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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Piero the Unfortunate (redirect from Piero II de Medici)
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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Treaty of Picquigny (section Commines report)
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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Charles the Bold (redirect from Charles de Bourgogne)
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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Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France (redirect from Charles Orland de France)
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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John Hunyadi (redirect from Iancu de Hunedoara)
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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