Sir William McAlpine | ... Southern Railway". This was re-erected at the private Fawley Hill Museum of | , whose company built Waterloo International. Waterloo International close ... |
James I | ... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became | , was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ... |
Mathilde Kschessinska | When the prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Theaters | was pregnant in 1901, she coached Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayad ... |
Henry Tudor | ... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against | at Bosworth Field |
Hugh d'Avranches | ... astle, to dominate the town and the nearby Welsh border. In 1071 he created | , the 1st Earl of Chester |
Laurence Olivier | ... Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in | 's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. It wa ... |
William the Conqueror | ... father Eustace II appeared at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 as an ally of | , and is listed as a possible killer of Harold II; he is also believed to ... |
Alexander Haig | ... mes Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff | . The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated an ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
Marquess of Dalhousie | ... tion of Oudh were political factors triggering dissent amongst Indians. The | 's policy of annexation, the doctrine of lapse (or escheat) applied by the ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... arried Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of | and his wife Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her materna ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... ge was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, King | of Poland, who was also his uncle. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, ... |
Edward V of England | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to | and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ... |
Comte de Rochambeau | ... hboring localities, alongside allied French forces under the command of the | |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... public of their time, they are generally unknown by contemporary audiences. | 's concert aria, Per Questa Bella Mano, K.612 for bass, double bass obblig ... |
William d'Aubigny | ... crown in 1102. King Henry II, who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed | as Earl of Arundel, with the honour and the castle of Arundel. Arundel Cas ... |
Henry VIII | ... whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Arms to | in 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace f ... |
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and | . The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ... |
Barbara Amiel | ... cated. Following these revelations and others, Trevor-Roper told journalist | in 1995 that he was no longer certain about the allegations, and that Bern ... |
Charles I | ... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King | |
Louis XIV of France | ... rial army. The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of | , was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and an ... |
Robert III | ... able to be crowned more or less immediately. This was when, on the death of | in 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James wa ... |
Ida of Lorraine | ... logne, successor to his father Count Eustace II of Boulogne. His mother was | |
Lady Diana Spencer | ... dest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to | , or break off their courtship. Charles felt pressured by his father to ma ... |
King Henry II | ... de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. | , who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed William d'Aubigny as Earl ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
John-Henry | ... ctive ruler of Tyrol from the Meinhardiner Dynasty. 1330 she was married to | (later became the margrave of Moravia), who she repudiated with the help o ... |
Lord Dunmore | ... ed the Spanish to surrender on April 17, 1783, without a single shot fired. | governed the colony from 1787 to 1796 and oversaw the construction of Fort ... |
Stanley Jackson | ... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate | , the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ... |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | In 1969, along with | and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Wins ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of | and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their father's death. Sometim ... |
6th Duke | The | (1790–1858), commonly known as 'the Bachelor Duke', was responsible for th ... |
Stephen of England | ... V (c. 1129 – 17 August 1153), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of King | and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English thr ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General | . However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was | ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ... |
Merckx, Eddy | ... ut - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - Mercator, Gerardus - | - Merelbeke - Merksplas - Mertens, Pierre - Mesen - Meulebeke - Meuse-Infé ... |
Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray | ... t cavalry, and the camp followers (who took part at the end of the battle). | , commanded the vanguard, which was stationed about a mile to the south of ... |
Thomas Beecham | ... ng to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir | . In 1949 the opera The Olympians by Arthur Bliss, to a libretto by Priest ... |
Prince-elector | In 1726 when his father died Charles Albert became | of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria. He managed to maintain good ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ntil Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, | , in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d'Este, the exiled male li ... |
Lord Coleridge | ... city (Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant (1886) 17 QBD 54 (per | CJ)). Attachment to the person of the reigning Sovereign is not sufficient ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ted with the Royal Family (for instance, immediately following the death of | ). However, recent polls show that around 70–80% of the British public sup ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
Joseph II | On Maria Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son | , already Holy Roman Emperor since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer h ... |
Baldwin of Bourcq | ... he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative, | , had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died ... |
Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute | ... arldom of Bute (named after the Isle of Bute) upon the death of his father, | , in 1723. He was brought up thereafter by his maternal uncles, the 2nd Du ... |
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John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | ... ncess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her maternal grandfather was | . In 1725 Charles Albert visited Versailles for the wedding of Louis XV an ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
Rudolph IV | Margarete Maultasch decided to bequeathe Tyrol to Duke | of the House of Habsburg, probably pressed by the aristocracy, an act whic ... |
Henry III | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor | . Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she w ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In many of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
Baldwin of Boulogne | ... 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and | . He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married Mary of ... |
Richard | ... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother, | , (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
Henry of Anjou | ... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young | . According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ... |
Stephen II | ... by the aristocracy, an act which caused a conflict between Meinhard's uncle | , who forged an alliance with the powerful Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti ... |
Catherine the Great | ... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia and | of Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir | 's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
Roger de Montgomery | ... ncestors for over 850 years is Arundel Castle. Built in the 11th Century by | , Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. King Henry ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia | ... icholas was identified from DNA obtained from among others his late brother | . Grand Duke George had died of tuberculosis in the late 1890s and was bur ... |
Christian II | ... ho successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King | in 1521 |
Lagrange | The theorem was proved by | and generalized by Hans Heinrich Bürmann, both in the late 18th century. T ... |
Edward I | ... tagonist, a fictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of | and Kublai Khan. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compa ... |
Anne of Denmark | ... 00. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, | , the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark also lived at the Palace until t ... |
Lord Hastings' | Despite | less-than-stellar opinion of Raffles before (which had necessitated his tr ... |
Komtur | ... upporters and the s of Königsberg, and only Eric of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, | of Memel, opposed the new duke. On 10 December 1525, at their session in K ... |
Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
Count of Flanders | ... he marriage of his son Alexander to Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, | , probably also in 1281. The treaty arranging the marriage, signed in Dece ... |
Earl of Leicester | ... (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the | 's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575 |
Casimir IV | ... tiated with Lithuania in the hope of placing itself under the protection of | , King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania, a would-be alliance regard ... |
Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... ell upon Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, the eldest child of | . She was held to be strikingly beautiful by her contemporaries. On 1 Augu ... |
James Lowther | # Lady Mary Stuart (c. 1741 – 5 April 1824), who married | , later the 1st Earl of Lonsdale, on 7 September 1761 |
George Macartney | #Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), who married | , later the 1st Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768 |
Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
Prince-elector | ... t (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) a member of the Wittelsbach family, was | of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his ... |
King Harold | ... shire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of | and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. Sitsylt is the original Wels ... |
Sir Alec Rose | ... ht boxing champion, Alan Pascoe, Olympic medallist, was born in Portsmouth, | , famous single-handed yachtsman, Katy Sexton, former world champion swimm ... |
Morta | Mindaugas and his wife | were crowned during the summer of 1253. Bishop Henry Heidenreich of Kulm p ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 by | enabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ... |
Lord Warkworth | #Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married | , later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, on 2 July 1764 |
Lew Grade | ... ly a child audience. Henson was finally able to convince British impresario | to finance the show, which would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndica ... |
Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria | He and his wife | were parents of seven children |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
another brother | ... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and | were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ... |
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
General Cornwallis | ... nia along present-day Ashford Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory over | at the Siege of Yorktown and to victory in the Revolutionary War |
Joseph Whitworth | ... on of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and | |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... t the Jewish religion." These were the charges brought by the government of | and Isabella I of Castile against the Jews. They constituted the grounds f ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... ems of a pacifist or non-liturgical nature; for example, the War Requiem of | juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Krzysztof Pende ... |
Maximilian I | In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor | established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
Andrew Carnegie | Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, | who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town ... |
Leopold II | ... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother, | , previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ... |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
Jan Potocki | ... is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated. | 's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1805) has extremely rich interl ... |
Earl of Winchilsea | ... who was elected despite not being legally allowed to sit in Parliament. The | accused the Duke of, "an insidious design for the infringement of our libe ... |
Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford | ... r de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and veterans like Henry de Beaumont and | . The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de ... |
Charles I of England | ... ert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland (reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and | , King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI ... |
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | ... ty successfully withstood a siege by Spanish forces under the leadership of | . It was a turning point in the Eighty Years War and gave rise to the expr ... |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated | in County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | He was born in Brussels as the son of | , and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ... |
Henry VII | ... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor | , to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon and | against the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ... |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... ame coat of arms is still used by the province. Not until the reign of King | in the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with ... |
Empress Matilda | ... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the | , and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou |
King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
Ramon Berenguer IV | ... hose women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, | , then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet (orden de la H ... |
Sir Thomas Browne | ... orated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of | are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictio ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... arly inspired by his frequent collaborator David Lean. Praise also came for | 's cameo as the Duke of Wellington, with Philip French of The Times writin ... |
Finarfin | Dorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, two of the sons of | , under the suzerainty of their older brother Finrod. The north-eastern ar ... |
John Prescott | ... ection in May 1997, the new transport secretary (and deputy prime minister) | took a much harder line. When Swift's five-year term of office expired on ... |
Xiao Tong | ... to rebel in the name of Xiao Dong, the grandson of the former crown prince | who died in 531 AD and was removed from crown prince because of conflicts ... |
12th Duke | The | , who succeeded to the title in 2004, continues to live primarily on the f ... |
Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska | ... rn in Brussels as the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and | , and the grandson of Polish King John III Sobieski |
Frederick IV "Empty Pockets" | ... 10 the invasion of the lower Inn valley by the Bavarians. Under the rule of | internal conflicts between the powerful local aristocracy and the duke aro ... |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz | ... odds on policy, and their quarrels were usually mediated by the chancellor, | (1711–94), who served nearly 40 years as the principal minister to Maria T ... |
Frederick I of Denmark | On 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King | , thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ... |
Ernest Rutherford | In 1911, | gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ers dated no later than August 1131. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to | , whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she ... |
Henry VIII | ... ard Family were Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of | . Both women were nieces of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who played ... |
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | ... nry let him use a group of Anglo-Norman aristocrats and adventurers, led by | , to help him regain his throne. Dermot and his Anglo-Norman allies succee ... |
9th Duke | ... lived in the castle after marrying the Lord Charles Cavendish, a son of the | and, after his death in 1944, continued to use the castle until shortly be ... |
Godfrey of Bouillon | He went on the First Crusade in 1096 with his brothers | (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and Baldwin of Boulogne. He soon returned to E ... |
Lady Charlotte Boyle | ... ndish family in 1753 when the daughter and heiress of the 4th Earl of Cork, | (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, a future Pr ... |
Henry VIII | ... e of Repeal Act (1553); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of | were repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The ... |
Lord Young of Dartington | ... rs, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood, | , Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
Francesco II | The Cathedral was begun in 1532 under Duke | , who commissioned the design to Antonio da Lonate. The edifice was comple ... |
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | ... s was recorded by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir | in his diary entries of the 1/2 July 1940 |
4th Earl of Cork | ... quired by the Cavendish family in 1753 when the daughter and heiress of the | , Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of ... |
Louis IV | ... emperor at Frankfurt. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach Emperor after | and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of Rupert of G ... |
Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk | ... ting with Roger Bigod from Normandy (died 1107). Their male line ended with | , who died without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted t ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... er Louis XIII. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of | , in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at ... |
John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
George Anson | Admirals | . and Admiral Jonathon Band, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Po ... |
Robert Borden | ... e after failing to win a riding. Following Meighen into civilian life were: | , who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as ... |
Emperor Charles VII | ... a to the Prussians. In 1745, following the reign of the Bavarian Elector as | , Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was ... |
Francis Drake | ... tly, in 1586 St. Augustine was attacked and burned by English privateer Sir | and the surviving Spanish settlers were driven into the wilderness. Howeve ... |
Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... left with the prisoners. Alexandra kept only two bracelets which her uncle, | , had given her as a child and which she could not take off. He did not kn ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... tered the oil business by starting a refinery. In 1867, his older brother ( | )'s partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this refinery. In 1870, ... |
King John | ... meaning navel, because it was thought to be the navel of England. In 1203, | granted Naseby its market charter and the village became a flourishing mar ... |
Niels Bohr | ... Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He strongly disagreed with | 's instrumentalism and supported Albert Einstein's realist approach to sci ... |
Henry IV | ... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as | |
Lord Byron | ... Frari, Venice. Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by | (1821) and an episode in Samuel Rogers' long poem Italy. The Byron play se ... |
Leofric, Earl of Mercia | ... that was later left in ruins by King Canute's invading Danish army in 1016. | and his wife Lady Godiva built on the remains of the nunnery and founded a ... |
Henry VI | ... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of | 's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ... |
Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... im after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom - just as | had done seventy years earlier. As he marched southwards he began to gathe ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths | ;dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and ... |
Henry de Beaumont | ... h wars, headed by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and veterans like | and Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford. The most irreconcilable of ... |
King Hussein | ... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria. | , who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ... |
Fürst | ... (; December 16, 1742 – September 12, 1819), Graf (Count), later elevated to | (Prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal ... |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother | . The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ... |
Winston Churchill's | ... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared as | lover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ... |
King Charles I | ... oor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by | , battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax ... |
Richard I | ... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's son | to the throne of England |
Clement Attlee | ... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister | , replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ... |
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk | ... h the title refers to the county of Norfolk. The current Duke of Norfolk is | . The dukes have historically been Roman Catholic, a state of affairs know ... |
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | ... A possible eruption was seen in June 1792 during the Spanish expedition of | and Cayetano Valdés. Their report read, in part |
Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
Charles Tupper | ... ment until their deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and | , Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private ... |
Lew Grade | During its ATV days, the chairman of the station | , was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded ... |
Edward VI | In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, | , to the English throne. Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicis ... |
Anne Beauchamp | ... o Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daughters of Warwick by | and rival heirs to the considerable inheritance of their still-living moth ... |
Lord Nelson | ... handful of British subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are | and Winston Churchill)—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in B ... |
Don Carlos | ... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infante | in exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ... |
James Tyrrell | ... nce there are no other "infants" Richard had ever been accused of killing). | was an English knight who fought for the House of York on many occasions. ... |
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | ... mpanied by many of the seasoned campaigners of the Scottish wars, headed by | , and veterans like Henry de Beaumont and Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de ... |
Ludovico il Moro | ... is also said to have been laid out by Bramante, and was certainly built for | , starting in 1492-93 and completed in record time, unusual for early Rena ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... nch as the long-suffering Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), | as the Duke of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richard ... |
Grand Cross | ... as the 909th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain and the 28th | of the Order of the Tower and Sword |
Prince George, the new Prince of Wales | ... e of the Prince. Upon the Prince's death in 1751, the education of his son, | , became a priority and in 1755 Bute was appointed as his tutor. Bute arra ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011, | stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
Henry II of England | In the 12th century the only English pope, Adrian IV, authorised King | to take possession of Ireland as a feudal territory nominally under papal ... |
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | ... record of such an important confession has ever been found or referred to. | was Richard's right-hand man and sought personal advantage through the new ... |
James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
John | ... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brother | to the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ... |
Henry II | His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future | to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. Th ... |
Isaac Isaacs | ... ay ceremony, Gough Whitlam was awarded a prize by the Governor-General, Sir | |
Edward | ... by Portuguese historians as the "illustrious generation" (Ínclita Geração): | , the future king, was a poet and a writer; Peter, the Duke of Coimbra, wa ... |
Mary Wortley Montagu | ... duated with a degree in civil and public law. On 24 August 1736, he married | (daughter of Sir Edward and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), bringing the large ... |
Lord Byron | ... a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of | and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne. The film was written and di ... |
Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
2nd Duke of Argyll | ... of Bute, in 1723. He was brought up thereafter by his maternal uncles, the | and Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st and only Earl of Ilay |
Joseph Banks | ... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir | (President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ... |
King Henry VIII's | ... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after | third wife |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
Otto I | ... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of | . In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ... |
Sir Arthur Harris | ... easier for the incendiary bombs to fall into buildings and ignite them. As | , commander of RAF Bomber Command, wrote after the war |
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales | ... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later met | there, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | The most prominent were William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate | ; Frederick G. Bourne, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and Chr ... |
Baudouin | ... ave been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King | of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Pri ... |
Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
Louis XIV | ... return to the stage in 1659. He wrote the play Oedipe, which was favored by | . In the next year, Corneille published Trois discours sur le poème dramat ... |
Antwerp | ... Tyndale: the Pentateuch, and the book of Jonah. The publication appeared in | and was partly financed by Jacobus van Meteren. In 1537, his translations ... |
Dauphin | ... 2). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldest son, the | . His father was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ni ... |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin | ... re removed from Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens by | , and are now part of the British Museum collection in London. In anticipa ... |
Richard Attenborough's | In 1969, Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film, | Oh! What a Lovely War. In 1970, Seymour appeared in her first major film r ... |
Henry III of England | ... ecclesiastical office. In the name of his fellow bishops he admonished King | at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, Kin ... |
Queen Mary I | ... d-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from | , some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged. "Weaned off u ... |
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk | The current Duke of Norfolk is | , who succeeded his father, Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of ... |
Lord Hill | ... in-Chief of the British Army on 15 August 1842 following the resignation of | |
Antwerp | ... tween Monschau and Losheimergraben, cross the Meuse River, and then capture | . Kampfgruppe Peiper, named after and under the command of SS-Obersturmban ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... augas, along with the Samogitians of western Lithuania, the Livonian Order, | (Tautvilas and Edivydas' brother-in-law), and Vasilko of Volhynia. The pri ... |
Ferdinand III | In 1799, King | created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ... |
Earl Grey | ... on the Bank of England. This left King William IV no choice but to restore | to the premiership. Eventually the bill passed the House of Lords after th ... |
Edward II of England | ... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King | had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ... |
Norman Foster | ... IC Centre for Contemporary Art, the venue for the Turner Prize 2011 and the | -designed The Sage Gateshead music centre. The Newcastle and Gateshead Qua ... |
Prince Rainier III | ... the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, | ; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope J ... |
Edward Heath | ... e existing A3T missile. This decision was made official late in 1973 by the | administration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline. The ... |
Princess Leia Organa | ... ous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and | (see for more details) |
Charles VI | ... d claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty after the death of | in 1740. With the treaty of Nymphenburg concluded in July 1741, Charles Al ... |
Marie Amalie | On 5 October 1722, Charles married | , Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Ro ... |
Pelé | Waiting for the ball was | , who had arrived at speed and with perfect timing. He leapt hard at the b ... |
Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
Meinhard II | ... rol and Gorizia, but for a time the Duchy of Carinthia. At the end of count | 's rule (1259–1295) the "county and reign of Tyrol" had established itself ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... g Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), Laurence Olivier as the | , Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV. Th ... |
Bob Hope | ... n downtown Stockton, is one of several movie palaces in the Central Valley. | often came to Stockton to visit close friend and billionaire tycoon Alex S ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... June 24, 1922), American financier, was a co-founder with his older brother | of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He was the son of Willi ... |
Princess Grace of Monaco | ... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been | and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ... |
Ian Macpherson | ... ). Rather than court-martial Sassoon, the Under-Secretary of State for War, | decided that he was unfit for service and had him sent to Craiglockhart Wa ... |
Harry | ... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and | , wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ... |
Peter | ... ration" (Ínclita Geração): Edward, the future king, was a poet and a writer | ;, the Duke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; a ... |
Edward I | ... of Chelsea (Chelsey), Kensington (Kensing town) and Charing. In the time of | , the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It w ... |
Alexander I | ... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar | . Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
King Edward VIII | In 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future | ) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ... |
St Louis | ... rchbishops, the two generals of the Carthusians and Cistercians, the king ( | ), and three of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and ... |
Anthony Eden | ... ion of the Home Guard (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following | 's broadcast appeal to the Nation on Tuesday 14 May 1940 also created furt ... |
Bernard Delfont | ... he Knickerbocker Hotel as a subterfuge for a business meeting with producer | , the doors opened to their suite #205, flooding the room with light and t ... |
George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
1st Duke of Argyll | A close relative of the Clan Campbell (his mother was a daughter of the | ), Bute succeeded to the Earldom of Bute (named after the Isle of Bute) up ... |
Francis of Lorraine | ... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband | , Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ... |
Burghley | ... y on the morning of 6 April. There is some evidence that the Lord Treasurer | endeavoured to save their lives, and was frustrated by Whitgift and other ... |
George Reid | ... known as the "three elevens". When the Deakin government resigned in 1904, | of the Free Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour takin ... |
Simon de Montfort | In 1248, | was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ... |
Henry VI | ... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian | and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ... |
George Clifford | ... rancis Drake in 1595 (in what is known as the Battle of Puerto Rico) and by | , Earl of Cumberland, in 1598. Artillery from San Juan's fort, El Morro, r ... |
Napoleon III | ... was then nicknamed the European summer capital and reached its zenith under | during the 1850s and 1860s. The Russian writer, Dostoevsky, wrote The Gamb ... |
George IV | ... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King | . The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their uncle | was crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ... |
Fulke Greville | ... es Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – | – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George ... |
Godfrey of Bouillon | ... os successfully defended the walls of Constantinople against the attacks of | during the First Crusade (1097); conducted the peace negotiations between ... |
Ferdinand II | ... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg | |
Henry III | ... eigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes. | yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's adminis ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
Henry II | ... ddle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress. Incorporated first by | , a new charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1589. A high stone wall was bu ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. President | and French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
Thatcher | ... the system has been through phases of evolutionary change. The Conservative | administrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing ... |
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Image:2ndDukeOfBuckingham.jpg| | (1628-1687) |
John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
Henry VI | ... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after | , as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ... |
Bobby Charlton | ... e Busby Babes whom Banks had faced as an adolescent. Banks failed to hold a | shot from distance which gave a chance to David Herd. After that things go ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with | during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ... |
Gaston, Duke of Orléans | On two occasions the King's younger brother, | had to leave France for conspiring against the King's government, and for ... |
Lord Elgin | ... s during the Rebellions of 1837-1838 in Lower-Canada. The Governor General, | , had serious misgivings about the bill but nonetheless assented to it des ... |
Queen Mary | ... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and | in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ... |
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh | Image:1stLordClifford.jpg| | (1630-1673) |
James I of England | ... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of | (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ... |
Edward | ... ascony, pursuing a policy of conciliation; he arranged the marriage between | , his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfo ... |
Lord Byron | ... y carefully analyzed the whole" of the latter text. D'Israeli also mentions | 's (1788–1824) praise for Piers Plowman |
Wonder Woman | ... eries. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of | in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Ste ... |
Lord Ashcombe | ... to the 84-year old mayor, Mr. R.M. Chart, by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, | |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The Hohenstaufen Emperor | created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ... |
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale | Image:John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale by Jacob Huysmans.jpg| | (1616-1682) |
Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... nt, and for attempting to undermine the influence of both his mother and of | . After waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc, he took refuge in Flander ... |
Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales | The third creation was on 10 November 1399, for | , eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ... |
Henry VIII | ... ongside population growth, inflation was a major reason for enclosure. When | became King in 1509, the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the p ... |
John J. Pershing | ... isenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, | , Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall. He first became executive officer ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta ( | ), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ... |
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel | ... d as a courtesy title by the Duke's eldest son, the present one of which is | . The style Lord Maltravers is used as a courtesy title by the eldest son ... |
Jeff Rooker | While in opposition, he co-ordinated tactics with government backbenchers | and Audrey Wise to secure legislation providing for the automatic indexati ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... ign of James I of England (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). | (1643–1715), though Catholic, strongly promoted the theory as well |
Bohemond I of Antioch | ... Crusade (1097); conducted the peace negotiations between Alexios and Prince | (the Treaty of Devol, 1108); and played an important part in the defeat of ... |
Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
Manfred von Richthofen | ... both sides. The Red Baron of the title is the historical ace fighter pilot | , who in this altered history leads a squadron of monstrous flying vampire ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | . From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ... |
Emperor Meiji | ... most famous such incident was his refusal to bow deeply to the portrait of | and the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the ... |
Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
Henry IV | In order to continue the exploration efforts of his predecessor | , Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet un ... |
John Major | ... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of | as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ... |
Henry VI | ... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of | . The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ... |
Charles the Bold | ... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons against | of Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ... |
Edward VI | ... tion (and therefore enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset was Protector of | . Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outco ... |
Shah of Iran | ... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the | . It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ... |
George II | ... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, | ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ... |
Roger de Beaumont | ... wer may have been part of the original design. Clinton was a local rival to | , the Earl of Warwick and owner of the neighbouring Warwick Castle, and th ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... n 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are | , Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen |
Alexander I | ... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperor | to remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ... |
Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... the Kingdom of Naples to Don Carlos of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule | |
The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans | ... 2 February 1761, Lady Diana Beauclerk (c. 1735-28 March 1766), daughter of | . His wife died in childbirth, the child stillborn. He married secondly, o ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law | of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses |
King George V | ... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by | and Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ... |
Henry VIII | ... ce. Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of | , and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It i ... |
Rudolph I | ... ad already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When the rightful king, | heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and ... |
Lord Durham | ... neau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by William Lyon Mackenzie, | was appointed governor general of British North America and had the task o ... |
Lord Minto | ... f the Malay language as well as his wit and ability, gained him favour with | , Governor-General of India, and he was sent to Malacca. Then, in 1811, af ... |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | ... was officially named the county seat. Although Chatham County is named for | , Pittsboro is named for his son, William Pitt the Younger |
Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
Charles II | ... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King | , is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ... |
Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
Charles IV | In 1325, the land was confiscated by | when Edward II of England, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to ... |
Yermak | ... Kemerovo Oblast is Novokuznetsk, founded in 1618, soon after Cossack ataman | 's push into Siberia. Novokuznetsk is also the largest city in the oblast, ... |
Duke of Somerset | ... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until the | was Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ... |
Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
Elector | ... al Albert of Hohenzollern (German: ) (28 June 1490 – 24 September 1545) was | and Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg fro ... |
James Stillman | ... ockefeller married Elsie Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president | , and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... hn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of | and Blanche of Lancaster. From that marriage were born several famous prin ... |
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk | ... own to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour by Henry VIII to | to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Flodden Field. It is a modific ... |
Sophia of Hanover | ... lement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of | (1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I |
George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
Guidobaldo II della Rovere | ... d (May, 1556). Those who escaped the Inquisition were received at Pesaro by | , Duke of Urbino. Guidobaldo had hoped to have the Jews and conversos of T ... |
Philip III of Spain | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of | . This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political a ... |
Edward Grey | ... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky and | agreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ... |
Henry VII | ... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought by | made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ... |
Marie-Louise | ... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married | , an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg | ... and the elevation of several members of the gentry to peers of the Empire. | was declared full age ahead of time in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prin ... |
Counts of Holland | ... an artificial hill located near the current Rijksstraatweg, where once the | where inaugurated. According to tradition, the Huldtoneel was used before ... |
Mary | ... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen | . With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ... |
his wife | ... ity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent | and then his heir, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the m ... |
Murat | ... were too great. Caffarelli's men halted the Russian assaults and permitted | to send two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by d'Hautpoul and the othe ... |
James I of Aragon | ... by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and | . The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the Christian reconquista ... |
Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
Edward I | ... d. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and | brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town. New ... |
Christopher Chataway | ... a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. | recommended student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President | let it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ... |
King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and Spain with Royal marriages. The tradition went back to the marriage of | with the French Princess, Elisabeth of Valois. The marriage was only brief ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... am, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland, | , thus the personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was confirmed. Many of the P ... |
Henry VIII | ... the Succession", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of | , from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.) Cecil resisted for a whil ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah | , who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ... |
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony | ... Diet of Worms) because he was unexpectedly backed by German princes such as | who strongly objected to the Catholic Church meddling in their affairs and ... |
Crown Prince Dan of Yan | ... and frequently harassed by soldiers. It was no match for the Qin state. So | plotted an assassination attempt to get rid of King Zheng, begging Jing Ke ... |
Zwentibold | ... ent himself with a rump state. In 895 Arnulf appointed his illegitimate son | King of Lotharingia. He ruled independently until he was overthrown and ki ... |
King Arthur | ... fairies; its leaders also varied, but they included Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd, | , Nuada, King Herla, Woden, the Devil and Herne the Hunter. Many legends a ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Minister | arrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to make it clear that they were ... |
