Szabolcs de Vajay (born 9 October 1921 in Budapest; died 6 July 2010 in Vevey [1] [2] ) was a Hungarian historian and genealogist.
In 1943 he left Hungary to live abroad, in Argentina, France and Switzerland. [3]
François le Métel de Boisrobert was a French poet, playwright, and courtier.
Henry, Count of Portugal, was the first member of the Capetian House of Burgundy to rule Portugal and the father of the country's first king, Afonso Henriques.
William IV of Toulouse was Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence, and Duke of Narbonne from 1061 to 1094. He was the son of Pons of Toulouse and Almodis de la Marche. He was married to Emma of Mortain, daughter of Robert, Count of Mortain, who gave him one daughter, Philippa.
Gerard I, Count of Guelders was Count of Guelders. He was the son of Theodoric of Wassenberg.
Philippa was suo jure Countess of Toulouse, as well as the Duchess of Aquitaine by marriage to Duke William IX of Aquitaine.
Christian Settipani is a French genealogist, historian and IT professional, currently working as the Technical Director of a company in Paris.
Odo was the count of Toulouse from 872 to 918 or 919, when he died.
Sire Philippe Van Dievoet called Vandive, écuyer, (1654–1738) was a celebrated goldsmith and jeweller. He was goldsmith to King Louis XIV, councillor of the King, officier de la Garde Robe du Roi, trustee of the Hôtel de ville of Paris, and Consul of Paris.
Isabella of Urgel was Queen of Aragon; the only daughter of Ermengol III, Count of Urgell by his first wife Adelaide of Besalú.
György Bónis was a Hungarian jurist, researcher of Hungarian and European legal history.
Agnes of Aquitaine was a Countess consort of Savoy and possibly Queen consort of Aragon. She was a daughter of William of Poitou, speculated to be William VII, Duke of Aquitaine, whose wife Ermesinde would then have been her mother.
Most of the members of the Capetian dynasty bore a version of the arms of France. The arms of France were adopted by the Capetian kings only in the twelfth century. Consequently, the cadet branches that had branched off in earlier periods bore entirely different arms.
Beyens de Grambais is a Dutch-Belgian family of nobility, with a branch settling in the Southern Netherlands in the early 17th century.
Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault was a French musicologist associated with the revival of interest in early music. She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1920 with a thesis on John Dowland, and then continued the work with André Pirro on her doctoral thesis on the fifteenth-century chanson, which she never completed. In 1925 co-founded the Société de musique d'autrefois, designed to promote the publication de musical texts and a magazine les Annales musicologiques. After her marriage in 1931 she stopped musical and scholarly activities, gave birth to six children, and alternated her life between Vietnam and France. After the death of her husband Hubert Pelletier de Chambure (1903-1953), she returned permanently to Paris, where in June 1953 she resumed her scholarly activities and organization of concerts. From 1961 to 1973, she was curator of the historical instrumentals of the Conservatoire de Paris - in addition to having amassed her own private collection. She was an important muse and teacher to the first generation of baroque specialists, including young Americans in Paris - William Christie (harpsichordist) and soprano Judith Nelson.
Henry of Burgundy, called the Gallant, was the eldest surviving son and heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, second son of Robert II of France, and his wife, Helie of Semur, granddaughter of Henry I, Duke of Burgundy. Little is known about his life. He died shortly before his father and was never duke himself.
Léonor-Jean-Christin Soulas d'Allainval, called abbé d'Allainval, 2 October 1696, in Chartres – 2 May 1753, in Hôtel-Dieu de Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright.
Léon, Marquis de Laborde (1807–1869) was a French archaeologist and traveler.
Géza Pálffy is a Hungarian historian, full (university) professor. He has long been active in research of the relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and Kingdom of Hungary in the 16–17th centuries. He works as a scientist both in Hungary and around the world, and has published in several languages: English, German, Slovak, Croatian, Romanian, French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian.
Ermengarde was a medieval noblewoman. Through her first marriage, to Rotbold II, Count of Provence, she was countess of Provence, and from 1011 to 1032 Ermengarde was the last queen of independent Burgundy by virtue of her second marriage to Rudolf III of Burgundy.
Thérèse Anaïs Rigo, better known by her pseudonyms Anaïs de Bassanville and Comtesse de Bassanville, was a 19th-century French writer and women's magazine journalist. She authored numerous works about good manners. She was born in 1802 in Auteuil, Seine and died on 6 November 1884 in the same town.