The Avesnes family played an important role during the Middle Ages. The family has its roots in the small village Avesnes-sur-Helpe, in the north of France...

of Avesnes and then William of Dampierre The Counties of Flanders and Hainaut are claimed by Margaret's sons, the half-brothers John I of Avesnes and...

enter the town in the summer of 1189. Guy laid siege to Acre, but James of Avesnes, Louis III of Thuringia and other crusader commanders who came to the Holy...

the hostility surrounding her. On 22 June, the Queen reached the camp at Avesnes. When the approach of the King was announced, La Vallière commanded her...

Order of Maria Theresa in 1790. During the French Revolutionary Wars, he participated in an "outstandingly effective cavalry action" at Avesnes-le-Sec on...

miles east of Paris. It had passed from the sires of Avesnes, to the Counts of St. Pol. When Marie de Luxembourg-St. Pol wed François, Count of Vendôme (1470–1495)...

eastern borders. Maria Theresa died in 1683 and the next year he secretly married the devoutly Catholic Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. Louis...

Margaret II of Avesnes (1311 – 23 June 1356) was Countess of Hainaut and Countess of Holland (as Margaret I) from 1345 to 1356. She was Holy Roman Empress...

it. Garin became a professional by chance. He planned to ride a race at Avesnes-sur-Helpes, 25 km from where he lived. He arrived to find it was only for...

Thérèse-Monique Carlin (1785–1844), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Thérèse of Avesnes (France) Perrine Éluère (rel. name: Marie of Saint Peter) (1816–1848),...

Joanna of Hainault Born 1315 Died 1374 Noble family House of Avesnes Spouse(s) William V, Duke of Jülich Father William I, Count of Hainaut Mother Joan...

Italian prioress and saint (b. 1268) May 23 – Guy of Avesnes, French bishop (House of Avesnes) (b. 1253) June 23 – Thawun Gyi, Burmese founder and ruler...

Hainaut were claimed by Margaret II's sons, the half-brothers John I of Avesnes and William III of Dampierre in the War of the Succession of Flanders and...

Gibelin passed to the Knights Hospitaller. Geldemar Carpenel, 1100 Gerard of Avesnes, 1100–1101 Royal domain, 1102–1104 Hugh of Rebecques, 1104 Royal domain...

right of his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin. He was the son of John I of Avesnes and Adelaide of Holland. From his father he received the stadholdership...

(Bourbon-Orléans) 26 March 1662 19 November 1679 12 February 1689 Charles III Maria Anna of the Palatinate-Neuburg Philip William, Elector Palatine (Wittelsbach)...

1296 (1296) – 1301 (1301): Willem II Berthout 1301 (1301) – 1317 (1317): Guy of Avesnes 1317 (1317) – 1322 (1322): Frederik II van Sierck 1322 (1322) – 1322 (1322):...

preventing these troops from relieving the besieged fortress. At the Battle of Avesnes-le-Sec on 12 September, cavalry under his command overran another French...

father's father was King Louis VI of France) and his second wife Yolanda de Coucy. Her paternal grandparents were Theobald I of Bar and his second wife...

Merode Marie of Aumale, Countess of Aumale, 1239–51 Marie of Avesnes (d. 1280), Lady of Avesnes, Countess of Blois, 1241–80 Marie of Baux (d. 1417), Princess...

Joanna of Bourbon (Jeanne de Bourbon; 3 February 1338 – 6 February 1378) was Queen of France by marriage to King Charles V. She acted as his political...

historians that King Peter had married his lover, the Castilian noble Maria de Padilla before his marriage to Blanche, though he did deny this. There...

claim to Juan Fernández de Heredia of the Knights Hospitaller Louis II, Duke of Bourbon – nephew and designated heir of Maria I of Bourbon (who ruled...

daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg (1630s–1713), English noblewoman Mary de Monthermer (1297–c. 1371)...

1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Baldwin of Avesnes, Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis (= J. Heller (ed...

as Adelaide of Italy and Theophanu and Maria Theresa of Austria, who controlled the power of ruling, ruled as de facto Queens Regnant. Unknown After 887...

and regent of Burgundy (d. 1251) Bouchard IV, French nobleman (House of Avesnes) (d. 1244) Eleanor of Aragon, Spanish princess and countess (d. 1226) Enguerrand...

daughter of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon and Mary of Avesnes; wife of Jean II, sire of Sully and Hutin de Vermeilles Margaret of Bourbon, Lady of Albret (1344–1416)...

was a son of Count Henry VI of Luxembourg and Béatrice from the House of Avesnes. Raised at the French court, he was the lord of comparatively small properties...

of Saint-Pol 9. Marie of Avesnes 2. Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol 10. Henry II, Duke of Brabant 5. Matilda of Brabant 11. Maria of Swabia 1. Mahaut of Châtillon...