What is "normandy"

Usage examples of "normandy".

He was at the moment watching with apprehensive eye the growing Angevin pretensions in Normandy, which lay athwart both his own lands and those of the late Count Guillaume.

The United States, fearing that Germany had weaponized botulinum toxin, prepared more than a million does of vaccine for Allied troops preparing to storm Normandy on D-Day.

Edward, Duke and Earl of Buckingham, Earl and Baron of Stafford, Prince of Brecknock, Count of Perche in Normandy, Knight of the Garter, hereditary Lord High Steward, and, in virtue of the blood of Bohun, Lord High Constable of England.

Harfleur by the payment of fifty-six thousand crowns, by engaging to surrender Arques, Tancarville, Caudebec, Honfleur, and other places in the higher Normandy, and by delivering.

In October Deauville sits on the Normandy coast like a city abandoned to the approaching invader.

One reason, more rational than emotional, that Eisenhower was concerned about his troops was his realization that while he, SHAEF, the generals, and the admirals could plan, prepare the ground, provide covering support, ensure adequate supplies, deceive the Germans, and in countless other ways try to ensure victory, in the end success rested with the footslogger carrying a rifle over the beaches of Normandy.

Despite the evocative surname, Dagobert is a genuine descendant of a noble family from Normandy, whose forebears were closely involved in the Languedocian Masonic societies centred on the Marquis de Chefdebien and the Hautpoul family.

It was from Normandy that William the Conqueror had come to establish himself in England and it was back to Normandy that most of the aristocracy could trace their lines and their ancestral estates.

France, behind the Somme, the 51st Highland Division, which had been withdrawn from the Maginot Line and was in good condition, and the 52d Lowland Division, which was arriving in Normandy.

William of Newburgh, who was better placed to know, declares that Eleanor was enchanted by that rich and rising young Duke of Normandy and desired a marriage with him on mere grounds of compatibility.

Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.

While Louis was preoccupied with his hurried nuptials, and without giving notice to any of the Franks, the Plantagenets took it upon themselves to celebrate with an unseemly haste the marriage of their five year old heir to the three-year old Princess Marguerite of France in Newburgh in Normandy.

This desultory campaigning in Normandy was little more than a postscriptum, an afterthought, a means of filling in the interim between what was past and what was to come, and as yet unrevealed.

William, Lord of Miraval and Brunbrook, heir to Burke and Stenton, the greatest knight on the isle of England and the duchy of Normandy, has returned to us unharmed, thanks to the intervention of the saints and the Blessed Virgin on the side of right and honor.

For what it is worth, my own conclusion is this: Harold arrived in Normandy by accident in 1064, he and William came to like and admire each other, Harold saw an advantage for himself and England in peacefully uniting the two domains with William as king of both and himself as Subregulus in England, and he promised to do his best to bring it about.