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Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in 1675–1683 for the duc de Chevreuse, Colbert 's son-in-law, it is a French Baroque château of medium size. [1] Protected behind fine wrought iron double gates, the main block ( corps de logis) and its outbuildings, linked by balustrades, are ranged symmetrically around a dry paved and gravelled cour d'honneur.
301–458 m (988–1,503 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Dampierre-sur-le-Doubs ( French pronunciation: [dɑ̃pjɛʁ syʁ lə du], literally Dampierre on the Doubs) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in ...
Auguste Marie Henri Picot de Dampierre ( French pronunciation: [oɡyst maʁi ɑ̃ʁi piko də dɑ̃pjɛʁ]; 19 August 1756 – 9 May 1793), styled the Marquis de Dampierre and usually known as Dampierre [dɑ̃.pjɛʁ], was a French general during the time of the French Revolution. He served in many of the early battles of the War of the First ...
The Stentoften Stone, bearing a runic inscription that likely describes a blót of nine he-goats and nine male horses bringing fertility to the land. [1]Blót (Old Norse and Old English) or geblōt (Old English) are religious ceremonies in Germanic paganism that centred on the killing and offering of an animal to a particular being, typically followed by the communal cooking and eating of its ...
Dampierre-en-Yvelines. / 48.7047°N 01.985°E / 48.7047; 01.985. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Dampierre-en-Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France .
In 1263, the count of Namur, Baldwin II of Courtenay, sold his county to Guy I of Dampierre. Guy in turn gave over the county on his death to his younger son John I from his marriage to his second wife Isabelle of Luxembourg. The house of Dampierre would rule Namur until 1421, when the county of Namur was sold to the Burgundian duke Philip the ...
William I of Dampierre. Guillaume I of Dampierre (c. 1130 - c. 1174) was Lord of Dampierre, Saint-Dizier, Moëslains and Saint-Just, Constable of Champagne and Viscount of Troyes in the middle of the 12th century. He was the son of Guy I of Dampierre, lord of Dampierre, and Helvide de Baudément. [citation needed]
The arms of the House of Dampierre, nowadays extinct, were "from gules to two leopards of gold, with baron's crown" (De gueules à deux léopards d'or, avec couronne de baron), however, they took over the arms of the House of Bourbon, which were "from gold to the lion of gules, and to the orle of eight shells of azure" (d'or au lion de gueules ...