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370. ISBN. 978-1787330153. Preceded by. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. Followed by. Quichotte. The Golden House is a 2017 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel, his eleventh, is set in Mumbai and New York .
Guy of Dampierre ( French: Gui de Dampierre; Dutch: Gwijde van Dampierre) ( c. 1226 – 7 March 1305, Compiègne) was the Count of Flanders (1251–1305) and Marquis of Namur (1264–1305). He was a prisoner of the French when his Flemings defeated the latter at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302.
The Battle of the Golden Spurs ( Dutch: Guldensporenslag; French: Bataille des éperons d'or) or 1302 Battle of Courtrai was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the 1297–1305 Franco-Flemish War. It took place near the town of Kortrijk in modern-day ...
July 11, 1302, Kortrijk, County of Flanders, Kingdom of France) was Count of Aumale. He was son of Ferdinand II, Count of Aumale, and Laura of Montfort. After the death of his father in 1260, he became co-ruler in the County of Aumale with his grandmother Joan. They reigned together until her death in 1279.
Kortrijk was the first town in Belgium to have a fully traffic-free shopping street, the Korte Steenstraat (1962). Later, a lot of neighbouring streets were also made traffic-free. As a result, Courtrai nowadays has one of the biggest traffic-free areas in Belgium (comprising Lange Steenstraat, Steenpoort, Sint-Jansttraat, Wijngaardstraat and ...
Margaret of Flanders (died 1331) was a consort of Alexander, Prince of Scotland and later wife of Reinauld I, Count of Guelders. She was the daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders and his second wife Isabelle of Luxembourg. In 1281, King Alexander II of Scotland started negotiating with the Count of Flanders, about the marriage of the Count's ...
Guy was the youngest son of Simon II of Clermont (c. 1216 – 1286) by Adele of Montfort (d. 1279), daughter of Amaury VI of Montfort. He had three brothers and at least one sister, whose son was the famous Robert VIII Bertrand (fr), also Marshal of France . In 1296 he became Marshal of France, when his elder brother Raoul of Clermont, Viscount ...
Battle of Kortrijk. There have been two battles at Kortrijk, a Flemish town in Belgium, called Courtrai in French : Battle of the Golden Spurs. Battle of Kortrijk (1794) Battle of Courtrai (disambiguation) Category: