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Floruit (/ˈflɔːr.u.ɪt/ FLOR-u-it;
usually abbreviated fl. or
occasionally flor.; from
Latin for 'flourished')
denotes a date or
period during which a...
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Halfdan (
floruit 782–807) was a
leading person among the
Danes and the
first known Scandinavian to
enter Frankish service.
Onomastics links him to the...
- Bjørn (Latin: Berno) was a
Viking chieftain. He is the
earliest known Scandinavian who was not a
relative of the
Danish kings to
enter the
service of a...
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Ealdgyth (circa 992 –
after 1016),
modern English Edith may have been the name of the wife of
Sigeferth son of Earngrim,
thegn of the
Seven Burghs, and...
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Godwine was a
medieval Bishop of Rochester. He was
consecrated around 1013. He died
between 1046 and 1058. Fryde, et al.
Handbook of
British Chronology...
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Candidus was the name
given to the Anglo-Saxon Wizo or
Witto by Alcuin,
whose scholar he was and with whom he went in 782 to Gaul. He is
author of several...
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Clotilde or
Chlodechilidis (fl. 673) was the
founder of the
abbey of Bruyères-le-Châtel. Her
charter is one of only
eight known original m****cripts to...
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Thomas Burgess was an 18th-century
British painter.
Burgess received his art
education at the St. Martin's Lane Academy, and on
becoming in 1766 a member...
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Peter was a
governor of Rome,
Roman consul, and
brother of Pope John X. He
became consul after the
death of
Alberic I of Spoleto.
George L. Williams. Papal...
- Tírechán was a 7th-century
Irish bishop from
north Connacht,
specifically the
Killala Bay area, in what is now
County Mayo.
Based on a
knowledge of Irish...