Richard III | ... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions. | had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ... |
Charles the Bold | ... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of | in 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ... |
Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
Bob Hope | ... d as film performers), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with | . Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Gro ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ging qualities, gained the favour of Alexios I and the hand of his daughter | , receiving the titles of Caesar and panhypersebastos (one of the new dign ... |
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | ... hroughout its history people bribed the guards to help them escape. In 1322 | , was aided in his escape from the Tower by the Sub-Lieutenant of the Towe ... |
Sir William Cecil | ... the north of Peterborough, near Stamford, was built and mostly designed by | , later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth ... |
Mary I | ... hat he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen | , he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay st ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... t elect a replacement until 925, when under Gilbert's leadership they chose | , the East Frankish king. In 930 Gilbert's decision was rewarded and he re ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... therlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and | . From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , P ... |
Charles V | ... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor | ) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ... |
James II | ... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of | and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ... |
Peter III of Russia | ... 761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as | , and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple move ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
John Dudley | ... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by | in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ... |
Emperor Ferdinand I | ... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later | |
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton | On the death of | , whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurers ... |
Mary of Guise | ... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent | , who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
Gebhard | ... e, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The Conradine | , Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Church of t ... |
Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
Ion Iliescu | ... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian President | called Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ... |
Francis I | ... the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor Charles V) and by those of | , King of France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money ... |
Vaišvilkas | ... kavysk, and the Principality of Polotsk. In about 1239 he appointed his son | to govern these areas, then known as Black Ruthenia. In 1248, he sent his ... |
Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
John the Fearless | ... arts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of | , was made bishop. However what looked like an impending annexation of Cam ... |
Emperor Wilhelm II | ... ied propaganda referred to Germans as the "Huns", based on a 1900 speech by | praising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of W ... |
Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin | In 1932 the Bannockburn Preservation Committee, under | and Kincardine, presented lands to the National Trust for Scotland. Furthe ... |
William II of the Netherlands | ... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King | and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia |
Juliana of the Netherlands | ... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen | and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... d was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was dissolved by King | in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this time, only 12 monks were livi ... |
Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
Blanche of Anjou | ... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and | . His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ... |
Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
Edward VI | ... Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young | . Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 (part of the " ... |
Rurik | ... along coastlines and along the major river valleys of north-western Europe. | also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or in ... |
Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... ted by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to | , then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Fe ... |
Duke of Somerset | William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the | (a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour), who was Lord Protector during ... |
Antwerp | The same year, he won the World Junior Chess Championship held at | , Belgium, with the score of 14/16. Spassky competed for the Lokomotiv Vol ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
Grand Duke Constantine | ... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard | ;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ... |
Prince of Orange | ... er his grandmother Juliana abdicated. He then received the hereditary title | , as heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consis ... |
John de Graham | ... these to crush the remaining resistance. The Scots lost many men, including | . Wallace escaped, though his military reputation suffered badly |
Sir Arthur Wellesley | ... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire when | arrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces |
Faramir | ... ilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when | takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in ) Jackson's version interpret ... |
Bobby Charlton | ... gentina side 1–0 in the last eight, with Geoff Hurst scoring with a header. | scored twice in the semi final against Portugal before a late penalty was ... |
Edward I of England | ... ather Eric who raised the question again. Eric sent official ambassadors to | , then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as "Quee ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
Fëanorian | ... Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Both Fingolfin, High-king of the Noldor, and | Noldor led by Maedhros had maintained camps of cavalry on Ard-galen as a f ... |
Maximilian I of Bavaria | ... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, King | introduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ... |
King Arthur | ... he ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among them | and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake. At Cadbu ... |
Berthier | ... ved a number of initial victories against the thinly spread army of Marshal | . Napoleon had left Berthier with only 170,000 men to defend France's enti ... |
John Major | ... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when | was Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ... |
Maximilian I | ... s II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of | , as stipulated by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne w ... |
Geoff Hurst | ... ued when England beat a physical Argentina side 1–0 in the last eight, with | scoring with a header |
Hugh Dalton | ... arpenden and the London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included | and Stephen Leacock. Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generos ... |
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire | ... s largely re-built in the Gothic style during the mid-nineteenth century by | |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Edward III | ... he became dissatisfied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of | , through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1s ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, leaned heavily on his Prime Minister | , to govern the Kingdom. They are remembered for the establishment of the ... |
Baron Harkonnen | ... urned from Caladan with questionable intentions. The ego-memory of the evil | , Jessica's secret father, seduces Alia from within, promising his help in ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... treet is the Category B listed handloom weavers' cottage, the birthplace of | which dates from the early 18th century. An adjacent memorial hall was add ... |
Maximilian | ... ath Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When | I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg v ... |
Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
Francis II | ... ch, he died in March 1792. The French declared war on his inexperienced son | a month later |
Henry Tudor | ... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of | (later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ... |
Elisabeth of Valois | ... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess, | . The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ... |
Philip V of Spain | ... to defend from foreign aggression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised | 's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of T ... |
Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... d the Last, a short play, was adapted as 21 Days, starring Vivien Leigh and | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ry was the first in the world to be funded via donations by philanthropist, | . A total of 2,811 free public libraries were eventually built altogether. ... |
Maximilian I | ... hemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor | in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal gua ... |
Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
Henry III of England | ... . His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of | , their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driv ... |
Charles V | ... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517, | authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ... |
Marie Louise | ... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess | of Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... h were opened on 28 June 1929. The gates which were named after the wife of | lead up a to a bronze statue of Andrew Carnegie which was unveiled in 1914 ... |
Sir Arthur Young | ... ) was also born in Portsmouth, Robert Styles, an FA Premier League Referee. | , policeman and police reformer was born in the area. Also famous people n ... |
John J. Pershing | ... s assignments, it received a congratulatory letter for bravery from General | . He was promoted to top sergeant and, after the war ended, arrived back i ... |
John | ... justiciar was in February 1194, when he presided over a feudal judgement of | , Richard's younger brother. After Richard's release from captivity, John, ... |
Henry IV of France | Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of | (1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a ... |
Adolphus Frederick | ... Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He had however to cope with the demands of his uncle | , husband of Mary of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, the daughter of predeceased Duke ... |
Queen Mary I | ... , Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of | , Christ Church became a centre of Catholic support, and Harrison converte ... |
Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | ... dent of France at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after | and Jean Casimir-Perier. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
Robert Fitzwalter | ... response moved against him. In 1214, while the king was at Windsor Castle, | led an army into London and laid siege to the Tower. Although under-garris ... |
Louis Bonaparte | ... unst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king | , brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as ... |
Edward II of England | ... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future | , or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ... |
Albert of Mecklenburg's | ... arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King | coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus Birgersson's coat of arms of 1275, an ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... his father Charles Albert aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of | , Charles Albert rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the G ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and | (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ... |
Jimmy Savile | ... n residents include Hamish MacInnes, inventor of the McInnes Stretcher, and | , TV personality and a former Chieftain of the Lochaber Highland Games |
Sir Bobby Robson | ... luding Kevin Keegan (who had also served the club as a player) and the late | , who both also managed the England team |
Louis William | ... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave | , popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705 |
James I | ... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her son | when he became King of England |
J. M. Barrie | ... sness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol | ) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detectiv ... |
King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ere named after the wife of Andrew Carnegie lead up a to a bronze statue of | which was unveiled in 1914 to a crowd of 20,000 |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future | . Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights |
James Callaghan | ... governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and | . The project was finally revealed by Margaret Thatcher's then defence min ... |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Queen consort | He was succeeded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was | of Astyages, King of Media |
Agnes of Bohemia | ... y stationing" of Soviet army following the invasion ended in 1991. In 1989, | became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by ... |
William Cecil | ... Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland was Protector that his finance minister | took action on debasement to try to stop enclosure |
Thomas | ... h acts of his life in marrying Mary Cheke. The only child of this marriage, | , the future Earl of Exeter, was born in May 1542, and in February 1543 Ce ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and | |
Lannes | ... Guard and Bernadotte's I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under | guarded the northern sector of the battlefield, where the new communicatio ... |
Louis XIV | ... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of | (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ... |
Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
Prince Louis of Battenberg | Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, | , died in London. Louis was a naturalised British citizen and, after long ... |
Duchy of Brabant | ... hardt Jazz Festival - Di Rupo, Elio - Di Rupo I Government - Draining law - | - Duchy of Limburg - Duchy of Limburg (1839–1867) - Dutch and Flemish Rena ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... aty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the | and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of t ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
Edward Heath | ... th Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, | , Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... eph Kerman described Tosca as a "shabby little shocker", while the composer | declared that he was "sickened by the cheapness and emptiness" of Puccini' ... |
Princess Alice of Battenberg | ... ly son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and | . Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophi ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | In 1543 Cambrai was conquered by | , and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... rk which forms the western boundary of the town centre is a park, gifted by | in 1903. The park known locally as the Glen was created from the estate of ... |
Elisa Baciocchi | ... nnexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister, | . Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi court, while giving privat ... |
Fils de France | ... (1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a | , and as the eldest son, the Dauphin. His father was the first Bourbon Kin ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and | , but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953 |
Joachim Murat | ... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law | . As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ... |
King George III's | ... e of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, | queen |
Andrew Carnegie | The | birthplace museum dedicated to his life and work is on the southern gatewa ... |
Henry the Navigator | ... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince | , the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ... |
Konrad I of Masovia | Upon the invitation of Duke | , the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and ... |
Henry Tudor | ... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of | and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ... |
Henry III of France | ... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, | (1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ... |
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau | He has two younger brothers: | , born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. H ... |
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... ndôme and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were | and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de' Medici, his maternal ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s In 2009, | stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep ... |
Lord Cobham | ... n was instituted as the rector of Radwinter in Essex, by the appointment of | , who owned the right, and to whom he was also household chaplain. The liv ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
William III of England | ... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that King | granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... d heiress of the 4th Earl of Cork, Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) married | , a future Prime Minister of Great Britain & Ireland. Their son, the 5th D ... |
Mark W. Clark | ... m admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen. | denounced said: "Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these un ... |
King Charles I | ... o discovers that she is Enrichetta (Henrietta Maria), widow of the executed | . Elvira appears singing a joyful polonaise ("Son vergin vezzosa"), but dr ... |
George Marshall | ... uccession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and | . He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal ... |
Bona Sforza | ... ged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the death of | , Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and i ... |
Henry VII | ... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party. | (Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... r husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother | . These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinan ... |
Liudolf | ... e was Count Wichmann, mentioned as a Billung in 811. Oda, the wife of Count | , oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was also a Billung |
Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... e sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, | declared the , giving free passage to Huguenot refugees, and tax-free stat ... |
Philip II | In 1561, King | made Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ... |
Eleonora de' Medici | ... de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and | , his maternal aunt, was his godmother |
Henry II | ... ley. His efficiency in those posts led to Theobald recommending him to King | for the vacant post of Lord Chancellor, to which Becket was appointed in J ... |
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos | ... ars he worked alongside Handel - in 1717/18 both men were employed there by | . (For more see Baker and Baker, ref. below |
Peter II of Aragon | In 1213, forces led by King | , came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ... |
John II of Portugal | ... pe the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed (by King | ) the Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because it represented the ... |
Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
Vytautas the Great | ... assing references from Grand Duke Gediminas and was not mentioned at all by | . His known family relations end with his children; no historic records no ... |
Bob Hope | ... th regular appearances on coast-to-coast broadcasts starring Jimmy Durante, | and |
Tiedemann Giese | ... out their problems in navigation. Rheticus also visited Copernicus' friend, | , who was Bishop of Culm (now Chełmno) |
Duke Magnus | The house became extinct when | died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and | took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ... |
Franz Joseph | ... dinand I were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew | . Separatist tendencies (especially in Lombardy and Hungary) were suppress ... |
Pelé | ... ber of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup. In March 2004 | listed Banks as one of the 125 greatest living footballers. His most famou ... |
Richard B. Mellon | In 1913, along with his brother, | , he established a memorial for his father, the Mellon Institute of Indust ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Eidsvoll Verk was opened to smelt iron ore by King | in 1624, relying on the excellent water power from the Andelva river. In 1 ... |
General Eisenhower | ... the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under | . His unit shot footage documenting D-Day—including the only Allied Europe ... |
Philip V | ... the region was not solved despite the several attempts. During the reign of | , the intendencia was created as a policial and administrative division. N ... |
Prince William | ... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old | , later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ... |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
Franz Ferdinand | ... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke | , who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ... |
Robert Eden | ... its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor | . At the time of its creation, seven commissioners were appointed: Charles ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the | |
Léopold Clément's | ... ews reached Vienna that he had died of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. | younger brother, Francis Stephen, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
Lord Beaverbrook | On 15 May the Minister of Aircraft Production, | , ordered that resources should be concentrated on the production of five ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother, | , acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen. Marie maintain ... |
William Pulteney | ... ously ill. His friends did not fail him at this juncture. He had patrons in | , afterwards Earl of Bath, in the third Earl of Burlington, who constantly ... |
Marshal Ney | ... s. Wellington's pursuit was frustrated by a series of reverses inflicted by | in a much-lauded rear guard campaign |
Bagration | ... . The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops under | guarded the Allied right. Furthermore, the Russian Tsar rudely stripped th ... |
Charles the First | ... its buildings were commandeered by the Royalists and used to house many of | 's court when Oxford was used as the Royalists' capital. This included the ... |
Queen mother | ... ome of the crown's influence in Poitou, Blanche managed to keep the English | Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan ... |
Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
Lyon Playfair | ... there in 1843. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to | at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close f ... |
Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
Titian | ... uable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino and | . The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, ... |
Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
Teresa d'Entença | By | |
Gian Galeazzo Sforza | Isabella di Aragona, princess of Naples and widow of the Duke of Milan | , enlarged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the ... |
Countess of Huntingdon | ... ommunicated to audiences with clarity and passion. His patronization by the | reflected this emphasis on practice |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... English Queen mother Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband | from supporting the English side. Pierre Mauclerc did support the English ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury | James I’s ambassador to Paris, | , who presented his credentials to Louis XIII in 1619, remarked on Louis’ ... |
Robert Walpole | ... wing the death of her eldest daughter in 1733. Sarah lived to see her enemy | fall in 1742, and in the same year attempted to improve her reputation by ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
Niels Bohr | A number of physicists began to advocate vitalism. | was one of the first to suggest that special laws not found in inanimate m ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
Prince Edward | ... Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, | , was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Keni ... |
Hugh de Morville | ... it was interpreted as a royal command, and four knights, Reginald fitzUrse, | , William de Tracy, and Richard le Breton, set out to confront the Archbis ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... in as Charles III following the death of its ruler, and Charles's relative, | , in 1700. He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by wh ... |
Buffon | ... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of | 's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ... |
Otto, Count of Ballenstedt | ... Duke of Bavaria, a member of the House of Welf; his daughter Eilika married | , a member of the Ascanian House. As a consequence, for the following deca ... |
Ilya Prigogine | ... onal chemical thermodynamics are either at equilibrium or near equilibrium. | developed the thermodynamic treatment of open systems that are far from eq ... |
Noël Brûlart de Sillery | ... e country. She mainly relied on Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, | , and Pierre Jeannin. Marie pursued a moderate policy, confirming the Edic ... |
King Haakon | ... Norwegian troops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's | , Crown Prince, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue t ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married | , by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ... |
Quintin Hogg | Announcing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MP | stated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ... |
Henry de Hastings | ... fort at the Battle of Evesham; the surviving rebels under the leadership of | , Montfort's constable at Kenilworth, regrouped at the castle the followin ... |
Princess Margriet | ... lhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchild | on 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returni ... |
Winston Churchill | ... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving | and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ... |
Traidenis | ... ed during the next seven years. Stability did not return until the reign of | , designated Grand Duke ca. 1270 |
Henry VIII | ... yed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King | . The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of h ... |
Alexander Haig | ... Red" China), and active defense of human rights. These nominations included | , Chester Crocker, John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were ... |
Queen Anne | ... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of | , in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ... |
Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
Amras | ... Caranthir fled far south to Amon Ereb, where he and his brothers, Amrod and | , allied with the Green Elves. While Maglor and Maedhros held Himring, sur ... |
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute | In the ensuing century Cardiff was at peace. In 1766, | married into the Herbert family and was later created Baron Cardiff, and i ... |
Princess Margaret of Prussia | ... e up her faith to become Russian Orthodox. The tsar then sent emissaries to | , daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of German Emperor Wi ... |
Rinaldo d'Este | ... rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke | , the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747 |
Henry | ... landowners, including churches and bishoprics. King Henry even sent his son | to live in Becket's household, it being the custom then for noble children ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
Amrod | ... r Gelion. Caranthir fled far south to Amon Ereb, where he and his brothers, | and Amras, allied with the Green Elves. While Maglor and Maedhros held Him ... |
Juliana | ... gn of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter | , because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two regenc ... |
Duke of Richmond | ... t and was then appointed to serve as Chief Secretary for Ireland, under the | . At the same time, he was made a privy counsellor |
Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
Lord Nelson | ... his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October (the British commander, | , died in the battle). Napoleon would never again have the opportunity to ... |
Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
Lord Foster of Thames Bank | ... Deacon's were replaced with the flagship Thomas Deacon Academy, designed by | which opened in September 2007 |
Edward IV of England | ... prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of | who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suff ... |
King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor | |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle, | , at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ... |
Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
Crown Prince | ... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon, | , and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ... |
Dave Grohl | ... any rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and | The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, ... |
Gediminas | ... is support as lukewarm. He received only passing references from Grand Duke | and was not mentioned at all by Vytautas the Great. His known family relat ... |
Lew Grade | On the back of their success on stage and on screen, in 1961 | offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV. Entitled Tw ... |
Franconia | ... urg-Prussia. The territories of the House of Hohenzollern were scattered in | , Brandenburg, eastern Prussia and elsewhere |
George I of Brieg | ... s high altar was moved to Wrocław Cathedral in 1951. Under the rule of Duke | (d. 1521) and his widow Anna of Pomerania, the reformer Caspar Schwenckfel ... |
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) | ... nly at Princess Alix, safe in the knowledge that Alexander III and his wife | , both vigorously anti-German, had no intention of permitting a match with ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... authority in Bavaria; but three alone left issue, and of these the eldest, | , also margrave of Brandenburg and count of Tyrol, died in 1361; followed ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... pression. In Curtain (1991), Michael Korda's novel based on the marriage of | and Vivien Leigh, Gielgud becomes Philip Chagrin |
Ebba Munck af Fulkila | ... of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland) and his wife | . His grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden |
Robert Guiscard | ... re or less intact for over a millennium: at least until the sack of Rome by | and his Normans in 1084, when neglect finally allowed debris to begin to a ... |
William II | ... ds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King | . The village is not actually in Glencoe but occupies an area known as Car ... |
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute | In 1793, | was born. He would spend his life building the Cardiff docks and would lat ... |
Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria | ... operty was divided between his two daughters. His daughter Wulfhild married | , a member of the House of Welf; his daughter Eilika married Otto, Count o ... |
Hamilton Palace | ... milton, forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, | . Many features of this period remain in the park, including the Duke's Br ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... rgaret of Austria. The succession thereby passed to Queen Isabella and King | . She died in 1498, while giving birth to a son, the Infante Miguel, to wh ... |
Hans Wiegel | ... ction polls showed losses for the VVD; the former VVD deputy Prime Minister | blamed a poor VVD campaign for this, caused by the heavily contested VVD l ... |
Lord Curzon | Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by | to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ... |
Francis Drake | ... to New Spain attracted the attention of English and Dutch pirates, such as | , Henry Morgan and Thomas Cavendish, who called it “The Black Ship.” To pr ... |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
Talleyrand | ... onfident of his victory. In a letter written to Minister of Foreign Affairs | , Napoleon requested Talleyrand not tell anyone about the upcoming battle ... |
William III | Henley suffered from both parties in the Civil War. | on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ... |
Sir Thomas Graham | ... d a column against the French centre, while other columns were commanded by | and Rowland Hill and looped around the French right and left (this battle ... |
Duchy of Brabant | ... ne became fragmented, causing the formation of the Duchy of Limburg and the | , whose rulers retained the title Duke of Lothier (derived from "Lotharing ... |
Anthony Eden | ... our). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, | a former British prime minister. At the 2005 general election, James Plask ... |
Henry VIII | ... y took on powerful positions in government. An example of this was found in | 's England where his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prom ... |
Arthur Wellesley | After Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonel | arrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ... |
Laurence Olivier | In the late 1960s and early 1970s Baker was part of | 's National Theatre company, and had his first big film break in 1971 with ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... he former public library on Broadway was donated by Scottish philanthropist | in 1906; Carnegie was made first freeman of the city on the day of the ope ... |
Princess Anna of Prussia | ... Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH | . Her family nicknamed the girl "Alicky" or "Sunny," a practice picked up ... |
Isabel II | ... Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of | , the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central Un ... |
Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
Henry Clay Frick | ... d. Mellon was a member of the Duquesne Club. Along with his closest friends | and Philander Knox, also South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club members, Mell ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator | . Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ... |
Rowland Hill | ... French centre, while other columns were commanded by Sir Thomas Graham and | and looped around the French right and left (this battle became the subjec ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
Robert Walpole | ... nce of Wales, for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, | , the First Lord of the Treasury (effectively the same as today's Prime Mi ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Earl of Richmond | The second creation was on 13 November 1362, for | , who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edwar ... |
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery | Samuel Pepys saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by | , not by Shakespeare. Shakespeare's play returned to the stage in 1723, in ... |
Christian V of Denmark | ... ll preserved today. It was renamed Christiansfjell Fortress in 1685 by King | during his visit to Hammersberg Skanse on June 14. Although the fortress w ... |
Henry VIII | ... t and New Street. To the west it included Bell Street and the Market Place. | , having granted the use of the titles "mayor" and "burgess", the town was ... |
Henry VIII | ... me the Herbert family became the most powerful family in the area. In 1538, | closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of wh ... |
Alf Ramsey | ... World Cup in Chile, a new coach was appointed in former England right back | . Ramsey demanded sole control of team and began looking towards the next ... |
Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
Giuseppe Peano | ... t demonstrated by Cantor in 1878, but it became more apparent in 1890, when | introduced the space-filling curves, curved lines that twist and turn enou ... |
Grand Duke's | ... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent | daughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine |
Earl Bathurst | ... of discipline caused an enraged Wellington to write in a famous dispatch to | , "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers" |
Rogge, Jacques | ... n - Retie - Rexism - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - | - Rogier, Charles - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic ... |
Norman Foster | ... Terminal 3, the world's 2nd largest airport terminal, designed by architect | |
Earl Granville | ... nd was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton (a surveyor for | ). Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town (for Francis Co ... |
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
Henry the Lion | ... an be found in the town of Rerik (which still bears a Slavic name). In 1160 | conquered the region; afterwards German monks, peasants and traders arrive ... |
Alfonso | ... rdinand I in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, | . The title is currently carried by Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... e have been two major film adaptations. The first, directed by and starring | in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Gl ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... spered into the ears of some people that they were better off looking for a | than a Parsifal, they did not believe their ears." Safranski argues that t ... |
Duke of Hamilton | ... g this section of the gorge, although the area was once the preserve of the | , forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, Hami ... |
John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
William Lawrence Bragg | ... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both | and Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ... |
Henry II | ... was a busy port in the Middle Ages, and was declared a Staple port in 1327. | travelled through Cardiff on his journey to Ireland and had a premonition ... |
County of Flanders | ... u - Council of State (Belgium) - Countess of Flanders - Count of Flanders - | - County of Loon - Le Coup de lune - Le Couronnement de Renart - Court of ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... mid 1920s, he was the third highest income tax payer in the US behind only | and Henry Ford. During this period, while he served as Secretary of the U. ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | She also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to | , a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a sup ... |
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk | ... 36) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray (1388–1459), eldest daughter of | (of the first creation) (1366–1399) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366–1425 ... |
Henry V of England | ... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of | ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ... |
Savary | The luring plan did not stop at that. On November 25, general | was sent to the Allied headquarters at Olmutz in order to secretly examine ... |
Duchy of Limburg | ... authority in Lower Lorraine became fragmented, causing the formation of the | and the Duchy of Brabant, whose rulers retained the title Duke of Lothier ... |
Henry the Lion | ... s desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to | , duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Proud. In return, Austria was elevat ... |
Conrad II | ... t Hungary, but Stephen's troops forced them to retreat. Stephen and Emperor | concluded peace negotiations in 1031, and the territories between the Leit ... |
Ferdinand I | ... of Aragon gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King | in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, Alfonso. ... |
Constantine II | King | 's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ... |
Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster | The first creation was on 6 March 1351, for | , a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Ea ... |
Morta | ... have come to prefer diplomacy. In the midst of these events Mindaugas' wife | died, and he took her sister, Daumantas' wife, as his own. In retaliation, ... |
Shah of Iran | ... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed | , who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... roductions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and | 's 1986 musical |
Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine | ... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter, | |
King Oscar II | The history of these arms is quite curious. When on 18 July 1891 | visited the city, a menu had to be printed. It was printed with a coat of ... |
Pedro II | ... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor | , so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ... |
Edward Elgar | ... ebussy quoted the anthem in the coda of his piano prelude, Feux d'artifice. | quoted the opening of "La Marseillaise" in his choral work The Music Maker ... |
Frederick the Great | ... for promotion to Major. Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which | granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ... |
Léopold Clément of Lorraine | ... e was raised early in her childhood. She was first engaged to be married to | , who was supposed to come to Vienna and meet Maria Theresa in 1723. Inste ... |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... to soldiers she spotted on the roads. In 1942, her youngest surviving son, | , was killed in an air crash while on active service. Queen Mary finally r ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | King William III had three sons with his first wife, | . However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ... |
Rowland Hill | ... ellington withdrew his army and, joined with the smaller corps commanded by | , began to retreat to Portugal. Marshal Soult declined to attack |
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse | In 1229, she was responsible for the Treaty of Paris, in which | , submitted to Louis. By it his daughter and heir Joan was forced to marry ... |
Mozart | ... on (which included David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov) to play the role of | in director Milos Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. I ... |
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke | ... ed by William Kent; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by | , and finished by Roger Morris. The latter rose to a height of , complete ... |
Nicholas Kaldor | ... idge capital controversy – winning the argument but not the battle. Much of | ’s work was based on the ideas of increasing returns to scale, path depend ... |
General Charles Cornwallis | ... the American Revolution. Hillsborough served as a military base for British | in late February 1781. The United States Constitution drafted in 1787 was ... |
Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
Conradin | ... owerful prince in southern Germany. He served as the guardian of his nephew | of Hohenstaufen, and after Conradin's execution in Italy in 1268, Louis an ... |
Nicholas I of Russia | ... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor | on the Neva River |
Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford | ... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son, | . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ... |
Henry | ... uring the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, | , backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenil ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
Prince Juan Carlos | In 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir, | , which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ... |
Anthony Eden | ... torcycle, a fact celebrated at the 1953 motorcycle show with a visit by Sir | to the BSA stand. In 1953 the BSA Professional Cycling Team was managed by ... |
Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Robert Runcie | ... with a Primate, is a humorous account of his journeys with his former boss, | |
Henry IV of France | The Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by | , granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) su ... |
Edward I | ... ck to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to | , first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and establi ... |
Count of Flanders | ... nberg group - Cougnou - Council of State (Belgium) - Countess of Flanders - | - County of Flanders - County of Loon - Le Coup de lune - Le Couronnement ... |
Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
Richard II | ... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from | , ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ... |
Louis XVI | ... igning of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by | 102 years later, on 7 November 1787. This edict was enacted by parlement t ... |
Berthold, Margrave of Baden | ... ving school fees" because it was owned by the family of his brother-in-law, | . With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Salem's Jewish founder, Kurt Hahn, f ... |
Murat's | ... s to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the Allied Army to accept | ceasefire proposal so that the allied army could have more time to retreat ... |
Bruno the Great | In 959 the Lotharingian duke | divided the duchy between Lotharingia superior (Upper Lorraine) and Lothar ... |
Henry VII of England | ... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests of | but were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | ... gton Street between Salina and Warren Streets which was named for Commodore | , a railroad magnate and millionaire whose New York Central Railroad "domi ... |
Henry III | ... dation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to | and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic ... |
El Cid | ... II). Ferdinand was prepared to pay, but one of his vassals, later known as | , who in reality was a youth during Ferdinand's reign, declared a war on t ... |
Richard I | Henry's successor, | , paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ... |
Lord Castlereagh | ... toration, but he was eventually brought around by British Foreign Secretary | to the last position. Napoleon abdicated on April 3, 1814, and Louis XVIII ... |
Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
Countess of Flanders | ... Pieter Goethals - Coudenberg group - Cougnou - Council of State (Belgium) - | - Count of Flanders - County of Flanders - County of Loon - Le Coup de lun ... |
Henry II | ... rs of the Anarchy (1135–54), delayed any further development of the castle. | succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of ... |
Henry VI | ... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of | |
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | ... ime period, Wilhelmina's heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed | , and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin) Princess Marie A ... |
Frederick the Great | During the lifetime of | , Blücher was unable to return to the army, but after the king's death in ... |
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | ... t, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece, | , the daughter of her brother, Lord Cambridge. Her personal belongings wer ... |
