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| 1301 | Saint Leudwinus, Count of Treves (Leodewin, Liutwin, Ludwin) (c. 660 - †29. September, 722 in Reims) founded an abbey in Mettlach. He was Archbishop of Treves and Laon. His feast day is September 23. He is the patron saint of Mettlach parish and his relics are carried by procession at the annual Pentacost celebration through the town. He is the son of Saint Warinus, the paternal grandson of Saint Sigrada and his uncle was Saint Leodegarius. Early Life Leudwinus was born a Frankish nobleman and was a member of one of the most powerful clans in Austrasia.[3] He was the son of Warinus, Count of Poitiers and Gunza of Metz. Lambert of Maastricht was his kinsman. His Frankish name is Liutwin. Leudwinus spent his early life at the royal court of Austrasia. He was styled Count of Treves. He received his education from his maternal uncle, Saint Basinus, Archbishop of Treves. In 697, Leudwinus signed the Deed of Echternach with his uncle. Marriage Leudwinus was initially uninterested in an ecclesiastical career. Instead he married Willigard von Bayern, a descendant of Charibert I, the Merovingian King of Paris. They had issue: Milo, Count of Treves Gui Wido, Count of Hornbach Chrotrude of Treves (Rotrude), who married Charles Martel and became Duchess of Austrasia. Mettlach Abbey According to legend, it all began when Leudwinus went hunting near Saar. He grew tired and and fell asleep under the shade of a tree. As he slept the sun changed positions exposing him to its scorching hot rays. An eagle swept down and sat on Leudwinus with its wings spread out. When Leudwinus awoke, his servant told him how the eagle had protected him from being burned by the sun. Coincidentally, Leudwinus happened to be napping at the site of the Miracle Eagle near the chapel of St. Denis of Paris. Leudwinus saw this as a God-sent sign to establish a Benedictine monastery at that site. Dionysius the Chapel soon developed into a Christian missionary center. In its place now stands the parish church of St. Gangolf in Mettlach. When Leudwinus became a widower, he joined the monastery he founded at Mettlach as a simple monk. Bishop of Triers In 697 Leudwinus was appointed coadjutor of his uncle Basinus von Trier.[5] In 698, he cofounded the Echternack Abbey at Mettlach. When Archbishop Bastinus died on 4 March 705, Leudwinus succeeded him and was consecrated Archbishop of Treve.[5][3][6][2] Leudwinus was also appointed bishop of Laon.[2][5] This made Leudwinus one of the most important church dignitaries in the Frankish kingdom. Death Leudwinus died 29 September 722 at Reims. He was succeeded as Archbishop of Treve by his son, Milo, who brought his father's remains to Treve to be buried. However local customs prevented this and Leudwinus' family decided to let the dead saint choose his own place of burial. His coffin was placed alone on a ship that was sailed by itself, first to Moselle, then Saar and finally docked at Mettlach where the church bells began to ring. Leudwinus was buried in St. Mary's Church at the Abbey at Mettlach. In 990, St. Mary's Church was replaced by a new structure called the Old Tower, the oldest preserved stone building in Saar. In 1247, Leudwinus' relics were transferred to the newly constructed Leudwinus Chapel (Liutwinuskapelle). About 200 years later, his remains were reburied again in a new chapel connected to the Church at the Abbey. During the French Revolution, the monastery was purchased by the Boch family. He had the building demolished and built Liutwinus Cathedral in Mettlach, where the relics of the saint are located today. Reports of miracles at Leudwinus' grave in Mettlach made it a popular pilgrimage site over the centuries. Records from Leudwinus' time as bishop are collected in the Gesta Treverorum. Feast Day of St. Leudwinus Leudwinus' original feast day was September 29th, the day of his death. However this is also the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel. After the Second Vatican Council, the Feast of Saint Leudwinus was moved to September 23 and it's also the feast of his uncle, Saint Basinus. | Saint Leudwinus (I5081)
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| 1302 | Saint Mathilda (or Matilda) (877 - 14 March 968) was the wife of King Henry I of Germany, the first ruler of the Saxon Ottonian (or Liudolfing) dynasty, thereby Duchess consort of Saxony from 912 and German Queen from 919 until 936. Their eldest son Otto succeeded his father as German King and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962. Matilda's surname refers to Ringelheim, where her comital Immedinger relatives established a convent about 940. Biography The details of Saint Matilda's life come largely from brief mentions in the Res gestae saxonicae of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 - 973), and from two sacred biographies (the vita antiquior and vita posterior) written, respectively, circa 974 and circa 1003. St. Mathilda was the daughter of the Westphalian count Dietrich and his wife Reinhild, and her biographers traced her ancestry back to the legendary Saxon leader Widukind (c. 730 - 807). One of her sisters married Count Wichmann the Elder, a member of the House of Billung. As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her grandmother Matilda was abbess and where her reputation for beauty and virtue (probably also her Westphalian dowry) is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto