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Philip of Cognac (early 1180s – after 1211) was an illegitimate son of King Richard I of England, by an unidentified mother. Philip had reached adulthood...

sons, of whom little is known, called Fulk and Philip, Lord of Cognac. Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158–1186) – married Constance, daughter of Duke...

Villebois, 1st Lord of Cognac built a fort around 950. Around the year 1000, Itier and Arnaud de Villebois settled on the site of Cognac and founded their...

opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556...

one illegitimate son, Philip of Cognac. He was succeeded by his brother John as king. His French territories, with the exception of Rouen, initially rejected...

the end of 1523. His main experience was that of Imperial lieutenant during the Italian war of 1521-1525 and the War of the League of Cognac. He commanded...

death of King John in October 1216, Hubert de Burgh, seneschal of Poitou, had Cognac seized, sparking a war with Renaud II. Cognac was to be a source of friction...

large tribute in money to Philip and swore that all his subjects in France and England would recognise Richard as their lord. Henry died two days later...

younger son of Edward I, and Margaret, daughter of Philip III of France, and widow of Thomas Lord Holland, and in right of his wife Earl of Kent, then...

Henry died of dysentery. Geoffrey died in 1186. The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland provided lands for Henry's youngest son, John. By 1189, Philip swayed...

was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting...

Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to...

monarchs of this period are chiefly Charles I, Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV and Charles II. In this period the Spanish Empire was at the zenith of its...

of detainees. In 2007, May was the only non-French author in the shortlist. He received the prize at the annual Polar&Co literary festival in Cognac....

daughter of Henry I of England and an unknown mistress. Philip of Cognac or Philip FitzRoy (died 1220), illegitimate son of Richard I of England. Richard...

stagnation, which only began to recover under Napoleon III with the rise of cognac production and industrialization in Angoulême. The region corresponding...

arrival of Joan of Arc, and his efforts were further thwarted by political divisions at home and the wavering of England's key ally, Duke Philip of Burgundy...

Cognac Gold Cup, and it was initially staged at Cheltenham. The winner of the inaugural running, Mandarin, was owned by Peggy Hennessy, a member of the...

exclaves of Franche-Comté and Charolais, when his father Philip died. On 15 October 1506, he was named Lord of the Netherlands as Duke Charles II of Burgundy...

allied himself with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor during the War of the League of Cognac. Another notable rebel was Commander James FitzMaurice FitzGerald...