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  • She had three sons one source says five; Otto, afterwards emperor; Henry, duke of Bavaria who is known as "the Quarrelsome"; and Saint Bruno, archbishop of Cologne.

    St. Matilda of Saxony, Empress, ancestor of Capetian Dynasty de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • She had three sons one source says five; Otto, afterwards emperor; Henry, duke of Bavaria who is known as "the Quarrelsome"; and Saint Bruno, archbishop of Cologne.

    Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The King has great knowledge of art; he admired the whole series of wall-paintings, in which the life of Saint Bruno is divinely set forth.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • I replied greatly to his satisfaction, and then declaimed so much in favour of Saint Bruno, and the holy prior of Witham, that the good fathers grew exceedingly delighted with the conversation, and made me promise to remain some days with them.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • I readily complied with their request, and, continuing in the same strain, that had so agreeably affected their ears, was soon presented with the works of Saint Bruno, whom I so zealously admired.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • The portrait of a certain Carthusian prior, which, like the famous statue of Saint Bruno, the first Carthusian, in the church of

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • The portrait of a certain Carthusian prior, which, like the famous statue of Saint Bruno, the first Carthusian, in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli at Rome, could it have spoken, would have said, -- "Silence!" kept strange company with the painted visages of men of affairs.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • A deed was forthwith drawn up -- the royal sign-manual was affixed to it, and the palace of Vauvert became the property of the monks of Saint Bruno.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

  • Having heard his confessor speak in terms of warm eulogy of the goodness and learning of the monks of the order of Saint Bruno, he expressed his wish to establish a community of them near Paris.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

  • I replied greatly to his satisfaction, and then declaimed so much in favour of Saint Bruno, and the holy prior of Witham, that the good fathers grew exceedingly delighted with the conversation, and made me promise to remain some days with them.

    Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

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