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It was William who knighted Harold after he rescued him from the Count of Ponthieu.
The Normans, Part 1 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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It was William who knighted Harold after he rescued him from the Count of Ponthieu.
Archive 2008-08-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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They then copied a part of the customs of a part of Ponthieu, but this great work was not aided by the Picards until Charles VIII.
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Great victory at CRÉCY, near Ponthieu in northern France, where English longbowmen, supported by dismounted horsemen, routed the undisciplined cavalry and mercenary crossbowmen ofFrance.
b. The British Isles 2001
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The Peace of Bretigny (Calais), virtually a truce of mutual exhaustion: Edward practically abandoned his claims to the French crown; Charles yielded southwestern France (Guienne), Calais, Ponthieu, and the territory immediately about them, and promised an enormous ransom for John.
1347 2001
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Then there was an intermission at the Théâtre de la Gymnase, the sounds of a supermarket on the Rue de Ponthieu, and the drugstore on the Champs-Elysées.
Maigret and the Killer Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1969
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He got across the Somme safely, and at Crecy in Ponthieu stood at bay to await the French.
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By this act Edward III. renounced the French throne and gave up all he claimed or held north of the Loire, while he was secured in the lordship of the south and west, as well as that part of Northern Picardy which included Calais, Guines, and Ponthieu.
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Without delay, he surprised the English in the north, recovering all Ponthieu at once; the national pride was aroused; Philip, Duke of Burgundy, who had, through the prudent help of
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Naples, his sisters were married to the greatest of the lords; the Queen of Navarre was his cousin; even the youthful King of England did him homage for Guienne and Ponthieu.
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