What villiage did a Finnish historian and author live, who's research interests include late medieval penal culture, representations of the executioner , who was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc?
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Hannele Klemettilä Hannele Klemettilä (Hannele Klemettilä-McHale, b. 1966, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish historian and author living in the medieval village of Sonning-on-Thames in the county of Berkshire. She studied cultural history at the University of Turku, earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland in 2008-2010. She is an Adjunct Professor of cultural history at the University of Turku, and a Life Member at the Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She published "Epitomes of Evil" (Brepols 2006), and other books on late medieval cultural history. Her research interests include late medieval penal culture, representations of the executioner, Gilles de Rais, cooking and cookery books, conceptions of cruelty, medieval symbolism, attitudes to animals and nature.
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Gilles de Rais Gilles de Montmorency-Laval (] ; prob. c. September 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.
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Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–28 The Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–1328 was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years until 1328. The uprising in Flanders was caused by both excessive taxations levied by the Count of Flanders Louis I, and by his pro-French policies. The insurrection had urban leaders and rural factions which took over most of Flanders by 1325.
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Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton The Rt Hon. Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, KG (1536–1593), was a baron in the Peerage of England. Lord Grey de Wilton is now largely remembered for his memoir of his father, for participating in the last defence of Calais, and for his involvement in the massacre after the Siege of Smerwick on "Corca Dhuibhne" in County Kerry. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1580 until 1582.
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Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) Arthur Dillon (3 September 1750 – 13 April 1794) was an England-born aristocrat who inherited leadership of a French army regiment and remained in the French army, serving the Ancien Régime in the American and French Revolutionary Wars. After serving in political positions during the early years of the revolution, he was executed in Paris as a royalist during the Reign of Terror, in 1794.
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Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg Henry VI (  1240 – 5 June 1288) was count of Luxembourg and Arlon from the death of his father, Henry V the Blond in 1281 until his own death at the battle of Worringen, seven years later, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry VII.
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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Courcelles Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles (14 September 1759 – 24 July 1834) was a French historian and genealogist. He was born in Orléans and died at Saint-Brieuc, now in the Côtes d'Armor département of Brittany. He published several historical and genealogical works, and was a correspondent of the . He was chief administrator of the charitable Asile Royal de la Providence in Paris, president of the hospices of Orléans, and a knight of the Papal Order of the Golden Spur.
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Henri de Boulainvilliers Henri de Boulainvilliers (] ; 21 October 1658, Saint-Saire, Normandy – 23 January 1722, Paris) was a French nobleman, writer and historian. He was educated at the college of Juilly, he served in the army until 1697.
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Jacques d'Arc Jacques d'Arc or Darc (1380–1440) was a farmer in the village of Domrémy in Lorraine, and the father of the French heroine and Roman Catholic saint Joan of Arc.
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Matthew, Count of Boulogne Matthew, Count of Boulogne, also known as "Matthew of Alsace" (  1137 –1173) was the second son of Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Matthew forcibly abducted the nun Marie de Boulogne, daughter of Stephen, King of England, and constrained her into marriage, claiming the title of Count of Boulogne "jure uxoris" in 1160. The forced marriage was opposed by the Church and finally annulled in 1170, but he continued to rule as Count until his death.
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Jean de Joinville Jean de Joinville (c. May 1, 1224 – 24 December 1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France. He is most famous for writing the "Life of Saint Louis", a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade.
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Alan Rufus Alan Rufus (alternatively Alanus Rufus (Latin), Alan ar Rouz (Breton), Alain le Roux (French) or Alan the Red (c. 1040 – 1093), 1st Lord of Richmond, was a relative and companion of William the Conqueror (Duke William II of Normandy) during the Norman Conquest of England. He was the second son of Eozen Penteur (also known as Eudon, Eudo or Odo, Count of Penthièvre) by Orguen Kernev (also known as Agnes of Cornouaille). William the Conqueror granted Alan Rufus a significant English fief, later known as the Honour of Richmond, in about 1071.
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Roger Utlagh Roger Utlagh, or Roger Outlawe ( 1260 – 1341) was a leading Irish cleric, judge and statesman of the fourteenth century who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Today he is mainly remembered as the brother-in-law of the celebrated Witch of Kilkenny, Alice Kyteler, and for his successful efforts to shield her from prosecution and subsequently to escape punishment during the notorious Kilkenny Witch Trials.
