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| | |  Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia - Adelaide Abbess of VilichAdelaide, Abbess of Villich (Adelheid of Willich) (c. 970 – February 5 O.S., 1015) was a daughter of Megingoz des Brunharingen, Count of Guelders [1], and Gerberga of Metzgau, a granddaughter of Charles the Simple, king of the West Franks. When still very young she entered the convent of St Ursula, Our Lady of the Capitol, founded by her parents in Cologne, where the Rule of St Jerome was followed. About 980, her parents founded the convent of Villich, supported by a manor at the confluence of the Rhine and the Sieg, opposite ...
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Hundred Years' War - Immediate precursors: 1314–1337 The specific events that led up to the war in the early 14th century began in France, where the Capetian dynasty had ruled for over 320 years, with one male heir after another taking the throne (the longest continuous dynasty in medieval European history). In 1314, the Capetian king Philip IV died, leaving three male heirs: Louis X, Philip V and Charles IV. The eldest son and heir, Louis X, died in 1316, leaving only his posthumous son John I, who was born 1316 and died that same year, and a daughter Joan, who was married to Philip, count of ...
See also:Hundred Years' War, Hundred Years' War - Early origins: 911–1314, Hundred Years' War - Immediate precursors: 1314–1337, Hundred Years' War - Beginning of the war: 1337–1360, Hundred Years' War - French victories under Charles V: 1360–1400, Hundred Years' War - English victories under Henry V: 1400–1422, Hundred Years' War - France united: 1422–1453, Hundred Years' War - Significance, Hundred Years' War - Weapons, Hundred Years' War - War and Society, Hundred Years' War - Sources and further reading Read more here: » Hundred Years' War: Encyclopedia II - Hundred Years' War - Immediate precursors: 1314–1337 |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Norway - History In the 9th century Norway consisted of a number of petty kingdoms. According to tradition, Harald Fairhair gathered the small kingdoms into one and in 872 with the battle of Hafrsfjord, he established a feudal state.
The Viking age (8th to 11th centuries) was one of national unification and expansion. The Norwegians settled on Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and parts of the British Islands and attempted to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (it is the Vinland of The Saga of Eric the Red). Norwegians founded th ...
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Feudalism - History of the term feudalism In order to better understand what the term feudalism means, it is helpful to see how it was defined and how it has been used since its seventeenth century creation.
Feudalism - Invention of the concept of feudalism.
The word feudalism was not a medieval term. It was invented by French and English lawyers in the 17th century to describe certain traditional obligations between members of the warrior aristocracy. The term first reached a popular and wide audience in Montesquieu's De L'Esprit des Lois (The Spirit of the Laws) in 1748. Since then it has been red ...
See also:Feudalism, Feudalism - Etymology, Feudalism - What is feudalism?, Feudalism - Lords vassals and fiefs, Feudalism - Examples of feudalism, Feudalism - History of the term feudalism, Feudalism - Invention of the concept of feudalism, Feudalism - The concept of feudalism in history, Feudalism - Historians on feudalism, Feudalism - History of feudalism, Feudalism - Early forms of feudalism in Europe, Feudalism - Decline of feudalism, Feudalism - Questioning feudalism, Feudalism - Did feudalism exist?, Feudalism - Cautions on use of term feudalism, Feudalism - Other feudal-like systems, Feudalism - Notes, Feudalism - Bibliography Read more here: » Feudalism: Encyclopedia II - Feudalism - History of the term feudalism |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Viking Age - Geography There are various theories concerning the causes of the Viking invasions. For people living along the coast, it would seem natural to seek new land by the sea. Another reason was that during this period England, Wales and Ireland, which were divided into many different warring kingdoms, were in internal disarray, and became easy prey. The Franks, however, had well-defended coasts, and heavily fortified ports and harbours. Pure thirst for adventure may also have been a factor. A reason for the raids is believed by some to be over-population c ...
See also:Viking Age, Viking Age - Timeline, Viking Age - Geography, Viking Age - British Isles, Viking Age - Iceland, Viking Age - Greenland, Viking Age - Southern and Eastern Europe, Viking Age - America, Viking Age - Technology, Viking Age - Religion and Archaelogy, Viking Age - Trading Cities, Viking Age - Place names Read more here: » Viking Age: Encyclopedia II - Viking Age - Geography |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Norway - History In the 9th century Norway consisted of a number of petty kingdoms. According to tradition, Harald Fairhair gathered the small kingdoms into one and in 872 with the battle of Hafrsfjord, he established a feudal state.
