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unusual facts about Nord 3.1201 to 3.1290


Nord 3.1201 to 3.1290

(The Kylchap was named so due to the names of its creators, Kylälä and Chapelon.)


Abrantes Municipality

Later, it became a distinct order, when Pope Nicholas IV (around 1290) released the Order from the jurisdiction of the Castilian grand master in Uclés.

Ahis

Ahis in Ankara also saw their chance to declare their semi independence under Mongol suzerainty towards the end of the century (about 1290).

Alexander Abingdon

These figures represent Queen Eleanor of Castile and they were carved for the Waltham Cross, one of the twelve monumental crosses commissioned by Eleanor’s husband, King Edward I, after the Queen’s death in Harby, Nottinghamshire in 1290.

António de Vasconcelos Nogueira

Subsequently he gained a Degree and Masters from the University of Lisbon (founded 1290-1308; 1911) and later a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Aveiro, where he undertook post doctoral research in Economic History.

Birger of Sweden

Birger, King of Sweden also called Birger Magnusson (c. 1280–1321), King of Sweden 1290-1318

Charing Cross tube station

It shows scenes from the construction of the original Charing Cross, memorial of Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.

Charles Bémont

He was also responsible for the continuation of the Gascon Rolls, the publication of which had been begun by Francisque Michel in 1885 (supplement to vol. 5, 1896; vol. ii., for the years 1273-1290, 1500; vol. iii., for the years 1290-1307, 1906).

Charles II of Naples

# Margaret (1273– 31 December 1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at Corbeil 16 August 1290 to Charles of Valois

Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

After Gerhard I's death in 1290 his three younger sons partitioned Holstein-Itzehoe and Schaumburg into three branches, with Adolph VI the Elder, the third brother, getting Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg south of the Elbe, the second brother Gerhard II the Blind getting Holstein-Plön, and the fourth Henry I receiving Holstein-Rendsburg.

Cyril of Turaw

Hypothetically, each work can be allocated to one of several real Kirills and Cyrils: Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315-386); Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444); Cyril of Scythopolis (mid-sixth century); Constantine-Cyril, apostle of the Slavs(d. 869); Metropolitan Kirill I of Kiev (1223–1233); Metropolitan Kirill II of Kiev (1243–1290); Bishop Kirill of Rostov (1231–1262); Kirill of Turov.

Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary

Ladislaus died in 1290, childless, and he was succeeded by Andrew III of Hungary; Andrew was a distant cousin of Ladislaus.

Fra Dolcino

Dolcino left Vercelli between 1280 and 1290 and the researches of Orioli show that in the same period the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines caused many victims on both sides in the city; the fear of being involved in these fights could better explain his decision to leave and join the initially pacifist movement of Segarelli.

Geniscus

Geniscus is mentioned in the 1876 historical fiction Dante and Beatrice from 1282 to 1290: A Romance by Elizabeth Kerr Coulson, writing under the pseudonym Roxburghe Lothian.

History of St Albans

In 1290 the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castile stopped overnight in the town and an Eleanor cross was put up at a cost of £100 in the Market Place.

House of Nassau

1255–1290: Otto I, Count of Nassau in Siegen, Dillenburg, Beilstein, and Ginsberg

John Bacon

John Baconthorpe a.k.a. John Bacon (c. 1290–1346), English Carmelite monk

Lignum vitae

On the Janka Scale of Hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4500 lbf (compared with African Blackwood at 2940 lbf, Hickory at 1820 lbf, red oak at 1290 lbf, Yellow Pine at 690 lbf, and Balsa at 325 lbf).

Margaret, Maid of Norway

Oram, Richard (with Michael Penman), The Canmore Kings: Kings and Queens of the Scots, 1040–1290. Tempus, Stroud, 2002.

Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples

# Margaret (1273 – December 31, 1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at Corbeil August 16, 1290 Charles of Valois, brother of king of France, and became ancestress of the Valois dynasty

Midrash Maaseh Torah

A similar collection, probably more ancient in origin, was edited by Horowitz in the Kebod Ḥuppah, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1888, the work being based on a codex of De Rossi of the year 1290.

Pelagianism

Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290-1349) wrote De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses.

Petrus de Cruce

13th-century composer, theorist, and scholar, Petrus de Cruce was apparently born in or near Amiens, in north-central France; for dates we know only that he was active in the years around 1290.

Prettin

After the German Burgward ("castle district"), which first crops up in one of Otto I's documents as "Pretimi", had passed in 1012 from Archbishop Dagino to the Church estate of Magdeburg, and then by way of the County of Brehna in 1290 to the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg, Rudolf I of Saxony-Wittenberg built the so-called "Schlösschen" (little castle) about 1335.

Robert of Scotland

Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, claimant to the Scottish throne 1290-92, sometime regent of Scotland

Ryokan

Ninshō, often referred to as Ninshō Ryōkan (1217–1303), the first chief priest of Gokurakuji and a disciple of Eison (1201–1290).

Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria

(March 14, 1271 CE – December 10, 1310) was duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 until 1310 as co-regnant of his older brothers Otto III († 1312) and Louis III († 1296).

The del Carreto Barons of Racalmuto

The del Carreto Barons of Racalmuto were the descendents of Constanzia di Chiaramonte (1290 - 1350) the heiress and daughter of Federico di Chiaramonte, Lord of Racalmuto a member of the prominent Sicilian Chiaramonte family.

The Jew

The anti-Jewish tradition on the English stage dates back at least to the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 and is exemplified by the characters of Shylock in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Barabas in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta.

The Nutcracker Prince

In Sweden in 1290, 707 years previously in Stockholm, there was a King and Queen who had a beautiful (though selfish) daughter named Princess Pirlipat.

Thomas II, bishop of Wrocław

Before his death, on the Eve of St. John in 1290, the duke confirmed the rights of the Church to sovereignty over the territories of Neisse and Otmuchów making Thomas the first Prince-Bishop in Wrocław.

Trần Thánh Tông

Trần Thánh Tông (1240–1290), given name Trần Hoảng (), was the second emperor of the Trần Dynasty, reigning over Đại Việt from 1258 to 1278.

William Cragh

Richard Swinefield, Cantilupe's successor as Bishop of Hereford, wrote to Pope Nicholas IV in a letter dated 19 April 1290 proposing the bishop for canonisation, but it was not until 1307 that an investigation into Cantilupe's saintliness was initiated by Pope Clement V.


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