A French knight who served alongside Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years' War,Gilles de Raisis also known as a man who killed numerous children.Nicknamed Bluebeard, he not only took the lives of his victims, but also had thisinfamous legacy: When the said children were dead...
Firstly, we adopt a method already used by the rather later, but also great, Ferdinand Lot, who took early modern administrative divisions in France and their populations to give something like accurate multipliers for the fragmentary French records he was using for a similar, more pessimistic, ...
(Incidentally, this is why so many Sicilian-Normans bore surnames that sound more Arabic or "Italic" than French; they were based on place names in Sicily.) The names of the oldest royal dynasties follow this pattern, hence the Norman kings of Sicily were the de Hautevilles and the ...