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William and Poitiers
In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.
In 1137, Duke William X left Poitiers, going to Bordeaux and taking his daughters.
Some, such as John of Salisbury and William of Tyre say Eleanor's reputation was sullied by rumours of an affair with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.
13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John
He was a younger brother of William IX, Count of Poitiers ; Henry the Young King ; and Matilda, Duchess of Saxony.
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine's oldest son, William IX, Count of Poitiers, died in 1156, before Richard's birth.
William of Poitiers claimed that the battle was won mainly through William's efforts, but earlier accounts claim that King Henry's men and leadership also played an important part.
No English source mentions a supposed embassy by Archbishop Robert to William conveying the promise of the succession, and the two Norman sources that mention it, William of Jumièges and William of Poitiers, are not precise in their chronology of when this visit took place.
William of Poitiers also relates that the duke obtained Pope Alexander II's consent for the invasion, along with a papal banner.
Although William of Poitiers and William of Jumieges disagree about where the fleet was built – Poitiers states it was constructed at the mouth of the River Dives while Jumieges states it was built at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – both agree that it eventually sailed from Valery-sur-Somme.
William of Poitiers wrote glowingly of William's reign and its benefits, but the obituary notice for William in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle condemns William in harsh terms.
* April – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( b. 1153 )
* August 17 – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( d. 1156 )
The history of Anjou may be told partly with the aid of the chroniclers of the neighbouring provinces, especially those of Normandy ( William of Poitiers, William of Jumièges, Ordericus Vitalis ) and of Maine ( especially Actus pontificum cenomannis in urbe degentium ).

William and describes
William Camden, in his 1607 edition of Britannia, describes Cornwall and Devon as being two parts of the same ' country ' which:
As William Jackson describes, Gradually Gibraltar changed from being the objective of the San Roque garrison into the supply base and refuge in time of trouble for the Spanish forces operating in Southern Andalusia.
William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation definition describes open educational resources as either " resid in the public domain or [...] released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.
An article in The New York Times ( March 8, 1953: E9 ), titled " Looking Back Two Billion Years " describes the work of Wollman ( William ) M. MacNevin at The Ohio State University, before the Miller Science paper was published in May 1953.
William S. Lind and Patrick Buchanan have characterized PC as a technique originated by the Frankfurt School, through what Buchanan describes as " Cultural Marxism ".
Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.
* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, which describes the Earth's magnetic field and is the beginning of modern Geomagnetism.
William E. Du Bois ’ Pledges of History ... ( 1846 ) describes the cabinet.
His 1942 book, Last Train from Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War describes the reporter's observations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author William L. Shirer.
In 1851, William Hoyt of Dupont, Indiana claimed to have conceived of a device that accurately describes Stoddard's calliope, but it was never patented.
In Chapter IV of Book III he describes a new and much improved design of vacuum pump and attributes its invention to the need for a more easily transportable machine with which he could demonstrate his experiments to Frederick William who had expressed the desire to see them.
Psychologist William Cane notes that kissing in Western society is most often a romantic act and describes a few of its attributes:
* 1871 — William Siemens describes the Resistance thermometer at the Bakerian Lecture
" In his 2004 book A Secret Trial, former law professor William Kaplan describes Mulroney's testimony as evasive, incomplete and misleading.
William Feaver describes the Festival Style as " Braced legs, indoor plants, lily-of-the valley sprays of lightbulbs, aluminium lattices, Costswold-type walling with picture windows, flying staircases, blond wood, the thorn, the spike, the molecule.
Those lines are suggested as aimed at William III who invaded England from the Netherlands and whose presence Dryden describes as a curse or a punishment, according to Lee.
Aengus appears in the Irish poet William Butler Yeats's poem, " The Song of Wandering Aengus ," which describes Aengus's endless search for his lover.
Van Andringa describes Damona and Bormana as the patron deities of the hot springs at Bourbonne-les-Bains and Saint-Vulbas, respectively .< ref > William van Andringa ( 2002 ).
In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the basic concepts for the sociolinguistic theory of pluricentric languages, which describes how standard language varieties differ between nations ( e. g. American // Canadian / Australian English ; Austrian / German / Swiss German ; Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian Serbo-Croatian ).
In William Bartley's biography of Werner Erhard, Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, the Founding of est ( 1978 ), Erhard describes his explorations of Zen Buddhism.
The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury, who seems unaware of any pre-existing minster, claims that one Æthelweard ( Egelwardus ), whom he describes as " ealdorman of Dorset ", had founded the abbey of Pershore in the time of King Edgar.

