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The chronicler Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, who covered the years 1227 to 1241, was a monk here. The abbey's isolated site protected it from armed attack. It fell however into the hands of commendatory abbots in 1536.
Alberic was likely from a noble Liège family which could afford a good education for him. He became a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey no later than 1230. In 1232, Alberic began his chronicle Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium and continued working on it until at least 1251 since he used a history by Gilles of Orval Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium ("Deeds of the Bishops of Liège").
The territory of the commune was inhabited in prehistoric times and in Gallo-Roman times. A glass factory, founded in 1699, was the origin of the creation of Troisfontaines.
Trois-Fontaines-l'Abbaye (French pronunciation: [tʁwɑ fɔ̃tɛn labe.i]; "Three Fountains Abbey") is a commune in the northeastern French department of Marne. See also [ edit ]
Majapahit was the most dominant of Indonesia's pre-Islamic states. [45] The Hindu Majapahit kingdom was founded in eastern Java in the late 13th century, and under Gajah Mada it experienced what is often referred to as a golden age in Indonesian history, [ 57 ] when its influence extended to much of southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra ...
The history of Savoy presents a synthesis of the various periods, from prehistory to the present day, of the geographical and historical entity known as Savoy, a territory whose definition has varied over the course of historical periods, until it was defined by the two French departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. [1]
The descendants of the pre-Austronesian inhabitants of the Indonesian Archipelago are still the majority in the eastern portion of the region, in islands such as New Guinea, the Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara. Genetic studies show that in Western Papua there was significant genetic admixture between Negritos, Australo-Melanesians and Austronesians.
Year Date Event 200 BCE "Dvipantara" or "Yawadvipa", a mystic Hindu kingdom is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana; Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa in search of Sita then later used by the Indianized islander of Java Island and kingdom of Portugal to name the island during the age of discovery.