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Thouars, the Glossary

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Aimery IV of Thouars

Aimery IV viscount of Thouars (1024 – c. 1094) was a companion of William the Conqueror on his Invasion of England in 1066.

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Alix, Duchess of Brittany

Alix of Thouars (1200 – 21 October 1221) (in Breton Alis) ruled as Duchess of Brittany from 1203 until her death.

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Angers

Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.

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Aquitaine

Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.

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The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

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Bertrand du Guesclin

Bertrand du Guesclin (Beltram Gwesklin; 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander on the French side during the Hundred Years' War.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.

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Charles IX of France

Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574.

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Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby

Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby (December 1599 – 31 March 1664), born Charlotte de La Trémoille, is famous for her robust defence of Lathom House during the English Civil War.

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Château

A château (plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.

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Château des Ducs de La Trémoille

The Château des Ducs de La Trémoille (English: Castle of the Dukes of La Tremoille) is located in Thouars in the Deux-Sèvres département of France and was built in the 17th century. Thouars and Château des Ducs de La Trémoille are châteaux in Deux-Sèvres.

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Communes of France

The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department

The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. Thouars and communes of the Deux-Sèvres department are communes of Deux-Sèvres.

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Companions of William the Conqueror

William the Conqueror had men of diverse standing and origins under his command at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

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Constance, Duchess of Brittany

Constance (Breton: Konstanza; c. 1161c. 5 September 1201) was Duchess of Brittany from 1166 to her death in 1201Judith Everard, Michael Jones, The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family (1171–1221), The Boydell Press, 1999, p. 38 and Countess of Richmond from 1171 to 1201.

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County of Anjou

The County of Anjou (Andegavia) was a French county that was the predecessor to the Duchy of Anjou.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.

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Deux-Sèvres

Deux-Sèvres (Poitevin-Saintongese: Deùs Saevres) is a French department.

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Diepholz

Diepholz (Northern Low Saxon: Deefholt) is a town and capital of the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Gallic Empire

The Gallic Empire or the Gallic Roman Empire are names used in modern historiography for a breakaway part of the Roman Empire that functioned de facto as a separate state from 260 to 274.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Guy of Thouars

Guy of Thouars (died 13 April 1213) was the third husband of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, whom he married in Angers, County of Anjou between August and October 1199 after her son Arthur of Brittany entered Angers to be recognized as count of the three countships of Anjou, Maine and Touraine. He was an Occitan noble, a member of the House of Thouars.

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Hannut

Hannut (Haneu; Hannuit) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.

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Helensburgh

Helensburgh (Baile Eilidh) is a coastal town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch.

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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France.

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Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars

Henri de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars (22 December 1598 – 21 January 1674) was the 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, and Prince of Talmond and Taranto.

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Jacques Lemercier

Jacques Lemercier (c. 1585 in Pontoise – 13 January 1654 in Paris) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current Roman practice the fresh, essentially French synthesis associated with Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII.

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James I of Scotland

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437.

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Jean-Hugues Anglade

Jean-Hugues Anglade is a French actor, film director, and screenwriter, known for his roles as Eric in Killing Zoe, Zorg in Betty Blue and Marco, the boyfriend of Nikita in Nikita.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.

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