Ardennes

So I suppose that was quite formative as well.

Um, as you mentioned, I studied history at university, and part of my, my course was also studying French, so I did a year abroad living in France, in the Ardennes.

Um, so I visited Bastogne a lot, and, uh, some of those sort of Second World War battlefields, but also Verdun.

Um, yeah, so that, that sort of fed into, into that, that interest as well.

These two Austrasian nobles were Pippin of London and Arnulf, afterwards Bishop of Metz.

Pippin of London, so-called, had large possessions in the country between the Meuse and the Moselle, stretching in an easterly direction toward the Rhine, including the forest of the Ardennes and apparently including also the city of Aquis Granum, which was one day to be the home of Charlemagne.

Pippin was born about 585 and was therefore somewhere about 30 years of age when war broke out between Brunachildis and Clotaire.

His friend and contemporary Arnulf, born of a noble and wealthy Frankish family, had received a better education, apparently, than fell to the lot of most of his class and on the recommendation of the sub-king Gundolf, possibly mayor of the palace, had been taken into the service of Theudebert, who had assigned to him the government of six provinces.

Safeguard Veterans, any door, the right support.

But Griffo, seeing that he could not possibly escape, surrendered himself to the keeping of his brothers.

Carloman, receiving the captive, sent him to be kept in safe custody at the New Castle, Neufchâteau in the Ardennes, and they placed Schwanehilt in the monastery of Cala, Shell, near Paris.

We shall rapidly pass and review the events which led to the concentration of the whole power of the state in the hands of Pippin alone.

These two Austrasian nobles were Pippin of London and Arnulf, afterwards Bishop of Metz.

Pippin of London, so-called, had large possessions in the country between the Meuse and the Moselle, stretching in an easterly direction toward the Rhine, including the forest of the Ardennes and apparently including also the city of Aquas Granum, which was one day to be the home of Charlemagne.

Pippin was born about 585 and was therefore somewhere about 30 years of age when war broke out between Brunachildis and Clotaire.

His friend and contemporary Arnulf, born of a noble and wealthy Frankish family, had received a better education, apparently, than fell to the lot of most of his class and on the recommendation of the sub-king Gundolf, possibly mayor of the palace, had been taken into the service of Theodebert, who had assigned to him the government of six provinces.

Safeguard Veterans, any door, the right support.

But Griffo, seeing that he could not possibly escape, surrendered himself to the keeping of his brothers.

Carloman, receiving the captive, sent him to be kept in safe custody at the New Castle, Neufchateau in the Ardennes.

And they placed Schwanehild in the monastery of Cala, Shell near Paris.

C'est un-- On travaille avec Sylvaterra, nous, à La Croix-sur-Meuse, DMC Princé.

C'est lui qui gère tout et c'est une boîte des Ardennes qui vient planter.

Ok.

Et ils ont choisi des espèces adaptées dans le coin ?

So, at the urging of Adela, leaving his four young sons behind, William, Theobald, Stephen Jr., and Henry, of which three of these will have irreversible influence on English history soon enough, With this, Count Stephen rallied many to his side once again before setting out for Constantinople in early 1101.

Those who followed Stephen were Duke Ud of Burgundy, Viscount Milo II of Bray, whose true legacy would stretch far into the Crusader state's lore, Guy II of Rochefort, whose daughter will one day be betrothed to King Louis VI of France, Lord Jocelyn I of Courtenay, who was the cousin of Count Baldwin-le-Bourque of Edessa, mind you, Baldwin of Grandpré from the Ardennes region of France, the prominent knight Dodo of Clermont, and many more French and Burgundian knights.

Now, along the way, Stephen's army met up with the German army at some point, probably in northern Italy, both on their way to Constantinople via the Adriatic port city of Brindisi, where they will all cross.

This German army was led by two major figures, Count Stephen I of Burgundy and the more prominent, if you can believe it, Conrad the Constable.

This is not the place for further discussion of Green River, regarding which the theory of superposition suggested by Emmons merits consideration along with Powell's theory of antecedents.

It indeed seems possible that Green River, which was described as the type of antecedent rivers when that term was introduced, may be otherwise explained so that its place as type will be taken by a better proved example of antecedents, such as the Meuse and the Ardennes.

This fate of a type is, however, not so very rare.

The uplands of southern New England, described some twenty years ago as the type of an uplifted and dissected lowland of erosion, for which the name peneplain was then suggested, may, like Green River, have to yield their place to a better proved example.