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  John III, Duke of Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of John II, Duke of Brabant and his wife Margaret, daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile.
Margaret of Brabant (February 9, 1323 – 1368), married at Saint-Quentin on June 6, 1347 Louis II of Flanders
During the reign of Jan III, Brabant was an ally of England.
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 BRABANT - LoveToKnow Article on BRABANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John I., in 1283 bought the duchy of Limburg from Adolf of Berg, and secured his acquisition by defeating and slaying his competitor, Henry of Luxemburg, at the battle of Woeringen (June 5, 1288).
He it was to whom Brabant owed the great charter of its liberties, called Lajoyeuse entre, because it was granted on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Johanna (Jeanne) with Wenzel (Wenceslaus) of Luxemburg, and was proclaimed on their state entry into Brussels (1356).
The important part played by Brabant at this crisis of the history of the southern Netherlands was marked in 1831 by the adoption of the ancient Brabancon colors to form the national flag, and of the lion of Brabant as the armorial bearings of Belgium.
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 JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JOHN (1371-1419), called the Fearless (Sans Peur), duke of Jurgundy, son of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Mar-;aret of Flanders, was born at Dijon on the 28th of May 1371.
JOHN (1468-1532), called the Steadfast, elector of Saxony fourth son of the elector Ernest, was born on the 3oth of June 1468.
JOHN, DON (1545-1578), of Austria, was the natural son of the emperor Charles V. by Barbara Blomberg, the daughter of an opulent citizen of Regensburg.
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 JOHN I., DUKE OF BRABANT AND LORRAINE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN I., DUKE OF BRABANT AND LORRAINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JOHN V. (1689-1750), king of Portugal, was born at Lisbon on the 22nd of October 1689, and succeeded his father Pedro II.
Limburg was henceforth attached to the duchy of Brabant.
John the Victorious was a perfect model of a feudal prince in the days of chivalry, brave, adventurous, excelling in every form of active exercise, fond of display, generous in temper.
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 John II, Duke of Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan II van Brabant (September 27, 1275 – October 27, 1312, Tervuren), also called John II, the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312).
He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaretha of Flanders, daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders.
John, who suffered from kidney stones and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg.
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 Expansion of Valois Burgundy
John the Good and his son Philip were both taken to England as prisoners-of-war and remained there until the French had accepted the humiliating peace settlement of Brétigny in 1360 and promised to pay an enormous ransom for their release.
John the Fearless became ruler of the duchy and county of Burgundy, with Charolais, as well as of Flanders and Artois in the north; Anthony became duke of Brabant in 1406; and Philip was given the relatively small and insignificant counties of Nevers and Rethel.
The duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, succeeded in arranging her marriage to his nephew John who had succeeded John the Fearless's brother Anthony as duke of Brabant when Anthony was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
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 Philippe II
Philippe II, known as Philip Augustus, King of France, son of Louis VII and Adela, daughter of Theobald II, count of Champagne, was born on the 21st of August 1165.
King Henry II of England was feudal lord of the greater part of France, practically all west of a line which began at Dieppe and ended at the foot of the Pyrenees more than halfway across to the Mediterranean, while at one point it nearly touched the Rhone.
John renounced his suzerainty over Brittany and the guardianship of his nephew, Arthur; he engaged not to aid the count of Flanders or Otto IV without Philip's consent, paid him a relief of 20,000 marks, and recognized himself as his vassal for his continental fiefs.
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 My Family
John (Duke of Bedford) was born on 20 Jun 1389.
John (Earl of Mar) was born in 1479.
John (Duke of Albany) was born in 1484.
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 John II, Duke of Brabant: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John, who suffered from kidney stone (kidney stone: A calculus formed in the kidney) s and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg (Charter of Kortenberg: more facts about this subject).
After his death Jan II was buried in the St. Michiel and St. Goedele Cathedral in Brussels (Brussels: The capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Duke of Brabant (Duke of Brabant: the title duke of brabant was created when the counts of leuven/louvain acquired the duchy...
