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    Louis de Bruges, Lord of Gruuthuse, Prince of Steenhuijs, Earl of Winchester (Dutch: Lodewijk van Brugge; c. 1427 – 24 November 1492), was a Flemish courtier...
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    museum of applied arts in Bruges, located in the medieval Gruuthuse, the house of Louis de Gruuthuse. The collection ranges from the 15th to the 19th century...
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    The Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643–6) is a heavily illustrated deluxe illuminated manuscript in four volumes, containing a French text of...
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    Jean III d'Aa, lord of Gruuthuse (Jan III van Gruuthuse en van der Aa, sieur de Gruuthuse; born about 1368/69, died before 1420) was a Flemish-Burgundian...
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    The lords of Gruuthuse (Heren van Gruuthuse, also Gruythuyse; also "lords of Bruges", Heren van Brugge) were one of the noble families of Bruges in the...
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    Willem V. In June 1456 Louis de Gruuthuse (1427-1492) bought Haamstede. After an (armed) conflict with the Lord of Hodenpijl, Louis definitely gained control...
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    in the city, including: Gruuthusemuseum, a museum for the house of Louis de Gruuthuse. Archaeological Museum Gentpoort Belfry City Hall on the Burg (Bruges) [nl]...
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    museum of applied arts in Bruges, located in the medieval Gruuthuse, the Palace of Louis de Gruuthuse. The collection ranges from the 15th to the 19th century...
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    remained in manuscript. The only complete version was in the library of Louis de Gruuthuse, now in the BnF in Paris, with a second nearly complete one in the...
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    One of the most lavishly illuminated copies was commissioned by Louis de Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman, in the 1470s. The four volumes of this copy (BNF...
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  • de Bruges, 1st Captain-Donee of Terceira (born Jacob van Brugge, Gruuthuse en van der Aa circa 1418 in Bruges, Flanders) was the brother of Louis de Gruuthuse...
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    York, Mystic wedding of Catherine of Siena in a manuscript made for Louis de Gruuthuse. Public Library Bruges, MS 767. Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine...
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    Crusade in 1436. Wolfert's sister Margaret married the influential Louis de Gruuthuse. Two bastards founded minor branches. In 1444 Wolfert's father Henry...
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    de Gruuthuse and Jean de Ghistelles on 11 March 1393. Octave Delepierre, Précis des annales de Bruges (1835) 38f. René of Anjou's contemporary Louis de...
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    Burgundy. A large number of his illuminated books were executed for Louis de Gruuthuse. Several manuscripts have also been attributed to his assistants....
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    three Renaissance Masterworks from Chatsworth 51 Louis de Gruuthuse's copy of the Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East, in French, illuminated...
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    attributed to him, Le Jardin de vertueuse consolation, executed for Louis de Gruuthuse and today preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France as ms. fr. 1026...
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    luxuriously illustrated copy of Boethius in Latin and Flemish, made for Louis de Gruuthuse; it was possibly his last commission, made in 1492. The Master of...
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  • century) Anselm Adornes, merchant, diplomat (8 December 1424 - 1483) Louis de Gruuthuse, Flemish knight, courtier, and nobleman (1427–1492) Philip I of Castile...
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    heraldry Octave Delepierre, Précis des annales de Bruges (1835) 38f. René of Anjou's contemporary Louis de Gruuthuse himself was a famous competitor in tournaments...
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    Astronomical clock (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    for a clockmaker and an engineer to build and was presented to Louis XV in 1754. Tour de l'Horloge, Auxerre Bourges astronomical clock in Bourges Cathedral...
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    godparents of his children, among whom were: Louis de Gruuthuse, Tommaso Portinari, Abbot Jan Crabbe, Bailiff Jan de Baenst, Colard Dault and members of the...
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    Burgundy. He stayed for some of this period in Bruges at the house of Louis de Gruuthuse, a leading nobleman in the intimate circle of Philip the Good, who...
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  • given, but for a few exceptions, to Louis XII of France. Jan of Bruges was the last male descendant from the Gruuthuse line. After his death at the end of...
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    militaire des Belges, Brussels, La Renaissance du Livre, 1931. Loys of Gruuthuse Revolt of Ghent History of the Battle of Gavere (in Dutch) 50°56′00″N...
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  • Clarendon Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-19-951558-1. "51: Louis de Gruuthuse's copy of the Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East, in French, illuminated...
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    Ptolemy's map of Ireland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    : 146–147  A Latin woodcut of the "first European map" published by Johann Reger [de] in Ulm in 1486 and thought to be one of the earliest surviving printed reproductions...
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    in Bruges: Basilica of the Holy Blood (1870–77) Tolhuis (1879) Hof van Gruuthuse (Gruuthusemuseum) (1883–95) (east and south wings) City Hall and Belfry...
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    Romuléon as part of a program of imitation of Louis de Gruuthuse, whom he visited in 1470. Indeed, we know that Louis owned a copy, since it is one of those...
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    might be the only one in a book; such was the case with Louis de Gruuthuse's copy of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris translated into French (BnF, Ms Fr...
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