He became a Benedictine monk in Bruges after the decease of his Belgian wife. |
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There the King learned that a formidable French fleet lay at anchor in the mouth of the Zwyn, guarding the approaches to Bruges. |
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Instability within the comital house thus reinforced and redoubled political strife within Bruges. |
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A visit to Bruges is incomplete without dropping in at the shops displaying the famous lace works or to the lace training centre. |
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In 1901 he became bankrupt and moved into self-imposed exile in Bruges, where he lived for the next quarter of a century. |
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The Town Hall is worth a visit and one of the earliest examples of the typical building style of Bruges, which has become so famous. |
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Autumn is the time of year when we draw in our horns and make shorter sorties across the Channel to the likes of Paris, Bruges and Amsterdam. |
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Bruges would then become the first club ever to win 14 straight matches at the beginning of a Belgian league season. |
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No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges. |
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The price also includes return coach travel, return Channel crossings and a visit to Bruges. |
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So we ended up scanning the real Bruges Madonna and putting it in as a visual effect. |
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Previous winners of the short film Oscar include Martin McDonagh, who went on to direct In Bruges. |
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Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Leuven are the largest cities of the Flemish Region. |
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In this period, many cities, including Ypres, Bruges and Ghent, obtained their city charter. |
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Bruges became a great commercial center after the Hanseatic League set up business there and the Italian banking houses followed suit. |
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By 1000, Bruges and Ghent held regular trade fairs behind castle walls, a tentative return of economic life to western Europe. |
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Philip's troops conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent. |
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Bruges has a significant economic importance thanks to its port and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities. |
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In Bruges his father maintained a large workshop with several staff and worked on numerous civic projects as well as the parish church. |
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In 1936 he presented Bruges with over 400 works, now in the Arents House Museum. |
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Bruges received its city charter on 27 July 1128, and new walls and canals were built. |
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The new sea arm stretched all the way to Damme, a city that became the commercial outpost for Bruges. |
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Bruges had a strategic location at the crossroads of the northern Hanseatic League trade and the southern trade routes. |
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In return Bruges made him Citoyen d'Honneur de Bruges, only the third time the award had been given. |
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Numerous foreign merchants were welcomed in Bruges, such as the Castilian wool merchants who first arrived in the 13th century. |
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At the end of the 14th century, Bruges became one of the Four Members, along with Franc of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres. |
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The first book in English ever printed was published in Bruges by William Caxton. |
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In the last half of the 19th century, Bruges became one of the world's first tourist destinations attracting wealthy British and French tourists. |
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In World War I German forces occupied Bruges but the city suffered virtually no damage and was liberated on 19 October 1918 by the allies. |
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Recently there also started a direct bus line from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Bruges. |
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They drove out the Dutch, because Holland wanted to favour Bruges as a huge staple market at the end of a trade route. |
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Nevertheless, in common with many cities in the region, there are thousands of cyclists in the city of Bruges. |
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Denmark had regained control over its own trade, the Kontor in Novgorod had closed, and the Kontor in Bruges had become effectively moribund. |
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The Bruges Kontor moved to Antwerp and the Hansa attempted to pioneer new routes. |
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On principle, Bruges has to date never entered into close collaboration with twin cities. |
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The civic authorities of Ghent, Ypres and Bruges proclaimed Edward King of France. |
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Emma fled to Bruges when Harald Harefoot became king of England, but when he died in 1040 Harthacnut was able to take over as king. |
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The twinning between some of the former communes, merged with Bruges in 1971, were discontinued. |
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In 1037 Harold was accepted as king, and the following year he expelled Emma, who retreated to Bruges. |
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Later, cities like Bruges and Antwerp actively tried to take over the monopoly of trade from the Hansa, inviting foreign merchants to join in. |
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Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, and Ypres. |
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Meanwhile, the army marched by Cassel, Ypres, and Bruges before laying siege to Ghent. |
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A similar problem would plague the Bruges branch of the bank when managed by the third Portinari brother, Tommaso. |
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He then returned to the UK for two months leave at half pay, visiting Bruges with his family. |
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The Bruges branch was, when first incorporated, strictly forbidden by the terms of the partnership to lend money to temporal lords and kings. |
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On 27 August, a squadron of the RNAS had flown to Ostend, for air reconnaissance sorties between Bruges, Ghent and Ypres. |