I of Saxony, who betrothed her to his recently divorced son and heir, Henry the Fowler. They were married at Wallhausen in 909. As the eldest surviving son, Henry succeeded his father as Saxon duke in 912 and upon the death of King Conrad I of Germany was elected King of Germany (East Francia) in 919. He and Matilda had three sons and two daughters: Hedwig (910 - 965), wife of the West Frankish duke Hugh the Great, mother of King Hugh Capet of France Otto (912 - 973), Duke of Saxony, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor Gerberga (913 - 984), wife of (1) Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and (2) King Louis IV of France Henry (919/921 - 955) was Duke of Bavaria Bruno (925 - 965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess. At first she remained at the court of her son Otto, however in the quarrels between the young king and his rivaling brother Henry a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities. After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex. Matilda died at Quedlinburg, she outlived her husband by 32 years. Her and Henry's mortal remains are buried at the crypt of the St. Servatius' abbey church. Veneration Saint Matilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; her first biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen (Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions, including the canonry of Quedlinburg, which became a center of ecclesiastical and secular life in Germany under the rule of the Ottonian dynasty, as well as the convents of St. Wigbert in Quedlinburg, in Pöhlde, Enger and Nordhausen in Thuringia, likely the source of at least one of her vitae. She was later canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. St. Mathilda's feast day according to the German calendar of saints is on March 14. | of Ringelheim, Matilda (I5410)
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| 1303 | School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911, London, England: London Metropolitan Archives | Source (S334)
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| 1304 | Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. | Source (S164)
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| 1305 | Second wife of Henry. | Thornton, Elizabeth (I361)
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| 1306 | Second wife of Thomas. First husband John Byron. | Fouleshurst, Margaret (I525)
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| 1307 | See godparent 22 Feb 1835 | Family F1306
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| 1308 | See will of Francoise Bosdet | Priaux, Jean (I6095)
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| 1309 | See will of sister Francoise | Bosdet, Jean (I1716)
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| 1310 | Selected U.S. Naturalization Records, Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration | Source (S347)
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| 1311 | SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT DRIGG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ West Cumberland Times, Wednesday, August 20, 1898 Yesterday (Friday) forenoon, Thomas RAVEN, labourer, aged 38 years, belonging to Drigg, was admitted to Whitehaven Infirmary suffering from serious injuries to his back. It appears that on Wednesday, RAVEN, who is a married man with three children, was formerly employed on the railway, but lately he had been labouring. On Wednesday he was carting, and whilst sitting on the front board of the cart the horse shied and RAVEN was thrown off the cart on to the road. His back, probably the spine, was injured, as subsequently he completely lost all power of his limbs, and it was decided to take him to the Whitehaven Infirmary by train yesterday morning. On arrival at Whitehaven he was stretchered to the infirmary, reaching the establishment shortly before eleven o'clock. West Cumberland Times, Wednesday, August 24, 1898 THE ACCIDENT TO A DRIGG MAN. _______ FATAL TERMINATION. Thomas RAVEN, labourer, belonging to Drigg, died at the Whitehaven and West Cumberland Infirmary on Monday afternoon. He was admitted to the institution on Friday, as stated in our Saturday's issue, and his injuries were such as to give no hope for his recovery. He had fallen off a cart on the previous Wednesday, is the EskdaleDistrict, and as a result became paralysed and helpless. The inquest was held yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, before Mr. E. ATTER (deputy coroner for west Cumberland), and a jury of whom Mr. J. WAUGH was foreman. Mary RAVEN, deceased's wife, identified the body. Her late husband was 36 years of age, and had been a labourer on the railway until about eight weeks ago. He then went to Yorkshire, but returned to Drigg, and obtained employment under Mr. W. TYSON, of Greendale, Wasdale. On the 17th inst. he met with an accident at Boot in Eskdale, and she last saw him alive on Friday morning, when they brought him to the infirmary from Drigg by the 9-45 train. He was in the habit of leaving the home on Monday morning and not coming back till the weekend, and she was away at Seascale when they brought him home. She received a telegram to come home about 5-45, and when she saw her husband he was conscious. She knew he was going with a cart and some calves from Wasdale to Eskdale, and deceased told her the horse shied, and he was over balanced and fell