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William the Breton (c. 1165 – c. 1225), French chronicler and poet, was a contemporary and dependent of French king Philip Augustus for whom he served in diplomatic missions and for whom he wrote a Latin prose chronicle and a Latin epic poem. William the Breton was, as his name indicates, born in Brittany, probably in the town of Saint-Pol-de ...
William the Conqueror[ a ] (c. 1028[ 1 ] – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, [ 2 ][ b ] was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) [ 3 ] from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle, his hold on Normandy ...
Breton–Norman war. "Here the knights of Duke William fight against the men of Dinan; and Conan passed out the keys". Two successive scenes from the contemporary Bayeux Tapestry (c.1066) depicting the Battle of Dinan, one of the decisive battles of the war. The Breton–Norman War of 1064–1066 was fought between the sovereign Duchy of ...
In West Sumba, Indonesia, the more than 20,000 followers [72] of the Marapu animist religion construct monolithic tombs by hand. Originally built with slave labor, the large tombs of nobles are now built by a class of dependents who are paid either in animals or cash (an amount equal to $0.65–0.90 per day).
The Indonesian Wikipedia is the fifth-fastest-growing Wikipedia in an Asian language after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. Its first article was written on 30 May 2003, [1][2] yet its Main Page was created six months later on 29 November 2003.
The Duchy of Brittany (Breton: Dugelezh Breizh, [dyˈɡɛːlɛs ˈbrɛjs]; French: Duché de Bretagne) was a medieval feudal state that existed between approximately 939 [a] and 1547. [b] Its territory covered the northwestern peninsula of Europe, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the English Channel to the north.
Combat of the Thirty. The Combat of the Thirty (French: Combat des Trente, Breton: Emgann an Tregont), occurring on 26 March 1351, [2] was an episode in the Breton War of Succession fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany. It was an arranged fight between selected combatants from both sides of the conflict, fought at a site ...
Gurvand (r. 874–877), ruling Brittany (northern part) with Pasquitan. Judicael (r. 877–888), successor of Gurvand, ruled Brittany (north) with Alan the Great (south) Alan the Great (reigned from 877 to 888 with Judicaël, alone as a duke, then as a king up to 907) Gourmaëlon, Count of Cornouaille (reigned from 907 as a guardian of the kingdom)