Ferdinand I | ... in the Revolutions of 1848. Metternich and the mentally handicapped Emperor | were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew Franz J ... |
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married | |
Augustus of Saxony | ... 733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between | , the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński. Austria suppor ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ost other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | at the end of the 15th century, and this union was progressively consolida ... |
Robert II, Duke of Normandy | ... called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by | , the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important c ... |
Agnes of Merania | ... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife | . Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ... |
Jervis | ... the Napoleonic Wars. Protected by naval supremacy (in the words of Admiral | to the House of Lords "I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not co ... |
Fëanor | ... by the Elves of Valinor in the Uttermost West, by the Noldor and maybe even | himself. Many palantíri were made, but the number is not known. Some had p ... |
King Edward III | ... of Richmond, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of | . John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daught ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
Count of Wisborg | Folke Bernadotte, | (in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a S ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... devastated several times during the Thirty Years' War and conquered by King | in 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During W ... |
Henry III of England | ... muster an army to protect Capetian interests against rebellious nobles and | . One of the barons tried to kidnap Louis. He took refuge in a castle and ... |
John | ... rded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King | granted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Har ... |
Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster | ... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married | , daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
John II of Portugal | ... d sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). King | appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around th ... |
King Henry II | ... first record of medieval settlement dates to 1179, when it is recorded that | "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor ... |
William II Sánchez of Gascony | ... helped the political disintegration of the Duchy until their defeat against | in 982. In turn, the weakened ethnic polity known as Duchy of Wasconia/Was ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... c union with Castile and most other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon at the end of the 15th century, and this union ... |
Eleanor of Castile | ... iliation; he arranged the marriage between Edward, his 14 year old son, and | , daughter of Alfonso X. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assis ... |
Empress Carlota of Mexico | ... also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, | and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ... |
Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Francis I | ... ine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano - sailing in service of the French king | - was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City ... |
Count Ansúrez | ... the old city is the 16th-century Plaza Mayor, presided over by a statue of | from 1903. On one side of it stands the City Hall, an eclectic building da ... |
Laurence Olivier | The play's ambiguity has led to diverse interpretations in performance. | 's 1944 film, made during the Second World War, emphasises the patriotic s ... |
Henry II | ... rnal politics Stephen I allied himself with his brother-in-law, the Emperor | against Prince Boleslaw I of Poland, who had extended his rule over the te ... |
Prince Alexander | ... a was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless | and the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so un ... |
Philip II of Savoy | Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by | , at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes. Through ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir | also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham bec ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Alexander Suvorov | ... temkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Pyotr Rumyantsev and | , and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Rus ... |
James Callaghan | ... ent over its cost and whether it was necessary. The outgoing Prime Minister | made his government's papers on Trident available to Margaret Thatcher's n ... |
Arnulf I | ... nt of the language and of the customs of the locals. The count of Flanders, | , received him with honour and lodged him in the Abbey of Mont Blandin, ne ... |
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | ... n Spain and Ireland. The Chorus directly refers to the military triumphs of | , in the fifth act. Henry V himself is sometimes seen as an ambivalent rep ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when | wed Isabella I of Castile, led to the formal creation of Spain as a single ... |
Ivan IV of Russia | ... likii Kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" until | in 1547 was crowned as tsar |
Filippo Maria Visconti | ... rtire (St. Peter Martyr) was built, with the adjacent Dominican convent, by | in 1445. In the last years of Visconti domination it sustained a siege by ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the | |
3rd Duke of Bridgewater | Brindley's reputation brought him to the attention of the | who was looking for a way to improve the transport of coal from his coal m ... |
John Profumo | ... hree Privy Counsellors to resign in the twentieth century (the others being | , who resigned on 26 June 1963, and John Stonehouse, who resigned on 17 Au ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... ke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King | |
Sir Francis Drake | ... roes, among them King Arthur and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, | . At Cadbury Castle in Somerset an old lane near the castle was called Kin ... |
Charles Manners-Sutton | ... the Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham and the Speaker of the House of Commons | |
Leopold I | ... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of | , first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ... |
George I of Great Britain | ... (the great grandson of James I through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King | |
Edward I | All past and present dukes have been descended from | ; see Dukes of Norfolk family tree |
Isabella I of Castile | ... nastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed | , led to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516. See List ... |
Lord Castlereagh's | He was appointed ambassador to France, then took | place as first plenipotentiary to the Congress of Vienna, where he strongl ... |
Richard B. Mellon | ... rn Ireland; his mother was Sarah Jane Negley Mellon. He was also brother of | . He was educated at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the Unive ... |
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | ... d when Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of | (nicknamed "the Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time i ... |
Clement Attlee | ... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of | ) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... rought more attention to Corneille. He was selected to write verses for the | ’s visit to Rouen. The Cardinal took notice of Corneille and selected him ... |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green. | was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908 |
Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke | abdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ... |
Henry II | After the death of | ( 3 July 1024), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Ho ... |
King William III | ... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of | and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ... |
Prince of Orange | William | (afterwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during ... |
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | ... s. William Robertson and Edward Spence are other Victoria Cross recipients. | , UK Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 d ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... hn Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded his cousin Queen | on the Swedish throne, Pfalz-Zweibrücken was in personal union with Sweden ... |
King Henry VII | ... dfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by | , but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the ... |
Walter Cunliffe | ... n in a letter on display in the Bank museum, is that he had quarrelled with | , one of the bank's directors, who would later become Governor of the Bank ... |
Henry | ... custom of wearing a leek as an “ancient tradition” in Henry V. In the play, | tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, good c ... |
Władysław I the Elbow-high | ... hts and then with the German Prussian state. The Kingdom was restored under | , strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great. The western ... |
Roger Bigod | ... the Dukes of Norfolk, there were the Bigod Earls of Norfolk, starting with | from Normandy (died 1107). Their male line ended with Roger Bigod, 5th Ear ... |
Philip V of Spain | statesman in the service of | |
John J. Pershing | ... artermaster at Fort Riley, until July 1916. In 1916, he served with General | 's Mexican Expeditionary Forces, as commander of the bakeries. This was th ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin | ... Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman Sculpture, in 1805. In 1806, | , ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large col ... |
Robert Guiscard | In 1071, Bari was captured by | , following a three-year siege. Maio of Bari (d. 1160), a Lombard merchant ... |
Louis IX of France | In December 1259, | ceded to Henry land north and east of Gascony. In return, Henry renounced ... |
Ronald Wilson | ... ign countries, including Ayala Procaccia (Supreme Court of Israel Justice), | (High Court of Australia Justice), Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of | , which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Mi ... |
Sir James Douglas | ... ly under the youthful Walter the Steward, but actually under the command of | |
Prince of Orange | ... en regnant of the Netherlands, prince Willem-Alexander obtained the title " | " as new heir to the Dutch throne. He is formally styled as His Royal High ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... as born near Piacenza, probably at the village of Fiorenzuola d'Arda in the | |
Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, | , George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known v ... |
Vlerick, André | ... commissie - Vlaamse Volksbeweging - Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD) - | - Vleteren - VLOTT - Voeren - Vorselaar - Vorst (Forest) - Vosselaa |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
Edward II | ... without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted to the crown. | then created his brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to T ... |
Henry IV of France | ... avour of intervening on behalf of the Protestant powers (and Louis's father | was once a Huguenot leader). On the other hand, Louis XIII had had a stric ... |
King Henry VIII | ... and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of | . Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabe ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... Protestants. The Tories were suspected of supporting the Catholic Pretender | . George I rewarded the Whigs by forming a Whig government; at his welcome ... |
Beatrice d'Este | ... s, and, in the rear area of the mastio, the Ladies' Loggia made for Duchess | |
Stephen Báthory of Poland | ... ew Castles were often visited by the Commonwealth monarchs including famous | who made a royal residence here. In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of t ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
Bolesław II the Bold | ... y a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's son | became fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, a ... |
Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | ... th parliamentary power. In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, | , and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. In the ensuing elections, however ... |
Michael Howard | On 3 May 2005, Bremner dressed up as | and walked along the campaign trail in the marginal seat of Wellingborough ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of Marcus Licinius Crassus (played by | ). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and stayed at the house for pa ... |
Margaret | ... s brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to Thomas's daughter | , and then to her grandson Thomas Mowbray |
King Arthur | ... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin | , Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor |
Friedrich von Wieser | The term was coined in 1914 by | in his book "". • However, in 1848 Frédéric Bastiat described this concept ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero General | and won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ... |
Robert Borden | ... nada, a custom that continued until the First World War, around the time of | 's premiership. While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ... |
Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ... Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Roberto I of Parma and | , on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca in Italy, producing four ... |
Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
Juliana | ... onal and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of | , on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childle ... |
Thatcher | The Docklands' status as a symbol of | 's Britain has also made it a target for terrorists. After a failed attemp ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
Thomas Mowbray | ... in 1312. It passed to Thomas's daughter Margaret, and then to her grandson | |
Mahisente Habte Mariam | ... rried to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassie was married to Princess | . Princess Romanework married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnewor ... |
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein | The Augustenborg male line died out in 1931, upon the death of | , a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-line de ... |
Edward II of England | In 1325, the land was confiscated by Charles IV when | , in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispu ... |
James Callaghan | ... th., Sir Francis Austen (brother of Jane Austen) briefly lived in the area, | (British prime minister 1976–1979) was born in Portsmouth, John Pounds the ... |
Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ing able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother, | ; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown. Not wanting to see A ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as | , Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, M ... |
Samuel Slater | ... also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill. | (1768–1835) is the founder of the Slater Mill. As a boy apprentice in Derb ... |
Radelchis I of Benevento | ... lfun in 847, who had been part of the mercenary garrison installed there by | . The city was conquered and the Emirate extinguished in 871, due to the e ... |
Henry II | ... ria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor | (who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ... |
George II of Greece | ... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King | , to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ... |
Treniota | ... ich lasted for 14 years. Encouraged by these developments and by his nephew | , Mindaugas broke peace with the Order. The gains he had expected from Chr ... |
Peter the Great | ... 18,000 of them were Nemtsy, which means either German or western foreigner. | was greatly influenced by the international community located in the Germa ... |
Constance | ... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married | , who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... important works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, is often described as a cantata. | composed at least six works he designated as cantatas: The Company of Heav ... |
Stanley Savige | ... e Gippsland Campus of Monash University. A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir | was erected in 2006. Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy Australia foll ... |
Mozart | ... mann and Beethoven's late quartets". Mendelssohn was not thought of highly, | and Haydn "were considered out of date and naïve", and J.S. Bach merely ma ... |
King George IV | ... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between | , and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ... |
Sara Gizaw | ... e to Princess Medferiashwork Abebe. Prince Makonnen was married to Princess | . Prince Sahle Selassie was married to Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. Pr ... |
Stanislaus II of Poland | ... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ... |
Duke of Aquitaine | ... was confiscated by Charles IV when Edward II of England, in his capacity as | , failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent his wife and then his ... |
Richard I | ... s a leader involved in the massacre of the Jews at Cliffords Tower in York. | dismissed the sheriff and constable of York and imposed severe penalties o ... |
King Richard II | When | created Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or | ) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's la ... |
King Edward IV of England | ... s arranged between Anne and Richard, Duke of York, the four-year-old son of | . She remained Richard's child bride until she died at the age of 8 |
Laurence Olivier | ... guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, | , John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jon ... |
Conrad II | ... varia). In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by | to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier. In 1030, the emperor le ... |
Alexander I | ... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperor | in 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ... |
Charles I | During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under | , by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya. | (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ... |
Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
Francis II | ... ope. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Holy Roman Emperor | kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These achievements, ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King | . He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ... |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... scuous with both sexes. One report suggests he would procure guardsmen with | . Private Eye magazine, which termed Mountbatten 'a raging queen' brought ... |
Edward III | ... aster inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of | ; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt ( | ). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys the suit, and he is Humphrey ... |
Kyril | ... d by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son, | , was executed. On hearing of his son's death he said, "Everything is coll ... |
Andrew Lloyd-Webber | ... h middle classes. The only failure during this period was 1975 musical with | , Jeeves, and even this did little to dent Ayckbourn's popularity. Althoug ... |
3rd Duke of Norfolk | ... dy seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of the | at Framlingham Church. The monumental brass of his first wife Katherine Mo ... |
King George III | ... ually important goals. At the suggestion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, | was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue in 1787 the Proclam ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to | , for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ... |
Duke of Lothier | ... Duchy of Limburg and the Duchy of Brabant, whose rulers retained the title | (derived from "Lotharingia"). With the disappearance of a "lower" Lorraine ... |
Conrad II | ... Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, | claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the ... |
Charles VIII | ... ession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lorenzo de' Medici—King | had him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow Pico to move to Flor ... |
King Richard III | ... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that | , his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was) |
Vasili III | The earliest German settlement in Russia dates back to the reign of | in the 16th century. A handful of German and Dutch craftsmen and traders w ... |
Haile Selassie Gugsa | ... ater married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess Zenebework married Dejazmatch | . Princess Tsehai married Lt. General Abiye Abebe |
Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
Neil Kinnock | ... -market-based communal European economy. In the UK, the Labour Party leader | made a passionate and public attack against the party's Militant Tendency ... |
Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster | ... nued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330. | , inherited the castle from his father in 1345 and remodelled the great ha ... |
King Arthur | ... ention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding | . It is the earliest source that presents Arthur as an historical figure, ... |
Mindaugas | ... he most of Black Ruthenia, was controlled by princes of Lithuanian origin ( | and others) to form the Baltic-Slavic state - Grand Duchy of Lithuania on ... |
King Haakon VII | ... f Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces, | received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best ... |
Princess Zenebework | ... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, | , Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Borrell II | ... s became increasingly independent of the Carolingian power, which the count | made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to Hugh Capet, the fir ... |
Peter III | ... spicious of Catherine upon her accession because she had annulled an act by | that had essentially freed the serfs belonging to the Orthodox Church. Nat ... |
Oscar Peterson | ... wn, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist | , and klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, no ... |
Princess Tsehai | ... Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, | , Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset | ... the offices of Mistress of the Robes and Groom of the Stole and replaced by | . Abigail was made Keeper of the Privy Purse. This broke a promise Anne ha ... |
Henry II of England | ... a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of | . In fact, Henry's chief effect on the development of the English monarchy ... |
Duchy of Benevento | ... tories between his brother's kingdoms, stretching from the North Sea to the | . The logic of the division was that Lothair had the allegiance of Italy, ... |
Richard III | ... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king, | , in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk |
Henry VIII | When | broke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the Dissoluti ... |
Emperor Joseph II | In 1780, the son of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, | , toyed with the idea of determining whether or not to enter an alliance w ... |
Princess Tenagnework | By Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: | , Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ... |
Edward Heath | ... enson played at Marine Spa ballroom, and the place was regularly visited by | |
William the Conqueror | ... iminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by | in the Domesday Book. In each shire a body of important men was sworn (jur ... |
Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr | ... tions of Baron De La Warr, and West came from the second. He was the son of | , of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir Franc ... |
Henry II | ... cal rulers continued fighting amongst themselves the Norman King of England | was invited to intervene. He arrived in 1171, took control of much land, a ... |
Henry II | Bedford traces its borough charter in 1166 by | and elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons |
Henry Frederick | ... manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son | king "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from ... |
Alexander II | The decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of | . In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ... |
Winston Churchill | ... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and | ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ... |
Henry VIII | ... seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King | during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to pray for his soul. In 2006, 3 ... |
Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
James I of Scotland | ... d many distinguished prisoners. The heir to the Scottish throne, later King | , was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. ... |
Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein | ... ess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on 1 October 1685. His tutor was | |
Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
Francis Drake | ... d to send the library home to Spain in 1579, the ships were captured by Sir | . As the battle had damaged his own ship, Drake was forced to go ashore on ... |
Noël Brûlart de Sillery | Louis ultimately dismissed | and Pierre Brulart, vicomte de Puisieux in 1624 because of his displeasure ... |
Princess Fawzia | ... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year, | of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of G ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Ramon Berenguer I | ... based on complex fealties and dependencies. From the time of the triumph of | over the other Catalan counts, the counts of Barcelona stood firmly at the ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king | of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... town later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including | , who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit, Rockefeller's elaborate ma ... |
Wolete Israel Seyoum | Prince Asfaw Wossen was first married to Princess | and then following their divorce to Princess Medferiashwork Abebe. Prince ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... elt the humour was outdated and incomprehensible to modern audiences, while | , in his equally praised 1944 film version of the play, staged the comic s ... |
Mozart | ... ce in the area of music theory. Although these include analyses of music by | , Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, ... |
Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock | ... ears, Amis shared a house with his first wife Hilary and her third husband, | . Martin wrote the memoir Experience about the life, charm, and decline of ... |
James VI of Scotland | ... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, | , to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ... |
King Christian IV | ... 909 and are based on the oldest seal of the city, dating from 1643. In 1643 | (of Denmark and Norway) granted the young city the right to use a seal wit ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler and | declared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ... |
Romanework Haile Selassie | There is some controversy as to Haile Selassie's eldest daughter, Princess | . While the living members of the royal family state that Romanework is th ... |
John II Sigismund Zápolya | ... ism became official in 1583, following the faith of the only Unitarian King | 1541-1571) were declared as accepted (recepta) religions, while Orthodox C ... |
Ramon Berenguer IV | During the reign of | (reigned 1131–1162), several events occurred that would be crucial for the ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... from Alan Bennett's 40 Years On, in which he had appeared in earlier years. | 's friendship with Gielgud was peppered with barely acknowledged competiti ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... acking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by Eugène Ysaÿe. | , on the other hand, suggested that this might have been the result of his ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
David Lloyd George | ... llor of the Exchequer was longer than that of any of his predecessors since | , who served from 1908–15. This was subsequently passed by Labour's Gordon ... |
Stirling Moss | ... Formula One Championship. With only one win that year against four wins of | , he benefited greatly from the gentlemanliness of Moss as shown at the Po ... |
Prince Makonnen | ... nagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, | , and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Harold Macmillan | ... e 1960s, under the 1962 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between | and John F. Kennedy, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris m ... |
Pedro Ansúrez | ... was a village until king Alfonso VI of León and Castile donated it to count | in 1072. He built a palace (now lost) for himself and his wife, countess E ... |
Prince Sahle Selassie | ... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and | |
Roger Mortimer | ... 1326, however, Edward was deposed by an alliance of Isabella and her lover, | . Edward was eventually captured by Isabella's forces and the custody of t ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | ... eived his education at Queen's College, Oxford. He served in the army under | , and, in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection ... |
King Christian IV | The city was named after its founder | in 1641. The last element sand refers to the sandy headland the city was b ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact, | is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ... |
Frederick III of Brandenburg | Ducal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Elector | to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ... |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | ... cceeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under | , who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off |
Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
Henry II the Wrangler | Stephen married Giselle of Bavaria, the daughter of | in or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the fut ... |
king | ... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was a | and his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ... |
Henry VIII | ... f the arms (shown to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour by | to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the Ba ... |
Charles I | ... o held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), | and Charles II |
Johannes Dantiscus | The canon of Warmia Georg Donner and the bishop of Warmia | were both patrons of Rheticus. Rheticus was also commissioned to make a st ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... anish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, | 's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years. The Ki ... |
Sir John Norreys | ... of Nicholas Wyfold (1420–1456), the Lord Mayor of London and, secondly, of | (1400–1466), Keeper of the Wardrobe. The Duke's main home was at Stoke-by- ... |
Faramir | ... hope for Minas Tirith, driving him to suicide, and nearly to the murder of | |
Holy Roman Emperor Francis II | ... ecisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and | , after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place nea ... |
Edward II | ... many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to | . War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the Battle of Borou ... |
Henry VI of England | ... France, and made his England bleed" – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of | , which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of pl ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... ousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousins once removed through King | . Elizabeth fell in love with Philip and they began to exchange letters. E ... |
His Grace Edward William Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk | ... me a Knight of the Garter until 22 April 1983. The current Duke of Norfolk, | , has not been awarded the Order of the Garter. Thus, the Order of the Gar ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... One notable setting is part of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by | |
Baldwin II of Jerusalem | In the year 1113 during the reign of | , according to Ali of Herat (writing in 1173), a certain part over the cav ... |
Maria Theresa | ... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under | ) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ... |
King Arthur | ... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by | to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ... |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather, | (the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ... |
Harold Wilson | ... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of | , with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ... |
Carl Hamilton | ... City and mainly took part there in English language productions. He played | , a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to James Bond. He was discovere ... |
Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
Charles Grey | ... s by a large margin. Sensing a breakthrough that had been long anticipated, | moved for a second reading in the Commons on 23 February 1807. As tributes ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Declaration document is at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by | in which Saddam Hussein tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly ... |
Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... exandra had lost a brother, Friedrich, to the disease, as well as an uncle, | . Her sister Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was also a carrier of th ... |
Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
Mary Tudor | ... pass from their possession. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to | , sister of King Edward VI |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only | and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being t ... |
Leander Starr Jameson | ... anned to support an uitlander coup d'état against the Transvaal government. | carried out this plan, without publicly-acknowledged British authorisation ... |
1st Duke of York | ... and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisation of the | (one of the Princes in the Tower, who was also 1st Duke of Norfolk) on 25 ... |
Lord Amherst | ... ar would be eventful with the suicide of Castlereagh and the appointment of | as the Governor-General of India, replacing Hastings. As Raffles grew rest ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, | . This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Minister | who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ... |
Lord Uxbridge | ... in an infantry duel in which Picton fell. It was during this struggle that | launched two of his cavalry brigades on the enemy; the "Union brigade" cat ... |
Francis Knollys | ... La Warr, of Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire, and his wife, Anne daughter of Sir | and Catherine Carey |
Lord Grenville | ... Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons, while | advocated the cause in the House of Lords |
King John | ... sents information for an indictment. The grand jury was later recognized by | in Magna Carta in on demand of the nobility |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and | , who would later become the first king of a united Italy |
Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... St. John, the first Viscount Bolingbroke from declaring for the Pretender, | . The Marlboroughs returned home on the afternoon of Anne's death. The Act ... |
Henry III | ... d game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of | , in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of t ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as | and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
King Edward VI | ... ssion. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to Mary Tudor, sister of | |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but | soon found out and had Columbus put into chains |
Lobau | ... additional brigade artillery deployed to its left in support. Napoleon sent | 's corps to intercept the rest of Bülow's IV Corps proceeding to Plancenoi ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... hdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which | blockaded the city for fourteen months |
Maria Luisa of Savoy | ... use her influence in carrying out his plans. Upon the death of the Queen ( | ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 b ... |
Henry I's | ... ountess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne on | death in 1135, he became to the English throne |
King Hussein of Jordan | ... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. | bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ... |
Sophia of Hanover | ... udwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of James I through his mother | ), King George I of Great Britain |
Charles II | ... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and | |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | The last shah of Persia, | , officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ... |
4th Duke | ... t creation of the Dukedom of Norfolk had become extinct on the death of the | in 1476, and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisat ... |
Robert Borden | ... norific titles to Canadians; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir | , who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the Hou ... |
George I | ... ar later replaced by Prince Wilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the name | and brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. ... |
Prince of Orange | ... lst (to control the left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by | Frederick Henry, during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) with Spain. An e ... |
Roger de Mortimer | ... ntury, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite | , in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an ... |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | ... n Bernadotte and Kersten came to public attention through British historian | . In 1953, Trevor-Roper published an article based on an interview and doc ... |
King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
Anthony Barber | ... ibes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor of | in the Conservative government of Sir Edward Heath (1970 to 1974). Critics ... |
Ferdinand II of Portugal | ... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of | , and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ... |
Harold II | ... as an ally of William the Conqueror, and is listed as a possible killer of | ; he is also believed to have given William his own horse after the duke's ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... s a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist | and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. I ... |
King Edward V | For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of | in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ... |
Almeida Garrett | ... uguese poetry develops its character from the work of its Romantic epitome, | , a very prolific writer who helped shape the genre with the masterpiece ( ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... outbreak of the First World War, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful | , who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are s ... |
Lavinia Fenton | ... art of the success of The Beggar's Opera may have been due to the acting of | , afterwards Duchess of Bolton, in the part of Polly Peachum. The play ran ... |
Nazgûl | ... Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), snaga, meaning "slave", and ghâsh "fire". The name | is a combination of "nazg" meaning "ring" and "gûl" meaning "wraith(s)", t ... |
Malcolm IV | ... Crown came to his youngest son, David. David was succeeded by his grandsons | , and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before ... |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
Henry II | ... n, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of Foix. Their son | , king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer of France in 1550 b ... |
Anne | ... lle. The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, | , who would serve all six of King Henry VIII's |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ears' War (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, | being notable proponents. The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors had long been i ... |
King Henry II | ... court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of | of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name an ... |
The Duke of Kent | ... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was from | that the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ... |
Francis Bacon | ... e and a lover of hers, took Fuentes' statement literally and suggested that | wrote Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote, both claims which are considere ... |
Louis XVI | ... trumps the Duke's claim by alleging that he is the Lost Dauphin, the son of | and rightful King of France. He continually mispronounces the duke's title ... |
Leofric, Earl of Mercia | ... a market was granted to the Saxon town by King Edward. In the 11th century | , had a hunting lodge at Bengeworth. Leofric founded Holy Trinity Church w ... |
John I of Portugal | ... attle of Ceuta, the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of | . The King of Spain, Phillip II, seized the Portuguese throne in 1580 and ... |
Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
Catherine of Foix | ... . John of Albret, son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with | . Their son Henry II, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... 3 years after the author's death, was later turned into a play, an opera by | and a film by Peter Ustinov |
Lothair | ... re for the benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, | , Pepin, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punct ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... e for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by John Pope-Hennessy | , a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven b ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... entral Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with | , Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable propone ... |
Maximilian I | ... ing, and also successor of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine. The emperor | , interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the ... |
Harold Wilson | ... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister | and without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ... |
John III the Good | ... , Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to | , duke of Brittany. but was childles |
Peter Haden-Guest | Guest was born in New York City, the son of | , a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-G ... |
Niels Bohr | ... ed the strange properties of the photoelectric effect. The Danish physicist | used this same constant in 1913 to explain the stability of Rutherford’s a ... |
Philip II of France | ... he spent little time in England, instead concentrating on the war with King | , which began with Philip's attempts to acquire Richard's possessions on t ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... ite of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen | |
Morton Peto | ... Amsterdam by boat than to London. The railway was introduced to Norwich by | , who also built the line to Great Yarmouth |
Maximilian III | The Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order | , son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 161 ... |
Peter III of Russia | ... 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor | , but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltyko |
King Henry VIII | ... e River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of | , circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed t ... |
Alan Sugar | ... riod through the purchase of the remaining 14.7% holding of former chairman | 's . and those belonging to who held a 9.9 per cent stake through Hodram I ... |
Lech Wałęsa | In 2004 former Solidarity leader | wrote |
William IV | ... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was | : Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ... |
Lothair I | ... was the King of Italy and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father | until 855, after which he ruled alone. Louis's usual title was imperator a ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... inting artist John Walker. The prize was awarded by celebrity presenter Sir | |
Louis de Broglie | ... blished that light carries momentum and can scatter off particles, and when | asserted that matter can be seen as behaving as a wave in much the same wa ... |
Saxe-Eisenach | ... rlin (also a native of Nuremberg), in the employ of Johann Georg I, Duke of | . He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (which was the home city o ... |
Paul I of Russia | #Emperor | (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ... |
Richard III | ... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as | , both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ... |
William I of Geneva | In 1195 he ambushed the party of Count | , which was escorting the count's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France ... |
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | ... ok, that it was published as "propaganda" for reformist interests backed by | or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glos ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | ... the monarchy), Richard III is described as "the undoubted son and heir" of | , and "born in this land" — an oblique reference to his brother's birth at ... |
Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
Duke of Richmond | During February 1844, the | initiated the Central Agricultural Protection Society (CAPS, commonly know ... |
Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
Myrina | ... s, namely Hippolyte, future wife of Acastus (otherwise known as Astydameia) | ;, who married Thoas; and an unnamed daughter, who became the mother of As ... |
George Foulkes | ... aders (and other Electronic Games) Bill" drafted by British Labour Party MP | attempted to ban the game for its "addictive properties" and for causing " ... |
Maximilian II | ... ussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperor | died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 1618, and the Duchy of Prussia pas ... |
Albert IV | ... later became sole ruler in spite of the claims of his two younger brothers. | , called the Wise, added the district of Abensberg to his possessions, and ... |
Louis XV | ... pulation was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal. | ordered all blacks to be deported from France, but was unsuccessful |
Knights of Columbus | ... ppeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in Newdow's favor, Scalia, speaking at a | event in Fredericksburg, Virginia, stated that the Ninth Circuit decision ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... Walt Disney as one of the studio's most gifted artists and teamed him with | on the animated short Destino, a project begun in 1945 that was not comple ... |
Philip II of France | ... 's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King | . Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some ei ... |
Peter II | ... uese João Francisco António de Bragança, in Lisbon and succeeded his father | in December 1706, and was proclaimed on January 1, 1707 |
Charles VIII | ... (d. 1522), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against | ; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of A ... |
George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