to the road. He said he fell on his shoulders. Dr. CASS, of Ravenglass, had attended deceased but as he got no better he was taken to the infirmary. He never gave any other account of the occurrence, but he told her the horse was an old one and was walking. He also said when he fell he could not shout, as the fall knocked the speech from him. Mr. Harrison GAINFORD found him. At this stage a telegram was handed to the coroner from Mr. GAINSFORD, who had been requested to attend as a witness, saying that as the train had broken down at Eskmeals he should be late in arriving. A Juror (to Mrs. RAVEN): Did deceased say the wheels had gone over him? Witness replied that deceased did not tell her so, but she had seen in the papers that such was the case. Dr. R. S. DICKSON, house surgeon at the infirmary, said deceased was paralysed from the shoulder, one arm, both legs, and the whole of his body being affected. He was conscious, and stated that he had fallen off a cart, through the horse shieing. It was a hopeless case from the first. Deceased died on Monday at dinnertime. The jury considered that sufficient evidence had been given, and returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." | Raven, Thomas (I1913)
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| 1312 | Servant at Addiscombe House in 1851. In 1702, 'Addiscombe Place' was built to John Vanbrugh's design. He was best known for Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard and was a prime exponent of the English Baroque style. The house was built on a site which is now the corner of Outram Road and Mulberry Lane. It replaced a fine Elizabethan mansion. Which was once the seat of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. Sir John Evelyn recorded in his Diary "I went to Adscomb on 11 July 1703 to see my son-in-law’s new house. It has excellent brickwork and Portland stone features, that I pronounced it good solid architecture, and one of the very best gentlemen's houses in Surrey." Distinguished guests who stayed at the mansion include George III, William Pitt and Peter the Great of Russia. Peter the Great was reputed to have planted a cedar tree in Mulberry Lane to record his visit. This was one of three great houses which once stood in the area, the others being 'Ashburton House' (see later notes) and 'Stroud Green House'. Addiscombe Military Seminary In 1809, Emelius Ratcliffe sold Addiscombe Place to the British East India Company, whereupon it became a military academy - the Addiscombe Military Seminary. The company dealt in the importation of tea, coffee, silk, cotton and spices, and maintained its own private army. The officers of this army were trained at Addiscombe before setting off for India. In 1858, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also called the First War of Indian Independence), the British East India Company went out of existence. The college closed in 1861 and was sold to developers in 1863 for £33,600. They razed it to the ground with dynamite. All that is left are the two buildings 'Ashleigh' and 'India' on the corner of Clyde Road/Addiscombe Road and the former gymnasium on Havelock Road, now private apartments. Five parallel roads were laid out, to the south of the former college site - Outram, Havelock, Elgin, Clyde and Canning Roads. They were all named after individuals who were prominent in either the military or civil governance of British India. | Little, Elizabeth (I5922)
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| 1313 | Served as a banneret at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 | Hudleston, Sir Richard (I735)
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| 1314 | Settled in Canada. | Renouf, John (I4025)
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| 1315 | She and Harold II Godwinson, King of England were engaged circa 1063. She was a nun. She has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography. Dictionary of National Biography Adeliza d. 1066 was the daughter of William I. The continuator of William of Jumièges (lib. viii. cap. 34) states that Adelidis, a daughter of William I, was betrothed to (King) Harold, and remained single after his death. Orderic (573 c.) states that she took the veil, but makes her sister Agatha the betrothed of Harold. William of Malmesbury mentions that one of William's daughters was betrothed to Harold, but makes him speak of her to William as dead in 1066 (Gest. Reg. lib. iii. c. 238). Mr. Planché asserts (but gives no authority) that she was born in 1055, was betrothed to Harold in 1062, and was dead by 1066. Sources: Freeman's Norman Conquest, iii. 112, 659 (1st ed.), 112, 667-70 (2nd ed.) Planché's Conqueror and his Companions (1874), i. 82. Contributor: J. H. R. [John Horace Round] Published: 1885 | de Normandie, Adeliza (I1685)
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| 1316 | She and John I 'Lackland', King of England were associated. | de Warenne, Adela (I383)
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| 1317 | She died after 1057, on 21 August. | de Luxembourg, Judith (I4456)
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| 1318 | She died after 1219, unmarried. She was also known as Maud. | of Huntingdon, Matilda (I452)
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| 1319 | She died and was buried at Pellesworth Abbey, She was a nun at Pellesworth Abbey, England. She was the Abbess at Pellesworth Abbey, England. | Edith (I2646)
