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Ponce De Minerva
Ponce de Minerva (1114/1115 – 27 July 1175) was a nobleman, courtier, governor, and general serving, at different times, the kingdoms of León and Castile. Originally from Occitania, he came as a young man to León (1127), where he was raised probably in close connexion to the royal family. His public career, first as a courtier and knight in the military retinue of Alfonso VII of León and Castile, began in 1140. By later historians he was implicated in the strife between Alfonso's successors, Sancho III of Castile and Ferdinand II of León, but he was generally loyal to the latter, although from 1168 to 1173 he was in voluntary exile serving Alfonso VIII of Castile. Ponce had a long and distinguished military career. He participated in at least twelve campaigns, more than half of them campaigns of ''Reconquista'' fought against the Moors, but also campaigns against Navarre (1140), Portugal (1141), and Castile (1162 and 1163), as well as one famous campaign against some Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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VSS may refer to: Organizations * Vegetarian Society (Singapore) * Vernon Secondary School, a high school in Vernon, B.C. * Veronis Suhler Stevenson, media company * Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union * FC VSS Košice, a Slovak football club Science and technology * Variable structure system, a class of discontinuous nonlinear systems * Vehicle speed sensor, in automobiles * Verifiable secret sharing, a cryptographic primitive * Closed-circuit television, Video surveillance system, cameras and other systems combined together to allow remote video monitoring * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Visual SourceSafe, a source control software system produced by Microsoft * Vital signs stable, in List of medical abbreviations: V * Volatile suspended solids, a water quality measure * Voltage symmetrization system in power engineering * Volume Snapshot Service, or Shadow Copy, in Microsoft Windows * Virtual surround, Visual Surround Sound / Virtual surround, Visual Surround System : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
