Velleda or Veleda was a Germanic priestess and prophetess of the Bructera nation in the first century AD. Worshiped as the equal of the gods, she had a strong influence on the Germanic tribes. She who sees Velléda, daughter of Segenax, lives in a tower near the Lippe River, a tributary of the Rhin
She is the daughter of the Duke of Savoy, Philippe dit sans Terre, and Marguerite de Bourbon. In 1490 she married Charles de Valois, Count of Angoulême, with whom she had two children:Marguerite dAngoulême and François I. After her widowhood, she devoted herself to their education. She was twice reg
Brother of Godfrey of Bouillon, he left with him at the head of the 1st crusade in 1095. He founded the county of Edessa of which he was put in possession. In 1100 he left this county and succeeded Godfrey on the throne of Jerusalem. In 1104, helped by a Genoese fleet, he seized Ptolémaïde (St Jean
Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952) was an Italian physician and pedagogue, known for the method of pedagogy that bears her name and which is the basis of the pedagogy of 22,000 schools worldwide. Growing interest in pedagogy From a bourgeois family, Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chi