Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

The surviving French ships of the line, covering their retreat with gunfire, gradually pulled to the east away from the shore at 06: 00.

The distractions provided by Heureux, Mercure and Justice allowed Villeneuve to bring most of the surviving French ships to the mouth of the bay at 11: 00.

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The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

After the French removed the surviving 7, 000 troops in late 1803, the leaders of the revolution declared the new nation of independent Haiti in early 1804.

Later that year, the 7, 000 surviving French troops were withdrawn from the island, and in 1804 Haiti declared its independence as the second republic in the western hemisphere.

But yellow fever and the fierce resistance of black revolutionaries destroyed the French army in what became the only successful slave revolt in history, and it withdrew its surviving troops in November 1803.

The purpose of the labyrinths is not clear, though there are surviving descriptions of French clerics performing a ritual Easter dance along the path on Easter Sunday.

After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 ( a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time ).

There is a surviving letter from the French king dated 7 November 1300 to his envoys in Rome demanding that they should help Sir William.

In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia ) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects.

In contrast to the surviving Latin manuscripts, there are " at least fifty-nine manuscripts or fragments of manuscripts " containing the Old French translation.

One reason the language of Aquitaine is important is because Basque is the last surviving non-Indo-European language in western Europe and it has had some effect on the languages around it, including Spanish and, to a lesser extent, French.

Some surviving early medieval pieces depict the piece as a queen, and the word fers became grammatically feminized in several languages, for example alferza in Spanish and fierce or fierge in French, prior to its replacement with names such as reine or dame ( lady ).

A ship of the French East India Company rescued the surviving thirty men and one widow in 1674.

The main French assault was launched on 25 September and at first made good progress, in spite of surviving wire entanglements and machine gun posts.

In October the French squadron was devastated by a cyclone, losing four ships of the line and suffering heavy damage to four more, and the surviving ships withdrew.

Evolving in Haiti during the 1850s, the Haitian merengue ( known as the mereng in Haitiean Creole and méringue in French ) is regarded as the oldest surviving form of merengue performed today and is a national symbol.

At the death of his father in 1765, Charles's oldest surviving brother, Louis Auguste, became the new Dauphin ( the heir apparent to the French throne ).

One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

In 2007 an " Allegiance Council " was created, comprising Abdul Aziz's surviving sons plus a grandson of each his deceased sons, to determine which member of the royal family will be the heir apparent ( the Crown Prince ) after Prince Salman, who is the current Crown Prince, either dies or accedes to the throne.

This is attested in some surviving styles for e. g., British earls, marquesses, and dukes are still addressed by the Crown on ceremonial occasions as high and noble princes ( cf.

Christian was born on 26 September 1870 at Charlottenlund Palace in Gentofte Municipality near Copenhagen as the oldest son and child of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and his wife, Louise of Sweden, only surviving child of King Charles XV of Sweden.

The only surviving part of the Polish Crown Jewels is from the Piast dynasty and consists of the coronation sword known as the Szczerbiec.

The present Imperial Crown of State is decorated with the principal surviving historic jewels, which were recovered at the time of the Restoration.

In the event of a duke of Cornwall's death, the title merges in the Crown even if he left surviving descendants.

The surviving ships ' crews, numbering about 200, then made their way overland to Crown Point, narrowly escaping an Indian ambush.

However, according to certain family documents and correspondence, his successor as King of Finland would have been his second surviving son Prince Wolfgang of Hesse ( 1896 – 1989 ), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland, where a wedding to a Finnish lady was already in preparation for the coming Crown Prince.

He works along with other surviving members of the Laos Royal Family such as Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma, Crown Prince Soulivong Savang and Prince Thayavong Savang to establish a Constitutional Monarchy in Laos.

On 6 October 1688, the new Duke of Hamilton surrendered his previous titles to the Crown, and they were reconferred on his third ( but second surviving ) son, Lord Charles Hamilton, who thereby became 2nd Earl of Selkirk, and who changed his surname to " Douglas ".

There was a surviving male heir and still are heirs male but due to the power of the monarchy it was illegally given to the Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham ; and on the attainder of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of King Henry VIII, it became merged in the Crown.

The The Old Crown, Birmingham | Old Crown, originally the hall of the Guild of St John, Deritend, is the sole surviving secular building of medieval BirminghamThe growth of the urban economy of 13th century and early 14th century Birmingham was reflected in the development of its institutions.

Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the surviving East India Company regiments were merged into a new Indian Army under the direct control of the British Crown.

Princess Tenagnework travelled to London and from there joined her only surviving brother, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC.

Princess Tenagnework settled in her second exile, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D. C. to be near her only surviving sibling, Amha Selassie ( Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen ).

The surviving French Crown Jewels, principally a set of historic crowns, diadems and parures, are mainly on display in the Galerie d ' Apollon of the Louvre, France's premier museum and former royal palace, together with the Regent Diamond, the Sancy Diamond and the Côte-de-Bretagne red spinel, carved into the form of a dragon.

The Crown and Anchor Inn, dating from 1739, is the oldest surviving structure in the village.

The Crown Prince and the Hereditary Prince were the only surviving agnatic heirs.

In formally adopting the Western term Emperor for the ruler of Russia Peter the Great also adopted Western imperial symbols, including the form of the private crowns ( Hauskrone ) used by the Holy Roman Emperors, ( of which the only surviving example is the Austrian imperial crown of Rudolf II Imperial Crown of Austria ) in which a circlet with eight fleur-de-lis surrounds a mitre with a high arch extending from the front to the back fleur-de-lis.

The Crown of Louis XV is the sole surviving crown from the French ancien regime among the French Crown Jewels.

The only surviving original piece of the Polish Crown Jewels from the time of the Piast dynasty is the ceremonial sword-Szczerbiec.