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    which gave in to all the League's latest demands. On 8 September 1588 at Blois, where the court had assembled for a meeting of the Estates, Henry dismissed...
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    exiled to the Château de Blois. In the night of 21–22 February 1619, the 43-year-old Queen Mother escaped from her prison in Blois with a rope ladder and...
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    of John Calvin. Renée was born on 25 October 1510 at the Château de Blois, Blois, Touraine and was the second daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne...
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    (1998). Maria Luigia : il destino di un' Asburgo da Parigi a Parma. Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 88-04-42133-9. Lasagna, Roberto. "Absburgo Lorena Maria Ludovica...
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  • c. 1500 – Chateau de Blois largely rebuilt. 1500 – St. Anne's Church, Vilnius is completed. 1501 Expansion of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh. Chichester Cross...
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    of the Virgin in 1593 at the church of San Francesco Oltre Reno at Pieve di Cento, which was commissioned by the Bentivoglio family and placed in the...
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    – d. Pavia, 4 October 1381). Valentina (b. Pavia, 1371 – d. Château de Blois, Loir-et-Cher, 14 December 1408), married on 17 August 1389 to Louis I,...
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    Maria Amalia Teresa of Naples and Sicily (26 April 1782 – 24 March 1866) was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French....
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    Pope Celestine II (category People from Città di Castello)
    authority that Innocent II had granted to King Stephen's brother, Henry of Blois. Celestine also favored the Templars, ordering a general collection for...
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    born 1366 Azzone, 1368–1380 Valentina (b. Pavia, 1371 – d. Château de Blois, Loir-et-Cher, 14 December 1408), married on 17 August 1389 to Louis I,...
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    reign and after his death. Marie Elisabeth resided firstly in Amboise and Blois, but later she was moved to Paris. Apparently of frail health, she died...
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    (Bishop of Blois), Boris Martinovich (Cléomer). A second cast took over on 28 November. 7 January 1993 – premiere at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo (7...
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  • The Internazionali di Tennis Città di Todi is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of...
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    Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (Polish: Maria Kazimiera Ludwika d’Arquien; 28 June 1641 – 30 January 1716), known also by the diminutive...
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    from the Breton House of Montfort-Brittany, and the Blois-Penthièvre heir was a female, Nicole of Blois, who in 1480 sold her rights over Brittany to King...
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  • 6–2, [10–6] Jakob Schnaitter Mark Wallner Internationaux de Tennis de Blois Blois, France Clay – Challenger 50 – 32S/24Q/16D Singles – Doubles Ričardas...
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  • (chapter) of the Qur'an Mary, Countess of Blois (1200–1241), daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of...
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    fearing the advancing enemy troops, they continued on to the Château de Blois. On 13 April, with her entourage much diminished, Marie Louise and her three-year-old...
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    Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (Maria Dorothea Amelia; German: Maria Dorothea Amalie, Erzherzogin von Österreich; 14 June 1867 – 6 April 1932)...
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    Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (category People from Blois)
    wife, Marguerite of Lorraine, was born on 28 July 1645 at the Château de Blois. She was the eldest of five children born to Gaston by his second wife....
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  • sequence of titular princes that began with Antonio di Tocco and lasted until the death of his descendant Maria Maddalena Capece Galeota in 1933, whereafter...
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  • Joost Reuten, and an Italian mother, who was born in Benabbio near Bagni di Lucca. She studied acting at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in...
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    of François I and Claude de France, in the Salle du Roi, Château of Blois, Blois, France, unknown architect, 1515-1524 Assumption of the Virgin, by Titian...
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    a sudden heart attack. His wife, Marie Casimire Louise, died in 1716 in Blois, France, and her body was returned to Poland. They are interred together...
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    seule Rome est digne de Paris. (in French) Solo Parigi è degna di Roma; solo Roma è degna di Parigi. (in Italian) "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome...
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    for him. The court then moved to the Loire Valley, where the Château de Blois and the surrounding forests were the new king's home. Francis II took the...
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  • 1290–1301 Marguerite of Blois (1170–1230), Lady of Romorantin & Millancay & Countess of Dunois & Blois, 1218–30 Marguerite of Blois (d. 1419), Countess of...
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  • Sánchez, Spanish businessman Pedro Mouriño, Spanish businessman Ángel Di María, Argentine football player Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver Elvis...
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  • Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Château de Rambouillet Rambouillet Château de Blois Blois Château d'Amboise Amboise Château de Chambord Chambord, Loir-et-Cher...
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    mentioning the engagement of the cardinale's nephew to the duca di Firenze's oldest daughter Maria de' Medici). The cardinale d'Este, little aware of the increasingly...
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