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6 unusual facts about Floruit


Alexander Bower

Alexander Bower (fl. 1804-1830) was a biographer from Scotland.

Bill Furby

William "Bill" Furby (b. 1871 – fl. 1969) was an English amateur footballer who played for Southampton St. Mary's in the club's first season in the Southern League.

Ingeborg of Kiev

Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev (fl. 1137) was a Russian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.

Killbuck

Bemino (fl. 1710s–1780s), known as John Killbuck, Sr

Ordoño Bermúdez

Ordoño Bermúdez or Ordoño Vermúdez ( fl. 1001–1042) was one of the sons that King Bermudo II of León had out of wedlock.

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").


Abraham van Linge

Abraham van Linge (fl. 1625-41) and his oldest brother Bernard van Linge (1598-c.1644), were window painters from Emden, East Frisia, where their father and grandfather already had been glaziers.

Alroy

David Alroy (fl. 1160), a Jewish pseudo-Messiah born at Amadia in Iraq

Amadiya

Amadiya was the birthplace of the pseudo-Messiah, David Alroy (fl. 1160).

Audradus Modicus

Audradus Modicus (or Hardradus; fl. 847–53) was a Frankish ecclesiastic and author of the Carolingian Renaissance.

Aycart del Fossat

Aycart or Aicart del Fossat or Aicardo de Fossato (fl. 1250–68) was a troubadour from Le Fossat in Ariège.

Cadfan

Saint Cadfan, founder of a monastery on Bardsey Island (6th century or 7th century floruit)

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, (fl. 1193), is the traditional name of the Queen consort of King Canute I of Sweden and mother of King Eric X of Sweden.

Coity Castle

Coity Castle in Glamorgan, Wales is a Norman castle built by Sir Payn "the Demon" de Turberville (fl. 1126), one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan supposed to have conquered Glamorgan under the leadership of Robert FitzHamon (d.1107), Lord of Gloucester.

Didaco Philetari

Didaco Philetari (fl. 1645) was an Italian composer, presumably active in Germany, whose works are preserved in the Düben collection in Uppsala University Library.

Domne Eafe

Domne Eafe (or Saint Eormenburg, also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba; floruit late 7th century) was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King Ecgberht of Kent.

Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn, née Elizabeth Wood (fl. 1530s), one of the chief witnesses against her niece, Anne Boleyn

Engarandus Juvenis

Engarandus Juvenis, "Enguerrand the Younger" (fl. 1480s-90s) is a composer, presumed to be of French origin, whose three known works are all preserved in a single codex in the Cistercian monastery of Staffarda, Italy.

Étienne Bellenger

Étienne Bellenger (fl. 1580–84) was a merchant from Rouen, France who, through his trading expeditions, became an important figure in the early exploration of the Maritimes in Canada.

Femia

Saint Femia (also spelled Femme, Feme, and Eufemia; fl. 6th century) was an Irish Christian saint, a sister of Saint Felim of Kilmore and Saint Daig of Inniskeen.

Ferrand Martinez

Ferrand Martinez (fl. 14th century) was a Spanish cleric and archdeacon of Écija most noted for being an antisemitic agitator whom historians cite as the prime mover behind the series of pogroms against the Spanish Jews in 1391 beginning in the city of Seville.

Florence Claxton

Florence Anne Claxton (fl. 1840 – 1879) was an English artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Gasparo Pratoneri

Gasparo Pratoneri, nicknamed "Spirito da Reggio" (fl. 1556-9) was an Italian priest, and composer of the Renaissance based at San Prospero in Reggio Emilia.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.).

Hystaspes

Vishtaspa (fl. 10th century BCE or earlier, if actually historical), the first patron of Zoroaster

Isabel Madeira

Isabel Madeira (floruit 1546), was a Portuguese soldier, known for her participation in the defense of Portuguese Diu in India during the siege of 1546.

J. Milton Williams

Milton Williams (fl. 1860–1861) served as a member of the 1860–1861 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

James Crow

James C. Crow (fl. 19th century), Scottish creator of the sour mash process for making Bourbon Whiskey

Jasaw Chan K'awiil

Jasaw Chan K'awiil II (fl. 869 CE), last-known ruler of the Maya city-state of Tikal, identifiable from extant inscriptions

John de Barton

John de Barton (fl. 1304), was a judge, otherwise called de Ryton and de Fryton, a Yorkshire gentleman, is with Ralph Fitzwilliam, the king's lieutenant in Yorkshire, a member of the itinerary court constituted by the first commission of Trailbaston for Yorkshire, for which Hemingford gives as date 1304 (as to date Spelman's 'Glossary' is silent).

John Wendout

John Wyndout or Wendout (fl. 1378-1386), of Tavistock, Devon, was an English politician.

Kuchuk Hanem

Kuchuk Hanem (fl. 1850-1870) was a famed beauty and Ghawazee dancer of Esna, mentioned in two unrelated nineteenth-century accounts of travel to Egypt, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert and the American adventurer George William Curtis.

Laurence Aldersey

Laurence Aldersey (fl. 1581–1586) was an English adventurer who made two journeys to the Levant, the accounts of which, ‘set downe by himself,’ are preserved to us in the pages of Hakluyt.

Lilburne

Elizabeth Lilburne (fl. 1641–1660), English political agitator; wife of John Lilburne.

Maccioni

Giovanni Battista Maccioni (floruit 1651–1674), Italian composer, and librettist

Madama Europa

Madama Europa was the nickname, or perhaps the real name, of Europa Rossi (fl. 1600) sister of the Jewish violinist and composer Salamone Rossi, who was one of the first opera singers.

Margaret de Menteith

Margaret de Menteith (fl 1311–1324) was a daughter of Alexander, Earl of Menteith and his wife Matilda.

Matthias Albinus

Maciej Albin or Latin Matthias Albinus (fl. 1570s) was a Polish Calvinist minister at Iwanowice Dworskie who became the first to administer Believer's baptism in Poland, and then became openly Unitarian.

Peire de la Mula

According to his vida, he was a joglars and trobaire (troubadour) who stayed for a long time in Montferrat, Cortemilia, and the Piedmont at the court of Ottone del Carretto (fl. 1190–1233).

Peyre de Rius

Peyre de Rius (fl.1344–86) was an Occitan troubadour from Foix.

Pierrekin de la Coupele

His literary connexions and his floruit can be established by his song Je chant en aventure, directed at an unnamed Count of Soissons, usually identified with Jehan de Nesle, called le Bon et le Bègue, who was certainly familiar with the trouvères, for his brother and predecessor, Ralph, was one.

Quendrida

Cwenthryth (fl. 811–825), daughter of King Coenwulf of Mercia

Reginald Ely

Reginald Ely (fl. 1438 - 1471) was an English gothic architect responsible for much of the design (but likely not the fan vaults) of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

Stefano Rossetto

Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.

Thomas Glazier

Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386-1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Unruochings

The family is named for the first member to come to prominence, Unruoch II of Friuli (floruit early 9th century).

Urgulania

Urgulania (fl. 24 AD), was a prominent noblewoman during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, and a friend of the empress Livia.

William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber

William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (fl. 1135–1179) was a 12th-century Marcher lord who secured a foundation for the dominant position later held by the Braose family in the Welsh Marches.

Xu Yuan

Xu Yuan (poet), female Chinese poet (fl. c. 1590), nicknamed "Xie reincarnate" in reference to Xie Daoyun, see 1590 in poetry

Zolotaryov

Karp Zolotaryov (fl. last quarter of the 17th century), Russian icon painter


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