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 woodgate - pafg121 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John II Duke of Brabant.John married Margaret on 8 Jul 1290 in Westminster,Abbey,London,England.
John I Count of Holland.John married Elizabeth on 18 Jan 1297 in Ipswich.
John Lackland King of England [Parents] was born on 24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace,Oxford,England.
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 Holland from 1299 - 1581 The history of the Lowlands during the reign of the Counts of the house of Hainault, Bavaria ...
After the dead of John I the line of Counts was claimed by the eldest daughter of Floris IV, Aleida, who was married with Jean I de Hainault d'Avenes and was continued in the female line by her eldest son John II.
John of Avesnes, who took the title of John II., was the son of John of Avesnes, Count of Hainault, and Aleida, sister of Wulliam II of Holland (1227-1256).
Charles V, 1500—1558, Holy Roman emperor (1519—1558) and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516—1556); son of Philip I and Joanna of Castile, grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragón, Isabella of Castile, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Mary of Burgundy.
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 Duke of Brabant -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184.
The title "Duke of Brabant" was created by the German Emperor Frederik Barbarossa in favor of Henry I, son of Godfrey III of Leuven (who was Duke of Lower Lotharingia at that time).
In the modern Kingdom of Belgium, the revived courtesy title of "Duke of Brabant" is traditionally assigned to the Crown Prince, in spite of the fact that the province of Noord-Brabant, part of the historical duchy, is now part of the Netherlands.
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 Eleanor of Castile - Cunnan
She married Edward, the son of Henry III of England, in October 1254 at Burgos and became queen in 1272 when his father died and he became king.
Theirs was one of the most successful royal marriages of all time, and she often accompanied her husband on his military campaigns, giving birth to his fourth son (later King Edward II of England) at Caernarfon in 1284, immediately after the conquest of Wales.
Eleanor of Castile (136x-1416), queen consort of Navarre: daughter of Henry II of Castile; wife of Charles III of Navarre; mother of Blanche of Navarre
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 Edward II
It's possible that Isabella broke the scandal of the adultery of her sisters-in-law in 1314, but that's hardly terrible damage, as she may have thought she was acting for the best, and it was the adultery itself that did the damage, not her revelation of it.
John lived in the same household as Margaret's cousins Thomas and Henry of Lancaster - sons of Edward I's brother Edmund - at least in the years 1292-93.
In the spring of 1317, Edward II paid the enormous expenses of Mary's pilgrimage to Canterbury in the company of her niece Elizabeth de Clare, newly married to Edward's favourite Roger Damory, and Isabel, daughter of Henry of Lancaster and niece of the earl of Lancaster and the younger Despenser.
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 Edward I of England -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His second marriage, in September 1299, to Marguerite of France (known as the "Pearl of France" by her English subjects), the daughter of King Philippe III of France (Phillip the Bold) and Maria of Brabant, produced three children.
John, born July 13 1266, died August 3 1271 at Wallingford, in the custody of his granduncle, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
She married (1) John I, Count of Holland, (2) Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and 3rd Earl of Essex.
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 Plantagenet
John, Duke of Lancaster, who was known as John of Gaunt (a corruption of Ghent), was born at Ghent, Belgium, on June 24th, 1340, and he died on February 3rd, 1398/1399, being buried at St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
John Plantagenet married second Constance, elder daughter of Pedro the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon.
John Plantagenet married third Catherine Roet, daughter of Sir Payne Roet and widow of Sir Hugh Swynford.
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 Rea Genealogy - pafg174 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry II of Brabant, Duke of Brabant [Parents] was born about 1207.
John Arundel VII [Parents] was born on 7 Jan 1421 in Lanherne, Cornwall, England.
John Arundel VII was born on 7 Jan 1421.
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 John II - TheBestLinks.com - Pope John II, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, John II Comnenus, Duke of Brabant, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John II - TheBestLinks.com - Pope John II, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, John II Comnenus, Duke of Brabant,...
John II, Pope John II, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, John II Comnenus, John...
