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    Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts...
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    candid account of some of his activities is recorded by the courtier Philippe de Commines in his memoirs of the period. Louis made a habit of surrounding himself...
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    Yorkist party. At this stage of Edward's career, contemporaries like Philippe de Commines described him as handsome, affable, and energetic. Unusually tall...
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    d'Albret; Jean de Châlon, Prince of Orange; and Charles, Count of Angoulême. Other leading lords supported the revolt, including Philippe de Commines and Odet...
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    diplomat Philippe de Commines, a retainer of Charles VIII. They supported themselves by selling Medici jewels that had been collected by Lorenzo de' Medici...
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    time. In the Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Jean de Joinville, and Philippe de Commines wrote memoirs, while the genre was represented toward the...
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    prospect as a monarch for the people of England; contemporaries such as Philippe de Commines describe him as energetic, handsome, affable,[citation needed] and...
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    VIII, was only 13. The early reports, including that of Rochefort, Philippe de Commines (French politician), Caspar Weinreich (contemporary German chronicler)...
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    year. The details of the negotiations are related by the chronicler Philippe de Commines, who says that the Duke of Gloucester (later King Richard III) was...
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     2–8. ISBN 978-1-3990-4336-6. Commynes, Philippe de; Roye, Jean de (1856). The Memoirs of Philippe de Commines, Lord of Argenton: Containing the Histories...
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    Stillington was known only through the memoirs of French diplomat Philippe de Commines. On 22 June, a sermon was preached outside Old St. Paul's Cathedral...
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  • that they were illegitimate. According to the French chronicler Philippe de Commines he acted with the support of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and...
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    Gloucester, killed Henry. More might have derived his opinion from Philippe de Commines' Mémoires. Another contemporary source, Wakefield's Chronicle, gives...
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    dynasty, which appealed to Frederick III's attachment to his house. Philippe de Commines, the Burgundian chronicler, reported that in his official decree...
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    marriage contract invalid. One source, the Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines, says that Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, carried...
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    Everett Green 1851, p. 413. Commines, Philippe de (1877). Scoble, Andrew R. (ed.). The Memoirs of Philippe de Commines. London: George Bell & Sons. p...
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  • chronicler Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (1439–1498), compiler and annalist Philippe de Commines (1447–1511) Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler...
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    the Stradioti saber, and the term was introduced into France by Philippe de Commines (1447 – 18 October 1511) as cimeterre, Italy (especially the Venetian...
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    homeland to the Kingdom of Hungary. The late 15th-century historian Philippe de Commines referred to Voyk's son John as the "White Knight of Wallachia". In...
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  • Paracelsus burns books of Avicenna. Hector Boece – Historia Scotorum Philippe de Commines – Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7–8) Hans Sachs and Andreas Osiander –...
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    the Wayback Machine of the Croyland Chronicle Text of Memoirs of Philippe de Commines Text Archived 8 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine of Warkworth's...
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    Jean de Joinville (on Saint Louis IX of France), Jean Froissart (on the wars of the 14th century) and Philippe de Commines and Enguerrand de Monstrelet...
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    Ballantyne on 3 May. Scott's principal source was the Mémoires of Philippe de Commines. As usual he adapts historical facts freely in the construction of...
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  • Maximilianus Transylvanus – De Moluccis Insulis, the first published account of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation 1524 Philippe de Commines – Mémoires (Part 1:...
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    still recovering, was not in attendance. Described by the chronicler Philippe de Commines as a "beautiful child and daring in word, not fearing the things...
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  • drawn up in the interests of the common people. But then works by Philippe de Commines, Niccolò Machiavelli, and later Cardinal Richelieu began advising...
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    de Roover (1966), pp. 317, 360–362. According to Philippe de Commines in his Mémoires, as mentioned in de Roover (1948). de Roover (1948), p. 10. de Roover...
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    Assassination of John the Fearless (category Murder in Île-de-France)
    Enguerrand de Monstrelet, 15th century, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris) Philippe de Commines The assassination of John the Fearless (15th century) 48°23′14″N...
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    Zeckhauser 2008, p. 168. Nelson & Zeckhauser 2008, pp. 168–169. Philippe de Commines (1960). Memoires. Giulio Einaudi. pp. 507–517. Mallett & Shaw 2012...
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    Romanians among whom he was born." The French writer and diplomat Philippe de Commines described Hunyadi as "a very valiant gentleman, called the White...
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