Example sentences of "in the thirteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the thirteenth century the King of france , abetted by a weak Pope , very brutally suppressed the Order of Templars and appropriated their enormous wealth . |
| 2 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
| 3 | The patrons of all this art were merchants in the thirteenth century , who profited from cloth manufacture . |
| 4 | In the thirteenth century Walter de Colaford , alias Hugh de Hareston , owned it in conjunction with Ralph de Lyneham . |
| 5 | The Kellaway family gave their name to this house and the now tiny hamlet , when they were the lords of the manor in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . |
| 6 | In the thirteenth century Emma de Surdeval married William de Barton , and their son then lived here . |
| 7 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 8 | Founded in the thirteenth century , Salamanca was the equal of Paris , Bologna and Oxford , became internationally famous and attracted students from all over the world . |
| 9 | In the thirteenth century , a bishop had ordered the castle to be built and manned as a protection . |
| 10 | The geography of Scotland , in the sixteenth as in the thirteenth century , allowed temporary successes directed from London , whether taking castles or winning battles . |
| 11 | The great French historian , Fernand Braudel , in his massive Civilisation and Capitalism traces , among much else , the gradual shift northwards and westwards of European banking from its beginnings in central Italy in the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | There were constant complaints by the forest landowners and inhabitants in the thirteenth century of interference with their rights . |
| 13 | But in fact the Forest wardens in the thirteenth century exacted cheminage from all who carried wood and charcoal through their bailiwicks . |
| 14 | Numbers in the thirteenth century varied : there were eighteen in the extensive forest of Essex , and only two in the small forest in Rutland . |
| 15 | The Struggle for Disafforestment in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries |
| 16 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 17 | In the thirteenth century the bishop of Durham instigated extensive drainage works along the northern shores of the Humber . |
| 18 | Berwick was the principal trading city of Scotland in the thirteenth century ; but when King Alexander III fell from his horse near Kinghorn in Fife , on 19 March 1286 , Scotland , without an obvious heir to the throne , fell also : into a 300-year nightmare of almost continual conflict with England . |
| 19 | In the thirteenth century Marco Polo did not have the help of a guidebook . |
| 20 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |
| 21 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 22 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 23 | Lower Thames Street , east London ; originally built in the thirteenth century , destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 , and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren with a square tower crowned by a cupola and a short spire . |
| 24 | It was a national architecture formed in the thirteenth century , |
| 25 | A shield of arms ( to cite one simple example ) comprising a black cross nth scalloped edges on a yellow ( gold ) background progressed from being described in the thirteenth century as jaune o crois noire engrelee to today 's blazon or a cross engrailed sable . |
| 26 | It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth . |
| 27 | To begin with the system was used by chroniclers , then for specifying the dates on which fairs were held or rent payments due , and finally , in the thirteenth century , it came into use for dating letters and other documents . |
| 28 | College of Arms ( London ) The college was granted its charter by King Richard III in 1484 , but some of its papers date from before that time , to the very earliest days of heraldry in the thirteenth century . |
| 29 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 30 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |