We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, Herbert A. Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability to anticipate moves, plays an essential role in chess-playing.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne.

* The central battle was conducted by Philip Augustus and his chief knights-William des Barres, Bartholomew of Roye, Girard Girard said the Scophe Truie, William of Garland, Enguerrand III de Coucy and Gautier de Nemours.

* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.

* The right flank, under the command of Renaud de Dammartin, also includes the Brabant infantry and English knights-under the command of Count William of Salisbury Longespée.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

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A justification had to be given for the rejection of King John in whose name William Wallace and Andrew de Moray had rebelled in 1297.

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

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Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

The most infamous case, which went beyond anything considered acceptable at the time, proved to be that of William de Braose, a powerful marcher lord with lands in Ireland.

The king was supported by a team of leading barons with military expertise, including William Longespée, William the Marshal, Roger de Lacy and, until he fell from favour, the marcher lord William de Braose.

A major royal expedition to enforce these agreements occurred in 1211, after Llywelyn attempted to exploit the instability caused by the removal of William de Braose, through the Welsh uprising of 1211.

* 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.

Gruffydd handed him over to his father-in-law, William de Braose.

William de Braose offered terms, and Painscastle was returned to him.

* William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber

* August 9 – William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber

* William de Braose, Fourth Lord of Bramber becomes the guardian of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, and is possibly responsible for his death.

* May 2 – William de Braose ( hanged )

* William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber ( approximate date ; d. 1211 )

* William de Braose, Third Lord of Bramber becomes sheriff of Hereford.

* The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead at the orders of William de Braose.

Gwenwynwyn ab Owain, prince of Powys Wenwynwyn, tried to take over as leader of the Welsh princes, and in 1198 raised a great army to besiege Painscastle, which was held by the troops of William de Braose, Lord of Bramber.

Lloyd suggests that the rupture may have been due to Llywelyn forming an alliance with William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, who had fallen out with the king and had been deprived of his lands.

Llywelyn raised the money by demanding the same sum as the ransom of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny, whom he had captured in the fighting.

Following his capture, William de Braose decided to ally himself to Llywelyn, and a marriage was arranged between his daughter Isabella and Llywelyn's heir, Dafydd ap Llywelyn.

Additionally, Prince Llywelyn arranged for his son Dafydd to marry Isabella de Braose, eldest daughter of William de Braose.

As William de Braose had no male heir, Llywelyn strategized that the vast de Braose holdings in south Wales would pass to the heir of Dafydd with Isabella.