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Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de' Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood.
Gaston d'Orléans and Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. After years with problems on the border with Morocco caused by constant attacks on Spanish cities by Moroccan pirates, Spain declared war on Morocco. The young Gaston was sent as a subordinate officer to participate in the conflict on the side of the Spanish forces.
By 597, when St Augustine arrived in Kent, England, or at least most of it, was populated by adherents of Anglo-Saxon paganism, and the new rulers did not think of themselves as Roman citizens. Dating Gildas's work more exactly would hence provide a little more certainty about the timeline of the transition from post-Roman Britain to Anglo ...
Archaeologist Philip Dixon noted the striking similarity between Anglo-Saxon timber halls and Romano-British rural houses. The Anglo-Saxons did not import the 'long-house', the traditional dwelling of the continental Germanic peoples, to Britain. Instead they upheld a local vernacular British building tradition dating back to the late first ...
The last unifying symbol of British life is gone “The queen’s death has removed perhaps the only fixed, shared point in the national imagination.” — Denis Staunton, Irish Times
Gaston, the main antagonist in the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast and its 2017 remake; Gaston the Ladybird, a fictional character in Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom; Gaston, one of the main characters from the Alphonse and Gaston comic strip; Gaston, a rabbit villager in the video game series Animal Crossing
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
Gaston of Orléans may refer to: Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660) Prince Gaston, Count of Eu (1842–1922) Prince Gaston of Orléans (2009–)