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| 1320 | She died in 1152, young. | of Huntingdon, Matilda (I3888)
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| 1321 | She died of peurperal fever 3 weeks after the birth of her son Vernon. | Snart, Mary Jane (I852)
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| 1322 | She died, died young. | of England, Euphemia (I505)
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| 1323 | She died, unmarried. | of Scotland, Claricia (I2545)
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| 1324 | She died, unmarried. | of Scotland, Hodierna (I2546)
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| 1325 | She died, young. | d'Aubigny, Agatha (I1309)
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| 1326 | She died, young. | d'Aubigny, Olivia (I2027)
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| 1327 | She founded a monastery at Folkestone. | Eanswith (I4528)
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| 1328 | She had Bremetum, Skirlingehelm, Carltun, Elton, Heacliff and Heselden, but her husband tired of her and sent her back to her father who then resumed possession of the lands. | Ecfrida (I1876)
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| 1329 | She held the office of Bishop of Metz between 657 and 697. | of Metz, St. Chlodulf (I3474)
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| 1330 | She inherited the Castle and Manor of Bolingbroke and other large estates in Lincolnshire from her father. She was created 1st Countess of Lincoln [England] on 27 October 1232, suo jure. Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln suo jure (1180- 6 June 1241/3 May 1243), was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. Her father was Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester. She was the sister and a co-heiress of Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester. She was created suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln in 1232. She was the wife of Robert de Quincy, by whom she had one daughter, Margaret, who became heiress to her title and estates. She was also known as Hawise of Kevelioc. Family Hawise was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, a cousin of King Henry II of England. Hawise had four siblings, including Maud of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Mabel of Chester, Countess of Arundel, Agnes of Chester, Countess of Derby, and a brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester. She also had an illegitimate half-sister, Amice of Chester who married Ralph de Mainwaring, Justice of Chester by whom she had children. Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of Gloucester, the granddaughter of King Henry I of England, and her maternal grandparents were Simon III de Montfort and Mahaut. In 1181, when Hawise was a year old, her father died. He had served in Henry II's Irish campaigns after his estates had been restored to him in 1177. They had been confiscated by the King as a result of his having taken part in the baronial Revolt of 1173-1174. Her only brother Ranulf succeeded him as the 6th Earl of Chester. She inherited the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, and other large estates from her brother to whom she was co-heiress after his death on 26 October 1232. Hawise had already became 1st Countess of Lincoln in April 1231, when her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln resigned the title in her favour. He granted her the title by a formal charter under his seal which was confirmed by King Henry III. She was formally invested as suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln by King Henry III on 27 October 1232 the day after her brother's death. Less than a month later, in the same manner as her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 1st Earl of Lincoln, she likewise made an inter vivos gift, after receiving dispensation from the crown, of the Earldom of Lincoln to her daughter Margaret de Quincy who then became 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jureand her son-in-law John de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract who then became the 2nd Earl of Lincoln by right of his wife. (John de Lacy is mistakenly called the 1st Earl of Lincoln in many references.) They were formally invested by King Henry III as Countess and Earl of Lincoln on 23 November 1232. Marriage and issue Sometime before 1206, she married Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret de Beaumont of Leicester. The marriage produced one daughter: Margaret de Quincy, 2nd Countess of Lincoln suo jure (c.1206 - March 1266), married firstly in 1221 John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln by whom she had two children, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and Maud de Lacy; she married secondly on 6 January 1242 Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke. Hawise's husband Robert died in 1217 in London. He had been accidentally poisoned through medicine prepared by a Cistercian monk. Robert and his father had both been excommunicated in December 1215 as a result of the latter having been one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta six months before. Hawise died sometime between 6 June 1241 and 3 May 1243. She was more than sixty years of age. Hawisse was married a second time to Sir Warren de Bostoke; they had a son, Sir Henry de Bostoke. [Sources: Burke's Landed Gentry (1847), vol. 1, p. 81; G. Ormerod, "History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" (1882), vol. 3, pp. 253, 259; J. P. Rylands, "The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580", Harliean Soc., vol. 18, p. 27. | of Chester, Hawise Countess of Lincoln (I3783)
