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    Castle of Ronse (Dutch: Kasteel van Ronse or French: Château de Renaix) is a former palace in Ronse, Belgium. It was built in 1630 by John VIII, Count...
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    Ronse (Dutch: [ˈrɔnsə] ; French: Renaix [ʁənɛ]) is a Belgian city and a municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality only encompasses...
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    still owns the castle (Schloss Merode) from which the family's name derives. Originally, the Merode family had the rank of Freiherr of the Holy Roman...
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    VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (Jan or Johan; Dillenburg, 29 September 1583 – Ronse, 27 July 1638) was a German nobleman and militarist of the 17th century...
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    Nassau Palace, Brussels (category City of Brussels)
    constructed the Castle of Ronse as a new ancestral castle of the Catholic branch of the Nassau family in the Southern Netherlands. At the start of the 18th century...
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  • list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper)...
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    February 1984, Ronse, East Flanders, Belgium) on 20 October 2012. They have two sons: Prince Charles Jean Philippe Joseph Marie Guillaume of Luxembourg (born...
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    Petrus Joseph Triest (category Recipients of the Order of the House of Orange)
    serving at a number of parishes around Mechelen, in 1796 he was appointed parish priest at Ronse. The city was occupied by forces of the French Revolution...
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    States Ronse, East Flanders, Belgium Worcester, England, United Kingdom Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426–1487), mother of king Louis XII of France...
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    Château de Lahamaide (category Castles in Belgium)
    , Notélé Abbé Louis Meunier (1933). Lahamaide. Monographie historique. Ronse (Renaix).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Michel...
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  • Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels - Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège - Roman/Red - Ronse - Rotselaar - Royal Library of Belgium...
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    Isabelle de l'Arbre de Malander (b. 24 November 1949 in Ronse, Belgium) on 11 September 1971, daughter of Jean-Baptiste André de l'Arbre de Malander and wife...
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    Younger (Dillenburg Castle, 29 September 1583Jul. – Ronse Castle [nl] near Oudenaarde, 27 July 1638), succeeded his father as Count of Nassau-Siegen in 1623...
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    Göhrde Hunting Lodge (category George I of Great Britain)
    zur Göhrde". Vaterländisches Archiv (in German). Ronse: Geschied- en oudheidkundige kring van Ronse en het Tenement van Inde: 80–100. Köhler, Volkmar...
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    Flemish Ardennes (category Natural regions of Belgium)
    the south east of the country in Wallonia, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Among the largest towns in the area are Oudenaarde, Ronse, Zottegem and Geraardsbergen...
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    Raspaillebos (category Forests of Belgium)
    from Geraardsbergen and Ronse regions. The farmers were driven out of their farms and found refuge in Raspaillebos. Thus, a gang of robbers was formed who...
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    Younger (Dillenburg Castle, 29 September 1583Jul. – Ronse Castle [nl] near Oudenaarde, 27 July 1638), succeeded his father as Count of Nassau-Siegen in 1623...
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    William in accordance with his father's will. John 'the Younger' died in Ronse on 27 July 1638. His only son John Francis Desideratus was born in Nozeroy...
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    founded in 915. Dudo of Laurenburg held Nassau as a fiefdom as granted by the Bishopric of Worms. His son, Rupert, built the Nassau Castle there around 1125...
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    Victor Horta (category Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium)
    in the City of Brussels (demolished in 1950) 1899–1903: Villa Carpentier (Les Platanes), Doorniksesteenweg 9–11, in Ronse 1900: Extension of the Maison...
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    William in accordance with his father's will. John the Younger died in Ronse on 27 July 1638. His only son John Francis Desideratus was born in Nozeroy...
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    Bains de Mer Saint-Valery-sur-Somme is twinned with: Battle, United Kingdom Ronse, Belgium "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv...
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    Nederbrakel (category Former municipalities of East Flanders)
    economy was mainly based on flax cultivation. The Railway line Aalst-Zottegem-Ronse opened in 1885 with a train station at Nederbrakel which closed in 1963...
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    captured Kortrijk, Menen, Ypres, Ronse and Bruges, and established a Committee of XVIII in each of them. Furthermore, the towns of Oudenaarde, Axel, Hulst, Sint-Niklaas...
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    It extended southwards from the row of hills around the city of Ronse, to the cities of Ghent and Dendermonde in the north. Godfrey and Mathilda initially...
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    Wilhelm of Austria, the Austrian governor of the Spanish Netherlands, before returning to work in Antwerp. Van den Hecke was born in Kwaremont near Ronse, about...
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    and used to have a castle named Herenhof which was demolished in 1863. In 1885, a railway station opened on the Zottegem to Ronse railway line. The railway...
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    William in accordance with his father's will. John 'the Younger' died in Ronse on 27 July 1638. His only son John Francis Desideratus was born in Nozeroy...
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  • Ann Conolly (category Academics of the University of Leicester)
    japonica (Houtt) Ronse, Decraene (Reynoutria japonica Houtt, Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb and Zucc). J Ecology 82 (4) 959–979 A Conolly (1994) Castles and abbeys...
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    Leopold, later King Leopold II. The architectural style of the building is a mixture of a medieval castle and a Gothic town hall. The building was erected in...
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