At the decisive Battle of Leuven in September 891, he defeated an invading force of the Northmen, or Vikings, essentially ending their invasions on that front.

" Accordingly, on 18 May, Villeroi set off from Leuven at the head of 70 battalions, 132 squadrons and 62 cannon – comprising an overall force of some 60, 000 troops – and crossed the river Dyle to seek battle with the enemy.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

The subject of the projected work was a matter of discussion between composer, librettists and the Opéra-Comique management ; Adolphe de Leuven, on behalf of the theatre, made several suggestions that were politely rejected.

CESAER was set up on May 10, 1990, with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

596 – 597, Leuven, 1782 ), exposing gross abuses in the Curia, in the church administration and public worship ; and proffering many a bold and earnest word on behalf of abolishing such abuses.

After visiting the Husserl Archive in Leuven, Belgium, he completed his philosophy agrégation on Edmund Husserl.

He relied on the discovery of the Belgian Professor Frans Alfons Janssens of the University of Leuven who described the phenomenon in 1909 and had called it ' chiasmatypie '.

The other arrondissement is the Leuven Arrondissement, centered on Leuven.

Leuven on the Ferraris map ( around 1775 )

Leuven is also the worldwide headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest beer company on the planet.

The mayor of Leuven is currently Louis Tobback, a socialist prominent on the national level, formerly minister of internal affairs and leader of the socialist faction in the lower chamber of the Belgian parliament, among other positions held.

* Irish College of Louvain / Leuven in located in the city on Pater Damiaanplein.

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe is located on the premises.

In the 14th century, thanks to its position on the Zenne, Vilvoorde became an important military centre and could compete against Leuven and Brussels for the title of most important city in Brabant.

The University of Leuven was abolished by decree of the Département of Dijle on October 25, 1797.

The building on Ladeuzeplein is now the central library of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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* January 25 – Godfrey I of Leuven, duke of Lower Lorraine

* On 25 May 2012, Nestlé's CEO Paul Bulcke received the VMA Award from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School for his lifelong career, which has been distinguished by sustained integrity, exceptional management capacity and inspiring leadership.

The army moved eastward, until they reached the city of Braine-l ' Alleud, which was about 25 km south of Brussels, and also threatened the nearby city of Leuven.

Jean Baptiste Abbeloos ( 15 January 1836 – 25 February 1906 ) was a Belgian orientalist and Rector of the University of Leuven.

He died at Leuven, 25 August 1559.

Godfrey I ( c. 1060 – 25 January 1139 ), called the Bearded, the Courageous, or the Great, was the landgrave of Brabant, and count of Brussels and Louvain ( or Leuven ) from 1095 to his death and duke of Lower Lorraine ( as Godfrey V or VI ) from 1106 to 1129.

Philip I, Duke of Brabant, also known as Philip of Saint Pol ( July 25, 1404 – Leuven, August 4, 1430 ), younger son of Antoine, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne of Saint-Pol, succeeded his brother John as Duke of Brabant in 1427.

The Collegium Hungaricum ( officially Collegium Hungaricum Lovaniense, the former Home Cardinal Mindszenty ) is a house for Hungarian university students, researchers and teachers in the city of Leuven ( 25 km from Bruxelles ), at the Blijde Inkomstraat 18.

The canonical matters arising from the supposed Roman violations of Debitum Pastoralis led to the case being brought before the Pontifical Roman Catholic University of Leuven ( Southern Brabant ) in May 1717, which found in favour of Utrecht, but was unable to resolve the matter with Rome ; this led to a de facto autonomous Catholic church in the Netherlands.

Martín Antonio del Río or Martin Antoine del Rio ( 17 May 1551, Antwerpen – 19 October 1608, Leuven ) was a Jesuit theologian of Spanish descent.

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck ( 3 May 1809 – 16 July 1887 ) was a Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, born at Leuven.

This happened also after their performance on May 5 at Stuk, Leuven, Belgium.

Sofie Winters was born 22 May 1976 in Leuven, Belgium.

The chief centres of Erasmus's activity were Paris, Leuven ( in the Duchy of Brabant ), England, and Basel ; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these places.

The decision was condemned by several French bishops ; by Louis Antoine de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris ; by the theological faculties at Leuven, Douai, and eventually Paris ; and, finally, in 1703, by Pope Clement XI.

Leuven ( Dutch, pronounced ;, pronounced, often used in English, ) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ( KU Leuven ; University of Leuven ) is the oldest Catholic university still in existence in the world and the biggest university in Belgium.

There are also a number of hogescholen ( Vocational university, literally translated: " high schools ") such as the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven ( KHLeuven ; the Catholic High School Leuven ), as well as a university college: Groep T ( Group T ).

Because no guild records were kept prior to 1494 in Leuven there is no concrete proof that Matsys attained his master's status there ; however, historians generally accept this to be the location of his early training because there he had not been previously registered in Antwerp as an apprentice.

Studies in Greek and Byzantine Texts Presented to Jacques Noret for his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 137, Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA, 2004, p. 11-43 ; and id., Le pouvoir de l ' anathème ou Maxime le Confesseur et les moines palestiniens du VIIe siècle, in A. Camplani-G. Filoramo, Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism.

It is also at that time that Dirk Martens, a local citizen, became the Southern Netherlands ’ first printer, founding a printing shop in 1473 that published books by various authors including Christopher Columbus ; Martens would later become a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.

* Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dutch-speaking, situated in Leuven ; and

He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven ; but he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through Germany to Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty.

The city was built to house the Université Catholique de Louvain ; following the linguistic quarrels that took place in Belgium during the 1960s, and Flemish claims of discrimination at the Catholic University of Leuven, the institution was split into the Dutch language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven which remained in Leuven, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

However, an increasingly popular view, first put forward by Edward Lipinski, professor of Oriental and Slavonic studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, is that the Jebusites were most likely an Amorite tribe ; Lipinski identified them with the group referred to as Yabusi ' um in a cuneiform letter found in the archive of Mari, Syria.