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	Charming self catering farmhouse accommodation, cottage holiday in southern Normandy - Brittany countryside France
		Normandy (in French: Normandie, and in Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy.
		Normandy is the native land of Taillevent, cook of the kings of France Charles V and Charles VI.
		Normandy is sparsely forested[2]: 12.8% of the territory is wooded, compared to a French average of 23.6%, although the proportion varies between the departments.
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	Duke of Normandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Duke of Normandy is a title held (or claimed) by various Norman, English, French and British rulers from the 10th century.
		As his predecessors were styled jarl of the Northmen (Normans), Richard II was the first to be formally styled duke of Normandy.
		The future Louis XVII was also known as Duke of Normandy before his elder brother's death in 1789.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Dukes_of_Normandy (220 words)

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		List of Officers of the Principality of Antioch
		However, in the early eleventh century the dukes began a programme of church reform, encouraging the Cluniac reform of monasteries and patronising intellectual pursuits, especially the proliferation of scriptoria and the reconstitution of a compilation of lost illuminated manuscripts.
		Normandy was the site of several important developments in the history of Western music in the eleventh century.
	www.encyclopaedia.googlo.ws /index.php?title=Normans (3508 words)

	Poindexter Descendants Association - William the Conqueror
		Richard The First, Duke of Normandy and Great Grandfather of William the Conqueror, died in the year 960, and his wife Gunnons, who was also known by her Danish name, Gunilda.
		William Longue-Espee, (b.c.885-90), or Longsword (#37), was a Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine.
		He was a son of the founder of Normandy, Rollo, and was given governance of the dukedom in 927.
	www.poindexterfamily.org /history/Europe/royal_lines/charlemagne.html (2235 words)

	Duke
		In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are HRH The Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (The Prince Philip), HRH The Duke of York (The Prince Andrew), HRH The Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH The Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		Under the November 20 1917 Letters Patent of King George V, the titular dignity of Prince/Princess and the style Royal Highness are restricted to the sons of a Sovereign, the sons of a Sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of a Prince of Wales.
		The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is styled Duke of Brabant.
	www.datamass.net /du/duke.html (1002 words)

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		In late 1034, curiosity or devotion induced Robert (I) "the Devil", 6th Duke of Normandy, to undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where the fatigues of the journey and the heat of the climate so impaired his consitution he died at Nicaea (in the area of Iznik in modern Turkey) on his way home.
		Duke of Normandy 1035-1087 and King of England 1066-1087.
		William married in 1053 at the Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Eu, Normandy to Matilda of Flanders.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/normandy.html (2955 words)

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		List of Earldoms in the Peerage of England
		List of Earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland
		List of Earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Parvus
		The Duke of Orléans was unpopular with the people and was held responsible for the disorders and the taxations under which the kingdom groaned, during the madness of the king, his brother.
		The Duke of Burgundy, on the contrary, was very popular; he was regarded as a friend of the commoners and an opponent of taxation and abuses, while the university was grateful to him for his lack of sympathy with the Avignon pope.
		The Duke of Burgundy replied by a letter in which, while disavowing the general principles that formed the major proposition of the argument of John Parvus, he maintained that the propositions condemned by the Bishop of Paris were not contained in the discourse.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08482b.htm (1128 words)

	Duke: Encyclopedia II - Duke - Royal dukes
		In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are The Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (The Prince Philip), HRH The Duke of York (The Prince Andrew), HRH The Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH The Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		Under the November 20, 1917, Letters Patent of King George V, the titular dignity of Prince/Princess and the style Royal Highness are restricted to the sons of a Sovereign, the sons of a Sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of a Prince of Wales.
		For example, when the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons, the Earl of Ulster and the Earl of St. Andrews, respectively, those peerages (or rather, the 1928 and 1934 creations of them) will cease to be royal dukedoms, instead the title holders will become ordinary, 'garden' Dukes.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Duke_-_Royal_dukes/id/1341055 (872 words)

	Search Results for bastard - Encyclopædia Britannica
		duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 and king of England from 1066, one of the greatest soldiers and rulers of the Middle Ages.
		William was the elder of two children of Robert I of Normandy and his concubine Herleva, or Arlette, the daughter of a burgher from the town of Falaise.
		The dukes of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Burgundy were practically independent of the French crown in the early feudal period, as also was the duke of Brittany, though the French royal chancellery at...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=bastard&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (328 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Angevin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Angevin is the name applied to three distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (see Angevin Empire).
		The second Angevin dynasty, known also as the house of Capet-Anjou, began with Charles, created count (from 1360 the family were dukes) of the western French province of Anjou by his elder brother king Louis IX of France in 1246; they were members of the French ruling house of Capet.
		The last duke of the junior line died in 1481, and Anjou reverted to the French crown.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Angevin (650 words)

