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Gaulish tribe in theRoman period.
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[455] The Senones were a tribe of Cis-Alpine Gauls, settled in Umbria, who sacked and pillaged Rome A.U.C. 363.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Thus we can be certain that the Gaulish clan called the Senones, in spite of their distant expeditions and the colonies which they threw out to the utmost limits of their world, had a fixed seat upon the Yonne, a seat which still remains in the shape of a cathedral city.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Italy A.U.C. 640, and were defeated by Metellus.] [Footnote 455: The Senones were a tribe of Cis-Alpine Gauls, settled in
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Richer of Senones, who, as we have seen, had used the Children's Crusade as the background for an elaborate sermon on starvation, later returned to the events of 1212 when discussing a somewhat related movement, the Shepherds 'Crusade of 1251.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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We have already encountered the reference to the Innocents that Richer, in his history of the church of Senones, embedded in a discussion of the poor children's death from starvation in the midst of an uncaring Christian world.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Writing after 1254, Richer of Senones turned his attention and considerable opprobrium toward faithful Christians who failed to maintain support for the children.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The Romans defeated a Gallic army at Lake Vadimon in Etruria and then annexed the land of the Senones (the ager Gallicus) along the Adriatic.
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BRENNUS was the famous leader of the Senones, a tribe of Gauls, who invaded Italy about 390.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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Senones [455] formerly did, he should still have in reserve the transmarine provinces [456].
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Senones [455] formerly did, he should still have in reserve the transmarine provinces [456].
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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