John II was the name of a number of rulers:
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September 27 - John II, Duke of Brabant (died 1312)
Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens (approximate date; died 1311)
Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania (approximate date; died 1341)
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1312   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
June 19 - Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II of England
August 27 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (born 1262)
October 27 - John II, Duke of Brabant (born 1275)
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 Philip II of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Philip II of Spain (Spanish (Spanish: The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) : Felipe II) - (May 21, 1527 – September 13 1598), the first King of Spain (King of Spain: more facts about this subject) understood as the whole peninsula of Hispania (r.
Philip II, the self-proclaimed leader of the Counter-Reformation (Counter-Reformation: the catholic reformation or the counter-reformation was a strong reaffirmation of...
Philip's fourth wife, Anne, daughter of the emperor Maximilian II (Maximilian II: maximilian ii of the habsburg dynasty was born in 1527 at vienna and died in 1576...
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 BRUSSELS - LoveToKnow Article on BRUSSELS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It occupies the plain or valley of the Senne, and the sides and crest of the hill lying to the east and south-east of that valley.
Having fixed their seat of government at Brussels the dukes of Brabantproceeded to build a castle and place of residence on the Caudenberg hill, which is practically the site of the Place Royale and the kings palace to-day.
In 1430 died Philip, last duke oi Brabant as a separate ruler, and the duchy was merged in the possessions of the duke of Burgundy.
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 Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry II [see Next] by an unknown concubine, he had other issue, ii.
9 Jul 1290, John II [Duke of Brabant], b.
Edward II m(2) 8 Sep 1299, Marguerite [Pss of France], b.
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 Perspectives in Numismatics - Medieval European Coinage
The Norman kings followed, then the Tealby coinage of Henry II and the "short cross pennies" (four kings), the "long cross" coinage of Henry III and finally the groat and pennies of the Edwards and the Henries.
The duke was often raised to rank of king and eventually it became permanent.
The early coins are characterized by a bust of a saint or the king on the obverse and a hand, palm outward, on the reverse.
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 King Edward I
He was strong enough to refuse to pay the tribute to Rome which John had promised, and his reign saw the end of that papal overlordship over England which had greatly complicated the situation under his father.
Thereupon Edward undertook the arbitration, and in 1292 adjudged the throne to John Baliol.
By Eleanor of Castile Edward had four sons, his successor King Edward II and three who died young, and nine daughters, including Joan, or Joanna (1272-1307), the wife of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (d.
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 The Lowly Groat
Abbreviations were more the rule than the exception, and usually John was presented as I or IO while Charles became KAR or simply K. If one knows the Latin form, determining the entire name is not difficult since it comes immediately after the initial mark.
The legend "Christ victorious, Christ reigns, Christ the Lord" (+XP'C*VINCIT*REGNAT*XP'C*IMPERAT) appears on the mouton of John II, Duke of the Brabant.
In the 14th century, a few states issued Christian era dated coins and by the end of the 15th century, it was becoming more accepted, especially on larger issues.
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 plantagenet2
John Plantagenet 'of Gaunt', Earl of Richmond, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Aquitaine, King of Castile (b 24.06.1340, d 03.02.1399)
It has been alleged that Edward was not son of the Duke of York but was his mother's bastard, having been conceived when the Duke was away on a military campaign.
As mentioned under John de Botetourt, 1st Lord there are many web sites that suggest that that lord was a son of Edward Longshanks.
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 Adam the First Man - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
John II Duke of Brabant m.1290 - Westminster, Abbey, London, England
John of Eltham Earl of Cornwall b.1316 - Eltham Palace, Kent
John "of Gaunt", [du b.1340 - Abbaye de St Bav, Gand, Fl John, Prince of b.1315 -, Eltham, Kent, England
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 Biography of John or Jan II, Duke of Brabant and Limburg
Biography of John or Jan II, Duke of Brabant and Limburg
John or Jan II, Duke of Brabant and Limburg
Dutch ruler, the son of John I and Margaret of Dampierre.
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 October 27 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b.
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (b.
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