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  Montpellier - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William VII of Montpellier established a faculty of medicine in 1180; the city's university was established in 1220 and was one of the chief centers for the teaching of medicine.
Montpellier remained a possession of the crown of Aragon until it passed to James III of Majorca, who sold the city to the French king Philip VI in 1349, to raise funds for his ongoing struggle with Peter IV of Aragon.
The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest in France, having been granted a charter in 1220 by Cardinal Conrad von Urach and confirmed by Pope Nicholas IV in a papal bull of 1289.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
William VIII of Montpellier was the son of William VII.
A condition of the marriage was that the firstborn child, boy or girl, would succeed to the lordship of Montpellier on William's death.
He and Eudoxie had no sons, and it was their daughter Marie of Montpellier who was to benefit from the terms of the marriage agreement.
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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Montpellier
William VII of Montpellier established a faculty of medicine in 1180, recognised by Pope Nicholas IV; the city's university was established in 1220 and was one of the chief centers for the teaching of medicine.
Montpellier remained a possession of the crown of Aragon until it passed to James III of Majorca, who sold the city to the French king Philip VI in 1349, to raise funds for his ongoing struggle with Peter IV of Aragon.
The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest in France, having been granted a charter in 1220 by Cardinal Conrad von Urach and confirmed by Pope Nicholas IV in a papal bull of 1289.
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 Torture - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1690 an act passed reciting the torture of William Carstares, a minister, in 1683, and re-establishing his competency as a witness.
viii.) affirmed that the law ought not to establish any punishments other than such as are strictly and evidently necessary.
In modern law the code penal enacts that all criminals shall be punished as guilty of assassination who for the execution of their crimes employ torture.' The code also makes it punishable to subject a person under arrest to torture.
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 Greatest of Centuries 5
William discovered that dropsy may be due to a 'durities renum'; he substituted the knife for the Arabist abuse of the cautery; he investigated the causes of the failure of healing by first intention; he described the danger of wounds of the neck; he sutured divided nerves; he forwarded the diagnosis of sup
William's studies in this subject, however, serve to show that nothing escaped his watchful eye and that he was in the best sense of the word a careful observer and must have been an eminently suggestive and helpful teacher.
William of Salicet was destined, moreover, to be surpassed in some ways by his most distinguished pupil, Lanfranc, who taught at the University of Paris at the end of the Thirteenth Century.
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 Montpellier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name of the city, originally Monspessulanus, is said to have stood for mont pelé (the naked hill, because the vegetation was poor), or le mont de la colline (the mount of the hill) [1]; an alternative theory is that it was named for the hill of Monte Pestelario.
Montpellier is one of the few cities in France without a (Gallo-)Roman background.
Montpellier is served by railway, including TGV trains.
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 Montpellier Information
The name of the city, originally Monspessulanus, is said to have stood for mont pelé (the naked hill, because the vegetation was poor), or le mont de la colline (the mount of the hill) [1]; an alternative theory is that it was named for the hill of Monte Pestelario.
The Montpellier school of medicine owed its success to the ruling of the Guilhems, lords of the town, by which any licensed physician might lecture there; there was no fixed limit to the number of teachers, lectures were multiplied, and there was a great wealth of teaching.
The city is home to the association football club Montpellier Hérault SC, currently of Ligue 2 and to the ice hockey club Montpellier Vipers, who have their home stadium at the Patinoire de l'Agglomération de Montpellier at Odysseum.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anatomy
Montpellier was one of the earliest to make a name for itself, but both Paris and Bologna were not far behind.
There appears to be no doubt that he made many human dissections, and there is a definite tradition of his having made a medico-legal autopsy on the body of a nobleman in order to determine whether death was due to poisoning.
The statement that such a decree was promulgated is to be found in nearly every history of medicine published in English, and has been made much of in books on the supposed opposition of science and religion.
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In der ehemaligen Provinz lebte ein Viscount von Ventadour, Eble, das während des zweiten Teils von William von Leben Poitiers scheint, in Relation mit ihm geholt worden zu sein, und nach Ansicht eines zeitgenössischen Historikers, Geffrei, das von Vigeois, eratvaldegratiosus in den cantilenis vorherig ist.
Eine sehr andere Position wurde von solchen wichtigen Personen wie William von Poitiers, Raimbaut der Orange, der Viscount von Heiligem Antonin, William von Berga und von Blacatz besetzt, der Poesie für ihre eigene Unterhaltung bildete, aber nicht wenig, durch folglich werdene troubadours beitrug, um den Beruf aufzuwerfen.
