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  Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Joanna's first husband, Ferrand, son of King Sancho I of Portugal, was captured by King Philip II of France in the defeat of Emperor Otto IV at the battle of Bouvines in 1214.
Margaret then married Philip the Bold, who became the first Valois Duke of Burgundy in 1364, as his brother succeeded to the throne of France as Charles V. Thus, the fortunes of Flanders pass into the House of Burgundy and ultimately to the Hapsburgs.
Marrying Margaret, the heiress of Flanders, Philip began a process of adding, by marriage and conquest, to the Burgundian domain, expanding it into a rival to the throne of France itself.
www.friesian.com /flanders.htm   (10740 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arnaud d'Ossat
He next studied law at Bourges under Cujas and became an advocate before the Parliament of Paris, while acting as tutor to Jean de la Barrière, the future reformer of the Feuillants.
In 1572 he joined the household of Paul de Foix, Archbishop-elect of Toulouse, whom he accompanied on various embassies and finally to Rome.
De Foix dying in 1584, d'Ossat remained at Rome, supervising the French embassy for a year, and then becoming secretary successively to Louis d'Este and Joyeuse, two cardinal protectors of the interests of France.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11342a.htm   (710 words)

  
 Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term can therefore describe overlapping but distinct sets of people.
For example, David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II through her late sister, Princess Margaret, is in the line of succession to the British crown, and in that sense is a British dynast.
Yet he is not a male-line member of the royal family, and is therefore not a dynast of the House of Windsor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dynasty   (942 words)

  
 UPGRADE: Vol. IV, Issue no. 4, August 2003 (Software Engineering - State of an Art)
Cover page [PDF: 102 KB] by Antonio Crespo Foix, © ATI 2003
The authors address different challenges that Component-Based Software Development need to overcome if we are to take full advantage of a philosophy that I believe should be one of the main trends SE needs to follow as a mature discipline.
Margaret Ross, considered as a European expert in the field thanks to her privileged view expressed in many conferences and journals, contributes “An Overview of Software Quality”.
www.cepis-upgrade.org /issues/2003/4/upgrade-vIV-4.html   (3103 words)

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