• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    William of Puylaurens 2003, p. 122. Kolla 2013, p. 718. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alphonse de Poitiers. Benbassa, Esther (2001). The Jews of France:...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Hugh Primas (redirect from Hugh of Orleans)
    Primas's life is in a passage added to the text of the Chronica of Richard of Poitiers for the year 1142: In those days there flourished in Paris an academic...
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    the Earl of Cornwall and brother to King Henry III of England, had not received the title at Poitiers. Shortly after his arrival at Poitiers, Louis learned...
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    Richard Arnold Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in...
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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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    Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye...
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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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  • Richard D. Lineback (born February 4, 1952) is an American actor who appeared in the films Speed, Twister and Varsity Blues. He played Deputy Dodd in...
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