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counts and Flanders
Originally this name referred to the polders surrounding Bruges and dates from a period before the counts of Flanders expanded their territory.
The remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring Hainaut in
After his initial period of maintaining independent neutrality from both France and England failed, neighboring sovereigns in the Low Countries, stimulated as a matter of policy by Philip VI of France, became John's enemies ; among the adversaries of John were the Count of Flanders, the prince-bishop of Liège, and counts of Holland and Guelders.
With the reawakening of town life in the twelfth century, a wool market, a woollens weaving industry, and the market for cloth all profited from the shelter of city walls, where surpluses could be safely accumulated under the patronage of the counts of Flanders.
From 10th century the town was a romance fiefdom of the counts of Flanders.
Even though the bishop tried to preserve the independence of his small state of Cambrésis, the task was not easy, wedged as the county was between its more powerful neighbours the counts of Flanders, of Hainaut and the kings of France, especially during the Hundred Years ' War.
Since then the rulers of Flanders have only been referred to as counts.
By 883 he was forced northward to the flat marshes of the pagus flandransis which became the territory most closely associated with the counts of Flanders from that time on.
Hesdin was a fief of the counts of Artois, vassals of the Counts of Flanders until 1180.
When the county passed out of the family of the Flemish counts, it remained subject to the Count of Flanders as his vassals until 1180.
The Counts of Hainaut had several historical connections with the counts of Flanders and Holland, to whom they had strong family ties.
Moreover, Dirk signed treaties with Godfrey the Bearded, duke of Lower Lorraine, as well as the counts of Flanders and Hainaut.
The Dampierres, originally only counts of Flanders, had through a clever marriage policy managed to inherit the counties of Nevers ( 1280 ) and Rethel ( 1328 ).
Sint Anna ter Muiden was granted city rights in 1242 by the counts of Flanders, Thomas II of Savoy and Jeanne of Flanders.
Destroyed by the Normans in 853, the monastery was rebuilt by the counts of Flanders.
The counts also held the County of Auxerre in the 11th and 12th centuries, and the county was held by the Count of Flanders and then the Duke of Burgundy again in the 14th century.
The first counts of Rethel ruled independently, before the county passed first to the Counts of Nevers, then to the Counts of Flanders, and finally to the Dukes of Burgundy.
This caused a long rebellion in Lotharingia between the allies of Godfrey ( the counts of Flanders and Leuven ) and imperial forces ( 1044 – 1056 ).
The main line of the House of Dampierre, originally only counts of Flanders, had through a clever marriage policy managed to inherit the counties of Nevers ( 1280 ) and Rethel ( 1328 ).

counts and Boulogne
Under Eustace I the counts of Boulogne rose to great prominence in Northern France.
The founder of the dynasty of the counts of Boulogne seems to have been Hernequin of Boulogne, the son of Ragnhart.

counts and Hainaut
Many Counts succeeded, first as Margraves of Valenciennes and from 1070 as counts of Hainaut.
He was continually employed on diplomatic errands until 1455, when, owing apparently to ill-health, he received apartments in the palace of the counts of Hainaut at Salle-le-Comte, Valenciennes, with a considerable pension, on condition that the recipient should put in writing choses nouvelles et morales, and a chronicle of notable events.

counts and came
Counts ’ benefices came to be inherited as counties were broken up and as counts assimilated their offices and ex-officio lands to their family property.
The counts in charge of the army, Hugh, count of Tours, and Matfrid, count of Orléans, were slow in acting and the expedition came to naught.
Affected by economic problems and internal feuds, the Hohenzollern counts from the 14th century onwards came under pressure by their mighty neighbours, the Counts of Württemberg and the cities of the Swabian League, whose troops besieged and finally destroyed Hohenzollern Castle in 1423.
The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to be suzerains, Fulk Nerra came and laid siege to it, routing Conan's army at the battle of Conquereuil ( 27 June 992 ) and re-establishing Nantes under his own suzerainty.
In 1731, Pfalz-Zweibrücken passed to the Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken branch of the counts palatine, from where it came under the sway of Bavaria in 1799.
Though in this position he twice came under investigation – firstly for an alleged conflict of interest in relation to contracts awarded to his own economic research company, and secondly concerning the sale of the loss-making state-owned food conglomerate SME to the multinational Unilever, for which he had, for a time, been a paid consultant – however he was fully acquitted on both counts.
Starting in 1066 the counts of Katzenelnbogen became the rulers of the area, until in 1479 it came to Hesse.
In the 1040s it came into the hands of the counts of Albon ( later dauphins of the Viennois ) and thenceforth shared the fate of the Dauphiné.
The region became a part of Bavaria in the late 12th century, when the line of the counts of Regensburg and Stefling came to an end.
Aquitaine as it came to the English kings stretched as of old from the Loire to the Pyrenees, but its extent was curtailed on the south-east by the wide lands of the counts of Toulouse.
The rise of Schwedt came to an end with the extinction of the Hohnstein counts in 1609 and the disastrous Thirty Years ' War, when the town on the road from Stettin to Berlin was plundered several times.
However prosperity came to an end already in 1326 when Emperor Louis IV gave the town in pawn to the counts of Hanau, redeemed shortly afterwards.
On March 29, 1971, the same day the jury returned death penalty verdicts against all the defendants on all counts, news came that Hughes ' badly decomposed body had been found wedged between two boulders in Ventura County.
Ezzelino was son of Ezzelino II da Romano, ruler of Bassano, and Adelaide degli Alberti di Mangona, who came from a family of counts in Tuscany.
However, at the death of Count William the Pious of Auvergne ( Guillaume le Pieux ) in 918 they came into the possession of Gothia which had been in the family of the counts of Auvergne for two generations.
Épernay ( Sparnacum ) belonged to the archbishops of Reims from the 5th until the 10th century, when it came into the possession of the counts of Champagne.
The Allemanic dukes were well connected to other families throughout Europe ; the first wife of Charlemagne, Hildegard, came form the family of Linzgau counts, whose seat in Buchhorn ( present-day Friedrichshafen ) bordered the lake.
This may be accidental ; counts of friendly troops often came from official regular army rolls that exclude unofficial forces, while enemy strength often came from visual estimates, where the distinction between regular and irregular were lost.
I came piking in last every time, but I always got there, and that's what counts.
While comparing the homologous genes of human SIGLEC11 and its pseudogene in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla and orangutan, it came to know about the event of gene conversion of the sequence of 5 ’ upstream regions and the exons that encodes the sialic acid recognition domain which counts approximately 2kb by the closely flanking hSIGLECP16 pseudogene ( Hayakawa et al., 2005 ).
The guilty verdicts came on one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, thirteen counts of money laundering, and four counts of failure to appear in court in connection with time that Rice spent as a fugitive.

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