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Eustache de Beaumarchais Eustache de Beaumarchais ("c". 1235 – 23 August 1294) was a French baron and military leader who served as seneschal of the County of Poitou (1268–76) and the County of Toulouse (1272–94). He took part in the War of the Navarrería in 1276–77 and in the Aragonese Crusade in 1284–85.
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Joan, Countess of Flanders Joan, often called Joan of Constantinople (1200? – 5 December 1244), ruled as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 until her death. She was the elder daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, and Marie of Champagne.
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Nobles of the Sword The Nobles of the Sword (French: "noblesse d'épée" ) were the noblemen of the oldest class of nobility in France dating from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern periods but still arguably in existence by descent. It was originally the knightly class, owing military service (usually to a king, who might be the king of France or the king of England), in return for the possession of feudal landed estates. The term "noblesse d'épée" is largely synonymous with "noblesse de race" (nobility of family) and "noblesse ancienne" (old nobility) and is used in distinction from the other classes of the French nobility:
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Peter de Maulay Peter de Maulay or Peter de Mauley (died 1241) was a nobleman and administrator who was one of King John of England's "evil counsellors". First appearing in the historical record in 1202, Maulay was in England by 1204 and serving as an official of John. During the rebellions of the end of John's reign, Maulay supported the king and was given custody of the king's younger son as well as important prisoners. Maulay continued to serve the new king after 1216 but ran into difficulties with the regents for the young King Henry III and was accused of treason in 1221. Although cleared of the treason accusation, Maulay retired to his lands in late 1221. In 1223 Maulay's lands at Upavon were confiscated by the king but were returned within a few months. Upavon was again confiscated in 1229 and given to another noble, but in 1233 King Henry regranted the manor to Maulay, an event which led to a revolt by Richard Marshal, the Earl of Pembroke, against the king. In 1241 Maulay went on crusade and died in late 1241, probably in the Holy Land while on crusade.
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Yolanda of Lusignan Yolanda of Lusignan or Yolande I & I de Lusignan, Countess of La Marche (24 March 1257 – 30 September 1314) was a French noblewoman and peeress. In 1308, she succeeded her brother Guy I as suo jure Dame of Lusignan, of Couhe and of Peyrat, and "suo jure" Countess of La Marche, but not as Countess of Angoulême since after her brother's death the county was sold by her sisters, Joan and Isabelle, to King Philip IV and annexed to the French Crown. Yolanda was also the heiress of Fougères, which she succeeded to upon her mother's death sometime after 1273.
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Geoffrey of Villehardouin Geoffrey of Villehardouin (in French: Geoffroi de Villehardouin) (1160–c. 1212) was a knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade. He is considered one of the most important historians of the time period, best known for writing the eyewitness account "De la Conquête de Constantinople" ("On the Conquest of Constantinople"), about the battle for Constantinople between the Christians of the West and the Christians of the East on 13 April 1204. The "Conquest" is the earliest French historical prose narrative that has survived to modern times. Ηis full title was: "Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne and of Romania".
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Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: "Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore" , Latin: "Alienora" ; 1122  – 1 April 1204) was Queen consort of France (1137–1152) and England (1154–1189) and Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right. As a member of the Ramnulfids ("House of Poitiers") rulers in southwestern France, she was one of the most powerful and wealthiest women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was patron of literary figures such as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, and Bernart de Ventadorn. She led armies several times in her life and was a leader of the Second Crusade.
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Thomas Heebøll-Holm Thomas Heebøll-Holm is a medieval historian at the SAXO Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He is most known for his research involving medieval knights and the possibility that they suffered from Post-traumatic stress disorder and other hardships. In his research, Heeboll-Holm has aimed to apply modern military psychology on the history of knights, using information gained in recent decades on the psychological effects of war on soldiers. Heeboll-Holm has studied a number of ancient texts but has focused on three books by Geoffroi de Charny.
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Walter Sans Avoir Walter Sans Avoir (in French Fr. Gautier Sans-Avoir; died 21 October 1096), also mistakenly known as the Penniless, was the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. As lieutenant to Peter the Hermit he co-led the People's Crusade at the beginning of the First Crusade. Leaving well before the main army of knights and their followers, Walter led his knights and pilgrims through the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Serbian (Syrmian) and Bulgarian province of the Eastern Roman Empire, traveling separately from Peter. While they passed through Germany and Hungary uneventfully, Walter's followers plundered the Belgrade area, drawing reprisals upon themselves. From here they continued to Constantinople under Byzantine escort.