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Today's eleventh-century tip of the day is brought to you by Egbert of Liège:
Byrrum, si sapias, adhibebis sole sereno; fac utrum libeat pluvia inpendente, viator.
Image: Besançon, BM, 1360
Re-opening of bars and restaurants (S.-E. of France, c. 1357)
Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, 0143
Death of a 14th-c. rockstar
"Around 1310 died Louis from Vaalbeek in Brabant, the best fiddler the world had ever seen. He invented the style of music we still listen to today."
(Brabantsche Yeesten, V, 633-42, c. 1316).
Image: N. France, c. 1315-1320.
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#InternationalWomensDay #internationalevrouwendag After the death of her husband, Duke Henry III, Adelaïde of Burgundy warded off foreign regents and reigned over Brabant until her son John I ascended to the duchy in 1267
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