Häufig in einem abschließenden couplet wird ein Richter oder ein Schiedsrichter ernannt, um zwischen den Beteiligten zu entscheiden.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas
Cels., VIII, 67, etc) had to assert that Sol was not the Christians' God; Augustine (Tract xxxiv, in Joan.
Till the tenth century Christmas counted, in papal reckoning, as the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, as it still does in Bulls; Boniface VIII (1294-1303) restored temporarily this usage, to which Germany held longest.
The day became a favourite for court ceremonies, and on it, e.g., William of Normandy was crowned at Westminster.
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 Montpellier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Montpellier is one of the few cities in France that does not have a Roman background.
William VII of Montpellier established a faculty of medicine in 1180; the city's university was established in 1220.
Rue Foch, Montpellier, looking towards the [[Porte du Peyrou]] The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest in France, having been granted a charter in 1220 by Cardinal Conrad von Urach and confirmed by Pope Nicholas IV in a papal bull of 1289.
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 §17. Peterhouse Library and Catalogue; The Library of the Medieval Student. XV. English and Scottish Education. ...
1200), “the light of the lawyers,” whom Bologna was constrained to recall from Montpellier.
1346), of William de Mandagoto and of Henry of Susa, cardinal of Ostia (ob.
As English clerks, the Peterhouse fellows had,doubtless, frequent recourse to their several copies of the Constitutions of Otho and Ottobon, and, it may be surmised, to Liber taxarum omnium beneficiorum Angliae, which lay in the chained library.
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 Ancestors of Robert C. Bradley: Index
Aquitaine, William I Duke (marriage to Princess Adele Normandy) (i4165), b.915-d.963
Aquitaine, William III Duke (marriage to Agnes Countess of Burgundy) (i4169), b.969-d.1030
Aquitaine, William VII Guillaume (marriage to Philippa Mathilde Or Toulouse Countess of) (i5679), b.1071-d.1126
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
William VII of Montpellier was the eldest son of William VI and of his wife Sibylle.
Aged around 15, he inherited the lordship of Montpellier from his father in 1146 under the tutelage of his grandmother, Ermessende of Melgueil.
He fell ill in 1171 and made his will on St Michael's day (29 September 1171), appointing his brother Gui Guerrejat and John of Montlaur, bishop of Maguelonne, as joint guardians of his young sons.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William d' ALBINI [Earl] was born between 1133 and 1151 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
She was married to William PABODIE on 26 Dec 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
William Of ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY) [Sir Knight] was born on 18 Oct 1253 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England.
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 29th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Guillaume de Montpellier VIII, Count of Montpellier was born 1158 in Montpellier, Hérault département, Languedoc-Roussillon région, France and married 1174.
BIOGRAPHY: William Marshall was a Knight Templar, Earl of Striguil, Lord of Leinster, Marshall of England, and Protector and Regent of the Kingdom (from 1216 to 1219).
William had swore fealty to his lord, and his word was his bond.
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 Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 75
Eudoxia of Byzantium (?) was born in 1164 at Byzantium.
She married William VIII (?), son of William VII (?) and Matilda of Burgundy (?), in 1174.
She married William VII (?), son of William VI (?) and Sibel di Vasto (?), on 25 February 1157 at Montpellier.
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 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 99054785
Yet William VIII was an energetic and dynamic ruler; by 1063, he had annexed Saintonge and Gascony to Aquitaine, thereby increasing the duchy’s importance and power in western Europe.
A great-niece of William the Conqueror, King of England, Philippa was a spirited lady in the tradition of the duchesses of Aquitaine: pious, high-minded, strong-willed, and of sound political judgement.
William knew that Louis VI was the only man with the power, status, and authority to protect Eleanor’s inheritance and safeguard her interests.
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 My Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She was married to William IV TOULOUSE -Count.
She was married to William I DE DAMPIERRE -Seigneur.
She was married to William DE PLUMPTON -Sir in England.
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 Aquitaine accommodation listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William V (ruling 995-1030) refounded a new duchy of Aquitaine, that was based in Poitou, and this power center survived.
Duke William IX, the troubadour was a poet himself, and Poitiers became a center of the musical poetry of the troubadours.
When William X died (1137), his daughter Eleanor of Aquitaine, the greatest heiress of France, married her guardian, Louis VII of France and followed him on crusade, then had the marriage annulled under the pretext of kinship in 1152 to marry his greatest rival Henry II of England.
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 William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - History & Travels
The doctor Pierre Joseph Amoreux (d.1824) was librarian of the medical school in Montpellier, where he published a great number of works on medicine, natural history and agriculture, including one of the earliest monographs on the cultivation of the olive tree.
