Early life. Margaret was born on 15 March 1275, at Windsor Castle, the tenth child of King Edward I and his cousin Eleanor of Castile. Margaret's fifteen siblings included Joan of Acre, Eleanor, Countess of Bar, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan and her father's successor, Edward II of England.. Duchess of Brabant. On 8 July 1290 Margaret married John II, Duke of Brabant in Westminster …

Margaret is a female first name, derived via French and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs) meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian.. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common …

Margaret de Clare, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall (12 October 1293 – 9 April 1342) was an English noblewoman, heiress, and the second-eldest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and his wife Joan of Acre, making her a granddaughter of King Edward I of England. Her two husbands were Piers Gaveston and Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl …

Beatrice of Provence (c. 1229 – 23 September 1267), was ruling Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1245 until her death, as well as Countess of Anjou and Maine, Queen of Sicily and Naples by marriage to Charles I of Naples.. She was the fourth and youngest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence and Forcalquier by his wife Beatrice, in turn daughter …

Margaret of Geneva (1180?–1252), was a countess of Savoy by marriage to Thomas I of Savoy. She was the daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, and Beatrice de Faucigny (1160–1196).. Life. She was supposed to become the third wife of Philip II of France.However, when her father was escorting her to France in May 1195, Thomas I of Savoy carried her off. . Attracted by her …

Early life. Born in the city of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1198–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his wife Margaret of Geneva. She was well educated as a child and developed a strong love of reading. Her three sisters also married kings.

Baphomet is a symbol of balance in various occult and mystical traditions, originating with the Gnostics and Templars, although occasionally purported to be a deity or a demon.Since 1856 the name Baphomet has been associated with the "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Éliphas Lévi, composed of binary elements representing the "symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites": …

The land of Provence has a history quite separate from that of any of the larger nations of Europe. Its independent existence has its origins in the frontier nature of the dukedom in Merovingian Gaul.In this position, influenced and affected by several different cultures on different sides, the Provençals maintained a unity which was reinforced when the region was made a separate …

Olbia (en grec ancien Ὀλβία, « la bienheureuse », « la prospère », « la fortunée » ou « l'heureuse ») est une colonie grecque de Massalia, fondée vers 325 environ avant notre ère, dont le site se trouve en France, dans le Var, sur la commune de Hyères, au lieu-dit l'Almanarre.L'archéologue Michel Bats l'a surnommée « Olbia de Provence » pour la distinguer des autres ...

Etimologia e derivazioni in altre lingue. La parola "tè" deriva dalla resa tê (pronuncia tei) del carattere cinese 茶 nel dialetto min meridionale diffuso nel sud del Fujian e a Taiwan.Da questa pronuncia cinese derivano, con lievi varianti, le parole per tè in: malese, danese, inglese, spagnolo, svedese, yiddish, ebraico, cingalese, tamil, finlandese, francese, italiano, lettone, tedesco ...