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    Genevieve (also Genoveva or Genoveffa) of Brabant is a heroine of medieval legend. The story is told in the "Golden Legend" and concerns a virtuous wife...
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    Johann van Beethoven was only one half from the Duchy of Brabant; his father Lodewijk was the last Beethoven to be fully from the Duchy of Brabant. Most...
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    first half of the Thirty Years' War. Johann Tserclaes was born on February 1559 in Castle Tilly, Walloon Brabant, in the Spanish Netherlands, in what...
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  • John I, Duke of Saxony (1249–1285) John I, Duke of Brittany (1217–1286) John I, Duke of Brabant (1253–1294) John I, Duke of Bavaria (1329–1340) John I, Duke...
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    was the first Landgrave of Hesse. He was the son of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Sophie of Thuringia. In 1247, as Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia...
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  • Neckar-Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg Ravenstein, Netherlands in Oss, North Brabant Ravenstein railway station Ravenstein a 2020 British Horror film Adolph...
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    Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut (12 June 1859 – 22 January 1869), was the second child and only son of King Leopold II of...
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    Siger of Brabant (Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri or Sygerius de Brabantia; c. 1240 – before 10 November 1284) was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern...
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    Poisons'; 1563). Weyer was born in Grave, a small town in the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands. He attended the Latin schools in 's-Hertogenbosch...
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    Lodomeria, Cumania, Bulgaria, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Margrave of Moravia, Duke of Luxemburg, of...
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    Prince Leopold, then Duke of Brabant, and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden. In 1934, Baudouin's grandfather King Albert I of Belgium was killed in...
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    Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret of Brabant, who was the daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders. Born in Luxembourg and...
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    lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west. Its history is closely related to that of its southern neighbours:...
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    Johann Maier von Eck (13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543), often anglicized as John Eck, was a German Catholic theologian, scholastic, prelate, and a...
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    children: Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubert Marie Michel, Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium, who became later the fourth king of the Belgians as...
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    the new king, and Philippe became the new heir apparent, titled Duke of Brabant. On 25 March 2001, Philippe was appointed to the rank of major-general...
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    family did not escape attention. His brothers, the Archdukes Charles and Johann had their meetings and activities spied upon. Censorship was also prevalent...
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    Emperor and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (who was Duke of Brabant by marriage to Joanna, Duchess of Brabant) by not protecting Brabant merchants in the...
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    Charlotte, warned Leopold I of the "calculating character of the Viennese archduke." The son of Leopold I, the Duke of Brabant, and future Leopold II, in...
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    Nivelles (category Municipalities of Walloon Brabant)
    and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers...
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    In 1213, Henry faced his nephew duke Henry I of Brabant at the battle of Steppes. The duke of Brabant's army broke and ran. Henry later supported Otto...
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    was ennobled by Emperor Maximilian I. By 1516, Francisco had moved the family to Brussels in the Duchy of Brabant, where they became instrumental to Habsburg...
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    Mers (Marsus), John the Fearless of Burgundy (1371–1419) and John I, Duke of Brabant (c. 1252–1294). The source of the legend of Gambrinus is uncertain...
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    July 1833 – 16 May 1834) who died in infancy. Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909), the future King Leopold II. He married...
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    Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590...
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    Götz von Berlichingen (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), who wrote a play based on his life. In 1497, Berlichingen entered the service of Frederick I, Margrave...
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    Leopold II of Belgium (category Dukes of Brabant)
    infancy in 1834. As heir apparent, Leopold was granted the title of Duke of Brabant in 1840. The French Revolution of 1848 forced his maternal grandfather...
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    subsequent heirs apparent to the Belgian throne, Louis-Philippe was not Duke of Brabant; this title was not created for the heir-apparent to the throne until 1840...
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    Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ], 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geographer...
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    Leopold III of Belgium (category Dukes of Brabant)
    1909 his father became King of the Belgians, as Albert I, and Prince Leopold became Duke of Brabant. In August 1914, when Belgium was invaded by Germany...
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