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  • He counted upon the help of his two brothers, whose possessions were also in those parts, Arnulf of Pembroke, and Roger called the Poitevin, who had possession of Lancaster.

    The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888

  • Peter Tudebode was a Poitevin priest who was part of the First Crusade, perhaps with forces of the count of Toulouse.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 » September 2009

  • Peter Tudebode was a Poitevin priest who was part of the First Crusade, perhaps with forces of the count of Toulouse.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode 2009

  • Poitevin gentleman had always been so noble and so honorable, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which the malicious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes of the centre, at the Ministers, the cooks, the Directors – General, the princely Amphitryons, and the official supporters of the

    The Ball at Sceaux 2007

  • Poitevin gentleman had always been so noble and so honorable, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which the malicious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes of the centre, at the Ministers, the cooks, the Directors – General, the princely Amphitryons, and the official supporters of the

    The Ball at Sceaux 2007

  • One might be Champagnois, Normandois, Poitevin, Breton etc. and that is how they thought of themselves.

    Archive 2007-12-30 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • One might be Champagnois, Normandois, Poitevin, Breton etc. and that is how they thought of themselves.

    The Hundred Years War Background, Part #1 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • English, Norman, Poitevin and Gascon, that I have never had such a poor companion

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005

  • Poitevin, who considered them partly his property; but they were published with the others in an edition printed in 1853, after a lawsuit between Balzac's widow and his early collaborator.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • After the seared plains of Poitou the freshness, the peace, and the plenty around us struck us in convincing contrast, nor could I help thinking what a little it would take to make the sad Poitevin plain smile like this.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

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