Flemish

From his county of Flanders, with his wife's land of Vermandois and the districts of Amiens and Valois, which owned his sway, he aimed at forming, through the lords of Brabant, Namur, and Hainaut, and the great ecclesiastical states, a network of alliances on the borders of France and the empire, which should give him something of the position of a middle kingdom, and enable him to exercise a decisive influence on the policy of each great power in turn.

He was an active and ambitious man, and in ability one of the greatest of the foreigners who reigned in the Middle Ages over the rich and powerful towns which made the strength of the little Flemish state.

The first decisive event which proved the influence that the Count of Flanders had acquired in the direction of French policy was the marriage of the young king at Bapaume on April 28, 1180, to Isabel, eldest daughter of the Count of Hainaut and niece of Philip himself.

The suggested alliance with Champagne gave way before the far more brilliant prospect of a marriage with the King of the Franks.

From the French side the match was warmly supported.

Apart from the influence of the Flemish Count, there were not wanting shrewd politicians to advise the boy king of the support which it would give him against the too closely encircling power of his mother's family.

The Chronicle of Saint-Denis speaks of the counsel of certain prudent and wise men who were about the king, and Gilbert of Mantes, writing from the court of the Count of Hainaut, repeats the statement.

Wigor speaks of one advisor in particular who has with great probability been identified as Bernard de Bray, a monk of Grammont, who during all the earlier part of the reign exercised considerable influence over Philip Augustus.

Now, let's take a look at some logical, so-called explanations.

First is the Flemish Orphans theory.

The most grounded theory, proposed by historian Paul Harris, suggests the children were the offspring of Flemish immigrants.

During the 12th century, Flemish settlers were persecuted and many met their demise at the Battle of Fornham in 1173.

Now, if the children's parents were indeed passed away, they might have hidden in the nearby Thetford Forest.

Malnutrition, specifically hypochronic anemia, once known as chlorosis or the green sickness, can actually cause the skin to take on a greenish yellow hue due to lack of iron in the diet.

And their language.

To an uneducated 12th century English villager, a Flemish dialect might have sounded like an entirely alien tongue.

To fund these campaigns, Edward summoned Parliament twice in a year, demanding subsidies from both landed gentry and the mercantile towns of London, which had begun to see overseas trade as an opportunity.

The Crown also leaned on its growing network of alliances, especially with Flemish lords who were eager to curb French expansion to secure arms, supplies, and a foothold beyond the English Channel.

Meanwhile, Edward's policy of granting lands in France to loyal nobles served a dual purpose.

It rewarded service while embedding the feudal relationship into an overseas sphere.

because the host is from quebec oh is that why so the whole show is in french

Because I did think it was weird that it was in French because Flemish is the majority language.

More people speak Flemish than speak French.

But it's in French for some reason.

So what did they do? Did they do bits in English? What

And then the last one is probably not going to affect a ton of people.

But if you're writing 14th century magicals or something like that, and you've got a magical where the tenor line is in Flemish and the altus is in Latin.

Well, I can't do Flemish anyway, but you can only have one language per project in Kantai as it stands right now.

And that's because Kantai doesn't have a way for you to select the language.

It looks at the text and.

Panini was the greatest view painter in Rome during the 1700s, although his precise manner of painting was paralleled by his Venetian contemporaries, Canaletto and Guardi.

Flemish and German art, galleries thirty-five, thirty-five A, thirty-nine through forty-three.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, Northern European art was caught up by the same spirit of empirical inquiry and technical innovation that predominated in Italy during this period.

Northern art, however, reflects neither the influence of classical art nor the development of a single-point perspective that are the hallmarks of the Italian Renaissance.

Spanish Art, Galleries thirty, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, and seventy-six.

Imported by the royal courts or commissioned by the church, foreign artists dominated the arts of Spain during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Juan de Flandes, a Flemish painter, Galleries thirty-eight and thirty-nine, served the court of Ferdinand and Isabella and El Greco, Gallery thirty, a Greek who studied in Venice and Rome, settled and worked in Toledo.

By the 1600s, Spain had become an economic and cultural force in Europe, her power sustained in large part by the wealth of her vast American colonies.

And not just one either.

Another Dutch speaker, Belgian Bart, who I guess would prefer to be described as a Flemish speaker given that he's Belgian, he also wrote in backing up some of the points that Joris made.

How's this? "I have Disney vinyls at home," Belgian Bart writes, "from the 1970s, from 'The Aristocrats,' for example.

These vinyls contain Dutch versions voiced by voice actors from both the Netherlands and Belgium together.

Back then, there was no need for a separate Flemish version.

These days, though, Disney films are dubbed in both Dutch and Flemish because of the linguistic shift that happened in the Netherlands in the past fifty years.

Zundert is in North Brabant, close to the Belgian border.

People in North Brabant would certainly have a more Antwerp/Flemish pronunciation back then.