Drafts by willy van ryckeghem
Setting the record straight.
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On June 17, 900 Archbishop Fulco of Reims was murdered while he was traveling with his small esco... more On June 17, 900 Archbishop Fulco of Reims was murdered while he was traveling with his small escort to meet King Charles the Simple. The murder sent shock-waves through the Carolingian society, and its author Wenemar was promptly excommunicated by Fulco's successor. Yet, Count Baldwin II of Flanders, the presumed organizer of the murder, did not suffer any consequences.
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There exists in the Dutch language a rich variety of unflattering family names which find their o... more There exists in the Dutch language a rich variety of unflattering family names which find their origin in a criminal past. A famous French poet once said that we all have a prince and a hanged man among our ancestors. It is rare, however, that a criminal name becomes a family name. A shortlist includes such names as Boef (rogue), Deugniet (rascal), Loeder (scumbag), Moordenaar (murderer), Ploert (plod), Roover (robber) and Str(poacher). Most of them come from the Netherlands rather than Flanders.
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BAILLEUL-BELLE in French Flanders is one of the early medieval towns.
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Ypres is one of the oldest Flemish towns. In the Middle Ages, it was the third most important tow... more Ypres is one of the oldest Flemish towns. In the Middle Ages, it was the third most important town of Flanders after Ghent and Bruges. Its arms need an explanation.
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Identifying Flemish knights who became Templars
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Corrected version
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Willy van Ryckeghem We now turn to the remaining part of Gaul stretching from the river Somme to ... more Willy van Ryckeghem We now turn to the remaining part of Gaul stretching from the river Somme to the Garonne. The principal tribes mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Battle for Gaul are the Aedui, who resided between the Loire and the Saone, the Sequani, who lived in Eastern France, the Bituriges on the river Loire, the Leuci who lived on the banks of the river Mosel, the Veneti, who occupied Brittany, the Santones, who resided in western France and the Pictones, who lived on the west coast near Bordeaux.
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Quincy is a familiar name in England and the US, even the immortal Quincy Jones received his give... more Quincy is a familiar name in England and the US, even the immortal Quincy Jones received his given name after it. Few know that the name originates from what used to be part of Flanders in the Middle Ages.
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The town of Cassel is one of the earliest in the so-called Franco-Flemish Westhoek The Romans bap... more The town of Cassel is one of the earliest in the so-called Franco-Flemish Westhoek The Romans baptized it Castellum Morinorum after the Morini 1 tribe which occupied the north coast of Gaul together with the Menapii. Julius Caesar, in The Battle for Gaul, mentions that he put the Morini under the control of his client Commius, the king of the Atrebates. Caesar later
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GALLO-ROMAN FAMILIES V : Gallia Belgica
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In this series of Gallo-Roman families, we covered in earlier papers families of Narbonne, Lyon a... more In this series of Gallo-Roman families, we covered in earlier papers families of Narbonne, Lyon and Auvergne. We now turn to Aquitaine. Julius Caesar begins his chapter I of the Battle of Gaul with the following slightly puzzling paragraph : "Gaul as a whole consists of three separate parts: one is inhabited by the Belgae, another by the Aquitani, and the third by the people we call Gauls, though in their own language they are called Celts.
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New corrected version
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St Doda of Reims
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Third in a series on Gallo-Roman families
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Starting a new series on Gallo-Roman families
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Willy van Ryckeghem When Baldwin I of Flanders died in January 879 at the monastery of Sithiu in ... more Willy van Ryckeghem When Baldwin I of Flanders died in January 879 at the monastery of Sithiu in Artois, the news travelled fast and in July of the same year the Annales Vedastini recorded that the Vikings had devastated Therouanne 'ferro et igne' (by fire and sword).
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Second in series of Gallo-Roman families
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