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Showing posts with label Burgundy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burgundy. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2015

History Trivia - Barons swear fealty to Edward I of England

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November 20  869 Edmund the Martyr died.  Saint Edmund was king of East Anglia. His gruesome death at the hands of the Danes led to l...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

History Trivia - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy assassinated

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Sept 10  1167 Empress Matilda died. Daughter of King Henry I, widow of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, and mother of King Henry II, Matil...
Monday, January 5, 2015

History Trivia - Edward the Confessor dies

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January 5 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

History Trivia - second dedication of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople

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December 24 563 The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquak...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Grander designs at Guédelon: historic chateau project brings past to life

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Volunteers and researchers are hewing and toiling in a French forest to build a 13th-century castle by medieval means Kim Willsher in Guéd...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

History Trivia - Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon.

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June 25, 253 Pope Cornelius died at Centumcellae where he was exiled during the Christian persecution under Trebonianus Gallus Augustus....
Saturday, June 21, 2014

History Trivia - Robert the Bruce, defeats Edward II's army at Bannockburn

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June 21 217 BC Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroyed a Roman army under Consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at Lake Trasimenus in...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

History Trivia 400 Burgundy soldiers froze to death during siege of Nancy

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December 24 3 BC Servius Sulpicius Galba was born. He was emperor of Rome from 68-69AD. 563 The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Con...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

History Trivia - Edmund, King of East Anglia, gruesomely killed by the Danes

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November 20  284 Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 869 Edmund the Martyr died.   Saint Edmund was king of East Anglia. His gru...