was appointed count at Tours by the king in the 570s, to the disgust of Gregory of Tours. Under the early Carolingians, the counts of Tours stilled owed...
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Count of Tours from 905, Count of Nantes from 910 to 919, and the first Count of Anjou from 929 until his death. Born about 870, Fulk was the son of Ingelger...
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Hugh (or Hugo) (c. 780 – 837) was the count of Tours and Sens during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, until his disgrace in February 828...
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During the Middle Ages, the counts of Blois were among the most powerful vassals of the King of France. This title of nobility seems to have been created...
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Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former province of France. Tours was the first city of the silk industry...
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Count of Blois, Tours, Chartres and Châteaudun, as well as Lord of Vierzon and Provins. He was a loyal and potent vassal of Hugh the Great, duke of the...
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The count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son...
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Robert the Strong (redirect from Robert IV of Worms)
Adelaide of Tours, daughter of Hugh of Tours. They had: Odo of France (c.857–898), King of West Francia Robert I of France (c.866–923), King of West Francia...
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(985 – 15 November 1037) was the count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Champagne, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and count of Troyes (as Odo IV) and Meaux (as...
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Adelaide (Aelis) of Tours (c. 820 – c. 866) was a daughter of Count Hugh of Tours and his wife Ava, who was a sister of Matfrid, Count of Orléans. [citation...
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original Counts of Auvergne, and was adopted by the famous soldier Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, who descended from an illegitimate line of the family...
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of Odo II, Count of Blois and Ermengarde of Auvergne. Upon his father's death in 1037, Theobald inherited amongst others the counties of Blois, Tours...
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Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1990. The group is fronted by Ice-T, who first established himself as a rapper but...
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Theobald (category Names of Germanic origin)
Duke of Lorraine (1303–1312) Theobald I, Count of Blois (913–975), the first Count of Blois, Chartres, and Châteaudun, as well as Count of Tours Theobald...
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Louis de Bourbon (Louis I, Count of Vendôme) (1376 – December 21, 1446), younger son of John I, Count of La Marche and Catherine de Vendôme, was a French...
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Huguenots (category French Wars of Religion)
named after Hugon, a Count of Tours in ancient times, who had left a record of evil deeds and had become in popular fancy a sort of sinister and maleficent...
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Elder, viscount of Tours before 908. Theobald became viscount of Blois before 922. Afterwards the House of Blois accumulated the counties of Blois, Chartres...
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The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat...
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Lothair I (redirect from Lothair I of Italy)
Lothair married Ermengarde (d. 851), daughter of Hugh the Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the government of Italy, and at Easter, 5 April 823, he was crowned...
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Count of Blois, Chartres, Reims, Châteaudun and Omois, lord of Provins, was the son of Theobald I of Blois and Luitgard, daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois...
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William James "Count" Basie (/ˈbeɪsi/; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he...
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and he supported Prætextatus' condemnation. Leudaste [fr], count of Tours, accused Bertram of having an affair with King Chilperic I's wife Fredegunda....
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connection between Guy and Guido, count of Tours (flourished about 800) was made when Alcuin's advice to the count, Liber ad Guidonem, was transferred...
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Count of Paris (French: Comte de Paris) was a title for the local magnate of the district around Paris in Carolingian times. After Hugh Capet was elected...
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Grimley (clips of which were used on Cartoon Planet), as well as Rush’s Signals and Grace Under Pressure tours. As originally conceived, Count Floyd was the...
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The County of Châteaudun was held in the 9th century by counts who also held the County of Blois. Theobald I created the first viscount of Châteaudun...
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John III of Auvergne (1467 – 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne, Count of Boulogne, Count de Lauraguais, was the son of Bertrand VI, Count of Auvergne...
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toutes lettres". Groupe BPCE. 24 March 2022. Les tours Duo ont pris forme dans l'Est parisien Les Tours Duo, une mixité d'usage dans un milieu contraint...
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Louis the Pious (redirect from Louis I of France)
against the Cordoban caliphate (827). The counts in charge of the army, Hugh, count of Tours, and Matfrid, count of Orléans, were slow in acting and the expedition...
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Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 - 20 Mar 851) was daughter of Hugh of Tours and Ava of Morvois. In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian...
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