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Giles (given Name)
Giles or Gyles is a masculine given name. Giles () is the Medieval English form of the name of the French hermit ''Saint Giles'',"qui avoit nom Giles de nos avons ceste vile conquise par la dieu Landas, et fu feruz par mi l'ueil.." which itself is the Old French form of the Latin name Aegidius (given name), Aegidius. The modern French forms are Gilles (given name), Gilles and the less common Égide. Some languages have their own variations of the name, for example Tilen in Slovene language, Slovene. Notable people with the given name * Saint Giles, 7th/8th-century Christian hermit saint * Alfred Giles (other), Alfred Giles, several people * Giles Alington (other), Giles Alington, several people * Giles Andreae (born 1966), British writer and illustrator * Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi * Giles of Rome, 13th-century archbishop * Giles Barnes (born 1988), English footballer * Giles Leonard Barrett (b. c. 1744â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval France
The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Normandy#Norman expansion, Norman and County of Anjou, Angevin regions), and the creation and extension of administrative/state control (notably under Philip II of France, Philip II Augustus and Louis IX of France, Louis IX) in the 13th century; and the rise of the House of Valois (1328–1589), including the protracted dynastic crisis against the House of Plantagenet and their Angevin Empire, culminating in the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) (compounded by the catastrophic Black Death in 1348), which laid the seeds for a more centralized and expanded state in the Early modern France, early modern period and the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, ''Cold Eye'', was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie ''Les Couleurs du diable'' (Allain Jessua, 1997). Career Blunt is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small city of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay, Ontario, North Bay; Algonquin Bay is North Bay thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay. The first Cardinal story, ''Forty Words for Sorrow'', won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, Silver Dagger, and the second, ''The Delicate Storm'', won the Crime Writers of Canada's Crime Writers of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Duley
Giles Duley (born 15 September 1971 in Wimbledon, London) is an English portrait and documentary photographer, chef, writer, CEO and presenter. Duley also cooks, and writes about food and food politics, under the moniker The One Armed Chef. He is best known for his work documenting the long term impact of war. He is the founder and CEO of the NGO Legacy of War Foundation, and in 2022 was announced as the first United Nations Global Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings. Biography The rock & roll years Duley started his career as a music photographer after studying at Arts University Bournemouth (though he only completed the first year). During the 1990s he worked for publications such as '' Select'', '' Q'', ''Esquire'', '' GQ'' and ''Arena'', particularly photographing the Britpop movement. He worked with Oasis, the Prodigy, the Charlatans, Underworld and Pulp. He also photographed numerous international artists including Mariah Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Deacon
Giles David Deacon (born 14 December 1969) is a British fashion designer, illustrator, creative director and founder of Giles Deacon group, a fashion enterprise. Deacon joined the Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Deacon has been known to challenge the traditional ideas of womenswear and often uses wild prints and pop culture references in his designs. Deacon was employed by the fashion houses Bottega Veneta and Gucci, before founding his own label, GILES, in 2003. He launched his first collection for GILES at the 2004 London Fashion Week and was named "Best New Designer" at the British Fashion Awards. Deacon's designs have been met with critical acclaim and have sparked a renewed interest in London fashion. Having become one of the fashion industry's most fêted figures, Deacon was named British Fashion Designer of the Year in 2006 and was awarded the French ANDAM Fashion Award's Grand Prix in 2009. He was creative director of French fashion house Ungaro from April 2010 until Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Daubeney (other) (1451–1508)
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Giles Daubeney may refer to: *Giles Daubeney, 3rd Baron Daubeney (died 1386), Baron Daubeney *Giles Daubeney, 4th Baron Daubeney (1371?–1403), MP for Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency) * Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney (1393–1446) *Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (1 June 1451 – 21 May 1508) was an English soldier, diplomat, courtier and politician. Origins Giles Daubeney was the eldest son and heir of Sir William Daubeney (1424-1460/1) of South Ingelby in Lincol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Corey
Giles Corey ( 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a guilty or not guilty plea. He was subjected to torture in the form of crushing in an effort to force him to plead, dying after three days of being crushed. Because Corey refused to enter a plea, his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the Massachusetts colonial government. Corey is believed to have died in the field adjacent to the prison that had held him, in what later became the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, which opened in 1801. His exact grave location in the cemetery is unmarked and unknown. There is a memorial plaque to him in the nearby Charter Street Cemetery. Pre-trial history Giles Corey was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire. He was baptized in the Holy Sepulchre, Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Coren
