Richard of Poitiers (died c. 1174), also known as Richard of Cluny, was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, and author of a small number of historical...
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The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black...
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title of Count of Poitiers (French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine)...
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citizenship. Although there were few Poitiers of French ancestry in the Bahamas, some believe that the Poitier ancestors had migrated from Haiti, and...
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Archbishop-Elector of Trier from 1511 to 1531 Richard of Poitiers (died c. 1174), French monk, author of historical works, treatises and poems Richard Poore (died...
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King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou...
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father of Abra of Poitiers, a nun and saint who became known for her charity. Hilary was born at Poitiers either at the end of the 3rd or beginning of the...
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Count of Poitiers from 835, Duke of Aquitaine from 852. Ranulph II (887–890), son of Ranulf I, also Count of Poitiers, called himself King of Aquitaine...
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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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(1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy: 1224–1328. Harvard University Press. Media related to Alphonse de Poitiers at Wikimedia Commons...
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up Poitiers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Poitiers is a city in France. Poitiers may also refer to: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poitiers, France...
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Rhineland massacres (redirect from German Crusade of 1096)
way to go toward Jerusalem. Richard of Poitiers wrote that Jewish persecution was widespread in France at the beginning of the expeditions to the east...
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Way Out (1950), with Sidney Poitier in his film debut. Widmark and Poitier became good friends and worked in a number of films together in later years...
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Reading Abbey at the feet of his great-grandfather Henry I. At the time of his death, William was reigning as Count of Poitiers, as his mother had ceded...
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1189 as the wife of King Henry II. As the heiress of the House of Poitiers, which controlled much of southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest...
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of England, had distinguished himself as a military commander in the early phases of the Hundred Years' War, particularly in the Battle of Poitiers in...
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The Archdiocese of Poitiers (Latin: Archidioecesis Pictaviensis; French: Archidiocèse de Poitiers) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France...
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William of Poitiers (Latin: Guillelmus Pictaviensis, French: Guillaume de Poitiers; c. 1020 – 1090) was a Norman priest who served as the chaplain of Duke...
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Little Nikita (category Films directed by Richard Benjamin)
directed by Richard Benjamin and starring River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier. The film marks the first collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier (the second...
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Uptown Saturday Night (category Films directed by Sidney Poitier)
written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again...
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d'Alfonse de Poitiers" in Archives historiques du Poitou, vol. 4 (Poitiers, 1872) (available via external link to Gallica). John Gillingham, Richard Cœur de...
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Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic...
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and Archdeacon Richard of Poitiers. Their Roles in the Becket Dispute and its Aftermath," pp. 79-80. Konstantin Kempf, The Holiness of the Church in the...
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Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE, FRSA (/ˈætənbərə/; 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, and producer...
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Let's Do It Again (1975 film) (category Films directed by Sidney Poitier)
Richard Wesley, also wrote the first film that featured Cosby and Poitier as co-stars, Uptown Saturday Night. Wesley's repertoire includes a range of...
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William of Poitiers) (10) Hugh de Grandmesnil (Source: William of Poitiers) (11) William de Warenne, later 1st Earl of Surrey (Source: William of Poitiers) (12)...
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Joanna Shimkus (category Canadian people of Irish descent)
Boom! (1968), opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and The Lost Man (1969), opposite Sidney Poitier. Her film career continued until the early...
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Chronicle of Richard of Poitiers), a chronicle of history from Genesis to the 1170s. His account of the Crusades were taken from Fulcher of Chartres....
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Richard (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272) was an English prince who was King of the Romans from 1257 until his death in 1272. He was the second son of John...
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française, Poitiers, Mazarine, January 1983, 261 p. (ISBN 2-86374-102-0). p. 14. (fr) Roger Jouet, ...et la Normandie devint française, Poitiers, Mazarine...
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