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    Stephen Henry (in French, Étienne Henri, in Medieval French, Estienne Henri; c. 1045 – 19 May 1102) was the Count of Blois and Count of Chartres. He led...
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    2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region. Historically, the city was the capital of the County of Blois, created...
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    Seigneurs de Cheverny, having served under Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII(b1)(note 3) and gained the governorship of the county of Blois under Francis...
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    The Collegiate Church of Saint-Étienne or Collégiale Saint-Étienne was a collegiate church dedicated to Saint Stephen founded in Troyes, France, in 1157...
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    Saint-Étienne (ENISE) Telecom Saint Etienne (TSE) EMLYON Business School ENSASE (Ecole National Supérieure d'Architecture de Saint-Étienne) Saint-Étienne was...
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    Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois at Versailles on 18 February 1692. Mademoiselle de Blois was an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan...
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    of Anjou and thus was able to contain the ambitions of Count Odo II of Blois. Robert II distinguished himself with an extraordinarily long reign for the...
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    Mademoiselle de Blois, a style once held by her older half-sister Marie Anne de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of the king by Louise de La Vallière....
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    Henry I, Count of Champagne (category House of Blois)
    1152 to 1181. He was the eldest son of Count Theobald II of Champagne, who was also count of Blois, and his wife, Matilda of Carinthia. Henry took part...
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  • Orléans, and to the Estates General of 1588–1589 at Blois. He played a role in the Italian wars under Henry II and he was one of the Catholic leaders (supporter...
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    Rudolph, who was killed in the Battle of Crécy. His mother was Marie of Blois. During John's long minority, the regency was in the hands of his mother...
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    of Brittany was attributed to Charles of Blois. Philip VI agreed to receive l'hommage lige of Charles of Blois on behalf of his wife, and confiscated from...
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  • Robert de Blois (fl. second third of the 13th century) was an Old French poet and trouvère, the author of narrative, lyric, didactic, and religious works...
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    Blois Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Louis of Blois (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Blois), is a Late Gothic Catholic cathedral in Blois, France...
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    December 1588, he asked the Duke of Guise to call on him at the Château de Blois. As Guise entered the king's chamber, the Forty-five plunged their blades...
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    brother Stephen Etienne whose eldest son was William Crassus - le Cras aka Grace primogeniture of the Grace family Ireland]]. Stephen - Étienne le Gros (Stephen)...
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  • Roulleau (1893) Joan of Arc in Blois, by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1921) Joan of Arc in Orléans Louis XII, Château de Blois Joan of Arc in Chinon Napoleon...
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    château de Blois. The unknown architect, who had already drafted the plans of the château de Berny, a remodeled dwelling for chancellor Pierre Brûlart de Sillery...
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    the Château de Montsoreau, the Château de Langeais, the Château d'Amboise, the Château de Blois, the Château de Gaillon and the Château de Chambord, as...
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  • was the son of Stephen II Le Gros born 1112 second son of his parents were Stephen I(Etienne)and wife daughter of Roger De Mortimer. William was from...
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    Marie Elisabeth of France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    du XVIe siècle : Louise de Lorraine et Marguerite de France, Saint-Étienne, Publications of the University of Saint-Étienne, 1995, p. 60. In 1580, Queen...
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    story of the opera is based on the medieval chivalric tale Parthénopéus de Blois, which was written in the middle of the 12th century by Denis Pyramus....
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  • each name. Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century) Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden Jean de Chelles (13th century) Notre Dame de Paris Pierre de Montreuil (c...
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    de Bourbon, roi de Navarre in Les États de Blois ou La Mort du duc de Guise by François Just Marie Raynouard 1815: Démétrius in Démétrius by Étienne-Joseph-Bernard...
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    Isabelle de Blois, countess of Chartes, widowed Sulpice III d'Amboise, daughter Thibaut V de Blois and Alix de France, but no offspring. Mathieu de Montmirail...
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    Madame de Montespan resumed their relationship, resulting in the birth of two more children, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois, in 1677...
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    In May 1440, he assaulted a high-ranking cleric in the church of Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte before seizing the local castle, thereby violating ecclesiastical...
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    Château d'Amboise (category Castles in Centre-Val de Loire)
    duc de Lauzun. Louis XV made a gift of it to his minister Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, who had recently purchased the Château de Chanteloup...
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    XIV's illegitimate daughter Mademoiselle de Blois in 1692. V. de Seilhac, L'Abbé Dubois, premier ministre de Louis XV (Paris, 1862), especially pp. 5-11...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Madalbert (900–910) Saint Géronce de Déols (910–948) Laune de Déols (948–955) Richard de Blois (955–969) Hugh of Blois (969–985) Dagbert (987–1013) Gauzlin...
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