8vo, viii, 257, frontispiece, 115, (1) as adv.
William Camden (1551-1623), antiquary and historian, was the author of the famous Brittania, considered one of the greatest examples of chronicle-writing.
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 Montpellier
William IV de Montpellier, Seigneur de Montpellier, b abt 1040, of Montpellier, France.
William V d Montpellier, Seigneur de Montpellier, b abt 1068, of Montpellier, France, d bef 21 Feb 1122.
William VIII de Montpellier, Seigneur de Montpellier, b abt 1158, of Montpellier, France, d 1218, Rome, Italy.
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 William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - Psychoactive Drugs
Talvart and Place point out that he was one of the first French writers to study with penetration and a finesse of analysis the action of opium on the intelligence and sensibilities of the the refined colonial mind.
Founded in 1970 by Michael Horowitz and William Dailey and curated by Michael Aldrich, the library flourished during the 1970s and 80s in San Francisco and is now seeking an institutional home.
Quotations from William Hammond and George Beard, two American physicians who wrote of the value of psychoactive drugs in medicine, are found in the text, which is preceded by a short tribute from Charcot who claims never to have found the information in Searle’s book anywhere else.
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 AVISTA -- Kalamazoo 2001
In Montpellier at the end of the twelfth century, a nursing brotherhood was born, the order of the Holy Ghost.
1132 by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester (1129-71), and a grandson of William the Conqueror.
It was founded in 1437 by the Earl and Countess of Suffolk, William and Alice de la Pole, as an almshouse supporting a community of two priests and thirteen poor men in perpetuity.
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 Medieval Academy Books and Monographs 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William E. Lunt, Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, 1327-1534.
William Mendel Newman, ed., with Mary A. Rouse, Charters of St-Fursy of Péronne.
William D. Phillips, Jr., Enrique IV and the Crisis of Fifteenth-Century Castile, 1425-1480.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume VI: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1294-1517. | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A plot, formed in France to checkmate the pope and to carry him off to a council at Lyons, burst Sept. 7 upon the peaceful population of Anagni, the pope’s country seat.
William of Nogaret, professor of law at Montpellier and councillor of the king, was the manager of the plot and was probably its inventor.
He stood as a representative of a new class of men, laymen, who were able to compete in culture with the best-trained ecclesiastics, and advocated the independence of the state.
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 Shakespeaer & the Renaissance
The Universite Paul Valery at Montpellier will lead you to the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise, and eventually to the Cahiers Elisabethains.
The dominant ideas of the age will be surveyed in this area, along with links to their best presentation.
Fish's reformist attack on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory was influential with Henry VIII in his eventual break with the Roman Church.
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 ipedia.com: Provençal literature Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Daniel Sage, of Montpellier (Las Foulies, 1650), was a man of loose morals, which are reflected in nearly all his works: his moments of genuine inspiration from other causes are rare.
Two genuine poets are the brothers Rigaud of Montpellier: Augustes (1760-1835) description of a vintage is deservedly famous; and Cyrille (1750-182~) produced an equally delightful poem in the Amours de Mounpei.
A third class favor the dialect of Limousin, as having been the literary vehicle of the troubadours; but their claim is of the slenderest, for the felibres are in no sense of the word the direct successors of the troubadours.
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 Langued'oc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William was a younger son of Sancho Mitarra, Duke of Gascony.
If true, it would be a matter of considerable interest; the Baghdad Exilarchs were reputed to be lineal descendents of the ancient Hebrew King David.What is fairly clear is that Septimania achieved an independent position in this era by some means or other, with the status of a Duchy or even possibly a Kingdom.
William is remembered as a member of Charlemagne's Court, and as a great (and successful) campaigner against the Muslims in Spain.
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 St Dominic and the OP 1
This was also true of the delegates at Montpellier, who prosecuted their campaign against the heretics attended by all the circumstances of feudal pomp and luxury.
But even as the stiff-necked Jews refused to be convinced of the divinity of Christ in the presence of the mighty miracles He performed, in like manner the Albigenses remained strongly rooted in their errors even in the presence of this convincing phenomenon.
Montpellier, Servian, Beziers and Carcassone were in turn the scenes of St.
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 Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg180 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Guillaume VIII Count Of MONTPELLIER was born in 1158.
William SAINT JOHN was born on 14 Jun 1309 in, Basing, Hampshire, England.
William CHAMBERLAINE was born about 1483 in Of, Shirburn, Oxfordshire, England.
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