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    Biandrate (Piedmontese: Biandrà, Lombard: Biandraa) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about...
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  • Oberto, Uberto, or Umberto II (English: Humbert) was the Count of Biandrate (Blan-Dras) in Lombardy and a participant in the Fourth Crusade. Oberto was...
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  • The Blessed Giorgio di Biandrate, or Giorgio da Orazio di Biandrate (died 1483) was a member of the family of the counts of San Giorgio Canavese in north-west...
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    the Novarese counts of Biandrate. Near San Giorgio in San Giusto there is a Pininfarina factory. The body of Giorgio di Biandrate is interred in the town's...
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    Italian noblewoman who married first the condottiero Facino Cane, Count of Biandrate and a cousin once removed, and then Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan...
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  • Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini (1545–1605) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. On 3 Nov 1585, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Antonio...
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  • of Biandrate, shut the gates of the city before the emperor and issued several unreasonable demands. The emperor pretended to accept Biandrate's terms...
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  • after 1014), Margrave of Milan, son of Oberto I Oberto II of Biandrate, Count of Biandrate and a participant in the Fourth Crusade Oberto, a character...
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    Parodi, Margrave of Parodi Adelasia—a nun Isabella—wife of Guido, Count of Biandrate Previte-Orton 1912, p. 276-277. Beihammer, Parani & Schabel 2008, p. 182...
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    Visconti. From Filippo's marriage to Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda, Countess of Biandrate and the unhappy widow of Facino Cane—the condottiere who had fomented...
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    invested as Count of Biandrate by Filippo Maria Visconti, in the presence of the Marquess of Montferrat. The new count of Biandrate was subsequently occupied...
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    each sides' preferences; in the event, the Imperial candidate—Guido of Biandrate—was elected against Adrian's wishes. There was also increasing disagreement...
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    of the Ranieri family or a conflation of the 12th-century Ranieri di Biandrate and the 13th-century Marquis William VII of Montferrat. This tyrant attempted...
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    accessible by the motorway Autostrada A4 Turin-Trieste through the junction "Biandrate-Vicolungo". Mandello Vitta is also part of some thematic itineraries of...
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    the clergy." The emperor died, poisoned, it is said, by Oberto II of Biandrate, ex-regent of Thessaloniki, on 11 June 1216. Gardner suggests this happened...
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    across the town. San Pietro Mosezzo borders the following municipalities: Biandrate, Briona, Caltignaga, Casaleggio Novara, Casalino, Novara, and Vicolungo...
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    other nearby towns acknowledged his rule. The rulers of Mondovì, Ceva, Biandrate and Saluzzo did homage to him. Emperor Frederick II's illegitimate son...
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  • throne. The powerful Lombard barons however, under the regent Oberto II of Biandrate, opposed Demetrius and his mother Margaret of Hungary, and preferred the...
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  • liege overlords: at various times the Bishops of Turin, the Counts of Biandrate, and the Marquis of Montferrat. As the city grew in power and prosperity...
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    after their conquest. In the Middle Ages it was owned by the Dukes of Biandrate and, in the 17th century, by Spain. Sanctuary of Sant'Anna, an example...
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    kilometres (15.3 sq mi). Casalino borders the following municipalities: Biandrate, Borgo Vercelli, Casalbeltrame, Casalvolone, Confienza, Granozzo con Monticello...
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  • Acqui. On 10 January 1599, he was consecrated bishop by Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini, Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente, with Giovanni...
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    1592) Flaminio Piatti, (15 March 1593 – 10 June 1596) Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini, (21 June 1596 – 16 July 1605) Carlo Conti...
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    Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came from the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was a Unitarian...
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    by the bishop of Vercelli. Later it was a possessions of the counts of Biandrate and, from 1631, of the Dukes of Savoy. Located there is a castle, perhaps...
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  • campaign), his nephew Louis VII of France, his brother-in-law Count Guido of Biandrate, and his wife's German and Austrian relatives. As supporters of the imperial...
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    first century AD. During Middle Age was under the control of Conti di Biandrate, after the comune of Novara and then Duchy of Milan. Intra was an autonomous...
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  • became a nun one possibly named Isabella, who married Guido, Count of Biandrate (although it is possible that this may be a second marriage of Joanna)...
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    where he found the people annoying, and returned to Italy to the court of Biandrate. Nicoletto also exchanged verses with Uc de Saint Circ. These lamented...
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    no issue; Conte Eugenio Ruffia di Cambiano, no issue; Cavaliere Carlo Biandrate, no issue; Maria Vittoria of Savoy (12 February 1688 – 18 May 1763) married...
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