#BAILLEUL

[postcard-from-the-past]

Indian artillery and red-cross automobile in Bailleul during the First World War, French Flanders region of northern France

French vintage postcard

[francepittoresque]

LÉGENDE | Hydre, dragon ou serpent de Villedieu-lès-Bailleul (Orne) ➽ http://bit.ly/Hydre-Orne Si l’appétit démesuré de l’hydre séjournant au creux d’une grotte non loin de Villedieu-lès-Bailleul incite les habitants à détourner son attention en lui laissant une cuve pleine de lait, la décision est bientôt prise de la capturer, après qu’elle a dévoré le neveu du seigneur de Bailleul

[philoursmars]

Carnaval !

Ici , à Bailleul (Nord) en 2004

[kronieken]

Ik goan noar mijn stik

Bij de scheiding tussen het Oost- en West-Frankenrijk wordt ongetwijfeld nog geen rekening gehouden met het fenomeen dat het geromaniseerde deel in het westen met de Germanen in de minderheid zich zal afscheiden van de gebieden waar de Germaanse taal van de stammen en de vroegere hertogen niet verdreven werd door het Latijn. In Frankrijk moeten er regio’s bestaan hebben waar het Germaans een…

[bestof970]

Agathe Bailleul 🇫🇷

[eyesforgrace]

Agathe Bailleul by Arthur Hubert Legrand

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Hôtel de Bailleul, Condé-sur-l'Escaut, Nord-Pas de Calais, France

[aedislumen]

These two dreadful men [Barras and Tallien] were united, not by bonds of true friendship, to which honest souls are susceptible, but by their emulation of cruelty. They both exerted violence, they both bathed themselves in blood, one in Marseilles, the other in Bordeaux. In order to defend myself from their faction, when they relentlessly persecuted me, I had to retrieve some collections of letters that they sent to the Committee of Public Safety during their missions. It is impossible to conceive something more appalling and everything that has been published about them gives only a vague idea of those horrible lines, directly taken from their correspondence.

— L. Carnot, Réponse à Bailleul, p. 192-193

last edited 06/06/2024

[luegootravez]

Agathe Bailleul by © Inès Bouche

[gender-euphowrya]

whenever i saw genshin people posting about neuvillette i was like "this is so familiar" yeah turns out there's a city called that near where i live gkfjjfd

[postcard-from-the-past]

Boys' school in Bailleul, French Flanders region of France

French vintage postcard

[cryptorom59]

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[lazarecarnot]

Despite having little to no sympathy for your ideas, rest assured I will do anything in my power to prevent a bloodthirst scoundrel like Tallien from causing any harm to this Republic that you and I have given everything for.

And even if physical means aren't within my reach, I'll resort to my sharp quill to discredit him

[12 Thermidor 1794]

Ugh... Working with Tallien is literally impossible. He never shuts up, even when he hasn't got anything worthy to say; he speaks of things he doesn't have a clue about; he delays missives and arrêtes because either he doesn't agree with them or it takes him an eternity to understand their subjects.

As for the other two who joined... They are as forgettable as much as Tallien is pathetically trying to present himself as relevant.

[scotianostra]

On August 22nd 1282 Devorgilla, Countess of Galloway consolidated Balliol College, Oxford.

It’s unusual to do a medieval post that doesn’t cover war, or any bloodshed....

John De Balliol was the head of a family which had been prominent landowners in England and France for several generations. Its principal base in England was Barnard Castle, named after an earlier head of the family in England called Bernard. In France, the family’s main home was at Bailleul-en-Vimeu in Picardy, whence the name Bal[l]iol derives.

The John Balliol who founded the Oxford College 10 1282, his wife, Dervorguilla was one of the wealthiest women in Scotland during the thirteenth century, born to the lord of Galloway and married to John, baron of Balliol. In 1263, John was required to establish a college for the poor at Oxford University as penance for a land dispute with a local bishop.

When her husband died, Dervorguilla consolidated the founding of the college and drafted its statutes. She endowed several public and religious works, including the abbey of Dulce Cor(Sweetheart Abbey) in 1273.

The college that she and John established still retains the name Balliol. Dervorguilla’s son, John, became king of Scotland in 1292.

The claim of the younger John Balliol to the Crown of Scotland arose through his mother. She was a daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, and Margaret, who was a daughter of David Earl of Huntingdon, who, in turn, was a grandson of King David I, who featured in my post earlier.

[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Manzikert

The Battle of Manzikert (Mantzikert) in ancient Armenia in August 1071 CE was one of the greatest defeats suffered by the Byzantine Empire. The victorious Seljuk army captured the Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, and, with the empire in disarray as generals squabbled for the throne, nothing could stop them sweeping across Asia Minor. Manzikert was not a terrible defeat in terms of casualties or immediate territorial loss, but as a psychological blow to Byzantine military prowess and the sacred person of the emperor, it would resound for centuries and be held up as the watershed after which the Byzantine Empire fell into a long, slow, and permanent decline.

Byzantium & the Seljuks

Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068-1071 CE), himself formerly a general, had inherited a Byzantine army in poor shape with inadequate arms and an overreliance on unreliable mercenaries and undisciplined conscripts. His predecessor Constantine X Doukas (r. 1059-1067 CE) had purposely expanded the state civil service, invested heavily in renovating Constantinople and completely neglected the army. Even worse, the empire was over-stretched with too many borders to defend. The Seljuks, in particular, were proving troublesome in Asia Minor. This nomadic tribe from the Asian steppe was of Turkish origin, and they had been repeatedly raiding Byzantine outposts, notably sacking Melitene in 1058 CE and Caesarea in 1067 CE. This necessitated the emperor into strengthening the fortresses around Lake Van which protected the routes into the region from Armenia and central Asia. The Byzantine emperor successfully campaigned in the region in 1070 CE, then, in March 1071 CE, he decided for one monumental push to rid Armenia, and anywhere else for that matter, of the Seljuks once and for all.

The Seljuk leader was Alp Arslan (r. 1063-1073 CE) and, along with an empire now covering Iran, Iraq, and most of the Near East, the sultan had at his disposal an army of highly skilled and mobile horsemen. Romanos' army was big, according to some sources it had 300,000 men, although modern historians prefer a figure of 60-70,000, still double that of the Seljuks. Whatever the size, one indisputable fact was that Romanos' army consisted of a hotchpotch of conscripts and mercenaries which included the Pechenegs and Uzes of the Eurasian Steppe, and even a contingent of Normans led by Roussel de Bailleul. The latter figure, an infamous adventurer, was highly suspect in his loyalty to the cause and was really only looking out for a choice kingdom of his own.

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[herprivateswe]

Image: IWM (Q 1627) Men of the 20th Hussars with a chicken which they have purchased for their Christmas dinner, Bailleul, December 1916. The soldiers each have mistletoe attached to their caps.