Poitou in a sentence

Hermine Poitou, a French designer who was married to Harry Potter’s actor two years earlier.

As the seat for an évêché (bishop) since the 4th century, the town was a centre of some importance and the capital of the Poitou county.

By August, Philip had taken Normandy and advanced south to occupy Anjou and Poitou as well.

By the age of 16, Richard had taken command of his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father.

In Poitou the ex-provost of Benon, Peter Bertin, was made seneschal, and finally in Gascony the household official Helie de La Celle was picked for the seneschalship there.

John's preferred plan was to use Poitou as a base of operations, advance up the Loire valley to threaten Paris, pin down the French forces and break Philip's internal lines of communication before landing a maritime force in the Duchy itself.

Most importantly, he managed to secure the Welf inheritance in Saxony for his nephew, Henry the Lion 's son Otto of Poitou, who was elected Otto IV of Germany in 1198.

Nonetheless, when John left for Poitou in February 1214, many barons refused to provide military service; mercenary knights had to fill the gaps.

Rail transportation in the region is provided by the public TER Poitou-Charentes (regional express train).

Richard backed Guy, his vassal from Poitou, while Philip supported Conrad, a cousin of his late father Louis VII.

Some large donkey breeds such as the Asino di Martina Franca, the Baudet de Poitou and the Mammoth Jack are raised only for mule production.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France; Poitou (where Eleanor spent most of her childhood) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

The English government responded to the threat by sending an agent to assassinate Owain in Poitou in 1378.

The invasion plans for 1212 were postponed because of fresh English baronial unrest about service in Poitou.

The minuet was traditionally said to have descended from the bransle de Poitou, though there is no evidence making a clear connection between these two dances.

The region of Poitou-Charentes purportedly produces the best butter and cream in France.

The Seuil du Poitou connects the Aquitaine Basin to the South to the Paris Basin to the North.

The Vicomte de Blossac, intendant of Poitou from 1750 to 1784, had a French garden landscaped in Poitiers.

This intensified under John's rule, with many lesser nobles arriving from the continent to take up positions at court; many were mercenary leaders from Poitou.

This vase is the only object connected with Eleanor of Aquitaine that still survives.sfn Louis's tenure as Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony lasted only a few days.