WebRoger de Lacy (1170–1211), Baron of Pontefract, Lord of Bowland, Lord of Blackburnshire, Baron of Halton, Constable of Chester, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Sheriff of Cumberland, also known as Roger le Constable, was a notable Anglo-Norman soldier, crusader and baron

WebThomas Becket (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t /), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), was an English nobleman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then notably as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint …

WebVikings invaded the territory around Dublin in the 9th century, establishing the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, the earliest and longest-lasting Norse kingdom in Ireland.Its territory corresponded to most of present-day County Dublin.The Norse referred to the kingdom as Dyflin, which is derived from Irish Dubh Linn 'black pool'. The first reference to the Vikings …

WebAmleth (Old Norse: Amlóði; Latinized as Amlethus) is a figure in a medieval Scandinavian legend, the direct inspiration of the character of Prince Hamlet, the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.The chief authority for the legend of Amleth is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his …

WebThomas Becket (/ˈbɛkɪt/) (Londres, 21 de diciembre de 1118 - Canterbury, 29 de diciembre de 1170), conocido también como Tomás Becket, Tomás de Canterbury, Tomás de Cantorbery, [1] Tomás Canturiense o Tomás de Londres, fue un noble, político y religioso católico inglés, arzobispo de Canterbury entre 1162 y 1170; y lord canciller del Reino de …

WebCharacter reference overview. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;. where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any …

WebWeihnachten, auch Weihnacht, Christfest oder Heiliger Christ genannt, ist im Christentum das Fest der Geburt Jesu Christi.Festtag ist der 25. Dezember, der Christtag, auch Hochfest der Geburt des Herrn (lateinisch Sollemnitas Nativitatis Domini oder In Nativitate Domini), dessen Feierlichkeiten am Vorabend, dem Heiligen Abend (auch Heiligabend, Heilige …

WebWatermael-Boitsfort [w a t e ʁ m a ː l b w a f ɔ ʁ] (en néerlandais : Watermaal-Bosvoorde) est l'une des 19 communes bilingues de Belgique situées dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.. Elle compte 25 343 habitants au 1 er décembre 2019, 11 744 hommes et 13 599 femmes [2], d'après la Statbel.Elle couvre une superficie de 12,93 km², ce qui fait d'elle la …

WebGalán is a caldera with topographic dimensions of 38 by 26 kilometres (24 mi × 16 mi), of which about 26 by 18 kilometres (16 mi × 11 mi) are part of the caldera proper. Such dimensions make Galán one of the biggest calderas on Earth. The floor of the caldera reaches an elevation of 4,500 metres (14,800 ft) or about 4,600 metres (15,100 ft), and …

WebHildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. …