• William de Blosseville, probably from Blosseville, was the consul and duke of Gaeta (as William II) from 1103 to 1105, after ousting Duke Gualganus. He...
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    Jules Poret de Blosseville (29 July 1802 – August 1833) was a French naval officer, geographer and explorer. Born in 1802, he joined the French Navy at...
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  • was thrown out of Gaeta in 1103[citation needed] by the Norman William de Blosseville. Chalandon, p 297, calls him Landon. Chalandon, p 297 Peter the...
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    The Blosseville Coast (Danish: Blosseville Kyst) is a long stretch of coast in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to...
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  • went extinct. Gaeta is next found in the hands of another Norman, William de Blosseville, who may have ousted Gualganus rather than wait for his death. Pontecorvo...
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  • the Coquille called at Sydney. De Blosseville obtained most of his information about southern areas from Captain William Edwardson of the sloop Snapper...
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    19th-century scientific explorers, René Primevère Lesson and Jules de Blosseville. They had visited New Zealand in 1824 as part of the 1822–1825 circumnavigational...
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    Le Havre (redirect from Le Havre-de-Grace)
    bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very close to the Prime Meridian. Le Havre is the most populous commune...
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    Lesson and Jules de Blosseville of the French royal corvette Coquille, on a hydrographic expedition. In May 1823, John and Jules de Blosseville, on the Endeavour...
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    en la Cour de cassation, sur l'affaire de Wilfrid Regnault, condamné à mort (1818) De l'appel en calomnie de M. le marquis de Blosseville, contre Wilfrid-Regnault...
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    Carlsbergfund expedition to East Greenland led by Georg Carl Amdrup explores the Blosseville Coast 1899: Alfred Gabriel Nathorst explores the fjords of northeast...
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  • d'Avranches, Earl of Chester. He conquered the duchy from his predecessor, William Blosseville, whom he exiled. He subsequently minted his own coinage as an independent...
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  • Robertson, Sydney, 1964. De Blosseville, Jules, 'Essai sur les Moeurs et les Coutumes des habitans de la Partie Meridionale de Tavai-Poenammou', in Nouvelles...
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    Range is located in King Christian IX Land about 60 km inland from the Blosseville Coast. It is a system of nunataks surrounded by large active glaciers...
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    named after Konstantinos Kanaris by French navigator and explorer Jules de Blosseville (1802–1833). In 1817, Konstantinos Kanaris married Despoina Maniatis...
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    Rouen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    capital of the Duchy of Normandy and residence of the local dukes, until William the Conqueror moved his residence to Caen. In 1150, Rouen received its...
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    capital. In 1103, William Blosseville conquered the city and in turn was conquered by Richard of Aquila in 1105. Richard was a de facto independent duke...
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    protecting Normandy from invasion from the east. In 1050, William, Duke of Normandy, the future William the Conqueror and king of England, married Matilda,...
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    Aumale (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the River Bresle. The town's Latin name was Alba Marla. It was raised by William the Bastard into a county, for his half-sister, Adelaide of Normandy. It...
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    settlement of which few traces remain. Local legend claims that in 1040 William the Conqueror's mother built a country house on the hill and the area thus...
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    abbey of the Romanesque period, and the home of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070. Ruined in...
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    Greenland in an attempt to trace the Bordelaise commanded by Jules de Blosseville (1802–1833), which had been missing since 1833. Captain François Thomas...
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    farming commune situated by the coast of the English Channel and in the Pays de Caux, some 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dieppe at the junction of the D27, D75...
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    is situated in the valley of the river Valmont, at the heart of the Pays de Caux, on the Alabaster Coast. It is around 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast...
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    from the Roman theatre. The town recovered some of its importance under William the Conqueror. Lillebonne is the birthplace of the writer Annie Ernaux...
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    Dei gratia rex) usually reserved for sovereigns. In 1103, Guillaume de Blosseville usurped the Duchy of Gaeta and expelled its duke, Gualganus Ridellus...
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  • a defeat for Henry I of France when he led an army against his vassal, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy in 1054. This village is possibly the source...
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    severe sea conditions in Foveaux Strait. The French navigator Jules de Blosseville on board a French expeditionary vessel Coquille, was the first person...
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    almost at the end of the old Roman road linking Lillebonne with Étretat. William the Conqueror's granddaughter, the Empress Matilda gave this area to a...
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    Saint-Laurent-de-Brèvedent (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ loʁɑ̃ də bʁɛvdɑ̃]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern...
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