Example sentences of "[noun sg] of charles the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald . |
| 2 | The West Frankish syndrome is difficult to account for unless we assume a measure of sustained interest on the part of Charles the Bald himself . |
| 3 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 4 | The guild hall has a statue of Charles the first , Charles the second and Queen Anne over the top . |
| 5 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
| 6 | The territories described above were all to feel the military might of the Franks under the remarkable leadership of Charles the Great . |
| 7 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 8 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 9 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 10 | The victory of Charles the Bald ( 823 – 877 ) and his brother Louis over their elder brother the Emperor Lothar resulted in a division of Charlemagne 's inheritance that has proved permanent . |
| 11 | Caesar 's Gaul had been bounded by the " natural frontiers " of the North Sea and the Mediterranean , the Pyrenees and the Rhine , and France was its direct descendant — via the " French " kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 12 | Even if mansi absi , or aprisiones , or hospitia , as a proportion of the total number of holdings in any area , remained small , they were a sign of " dynamism " particularly visible in the heartland of the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 13 | Charlemagne and Louis the Pious and their counsellors had strengthened the authority of archbishops , and promoted regular meetings of councils of one province or of several provinces : trends that continued after 840 , and especially in the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 14 | In both cases , though some parallel texts survive from Lotharingia , from East Francia and Italy , the bulk of the evidence comes from the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 15 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
| 16 | Montesquieu did not omit the deficiencies of Charles 's father Louis the Pious , nor the contributory factors of French fickleness and Viking destruction : but he put the chief blame on the " weak spirit of Charles the Bald " and , in particular , on the heritability of fiefs which Charles had permitted . |
| 17 | But we know , and Henry James Titford , a great-great-grandson of Charles the Cheesemonger , born in 1875 , could still remember in the 1960s having heard it once said that his surname came from Frome . |
| 18 | In the Gesta this genealogy creates a sharp contrast between the kings and the counts of Anjou , whose origins are said to lie in a ‘ new man ’ , a forester of the reign of Charles the Bald . |
| 19 | Neither aprisiones nor hospitia are documented before the Carolingian period , and they occur more often in the reign of Charles the Bald than previously . |
| 20 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
| 21 | During the reign of Charles the Bald , however , such developments not only continued but showed cumulative effects . |
| 22 | But by the reign of Charles the Bald , while the court remained a large consumer , demand had spread more widely among the elite , and cash transactions multiplied in the countryside . |
| 23 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
| 24 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 25 | The recent treatment of Charles the Bald alone , or in a " French " context , by several British historians has tended to obscure this broader geographic dimension of Carolingian familial politics . |
| 26 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 27 | William Jowett Titford 's copy of a letter to his mother of 2 October 1802 , mentioning the death of Charles the Cheesemonger : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th. after a long illness ’ . |
| 28 | Counts needing the wherewithal to attract service were likely to cast greedy eyes on royal benefices within their counties : but in the West Frankish kingdom , the earliest evidence of such " mediatisation " of vassi dominici comes only after the death of Charles the Bald . |
| 29 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
| 30 | Such was the fate of Charles of Aquitaine , second son of Charles the Bald : horribly wounded , he lingered on , to die two years later . |