobility, most importantly the house of Alsace, which succeeded to the Duchy of Lorraine and the County of Flanders.
Lorraine in the north is only briefly a separate kingdom and then settles down as a Stem Duchy of Germany.
Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France.
www.friesian.com /francia.htm   (14221 words)

  
 Joan of Arc - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
The Duchess of Bedford had declared Joan a virgin.
Domremy is a small village in the province of Lorraine.
She became known as The Maid of Orleans only after Friedrich Schiller wrote a play by that title in the early nineteenth century.
www.funtrivia.com /en/People/Joan-of-Arc-8738.html   (1642 words)

  
 File 1a - From 1095 to 1400AD - Merchants and Bankers Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
One of the first crusaders to go to the Holy Land, mentioned in material such as any encyclopedia entry, is Godfrey of Bouillon (1060-1100), Duke of Lorraine, with a wife, if he had one, who seems untraceable, which is where a problem starts.
Frederick II is King of Jerusalem through marriage to Isabel (Yolande).
Isabelle Brienne, who sold remnants of the Duchy to Venetian interests.
www.danbyrnes.com.au /merchants/merchants1a.htm   (14738 words)

  
 Early Playing Cards Research
Letter and parcel of the Venetian provvedittore Iacopo Antonoio Marcello to Isabelle of Lorraine (wife of Rene d'Anjou), in which he sends the Michelino deck and another Trionfi deck to France (complex article).
Unfortunately, we cannot be certain that these references are to games played with the Tarot pack.” Dummett considers it likely that this reference does refer to Tarot, which would thereby have been in France by about 1480.
Another probable early reference to Tarot in France is from Lorraine, 1496, and one of the earliest unambiguous mentions of Tarot in France is to their manufacture at Lyons, in 1507.
www.trionfi.com /0/p/03   (2081 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
Francoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess d'Orleans, Mlle de Blois (1677-1749)
(with her sister Louise-Francoise de Bourbon "Mlle de Nantes", Duchesse de Bourbon (1677-?).
(spouse of Helena Louise, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814-18580))
worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/royal6a.htm   (428 words)

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