George I Louis | ... of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The first of these was | , who acceded to the British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... ations into Polish). The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King | , who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After ... |
Meinhard II of Tyrol | ... bed by the chronicler John of Viktring on the occasion of the coronation of | in 1286. It is also mentioned in Jean Bodin's book Six livres de la Républ ... |
Louis VII of France | ... aimed at all his friends and supporters as well as Becket himself; but King | offered Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abb ... |
Earl of Clarendon | The principal advisor to Charles II, the | remarked on the matter, "and from those contestations the two terms of Rou ... |
Margaret of Geneva | ... rty of Count William I of Geneva, which was escorting the count's daughter, | , to France for her intended wedding to King Philip II of France. Thomas c ... |
Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
Sir Thomas Morgan (1st Baronet 1604-79 | ... e ‘Tredegar Morgans’ and had two brothers, Thomas and Edward. Major-General | ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, ... |
Charles I | ... ntury history, while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers | , the English Civil War, the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, an ... |
W. Averell Harriman | ... Northern delegates to reject him as a racist. Truman favored U.S. diplomat | of New York, but he had never held an elective office and was inexperience ... |
Thomas Browne | ... "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in | 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 |
John IV | ... Bohemia in 1440. He died in 1460, leaving five sons, the two elder of whom, | and Sigismund, reigned in common until the death of John in 1463. The thir ... |
Duchess of York | ... reer, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the | , led to fractures in the marriage. On 19 March 1992 the couple announced ... |
Ernest the Iron | ... later Duchy of Carinthia. It was last performed in 1414, when the Habsburg | was enthroned as Duke of Carinthia. The ritual took place on the Prince's ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... n a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with | 's entourage |
George IV | ... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, by | in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, | , Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies | , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ... |
Mozart | ... ost classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of Haydn and | are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, and brass. H ... |
Lord Byron | Mary and Percy Shelley and | holidayed by the lake and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the bas ... |
Henry VIII | The chief minister of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ... |
David Lloyd George | During the Second Dáil the Irish Republic and the British Government of | agreed to hold peace negotiations. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Ai ... |
Louis XVIII | ... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from | . Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ... |
Earl of Strafford | ... n of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of the | earlier that year; referring to John Pym, she asked who the roundheaded ma ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... on of a museum of Canadian history. The federal prime minister at the time, | , suggested, however, that a preservation of the plains themselves would b ... |
Marie I of Boulogne | ... bury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading | ;; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot |
John VI of Portugal | ... one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King | , proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... ecember, once Labor's win was secure, Whitlam had the Governor-General, Sir | swear him in as Prime Minister and Labor's deputy leader, Lance Barnard, a ... |
Sir Angus Bethune | ... being Tony Rundle (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was | (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen | at the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ... |
Albert III | ... gth, died in 1438. In 1440 the whole of Bavaria-Munich came to Ernest's son | , who had become estranged from his father owing to his union with the unf ... |
Otto I | ... erbert with him. There Gerbert met Pope John XIII (965–972) and the Emperor | , surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerber ... |
Rurik | ... al relation with the Varagians defending the cities that they ruled. Led by | and his brothers Truvor and Sineus, the invited Varangians (called Rus') s ... |
William III | The following century, | 's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the | , devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ... |
Frederick Henry | ... he left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by Prince of Orange | , during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) with Spain. An earlier siege by ... |
Nazgûl | ... existing in two forms, the ancient "pure" forms used by Sauron himself, the | , and the Olog-hai, and the more "debased" form used by the soldiery of th ... |
Lord Cochrane | ... ower and real naval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn, | , Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the ... |
William I, Count of Burgundy | ... the Church around 1070–73. In 1074 Pope Gregory VII was trying to persuade | , to remember this vow and, with Amadeus and others, go to the defence of ... |
Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
Raphael | ... ting found predominately in subterranean Rome and popularised by the artist | . This style, rare in Britain until reintroduced by William Kent at Kensin ... |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales and | were seen in the polo clubs |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | ... about patriotism in general, but the false use of the term "patriotism" by | (the patriot-minister) and his supporters; Johnson opposed "self-professed ... |
Henry II, King of England | ... s twelfth century poet are: Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to | ; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie I of Boulogne; Marie, Abbess of Barking; ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... tugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king | 's mother. That happened around 1450. Still forks were not commonly used i ... |
Thomas, Earl of Surrey | ... ugh maternal) grandson of the 1st Duke of the 1st creation. His eldest son, | carried the sword of state |
Prince George of Denmark | In 1702, he was at Epsom when | , husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ... |
Sir George Cockburn | ... allels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, among them | , Lord Cochrane, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The ... |
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena | ... his children. However, Pachelbel spent only one year in Eisenach. In 1678, | , Johann Georg's brother, died and during the period of mourning court mus ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler to | as only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
Charles V | ... ci. Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor | retook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installe ... |
Władysław II the Exile | ... m the 11th-12th centuries it was also a castellany. After the death of Duke | , Silesia was divided in 1163 between two Piast lines- the Wrocławska line ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
Edward Montagu | ... ter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other roundhead leaders such as | |
Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden | Winterberg was declared a city by | (1238-’61) about 1270. The foundation of the city of Winterberg was presum ... |
Jack Brabham | The Brabham team was founded by | and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building an ... |
Henry VIII | ... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King | 's |
Simeon of Bulgaria | ... f heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of | or James Ogilvy |
George I | ... ious Stuart monarchs, chose to rely on a small committee of advisers. Under | even more power passed to this committee. It now began to meet in the abse ... |
King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
Stephen Báthory | ... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King | , suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ... |
Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu | In Portugal, forks began being used with | , king Manuel I of Portugal's mother. That happened around 1450. Still for ... |
Charles the Bold | ... t. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by | of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from th ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title. | sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of Henry V in the tiring room of t ... |
Henry VIII | ... ority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under | and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I |
Frederick II | ... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, King | announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ... |
James I of Aragon | ... December 31, 1229, after three months of siege, the city was reconquered by | and was renamed Palma de Mallorca. In addition to being kept as capital of ... |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | ... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by | , who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ... |
Napoleon | After | imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1 ... |
Nicholas Serota | ... lly and internationally, as well as who are rising stars. Tate Director Sir | has been the Chair of the jury since his tenure at the Tate (with the exce ... |
Lord Goldsmith | Before the invasion, the then UK Attorney General | , advised that the war would be in breach of international law for six rea ... |
Duchy of Savoy | ... ainst Napoleon, and later served as Ambassador in Turin, the capital of the | |
Louis IX | ... comprised almost entirely family feuds. He died in July 1450, and his son, | (called the Rich) succeeded. About this time Bavaria began to recover some ... |
Oscar II | ... an). Due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905, | had to change his motto |
Duchy of Brabant | ... oped in Leuven (Lúbhan in Irish and Louvain historically in English) in the | , now in Flanders (northern Belgium). The Flight of the Earls, in 1607, le ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... 1983, he made his second onscreen appearance with fellow theatrical knights | and Ralph Richardson (following Olivier's own Richard III) in a television ... |
Philip the Good | ... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, | , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ... |
Edward VI | ... the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry VIII's son and successor, the young | , continued with further religious reforms but his early death in 1553 pre ... |
Bolko I of Opole | ... 1327 and Magdeburg rights in 1410. Opole developed during the rule of duke | . In this time the castle was finally completed and new buildings, includi ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ents to the imperial constitution that replaced the authoritarian system of | with a parliamentary system |
Sidney Nolan | ... eorge Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir | , Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
Borrell II of Barcelona | ... ce. Around 963, he entered the monastery of St. Gerald of Aurillac. In 967, | (947–992), visited the monastery, and the abbot asked the Count to take Ge ... |
George III | ... d Hanover. The Convention also meant the disbanding of the army of Hanover. | did not recognize the Convention of the Elbe. As a result of this, a great ... |
Alexander III | ... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsar | and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ... |
William of Mandeville | ... ks, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who may have been either | or William Marshall. However, it has also been suggested that Count Willia ... |
Abdullah | ## | (born August 1922); current king, since 200 |
Guelders | ... ptured by Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of | , took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor Char ... |
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset | Jane also had two other lovers: the queen's eldest son | , and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. Grey's wife was the wealthy he ... |
Fritigil | The Christianisation of the Marcomanni occurred under their queen | (mid fourth century), who corresponded with Ambrose of Milan to bring abou ... |
Borrell II of Barcelona | ... celona, and probably also at the nearby Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. | was facing major defeat from the Andalusian powers so he sent a delegation ... |
Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
d'Holbach | ... heir actions are determined. "Hard determinists", such as Martin Luther and | , are those incompatibilists who accept determinism and reject free will. ... |
Robert Peel | ... They arise from the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, | , in 1843 by Daniel M'Naghten. In fact, M'Naghten fired a pistol at the ba ... |
Sigismund III | ... ry, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings | and Władysław IV. The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the ... |
Saigō Takamori | ... o convinced Ōkubo that the tobaku movement was doomed. In 1866, he met with | and Chōshū Domain's Kido Takayoshi to form the secret Satcho Alliance to o ... |
Ferdinand of Brunswick | ... of the Invasion of Hanover. It was recaptured by Anglo-German forces led by | the following year |
Edward IV | ... or Woodville), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King | consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1 ... |
Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
Saint-Simon | ... natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of | : "King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, ... |
Mary | ... a succession crisis. He was wary of allowing his Catholic elder half-sister | to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating Lady Jane Grey as his ... |
Kallidike | ... where the four daughters of the local king Keleos and his queen Metaneira ( | , Kleisidike, Demo and Kallithoe) found her and took her to their palace t ... |
King Charles I | ... n applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute | . In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv ... |
Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by | , in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Lothair II | ... ll a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his father, | , went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which ... |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Sarah Ferguson | Prince Andrew married | at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him D ... |
Henry VIII's | ... ishment except death, without being bound by normal court procedure. During | reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact l ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident | on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ... |
Alan Bullock | ... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and | , are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ... |
Philip II | ... the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when the city was destroyed by a fire and | , born here, moved the capital to Madrid, starting a period of decadence f ... |
Ernest Rutherford | ... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. | and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ... |
Arthur, Prince of Wales | ... man who sat on the commissions in the Welsh Marches and clerk controller to | , at Ludlow Castle. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive, but old ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... g located in downtown Medford. It was erected in 1911 thanks to a gift from | , but was vacated in 2004 after a new library building was constructed nea ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice by | and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdicatio ... |
Napoleon | ... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed by | upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ... |
Kido Takayoshi | ... ovement was doomed. In 1866, he met with Saigō Takamori and Chōshū Domain's | to form the secret Satcho Alliance to overthrow the Tokugawa |
Władysław IV | ... dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and | . The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire ... |
Henry Fox | ... legitimate son of Charles II of England. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with | , a politician who was eighteen years her senior. Though her parents disap ... |
William IV's | In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended as | heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ... |
Philip III | ... him. It was made the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by | . The city was again damaged by a flood of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers |
Alan Sugar | Secondly, Amstrad founder | wanted the machine to resemble a “real computer, similar to what someone w ... |
King Charles II | ... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to | , purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ... |
Henry VIII | ... agued previous monarchs came to an end. The reign of the second Tudor king, | , was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with ... |
Charles VI | ... t part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella had married King | . About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henr ... |
Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed to | were not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ... |
Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
Ernest Augustus | ... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother, | , and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ... |
Frederick III | ... supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector | was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ru ... |
Wilhelm von Gennep | ... ed by Gottfried IV. von Arnsberg during his war with the Cologne archbishop | . For the reconstruction the archbishop granted an at first ten-year-old t ... |
William Beveridge | In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer | , who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ... |
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting | , and the Catholic League against the Protestants--to the tune of a millio ... |
Duke of Gloucester | ... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the | became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
Nicholas Serota | ... ring, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir | (about the purchase of a trustee's work) |
Giuseppe Caprio | ... des, he was not the naive idealist his critics made him out to be. Cardinal | , the substitute Papal Secretary of State, said that John Paul quickly acc ... |
Louis VII | ... and with his brother, John of Bavaria-Munich. On his death in 1413 his son | , called the Bearded, succeeded. Before his accession, this restless and q ... |
Luise of Prussia | ... composer, writing an operetta called Die Maske and sending a copy to Queen | . The official reply advised to him to write to the director of the Royal ... |
Lord John Russell | ... he Corn Laws. His colleagues resisted this. Soon afterwards the Whig leader | declared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared ... |
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | ... t of which is believed to come word-for-word from the petition presented by | , to the assembly which met on June 25, 1483, to decide on the future of t ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
Josip Broz Tito | ... term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, | and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal Presid ... |
James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare | ... t daughters be entrusted to the care of their sister Emily and her husband, | . Lady Caroline resented this slight but hoped to redeem herself by presen ... |
Clement Attlee | ... ister in the world: Chris Watson. In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by | , was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme. Social D ... |
Edward III | ... l lion was, according to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "said to have been granted by | ". By the 19th century the city corporation had added supporters, two ange ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... ngs used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, | , Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Mall ... |
John II | ... part of the duchy amongst Stephen's three sons, Stephen III, Frederick and | , who founded respectively the lines of Ingolstadt, Landshut and Munich |
consort | ... ent of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His | was Empress Euphemia |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... against the Protestants--to the tune of a million gold ducats)--as well as | , King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire. ... |
Casimir I of Opole | In the early 13th century Duke | decided to move the settlement from the Pasieka island into the right shor ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... rder of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor of | and General of the Frontier of Portugal. Pedro de Alvarado's mother was Di ... |
Frederick William I | ... East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions. Crown Prince | led the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of ... |
Yaa Asantewaa | ... of Samory Ture's new-founded Wassoulou Empire in 1898 and the Ashanti queen | in 1902, most West African military resistance to colonial rule came to an ... |
Frederick | ... ed the greater part of the duchy amongst Stephen's three sons, Stephen III, | and John II, who founded respectively the lines of Ingolstadt, Landshut an ... |
Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
Afonso VI of Portugal | ... n was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon by which, on January 1, 1668, King | formally ceded Ceuta to Carlos II of Spain. However, the originally Portug ... |
King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
Lord Stanley | ... d decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws. | resigned from the Cabinet in protest. The next day Peel resigned as Prime ... |
Saigō Takamori | ... e was the eldest of five children. He studied at the same local school with | , who was three years older. In 1846, he was given the position of aide to ... |
Penthesilea | ... s temporary truce with Priam, fought and killed the Amazonian warrior queen | , but later grieved over her death. At first, he was so distracted by her ... |
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy | He was married to Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of | and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giova ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Bishop Brynjólfur sent the Codex Regius as a present to King | , hence the name Codex Regius. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Li ... |
Robert Walpole | ... Jack Sheppard. At the same time, Jonathan Wild was understood to represent | , whose government had been tolerant of Wild's thievery and the South Sea ... |
County of Savoy | He was born around 1225 near Moûtiers in the Tarentaise region of the | , then part of the Kingdom of Arles in the Holy Roman Empire, but now in s ... |
James III of Scotland | ... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to | . Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ... |
King Charles I | ... ther groups whose adherents believed the English Reformation was in danger. | had ascended the throne in 1624, and he had married a Roman Catholic. Char ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... st marriage to Michael Attenborough, the son of British film actor/director | , lasted from 1971 to 1973. Her second marriage to Geoffrey Planer lasted ... |
John Herschel | ... le toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir | . Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however |
