Hainaut
Proper noun
Meaning
Hainaut
A province of Wallonia, Belgium.
Examples
According to Hainaut, finding a carbonaceous asteroid in the Kuiper Belt confirms the predictions of the theoretical models and shows that astronomers were right about the turbulent early days of the solar system.
Later years and death Effigies of Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut Phillipa had given birth to fourteen children and outlived nine of them.
Marital problems After the early death of Isabella of Hainaut in childbirth in 1190, Philip decided to marry again.
King Louis again disapproved, and on his return from Outremer in 1254 he returned Hainaut to John.sfn Disappointed, Charles returned to Provence, which had become restive again.
Her eldest sister Margaret married Emperor Louis IV in 1324; and in 1345, she became the suo jure Countess of Hainaut upon the death of their brother William in battle.
John inherited the rest of the Lancaster property when Blanche's sister Maud, Countess of Leicester (married to William V, Count of Hainaut ), died without issue on 10 April 1362.