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| 1331 | She is the daughter of Hugues, Comte de Clermont and Marguerite de Montdidier. She married, firstly, Gilbert fitz Richard, son of Richard fitz Gilbert and Rohese Giffard, circa 1083. She married, secondly, Bouchard de Montmorency after 1117. | de Clermont, Adeliza (I4567)
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| 1332 | She married Alain II 'Wrybeard', Duc de Bretagne circa 943. | d'Anjou, Roselle (I2315)
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| 1333 | She married Alain IV Fergent de Bretagne, Duc de Bretagne, son of Hoël de Cornouaille, Comte de Cornouaille and Hawise de Bretagne, in 1086 at Caen, Normandy, France. She died on 13 August 1090 at Bretagne, France, poisoned by her servants. She was buried at Church of St. Melans, Rhedon, Bretagne, France. | de Normandie, Constance (I3357)
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| 1334 | She married Albert III, Comte de Namur, son of Albert II, Comte de Namur and Regulinde de Basse-Lorraine, circa 1067. She was also known as Ida Billung. | von Sachsen, Ida (I3272)
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| 1335 | She married Alexander Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan, son of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan and Margaret, Countess of Buchan. | de Quincy, Elizabeth (I3095)
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| 1336 | She married Alfonso VI of Galicia, King of Galicia and Léon before 1074 at Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Caen, Normandy, France. She was also known as Elgiva de Normandie. She was also known as Margaret de Normand. | de Normandie, Agatha (I1681)
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| 1337 | She married Andreas I Arpád, King of Hungary, son of unknown Arpád. | of Kiev, Anastasia (I1409)
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| 1338 | She married Anskill of Seacourt. | Ansfride (I3150)
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| 1339 | She married Arnulf 'the Great', Comte de Flandre, son of Baldwin II, Comte de Flandre and Ælfthryth, Princess of Wessex. Adele of Vermandois (910-960) was a daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois with his first wife, Adela. She married Count Arnulf I of Flanders in 934 and had four children: Luitgard, married Wichmann, Count of Ghent Egbert, died 953 Baldwin III of Flanders Elftrude, married Siegfried, Count of Guînes Through her descendants Matilda of Flanders and Henry I of England, she was an ancestor to the present-day British royal family. | of Vermandois, Adele (I4154)
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| 1340 | She married Æðelræd I, King of Northumbria, son of Æðelweald Moll, King of Northumbria and Æthelthryth on 29 September 792. | Ælfflæd (I1158)
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| 1341 | She married Æthelred II, King of Mercia between 886 and 889.2 She died on 12 June 918 at Tamworth, Gloucestershire, England. She succeeded to the title of Queen Æthelflæd of Mercia in 911. | Æthelflæd Queen of Mercia (I2249)
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| 1342 | She married Baldwin II, Comte de Hainaut, son of Baldwin VI de Mons, Comte de Flandre et Hainaut and Richilde de Hainaut, in 1084. | de Louvain, Ida (I610)
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| 1343 | She married Baldwin IV, Comte de Flandre, son of Arnulf II 'the Younger', Comte de Flandre and Rozela d'Ivrea, circa 1031. | de Normandie, Eleonora (I2098)
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| 1344 | She married Baldwin Wake, Lord of Bourne circa 1268. She was also reported to have died before 27 March 1285. | de Quincy, Hawise (I4598)
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| 1345 | She married Bartholomew Burghersh, 1st Lord Burghersh, son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Lord Burghersh and Maud Badlesmere, before 11 June 1320. | de Verdun, Elizabeth (I262)
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| 1346 | She married Beorhtwulf, King of Mercia, son of Beornwulf, King of Mercia. | Sædryð (I2134)
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| 1347 | She married Berhtric, King of Wessex in 789. | Eadburh (I1159)
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| 1348 | She married Burgræd, King of Mercia, son of Beorhtwulf, King of Mercia and Sædryð, after 2 April 853 at Palace of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. She died between 888 and 889 at Paris, France, while on a pilgrimage to Rome. She was a nun after 874. | Æðelswyð (I4526)
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| 1349 | She married Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, son of Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd and Angharad ferch Owain. | de Clare, Alina (I3204)
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| 1350 | She married Casimir I, Duke of Poland, son of Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland, circa 1041. | Kiev, Dobronega Maria of (I3839)
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