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    Meulles (French pronunciation: [møl] ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016...
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  • Meulles, seigneur of La Source (died 1703), was intendant (1682–86) and interim governor general of New France. He was the son of Pierre de Meulles,...
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    (died 1086–1091) (alias Baldwin the Sheriff, Baldwin of Exeter, Baldwin de Meulles/Moels and Baldwin du Sap) was a Norman magnate and one of the 52 Devon...
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    d'Orvilliers, captain of the guards, and the intendant Jacques de Meulles. Jacques de Meulles was related to the minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert by marriage...
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  • List of Seigneuries of New France by order of the first concession. Seigneuries were an area that was used at the time of New France Port-Royal (1604)...
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  • Baldwin de Meulles, Sheriff of Devon, who held the largest fiefdom in Devon and was the 1st feudal baron of Okehampton. Baldwin de Meulles' tenant at...
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  • and was one of the 176 landholdings in Devon held in-chief by Baldwin de Meulles, Sheriff of Devon, who held the largest fiefdom in Devon and was the first...
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    parentage is unknown. His surname appears to derive from the Norman manor of Meulles in Calvados, south-west of Orbec, in the Diocese of Lisieux. Devonshire...
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    safe to delay payment to soldiers due to the risk of mutiny. Jacques de Meulles, the Intendant of Finance, conceived an ingenious ad hoc solution – the...
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    Lifton Rainer Ednoth 9 Lewtrenchard Lifton Roger de Meulles Brictric 10 Warson Lifton Roger of Meulles Waddell 11 Kelly Lifton Modbert Osferth 12 Dunterton...
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