The Viking age (8th to 11th centuries) was one of national unification and expansion. The Norwegians settled on Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and parts of the British Islands and attempted to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (it is the Vinland of The Saga of Eric the Red). Norwegians founded th ...
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Normans - Norman characteristics Normans should not be confused with other Viking groups, such as the Vikings known as Danes in England and the Vikings known as Varangians in Russia.
Geoffrey Malaterra characterized the Normans as "specially marked by cunning, despising their own inheritance in the hope of winning a greater, eager after both gain and dominion, given to imitation of all kinds, holding a certain mean between lavishness and greediness, that is, perhaps uniting, as they certainly did, these two seemingly opposite qualities. Their chief men were specia ...
See also:Normans, Normans - Norman characteristics, Normans - Normans and Normandy, Normans - The Normans in England, Normans - The Normans in Scotland, Normans - The Normans in Ireland, Normans - The Normans in Italy Sicily and the Mediterranean, Normans - Sources Read more here: » Normans: Encyclopedia II - Normans - Norman characteristics |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Norman Conquest of England - Conquest of England King Harald of Norway invaded northern England in September 1066 which left Harold of England little time to gather an army. Harold's forces marched north from London and surprised the Vikings at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25th. It was an Anglo-Saxon victory, King Harald was killed and the Norwegians were driven out — it was the last Viking invasion of England. The victory however came at a great cost: the Anglo-Saxon army was left in a battered and weakened state. Meanwhile William had assembled an invasion fleet of around ...
See also:Norman Conquest of England, Norman Conquest of England - Origins, Norman Conquest of England - Conquest of England, Norman Conquest of England - Control of England, Norman Conquest of England - Significance, Norman Conquest of England - Governmental systems, Norman Conquest of England - Anglo-Norman and French relations, Norman Conquest of England - English cultural development, Norman Conquest of England - Legacy, Norman Conquest of England - Bibliography Read more here: » Norman Conquest of England: Encyclopedia II - Norman Conquest of England - Conquest of England |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - History of anti-Semitism - Ancient animosity towards Jews 3rd century BCE: Manetho, a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleges that Moses was not a Jew, but an Egyptian renegade priest called Osarseph, and portrays the Exodus as the expulsion of a leper colony.
175 BCE-165 BCE: Antiochus Epiphanes sacks Jerusalem, calls Judaism "inimical to humanity", prohibits brit milah, confiscates copies of Torah and erects an altar to Zeus in the Second Temple after plundering it. (See also Maccabees, Hanukkah)
2nd century BCE: Mnaseas of Patros, a Greek author, reports that the Jews worship a donkey's head in the Holy of Holies. Thi ...
See also:History of anti-Semitism, History of anti-Semitism - Ancient animosity towards Jews, History of anti-Semitism - The 4th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 5th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 6th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 7th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 8th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 9th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 10th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 11th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 12th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 13th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 14th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 15th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 16th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 17th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 18th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 19th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 20th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 21st century, History of anti-Semitism - Books Read more here: » History of anti-Semitism: Encyclopedia II - History of anti-Semitism - Ancient animosity towards Jews |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Rollo of Normandy - Invasion of France In 885, he was one of the lesser leaders of the Viking fleet which besieged Paris under Sigfred. In 886, when Sigfred retreated in return for tribute, Rollo stayed behind and was eventually bought off and sent to harry Burgundy.
Later, he returned to the Seine with his followers (known as Normans, or Northmen). He invaded the area of northern France now known as Normandy. Wace, writing some 300 years after the event, gives a Scandinavian origin, as does the Orkn ...
See also:Rollo of Normandy, Rollo of Normandy - Historical evidence, Rollo of Normandy - Invasion of France, Rollo of Normandy - Settlement, Rollo of Normandy - Death, Rollo of Normandy - Legacy Read more here: » Rollo of Normandy: Encyclopedia II - Rollo of Normandy - Invasion of France |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - France in the Middle Ages - Medieval France and the French
France in the Middle Ages - Geography.
Discussion of the size of France in the Middle Ages is complicated by distinctions between lands personally held by the king (the "domaine royal") and lands held in homage by another lord. The notion of res publica inherited from the Roman province of Gaul was not fully maintained by the Frankish kingdom and the Carolingian Empire, and by the early years of the Capetians, the French kingdom was more or less a fiction. The "domaine royal" of the Capetians was limited to the r ...
