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- Before the 14th century, Boulogne was a small village called Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud (meaning "Menuls near Saint-Cloud ").
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The original name of the commune was Boulogne-sur-Seine (meaning "Boulogne upon Seine"). Before the 14th century, Boulogne was a small village called Menuls-lès-Saint-Cloud (meaning "Menuls near Saint-Cloud").
Sep 20, 2024 · Boulogne was the Roman harbor of Gesoriacum, later called Bononia. Destroyed by the Normans in 882, it was rebuilt about 912. It was the prize in disputes between Flanders and Ponthieu, and it was a Burgundian possession when Louis XI united it to the French crown in 1477.
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The County of Boulogne was a county within the Kingdom of France during the 9th to 15th centuries, centred on the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It was ruled by the counts of Flanders in the 10th century, but a separate House of Boulogne emerged during the 11th century. [1]
Oct 4, 2017 · The romans made bricks in britain but the practice of building with the died out. There was a ressurgence after the norman conquest and the bricks were imported from Flanders. By the 14th century, people were looking for brick clays in England and a local brick making industry started.
Boulogne-sur-Mer – a town with a history. “If it were but 300 miles further off… how the English would rave about it”. It was Charles Dickens who said this and he was referring to Boulogne, a town on the Opal Coast and home of the biggest fresh fish port in France.
Count of Boulogne was a historical title in the Kingdom of France. The city of Boulogne-sur-Mer became the centre of the county of Boulogne during the ninth century. Little is known of the early counts, but the first holder of the title is recorded in the 11th century.
Apr 23, 2021 · In his view, much of what has been seen as distinctive about the ideas which motivated and legitimised the Tudor conquest of Ireland was first worked out in the 1540s in order to support Henry VIII’s colonisation of the region around Boulogne.
