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Tournai, known as Tornacum, was a place of minor importance in Roman times, a stopping place where the Roman road from Cologne on the Rhine to Boulogne on the coast crossed the river Scheldt. It was fortified under Emperor Maximiam in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.
Ouch die Belägerung der stat Bornay (sic: Tournai) und ander seltzam geschichten, (1513), which can be translated as; Of the honourable and sumptuous reception and friendly courtesy shown by the King of England to the Emperor Maximilian in Picardy; and of the attack and defeat which took place there before Thérouanne. Also what and how many ...
Tournai fonts are a type of baptismal font made from blue black limestone during the 12th and early 13th centuries in and around the Belgian town of Tournai by local masons. There are seven complete examples in England [2] and a disputed number in Europe: eighty according to one source, [3] or fifty in Northern France and Belgium and two in ...
The siege of Tournai (23 July - 25 September 1340) occurred during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. The siege began when a coalition of England, Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant and the Holy Roman Empire under the command of King Edward III of England besieged the French city of Tournai. This siege would end in the Truce of Espléchin ...
Tournaisis. The Tournaisis, or Tournai (Flemish: Doornik ), a territory in the Low Countries in present-day Belgium, is one of Europe's oldest town centres. [1] Located in the Wallonia region of Belgium on the Scheldt River (French: L'Escaut ), northwest of Mons, Tournai residents are primarily French-speaking.
King Philip VI. The Tournaisis campaign of 1340, also known as the Tournai Campaign was a military campaign of King Edward III of England during the Hundred Years War. The English army was supported by Flemish, Hainault, Brabant and Holy Roman Empire forces. The campaign resulted in the defeat of an Anglo-Flemish force, carrying out a small ...
Perkin Warbeck ( c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was ...
Siege of Tournai (1340) : during the Hundred Years' War, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by the English and their Flemish allies; Siege of Tournai (1513) : during Henry VIII of England's campaigns against France; Siege of Tournai (1521) : during the Italian War of 1521–1526, the city was taken from the French by the Holy Roman Empire