See also:France in the Middle Ages, France in the Middle Ages - Medieval France and the French, France in the Middle Ages - Geography, France in the Middle Ages - Demographics, France in the Middle Ages - Language, France in the Middle Ages - Historical Overview, France in the Middle Ages - The Carolingian Legacy, France in the Middle Ages - The Capetians, France in the Middle Ages - The Hundred Years War, France in the Middle Ages - Literature, France in the Middle Ages - Art Read more here: » France in the Middle Ages: Encyclopedia II - France in the Middle Ages - Medieval France and the French |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - History of Paris - Ancient Paris The area of modern Paris has been inhabited since at least the fourth millennium BC, although little is known about these early inhabitants. The first known permanent settlement on the site was founded about 250 BC by a Celtic tribe called the Parisii, who established a fishing village on the Seine island that was later to become the Ile de la Cité. This was known as Lutetia, a name first recorded by Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars.
Lutetia was a prosperous place and occupied a very strategic position on the river, controllin ...
See also:History of Paris, History of Paris - Ancient Paris, History of Paris - Early Medieval Paris, History of Paris - Paris and Medieval France, History of Paris - The Capetians, History of Paris - The Valois, History of Paris - Early modern Paris, History of Paris - The Bourbons, History of Paris - The French Revolution, History of Paris - Paris in the 19th century, History of Paris - 19th century revolutions, History of Paris - The Siege of Paris and the Commune, History of Paris - The Belle Epoque, History of Paris - Paris at War, History of Paris - Modern Paris Read more here: » History of Paris: Encyclopedia II - History of Paris - Ancient Paris |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Crusade and turning against the king Shortly after Prince Edward's birth, however, there was a falling out. Simon de Montfort owed a great sum of money to Thomas II of Savoy, the uncle of Henry's queen, and named Henry as security for his repayment. King Henry had evidently not been told of this, and when he discovered that Montfort had used his name, he was enraged. On August 9, 1239 Henry confronted Montfort, called him an excommunicant and threatened to imprison him in the Tower of London. "You seduced my sister," King Henry said, "and when I discovered this, I gave her to y ...
See also:Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Family roots, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Royal marriage, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Crusade and turning against the king, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - War against the king, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Death, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Sources, Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - External link Read more here: » Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester: Encyclopedia II - Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester - Crusade and turning against the king |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Wilfred the Hairy - Origins According to legend, he was the son of Wilfred of Arriaount Wilfred of Arri, a county near Prades. His father was murdered by Salomón and Wilfred became his avenger, killing the assassin. Nevertheless, at the time of Ramón de Abadal's study, he was considered to be the son of Sunifred I of Barcelona, count of many counties under Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald. Sunifred was the son of Belló, count of Carcassonne during the reign of Charlemagne. Thus, as a descendant of Sunifred and his brother, Sunyer I, count of Ampurias and Rousillon (834-8 ...
See also:Wilfred the Hairy, Wilfred the Hairy - Origins, Wilfred the Hairy - Investiture, Wilfred the Hairy - Intervention in Ausona, Wilfred the Hairy - Carolingian Crisis, Wilfred the Hairy - The Crisis and the Counts, Wilfred the Hairy - Death, Wilfred the Hairy - Succession Read more here: » Wilfred the Hairy: Encyclopedia II - Wilfred the Hairy - Origins |
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| | | | Charles the Simple: Encyclopedia II - Wilfred the Hairy - Origins According to legend, he was the son of Wilfred of Arriaount (or Wilfred of Arri), a county near Prades. His father was murdered by Salomón and Wilfred became his avenger, killing the assassin. Nevertheless, at the time of Ramón de Abadal's study, he was considered to be the son of Sunifred I of Barcelona, count of many counties under Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald. Sunifred was the son of Belló, count of Carcassonne during the reign of Charlemagne. Thus, as a descendant of Sunifred and his brother, Sunyer I, count of Ampurias and Rousillon (834-8 ...
See also:Wilfred the Hairy, Wilfred the Hairy - Origins, Wilfred the Hairy - Investiture, Wilfred the Hairy - Intervention in Ausona, Wilfred the Hairy - Carolingian Crisis, Wilfred the Hairy - The Crisis and the Counts, Wilfred the Hairy - Death, Wilfred the Hairy - Succession Read more here: » Wilfred the Hairy: Encyclopedia II - Wilfred the Hairy - Origins |
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