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		Dukes in the United Kingdom are addressed as 'Your Grace' and referred to as 'His Grace'.
		In the United Kingdom, a royal duke is a duke who is a member of the British Royal Family, entitled to the style of Royal Highness.
		Duke of Savoy (although Haute Savoie is now part of France, the Dukes of Savoy were Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, not peers of France.)
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Duke.htm (1255 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Account Of A Tour In Normandy - Volume I, by DAWSON TURNER.
		Until the re-union of feudal Normandy to the crown of its liege lord, the duke was one of the twelve peers of the kingdom; and to his hands that kingdom entrusted the sacred Oriflamme, as often as it was expedient to unfurl it in war.
		Normandy also contained several titular duchies, ancient fiefs held of the King as Duke of Normandy, but which, out of favour to their owners, were "erected," as the French lawyers say, into duchies, after the province had reverted to the crown.
		It was placed here by Duke Richard I.; but was lost in the course of a long and turbulent period, and was not found again till the year 1171, when it was discovered within the substance of a column built in the wall.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/5/3/12537/12537-h/12537-h.htm (14199 words)

	Normandy
		In late 1034, curiosity or devotion induced Robert (I) "the Devil", 6th Duke of Normandy, to undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where the fatigues of the journey and the heat of the climate so impaired his consitution he died at Nicaea (in the area of Iznik in modern Turkey) on his way home.
		Duke of Normandy 1035-1087 and King of England 1066-1087.
		William married in 1053 at the Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Eu, Normandy to Matilda of Flanders.
	www.robertsewell.ca /normandy.html (3576 words)

	THE DUKES FAMILY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY
		Tobias Fitch is listed in the South Carolina jury lists as a petit juror in St. Paul’s Parish in 1720 and as a grand and petit juror in St. James Goose Creek in 1731.
		She is listed in the Auditor General’s Accounts 1778-1780 as having made “clothsloaths” for the troops, for the sum of £147.
		William Dukes was listed twice on the St. Phillips jury roles in 1757, once as a grand and once as a special juror.
	home.att.net /~xcc2all/scduke/dukelowcountry/01-Charleston.html (10987 words)

	New Normandy - The Origins of the Normans
		In Normandy William 'the Bastard' succeeded to the dukedom at the age of seven or eight.
		The Norman dukes' fear of Scandinavian intervention contributed to William's alliance with Flanders in 1066.
		Such then that the Normans under Duke William I, great grandson of Richard I, first acknowledged Duke of Normandy and father of Emma who was the wife of the English monarch Ethelred II, sailed into the history books, by claiming the right to the throne of England upon the death of Edward (the Confessor).
	normannii.org /about/origins.html (2059 words)

	Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
		One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
		The arrangement of these lists thus follows Bryce's principle of universalist ideology, centering on Rome but extending to similar to ideas outside of the Roman world.
		The systematic treatment is as follows in the list below, but the list in the box at right simply gives the actual internet files in which basic historical material, with lists and genealogies, is contained.
	www.friesian.com /histindx.htm (3033 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 56
		Duke of Apulia, A.D. the soldiers hailed with joyful acclamations their valiant duke; and the counts, his former equals, pronounced the oath of fidelity with hollow smiles and secret indignation.
		The bravest designs of the duke were sometimes opposed by the free voice of his parliament of barons: the twelve counts of popular election conspired against his authority; and against their perfidious uncle, the sons of Humphrey demanded justice and revenge.
		The infant monarchy of Roger was shaken, and almost overthrown, by the unlucky choice of an ecclesiastical patron; and the sword of Lothaire the Second of Germany, the excommunications of Innocent, the fleets of Pisa, and the zeal of St. Bernard, were united for the ruin of the Sicilian robber.
	www.ccel.org /gibbon/decline/volume2/chap56.htm (15187 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Account Of A Tour In Normandy - Volume II, By Dawson Turner.
		Normandy does not contain a more ardent admirer of her antiquities, or one to whom she is more indebted for investigating, drawing, and publishing them.
		Here also, Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, and his son, Theodo, were compelled to immure themselves, after the emperor had deposed them; whilst Anstruda, daughter of Tassilo, was doomed to share his imperial bed.
		, the Lord of Gournay is bound, in case of war, to supply the duke with twelve soldiers from among his vassals, and to arm his dependants for the defence of his portion of the marches.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/5/3/12538/12538-h/12538-h.htm (12712 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of French monarchs
		Most medieval historians would argue that the existence of France proper did not begin until the advent of the Capetian Dynasty in 987, or, at the very earliest, with the establishment of the Kingdom of Western Francia at the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
		Initially, this had some basis in fact - Henry VI of England had been recognized by his grandfather Charles VI as heir to the French throne under the terms of the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, and most of Northern France was under English control until 1435.
		This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of some of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely: England (united with Wales from 1536) up to 1707; Scotland up to 1707; The Kingdom of Great Britain...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-French-monarchs (7386 words)