Giles Robin Patrick Coren (born 29 July 1969) is a British columnist, food writer, and television and radio presenter. He has been a restaurant critic for ''The Times'' newspaper since 2002, and was named Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005. Early life Coren was born in Paddington, London, the only son of Anne (née Kasriel) and English journalist and humourist Alan Coren. His parents had been brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household, but his own upbringing was less Orthodox. He is the elder brother of journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell and is also related to journalist Michael Coren. Education Coren was educated at The Hall School, an independent boys' junior school in Hampstead, London, and at Westminster School, an independent boys' senior school in Central London, followed by Keble College at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a first-class degree in English. Writing Journalism Coren has been a restaurant critic for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Cooper (other)
Giles Cooper may refer to: * Giles Cooper (playwright) (1918–1966), Anglo-Irish playwright and radio dramatist * Giles Cooper (producer) Giles Richard Cooper is a British entertainment producer, concert promoter and marketer. He is managing director of Soho Media Group, based in the West End of London and CEO of Giles Cooper Entertainment t/a GCE Live. He is chairman of the ..., British entertainment producer, concert promoter and marketer * Giles Cooper (actor) (born 1982), British actor {{hndis, Cooper, Giles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Coke
Giles Christopher Coke (born 3 June 1986) is an English former professional footballer and coach who is under-18s assistant coach at Sheffield Wednesday. As a player, he was a midfielder who most notably featured at EFL Championship level for Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton Wanderers and Ipswich Town and in the Scottish Premier League for Motherwell. He has also appeared professionally for Mansfield Town, Northampton Town, Bury, Swindon Town, Chesterfield, Oldham Athletic and Grimsby Town, as well as non-league sides Kingstonian and Hereford. Following retirement in 2022 he became a youth team development coach at Grimsby Town, before leaving at the end of the 2022–23 season. He joined his old club Sheffield Wednesday as U18 assistant coach in January 2024. Playing career Early career Coke began his career as a youth player at Queens Park Rangers in 2003, before teaming up with his older brother Jon at non-league side Kingstonian a year later. Mansfield Town Coke was soon sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Clarke
Charles Giles Clarke (born 29 May 1953), is a British businessman then cricket administrator, who was chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board. Early life and education Born at Bristol, son of Charles Clarke and Stella ''née'' Herbert ( Vice-Lieutenant of Bristol 2004–07), Clarke attended Rugby School, before going to Oriel College, Oxford. At Oxford, Clarke studied Persian with Arabic, reputedly paying his way through gambling, before graduating as BA (''proceeding'' MA).The incoming chairman of the ECB promises to be more controversial, more decisive and far more outspoken ''The Times'', 26 September 2007 He then pursued further studies for a year at |
Giles Clark
Giles Clark is an English conservationist and TV presenter. Biography Clark, who grew up in Middlesex, started his career working with big cats when volunteering as a sixteen-year-old. Moving to Australia, he became Head of Big Cats at Australia Zoo in Queensland. Upon returning to the UK he became a Director at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent. His TV breakthrough came in 2014 when he presented the BBC programme ''Tigers About the House''. The show, which consisted of three episodes, followed Giles and his family as they bring up two young tiger cubs. This was followed up with another series, a two-parter entitled ''Tigers About the House: What Happened Next''. In 2016, he co-presented the four episodes of '' Ingenious Animals'', another BBC programme. In 2018, he presented ''Big Cats About the House'', which featured him bringing up a Jaguar called Maya and a cheetah in his own home with his family. In July 2020, Clark presented the BBC's programme ''Bears About the House'', na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Chichester
Giles Bryan Chichester (born 29 July 1946) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England and Gibraltar from 1999 until he retired 2014. He was elected as Vice-President of the European Parliament on 6 July 2011 to replace Silvana Koch-Mehrin who had resigned over plagiarism allegations. Chichester was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Since 1969, he has worked in the family business, Francis Chichester Ltd (publishers of maps, guides and educational wallcharts), founded by his father Sir Francis Chichester KBE, and still lives in the family home at 9 St James's Place, London SW1. He was MEP for Devon and East Plymouth from 1994 to 1999 and represented South West England in the European Parliament from 1999 until 2014. On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a former chairman of the Carlton Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
