quebracho
quebracho , name for a tanning substance and for the trees from which it comes, chiefly the red quebracho, or quebracho colorado ( Schinopsis lorentzii ), of the family Anacardiaceae ( sumac family). This hardwood tree, native to the Paraguayan subtropics, supplies one of the most durable and heavy of timbers. It also provides much of the vegetable tannin for the leather industry although the populations are being depleted. The heartwood, stripped of its bark and subjected to extraction processes, is about 30% tannin. Quebracho is obtained chiefly from wild trees of the forests of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. White quebracho ( Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco ) of the dogbane family is one of the other hardwoods similarly used and is native to the same region. Red quebracho is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Anacardiaceae.
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DNA analysis of hair from the royal mistress of Charles VII of France has indicated that she may have been murdered in 1450 by mercury poisoning.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2005; 584 words
; ...hair from the royal mistress of Charles VII of France has indicated that she may have...official mistress to a king of France, Agnes Sorel died, aged twenty...future king Louis XI, the son of Charles, paid an official to poison Sorel...
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To the battlefield or the table?(Charles VII)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...factions that vied for Charles' support. Since he had been named Dauphin, Charles had tried to win over...to be crowned king of France as well. To do so, however...would mean eliminating Charles VII. Some on the French side...
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My lord, the king.(Charles VII)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...The coronation of France's revered king Charlemagne...Her Dauphin was now Charles VII, the consecrated king of France. As she watched the...kneel in front of Charles VII. Embracing the king...another 20 years before France was liberated. Joan...
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Meeting with the Dauphin.(Joan of Arc's meeting with Charles VII)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...addressed as her Dauphin. Charles was, in fact, the legitimate heir to the throne of France, but he had been exiled...VI king of England and France. Although Charles had continued to call himself regent of France, his situation was desperate...
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Henry VII and Charles the Bold: brothers under the skin? (similarities in ruling styles)(includes bibliography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...1485-1509 as Henry VII) and Charles the Bold (1467-77...threshold of Tudor glory. Charles was the great destroyer...earlier campaigns against France - in addition to meeting...notably that of the court. Charles' average annual expenditure...
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The Man Who Sacked Rome: Charles de Bourbon, Constable of France, 1490-1527.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the foremost nobles of France as well as a heroic and...appointment as constable of France in 1515. In that year...s enemy, the Emperor Charles V, and to begin preparations...domains and rights in France. Pitts shows how he...enemy, Pope Clement VII. However, he was mortally...
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On to Orleans!(Joan of Arc and Chales VII)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...chosen to aid France in ending the...Dauphin crowned as Charles VII. Her first task...was crowned Charles VII of France. Although the...areas of northern France switched their loyalty to Charles VII, thereby helping...
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Gregory VII and the Politics of the Spirit.
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...century and Pope Gregory VII. Next month: David Novak...eleventh century, Gregory VII. In thinking about the...a meadow in Clermont, France calling on Christians...only to be stopped by Charles Martel in 732 at the battle of Poitiers in southern France. In the face of such...
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The man who would be king Blair Worden praises this vivid Life of Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish boatman's son who staked a claim for Henry VII's throne
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...p) 0870 155 7222 TO POSTERITY the reign of Henry VII, over the quarter of a century that followed his victory...English diplomacy. Warbeck was sponsored in turn by Charles VIII of France, by the future Emperor Maximilian, and by that dynamic...
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The other Joan of Arc: beautiful, clever and determined, Yolande of Aragon was at the heart of the diplomatic and military campaigns that united 15th-century France. Margaret L. Kekewich charts her career.(YOLANDE OF ARAGON)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...coronation of the Dauphin as Charles VII of France at Reims in July were principally...She inspired the indecisive Charles, uncertain of his own legitimacy...Dauphin (by then actually Charles VII) to his duty to save France from ruin. The treatise declared...
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Charles VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...The French king Charles VII (1403-1461...the English from France and the reestablishment...1337-1453. Charles VII was born on Feb...death in 1422, Charles VII was scornfully...the small part of France that still recognized...
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Clement VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...described Pope Clement VII as a "Renaissance...such as Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, and Charles V of Spain." Bunson...although Clement VII was genuinely concerned...King Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V, several times...
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Louis VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Louis VI, in 1137. Louis VII was a devout king with...vassal who ruled western France from the English Channel...accounts of him are in Charles E. Petit-Dutaillis, The Feudal Monarchy in France and England from the Tenth...France: Louis VI and Louis VII (1108-1180), " in...
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Henry VII
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry VII Henry VII (1457-1509) was king...Pembroke, Wales, Henry VII was the only son of Edmund...s soldiers. Aided by Charles VIII of France, Henry landed at Milford...was proclaimed King Henry VII by his own soldiers and...
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James VII
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
James VII (1633–...under his brother Charles II he developed...alliance with France. Around 1672...He had urged Charles to veto the Test...alliance with France. When he remarried...James feared that Charles would abandon...subsidy treaty with France ruled for his...
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