William and council
William A. Martinelli, chairman of the Citizens Group of Johnston, transferred the petitions from his left hand to his right hand after the council voted to accept them at the suggestion of Council President Raymond Fortin Sr..
However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.
Although some of his supporters tried to dissuade him from undertaking the journey, Robert convened a council in January 1035 and had the assembled Norman magnates swear fealty to William as his heir before leaving for Jerusalem.
In 1095 William called a council at Rockingham to bring Anselm to heel, but the archbishop remained firm.
* November 18 – opening of the council of Poitier which is soon forcibly closed by the duke of Aquitaine, William IX, as the bishops were about to excommunicate once more the king of France, Philip I.
" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.
William was introduced to the council on 31 May 1670 with full voting powers, despite De Witt's attempts to limit his role to that of an advisor.
On 6 November 1595, he married Joan Apsley, the daughter and co-heiress of William Apsley of Limerick, one of the council to the first President of the province of Munster.
William was included in the council of regency which the King appointed on his departure for the Third Crusade in 1190.
On 11 November 1216 at Gloucester, upon the death of King John, William Marshal was named by the king's council ( the chief barons who had remained loyal to King John in the First Barons ' War ) to serve as protector of the nine year old King Henry III, and regent of the kingdom.
In a meeting of the governor's council held late the morning after the shootings, Boston's selectmen asked Hutchinson to order the removal of troops from the city to Castle William on Castle Island, while a town meeting at Faneuil Hall met to discuss the affair.
Her council, particularly the man she trusts most Sir William Cecil, urges her to marry quickly, ( to ensure the succession, among other valid reasons ).
This was the world's first council housing, and brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont were brought up here .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 126-32 accessed: 14 November 2006 </ ref > In 1909, the Bethnal Green Estate was built with money left by the philanthropist William Richard Sutton which he left for ' modern dwellings and houses for occupation by the poor of London and other towns and populous places in England '.< ref >< cite >< cite >
In the council, then-governor ( Later president ) William Henry Harrison defeated a large band of Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
There are five versions of the speech recorded by people who may have been at the council ( Baldric of Dol, Guibert of Nogent, Robert the Monk, and Fulcher of Chartres ) or who went on crusade ( Fulcher and the anonymous author of the Gesta Francorum ), as well as other versions found in later historians ( such as William of Malmesbury and William of Tyre ).
The City of Piedmont is governed by Mayor William H. " Bill " Kirkpatrick and a four-member city council.
In the November 2011 general election, William Akers was elected to a four-year term as mayor and incumbent councilmembers Agnes Polhemus and Anthony E. Vaz were elected to three year terms on the borough council.
In the 2010 General Rlection, the winners of four-yer council seats where Kevin Glover, Michael " Mickey " Marcus and William " Bo " Vastine.
The other city council members include: mayor pro tempore ( and former mayor ) Susan W. Kluttz, Maggie Blackwell, William " Pete " Kennedy and Brian Miller.
Harrison has a city council made up of 7 members ( Deborah Acra, Tony Burkart, Mark Louis, Hank Menninger, William Neyer, Jim Robertson and Randy Shank ) who are elected to 4 year terms.
The Mayor is William Jenkins, and the council is composed of President Dan Griffin and members Jim Jones, Nicole Parker, Lori Fisher, Deb Anderson, Huntsville, 2012.
Dr. William Smith on the site of a famous Indian council ground, near the spot where Standing Stone Creek flows into the Juniata River.

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