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The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages. |
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With Bruges, the city led two revolts against Maximilian of Austria, the first monarch of the House of Habsburg to rule Flanders. |
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When he was ten he went to visit his father Andries van der Hagen in Bruges, and together they went to Ypres and Doornik to seek work for him. |
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In the early Middle Ages, Frisia stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the Weser River in northern Germany. |
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Ghent, Bruges, Ypres and the Franc of Bruges formed the Four Members, a form of parliament that exercised considerable power in Flanders. |
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At this time Bruges was a wealthy cultured city, and Caxton became interested in reading and fine literature. |
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Meanwhile, the Spanish armies had already conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent. |
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At this time Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV, married the Duke of Burgundy and they moved to Bruges. |
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Forwards Shola and Sammy became the first siblings to start together for Newcastle in a major competition in 60 years when they played in the Europa League draw with Bruges. |
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It was from Bosham in 1051 that Godwin, Sweyn and Tostig fled to Bruges and the court of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, a relative of Tostig's wife, Judith of Flanders. |
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The effort failed, and with the Treaty of Bruges in 1375, the great English possessions in France were reduced to only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux, and Bayonne. |
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Culture in the Netherlands at the end of the 15th century was influenced by the Italian Renaissance through trade via Bruges, which made Flanders wealthy. |
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Among the uprisings were the jacquerie in France, the Peasants' Revolt in England, and revolts in the cities of Florence in Italy and Ghent and Bruges in Flanders. |
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In Bruges, Gerard was associated with Sanders Bening or Benninck and his son Simon, with whom he worked on the illustrations for the Grimani Breviary. |
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Lilburne spent his exile in the Netherlands at Bruges and elsewhere, where he published a vindication of himself, and an attack on the government. |
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The harbour was the site of the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918, when the British Royal Navy temporarily put the German inland naval base at Bruges out of action. |
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Though the Hanseatic League was centered in the Baltic, it also had important Kontors on the North Sea, including Bergen, the Steelyard in London, and Bruges. |
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A lively trade sprang up between Bruges and London, mostly in textiles. |
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In the early Middle Ages the Frisian lands stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the river Weser, in northern Germany. |
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Vindictive was to land a force of 200 sailors and a battalion of Royal Marines at the entrance to the Bruges Canal, to destroy German gun positions. |
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Bruges was a location of coastal settlement during prehistory. |
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In the Bruges area, the first fortifications were built after Julius Caesar's conquest of the Menapii in the first century BC, to protect the coastal area against pirates. |
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In 1277, the first merchant fleet from Genoa appeared in the port of Bruges, first of the merchant colony that made Bruges the main link to the trade of the Mediterranean. |
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Although a few streets are restricted, no part of Bruges is car free. |
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Between 1998 and 2016 Bruges hosted the start of the annual Tour of Flanders cycle race, held in April and one of the biggest sporting events in Belgium. |
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Bruges is an important centre for education in West Flanders. |
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This principle resulted, in the 1950s, in Bruges refusing a jumelage with Nice and other towns, signed by a Belgian ambassador without previous consultation. |
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In the 1970s, a Belgian consul in Oldenburg made the mayor of Bruges sign a declaration of friendship which he tried to present, in vain, as a jumelage. |
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This does not mean that Bruges would not be interested in cooperation with others, as well in the short term as in the long run, for particular projects. |
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On March 24, 1439, the Medici branch at Bruges was officially founded. |
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The debts from the London branch were assumed by the Bruges branch. |
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The failure of the Bruges branch meant that not only the debts of that branch had to be handled somehow, but also the outstanding debts of the former London branch. |
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The Bruges branch and its manager Tommaso Portinari were convinced that the papal mines were simply producing far too much alum and glutting the market. |
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Shortly after the death of Large, Caxton moved to Bruges in Belgium. |
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During his business travels, he observed the new printing industry in Cologne, which led him to start a printing press in Bruges in collaboration with Colard Mansion. |
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Caxton was making trips to Bruges by 1450 at the latest and had settled there by 1453, when he may have taken his Liberty of the Mercers' Company. |
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The garden in our holiday home just outside Bruges Old Town gives Freddie space to run around while we wash down Belgian chocs with the six per cent Zot beer. |
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One of the most celebrated makers is De Wit, founded in 1889, which brings to BRAFA a millefleurs tapestry from the Abbey of Herkenrode, dated before 1548 and woven in Bruges. |
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The In Bruges team of director Martin McDonagh and star Colin Farrell team up again in this farcical crime caper about a conmen who dognap a crazy gangster's mutt. |
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