	Dukes - RSSMicro Search
		Curtis Dukes is a three-star running back from Philadelphia, N.Y., that many think is flying under the radar, however schools are starting to pick up interest in him in a hurry as of late.
		GEORGE T. Dukes, a Philadelphia political and community leader of the '60s and '70s who was at the forefront of numerous causes of benefit to minorities, a high school teacher, hospital administrator and Air Force veteran of the Korean War, died Tuesday.
		Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes left Friday's contest against the Milwaukee Brewers in the sixth inning with a left ankle contusion.
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	Free Library of Philadelphia
		Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, was married to Joan, daughter of Thomas Holland, second earl of Kent.
		Edmund, duke of York, lost his life at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and is buried in Fotheringhay Church, where Edward IV's father expected to create a family mausoleum.
		Richard II was particularly devoted to the memory of this saint, as were the first two dukes of York, whose collegiate chapel at Fotheringhay was named the College of the Annunciation and St. Edward the Confessor.
	www.library.phila.gov /medieval/banners.htm (1886 words)

	Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
		The list of the counts is from Bruce R. Gordon's Regnal Chronologies and the WW-Person, A WWW Data base of European nobility.
		Dukes of Gascony, 768-1038 AD The culture of the South of France in the 12th century is one of the first signs of the revival of civilization in Francia after the "second Dark Age" of the 9th and 10th centuries.
		Duke William V had three wives, and subsequent Dukes were descendants of William VIII, son of William V and Agnes of Burgundy.
	www.friesian.com /flanders.htm (10863 words)

	Lists of incumbents Glasglow Research Project
		Current incumbents may be found in the countries' articles (main article and "Politics of").
		Dukes of Savoy, Kings of Sardinia, and Kings of Italy from 1861
		List of Commissioners of the British Antartic Territory
	www.glasglow.com /e2/li/Lists_of_incumbents.html (347 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Roman de Rou
		It relates the history of Normandy from its origins to the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
		The principal characters are Rou (or Rollo) himself, the founder of Normandy; the subsequent dukes of Normandy from William Longsword to Robert Curthose and, after the Conquest, the first three Norman kings of England (William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry I).
		His list of participants in the Battle of Hastings is especially valuable.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14387 (572 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - More Like Your Father: the Dukes of Normandy
		Adelaide de Normandy, age 37, sister of William the Conquerer and thus Robert's Aunt; daughter Adelaide de Poitheau, highly sought-after young woman in the court of King Philippe du Capet of France.
		Duke Robert is in disguise as a peasant.
		Duke Robert and his father made a powerful team, but they were frequently heard arguing and fighting over details large and small.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=152386 (8008 words)

	Knights of the Round Table
		The most extensive list of name was found in the Post-Vulgate romance of the Grail (78:49-51), which has 110 names out of the 150.
		In the Welsh myths, he was Bedwyr, the son of Pedrawd and the constant companion of Kai (Kay) and Arthur, in the story of Olwen and Culhwch.
		According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Cador was the son of Duke Gorlois of Cornwall and Igraine.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/roundtable.html (12943 words)

	FRANCIA
		The Dukes of Savoy, beginning with a county in Burgundy, acquired more land and a capital (Turin) in Italy, named their new Kingdom after Sardinia and ultimately succeeded as the modern Kings of Italy.
		The only drawbacks are that (1) Thompsett's lists are, indeed, genealogical, which means it is sometimes hard to find unrelated rulers in a succession, and (2) the entries are very summary, without any explanation of may be happening as, for instance, domains are divided among multiple heirs.
		The biggest break came when Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed in 1477 and Louis XI was able to secure the return of large parts of the Burgundian domain to France, since the heiress Mary of Burgundy would not inherit under the Salic Law.
	www.friesian.org /francia.htm (14291 words)

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