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1 day ago · It was in 1744, however, that he received the order for the mission of his life by a personal letter from King Louis XV, sent from Strasbourg and dated 7 October 1744: The king ordered him to negotiate the marriage between his eldest son Louis-Ferdinand de France, Dauphin de France, and María Teresa Rafaela de España, Infanta de España, in order to seal the alliance between France and Spain ...
1 day ago · John of Arsuf had died in 1258 and was replaced as bailli by Geoffrey of Sergines, Louis IX's lieutenant in Acre. Plaisance died in 1261, but as her son Hugh II was still underage, Cyprus passed to his cousin Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan , whose mother Isabella of Cyprus , Alice of Champagne and Hugh I of Cyprus' daughter and Hugh II's aunt, took over the regency in Acre.
1 hour ago · If the sons of Cnut had not died within a decade of his death, and if his only known daughter Gunhilda, who was to marry Conrad II's son Henry III eight months after his death, had not died in Italy before she could become empress consort, [108] Cnut's reign might well have been the foundation for a complete political union between England and Scandinavia, a North Sea Empire with blood ties to ...
1 day ago · Champtocé castle tower ruins. Gilles de Rais (or "Retz"), [a] the eldest son of Marie de Craon and Guy de Laval-Rais, descended from a number of great feudal houses. [5] Through his mother, he was linked to the House of Craon, a wealthy western family, and through his father to the Laval family, [6] one of the two most important Breton lineages in the 15th century. [7]
1 day ago · t. e. The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states. In the late Iron Age Austria was occupied by people of the Hallstatt Celtic culture (c. 800 BC), they first organized as a Celtic kingdom referred to by the Romans as Noricum, dating from c. 800 to 400 BC. At the end of the 1st century BC, the lands south of ...
1 day ago · Every state votes for the same party that it did in 2020: 1 out of 100: Election is decided by a recount (winner's margin is <0.5% in a decisive state) 9 out of 100: Election is decided by a smaller margin than the vote share for third-party candidates <1 out of 100: Harris wins at least one state Biden didn't win in 2020: 42 out of 100
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1 day ago · Signature. Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: / ˈmɒneɪ /, US: / moʊˈneɪ, məˈ -/; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. [1] During his long career, he was the ...
