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The Chronicles of Hainaut is an illuminated manuscript in three volumes, tracing the history of the county of Hainaut up to the end of the 14th century. Its text was produced around 1446-1450 by Jean Wauquelin as a French translation of Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniæ, a three-volume Latin work produced by Jacques de Guise ...
Portrait of Nicolas de Condorcet (before 1794) Condorcet was born in Ribemont (in present-day Aisne ), descended from the ancient family of Caritat, who took their title from the town of Condorcet in Dauphiné, of which they were long-time residents. Fatherless at a young age, he was taken care of by his devoutly religious mother who dressed ...
On 22 November 1257, Guy finally relinquished Hainaut, but John died on Christmas Eve in Valenciennes. Family and children. John married Adelaide of Holland in 1246 and had the following issue: John II, Count of Hainaut and Holland (1247–1304) Baldwin (born after 1247, lived in 1299) Joanna, Abbess of Flines (died 1304)
Mother. Joan of Valois. Philippa of Hainault (sometimes spelled Hainaut; Middle French: Philippe de Hainaut; 24 June 1310 (or 1315) [1] [2] [3] – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife and political adviser of King Edward III. [4] She acted as regent in 1346, [5] when her husband was away for the Hundred Years' War .
Countess of Mons, 964–1086. Countess and Margravine of Valenciennes, 964–1086. House of Hainaut, 1070–1280. House of Avesnes, 1246–1257. House of Flanders, 1257–1280. House of Avesnes, 1280–1354. House of Wittelsbach, 1354–1432. House of Valois-Burgundy, 1432–1482. House of Habsburg, 1482–1700.
William, born c. 1286, was the son of John II, Count of Hainaut, and Philippa, daughter of Henry V, Count of Luxembourg. [1] He was the brother of John of Beaumont and Alice of Hainault . William was originally not expected to become count.
Print. Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind ( French: Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain) is a work by the French philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet, written in 1794 while in hiding during the French Revolution and published posthumously in 1795.
Hersinda. Reginar (or Rainier) II (890–932) was Lotharingian magnate who was active from approximately 915 to 932. He was brother of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia, who died at the Battle of Andernach in 939, and because his son and grandson claimed it, he probably already personally held the fort of Mons in Hainaut as the seat of a county.