Bedivere | ... a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to | instead in Malory and the English tradition |
Leopold I | ... masters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor | in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to ... |
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | ... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and | . They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ... |
Stephen III | ... ich sub-divided the greater part of the duchy amongst Stephen's three sons, | , Frederick and John II, who founded respectively the lines of Ingolstadt, ... |
George III | ... esponsible for Lady Sarah Lennox's embarrassing rejection by the young King | , as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir Charles Bunbury soon afterward ... |
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Robert Walpole | ... es were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with | being another major proponent. In Britain, government control over the dom ... |
George II | ... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King | , who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ... |
William Longsword | ... rshall. However, it has also been suggested that Count William may refer to | . Longsword was a recognized illegitimate son of Henry II. If Marie was ac ... |
Frederick II | ... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor | against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ... |
John of Gaunt | ... mily, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of | 's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... owerful supporter of the union and was greatly responsible for its success. | , who himself publicly displayed Catholic piety, confirmed the Pope's infl ... |
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun | ... in June 2010 that the total had been achieved. The monument was unveiled by | , in August 2010 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... tet with double bass. Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet in G major, Op.77 and | 's Serenade in G major, K.525 ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik") are the most popu ... |
Lord Cardigan | ... in the fashionable 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons. The 11th, commanded by | , later involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade, had just returned fro ... |
Richard, Duke of York | ... House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was | . Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son Edward ... |
Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
Thomas Spring-Rice | ... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | , on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, | of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
Stephen II | The two remaining brothers, | and Albert I, ruled over Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing respective ... |
Adelaide of Susa | ... 078. He ruled only nominally, as true power was in the hands of his mother, | |
Charles Bunbury | ... ion by the young King George III, as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir | soon afterwards, provoked a quarrel between the sisters that was not heale ... |
King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
Albert I | The two remaining brothers, Stephen II and | , ruled over Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing respectively, and when ... |
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers | ... Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by his mother and by his uncle, | , who carried out many of the administrative duties associated with the pr ... |
Lord Dundonald | ... ul) modifications to test a newly-developed rotary steam engine designed by | . At a cost of nearly £80, Rockets cylinders and driving rods were removed ... |
Louis XVI | ... 9 April 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of | , a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789 |
General William Howe | ... at the Emlen House, built by Quaker George Emlen in 1745. British commander | observed the American lines from the belltower of St. Thomas' Episcopal Ch ... |
Sir Garfield Barwick | ... period his political views became more conservative. He became a friend of | , the Liberal Attorney-General who became Chief Justice of the High Court ... |
Henry VI | ... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant son | on the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ... |
Edward V of England | ... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future | in his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ... |
King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator | 's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ... |
Reginar | ... icitur: "duke of the kingdom that many call Lothair's". He was succeeded by | , who led the nobility in electing Charles the Simple of West Francia king ... |
Francis II of the Two Sicilies | When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 (see | ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the isla ... |
Ljudevit Posavski | ... The local princes were deposed for following the anti-Frankish rebellion of | and replaced by a Germanic (primarily Bavarian) ascendancy. In 843 it pass ... |
Duchy of Brabant | ... incorporated into the Duchy of Lower Lotharingia, which became part of the | at the end of the 12th century. Despite its proximity to Liège, the territ ... |
Lady Houston | In 1933, | , a British millionairess, funded the Houston Everest Flight of 1933, whic ... |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
Harald Maddadsson | ... arls of Orkney continued to rule much of Northern Scotland until 1196, when | agreed to pay tribute to William the Lion, King of Scots for his territori ... |
Charles I | A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's | persecuted religious dissenters. Waves of repression led to the migration ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of | , proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ... |
Henry V | ... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future | . Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ... |
Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
Maximilian I | ... e Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor | |
Władysław Opolczyk | ... The second castle of Opole was probably founded in the 14th century by duke | , though some sources claim that it was originally a wooden stronghold of ... |
Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
Pelé | ... Downing Stadium for two seasons, starting in 1974. In 1975, the team signed | , officially recorded by FIFA as the world's greatest soccer player, to a ... |
king | ... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the | . The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ... |
Marquess of Clydesdale | ... ouston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of aircraft led by the | fly over the summit in an effort to deploy the British Union Flag at the t ... |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | The Lennox sisters were daughters of | , a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ... |
Humphry Davy | ... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir | and independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... 40, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from | . By that time, the town was mainly known for its able craftsmen: ceramist ... |
Hugh Capet | ... attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) by supporting | (987–996). Capet became King of France, ending the Carolingian line of Kin ... |
Prince of Wales | Edward IV's eldest son was invested with the title of | at the age of seven months. At the age of three, he was sent by his father ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
Laurence Olivier | Unlike Welles's film, | 's Othello (1965), based on John Dexter's National Theatre Company's produ ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... ard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist | , his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Terence Rattigan | ... to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to | 's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer |
Keith Joseph | ... ex. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with | suggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon |
William of Orange | ... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by | on November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ... |
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia | ... im a daughter named Anna Petrovna in December 1757 (not to be confused with | , the daughter of Peter I's second marriage) |
Charles V | ... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by | at the (1525) |
Meinhard | ... 1361; followed to the grave two years later by his only (and childless) son | . Tyrol then passed to Habsburg. Brandenburg was lost in 1373 |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... in his own hands. In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousin | seized power. Richard was deposed, imprisoned, and eventually murdered, pr ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the | . The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... e Spanish ambassador to England, who had secured a copy and passed it on to | ), drawn circa 1607 by the Jamestown settler Francis Nelson, also gives cr ... |
Niklot | ... imes they levied tribute from the Danes and Saxons. Under the leadership of | , they resisted a Christian assault during the Wendish Crusade |
Elizabeth von Arnim | ... including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist | . In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whos ... |
Ferdinand II | ... onarchs, the recently enthroned Isabella I Queen of Castile and her husband | King of Aragon. Although Columbus had presented his navigational plan to t ... |
Charles | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: | , Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ... |
Hainaut | ... ory, however, was complicated by its connections with Brandenburg, Holland, | and Tirol, all of which the emperor had also left to his sons. All the six ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... orations until it was broken up by the United States Supreme Court in 1911. | was a founder, chairman and major shareholder. As it grew exponentially an ... |
William the Conqueror | ... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. | ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ... |
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury | ... age to Elizabeth Woodville. Lady Eleanor Butler (a young widow, daughter of | ) and Edward were alleged to have been precontracted; both parties were de ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund | ... ismund was christened as the namesake of his mother's maternal grandfather, | , who had died in 1437 |
Gilbert | ... d him by granting him the title margrave. Reginar was succeeded by his son, | , who used the title dux Lotharingiae: "duke of Lotharingia". When the Wes ... |
Robert Napier | ... dros II for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by | during the |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
John Denham | ... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by | , part of his description of the Thames |
Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
Duke of Silesia | ... of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548. Earlier, Sigismund had been invested as | |
William of Orange | ... alace's antiquated state was addressed. England had two new joint monarchs, | and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II. Within months of th ... |
count of Guelders | The city of Arnhem had its real origins in 1233 when Otto II, | from Zutphen, conferred city rights on the town, which had belonged to the ... |
Vasily III | Intermittently at war with | of Muscovy, starting in 1507 (before his army was fully under his command) ... |
Mary II | ... t monarchs, William of Orange and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen | . Within months of their accession they embarked on a massive rebuilding p ... |
Lord Finlay | ... s Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven of Cuba and | of the United Kingdom were elected by a majority vote of both the Council ... |
Richard III | ... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother | . Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
Arthur Wellesley | ... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of | (later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ... |
Philip II | ... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces by | due to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... organization NSZZ Solidarity. It officially registered on 10 November 1980. | and others formed a broad anti-Soviet social movement ranging from people ... |
Princess of Wales | ... as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by the Prince and | . It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Market and escalators lea ... |
Lord Salisbury | Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to | in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ... |
John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute | In 1922 | , had sold the entire site and it was bought by the Cardiff Arms Park Comp ... |
Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... erman Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General | , with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operation ... |
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, | on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... activities. In September 1981 Solidarity's first national congress elected | as a president and adopted a republican program, the "Self-governing Repub ... |
Henry VII of England | ... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of | . The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ... |
King Charles I | ... setts Bay Company in 1628, he became involved in 1629 when the anti-Puritan | began a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629 he w ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... she repudiated with the help of the Tyrolean aristocracy in order to marry | , a member of the powerful Wittelsbach dynasty. This weakened the position ... |
Queen consort | ... hard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the | of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify ... |
John, Duke of Berry | ... g them the Holy Thorn Reliquary, probably created in the 1390s in Paris for | . The collection was in the tradition of a schatzkammer or treasure house ... |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... bert in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by | in his Theory of Analytic Functions (1797, 1813). He said, "One may view m ... |
Elector of Hanover | ... nder their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the | ). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to becom ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... the Directory. France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of | , the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following ext ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ic boys whose fathers had died before they reached maturity. These included | , Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl o ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... orwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one from | in 1194. Following a riot in the city in 1274, Norwich has the distinction ... |
Lord Finlay | ... ice-President on 12 September 1928 to succeed Weiss, while a second death ( | ) left the Court increasingly understaffed. Replacements for Moore and Fin ... |
Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... e goes forward twice and backward twice and arrives back at the same place. | 's Scherzo-Duetto di Mozart is played by one violinist as written and the ... |
Marquess of Bute | The town grew rapidly from the 1830s onwards, when the | built a dock which eventually linked to the Taff Vale Railway. Cardiff bec ... |
Francis Spellman | ... Murray was called to the Council in April, 1963 at the request of Cardinal | of New York (who was otherwise a theological conservative) to be a peritus ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | The fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General | , who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... e upper classes. Brassai photographed many of his artist friends, including | , Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the pro ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married | , the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th century | removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ... |
Henry II | Norwich received a royal charter from | in 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194. Following a r ... |
James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
Terence Rattigan | ... loane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright | , who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival. The play was transferre ... |
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland | ... e Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,and | . He is widely credited with reforming an institution notorious for its co ... |
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ts marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 document. By the 13th century, | and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, John the B ... |
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton | ... they reached maturity. These included Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, | ,and Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland. He is widely credited with reform ... |
Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
Prince of the United Kingdom | ... rank of Commander, when Elizabeth became Queen in 1952. His wife made him a | in 1957 and Lord High Admiral in 2011 |
Edward IV | ... e of York. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son | led the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The Wars of the Roses, nevertheless, ... |
Jean-Georges Garneau | The Mayor of Quebec City, | , in 1908 appointed a landmark commission under the chairmanship of Chief ... |
Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
Ernest Pollock | ... t was a good one, from politicians, practising lawyers and academics alike. | , the former Attorney General for England and Wales said "May we not as la ... |
Edward | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and | . Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and El ... |
King Charles I | ... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against | and his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ... |
Louis XVI of France | ... cant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of King | in 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for "crimes of tyranny" against ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
John Sparrow David Thompson | ... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 and | in 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ... |
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | ... es appear in Hughes's novel. Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to | , and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington' ... |
Rudolph I | For some years after Louis' death in 1294 his sons | and Louis, afterwards the emperor Louis IV, ruled their duchy in common; b ... |
Anthony Greenwood | ... nding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, | , Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations ... |
André Masséna | In 1810, a newly-enlarged French army under Marshal | invaded Portugal. British opinion both at home and in the army was negativ ... |
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Baron Carrington | ... o lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden, | who lives in Bledlow, Benjamin Disraeli who lived at Hughenden Manor and w ... |
Louis XIII | | conferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at P ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... Freeway (Hwy 401) is named after Cartier and fellow Father of Confederation | , as are Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport and the Macdonal ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( | in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ... |
Wenceslaus I of Legnica | ... I the Fair and his descendants. In the quarrel with his elder brother Duke | a 1359 judgement by Emperor Charles IV alloted Lubin along with Krzeczyn W ... |
James III of Scotland | ... backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King | , to take the Scottish throne in 1482. Gloucester led an invasion of Scotl ... |
Morgan le Fay | ... by one wearing the scabbard did not bleed at all. The scabbard is stolen by | and thrown into a lake, never to be found again |
Sir Robert Walpole | ... era, a Ballad opera produced on the January 29, 1728 by John Rich, in which | was caricatured. This famous piece, which was said to have made "Rich gay ... |
George V | ... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King | of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ... |
Edward II | ... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor, | , who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ... |
Mozart | ... – the finale has all the glory and ease of movement of the last movement of | 's Symphony No. 41 |
Edward IV | ... enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King | 's court. William held the office of comptroller of the household from 147 ... |
Charles I | ... e on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644) relates to the Court of | , while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with Sarah, Duch ... |
Henry XIII | The first of these divisions occurred in 1255. Louis II and | , the sons of Duke Otto II, who for two years after their father's death h ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... inister. Two former prime ministers Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir | served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as G ... |
Gawain | ... of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by | , Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights. This is in contrast to late ... |
Ottokar II of Bohemia | ... in the 13th century, Austria came briefly under the rule of the Czech King | . Contesting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor, Ottokar was ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... t emerged on August 31, 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of | . It was the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw ... |
Robert Peel | ... of Adam Smith and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by | symbolised the emergence of free trade as an alternative system. Mercantil ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... African-American cast), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and | 's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on 'A Ch ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of | . Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was Nat Goldhaber |
Antwerp | ... was, again, looking for control of the Ardennes. The goal was to advance to | , to cut off supply and separate British from American troops. On December ... |
François Langelier | ... ission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court | . Amongst its recommendations for permanently recording the celebrations f ... |
John II | ... Bavaria then passed to Henry XVILA. Dying in 1539, Henry left an only son, | , who died childless in the following year, when the Wittelsbach emperor L ... |
Henry Clay Frick | In 1909, | , a steel magnate, bought the present-day so that his daughter Helen could ... |
Ladislaus IV of Hungary | ... defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King | |
Geoffrey Fisher | ... the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal grand ... |
Lord Liverpool | ... ent of peace during 1814, corn prices decreased, and the Tory government of | passed the 1815 Corn Law. This resulted in serious rioting in London |
Simon de Montfort | ... aving the Crown to his nine-year-old son Henry III. Later in Henry's reign, | led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. The ... |
William | ... the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, | , was part of King Edward IV's court. William held the office of comptroll ... |
Louis Bonaparte | ... were killed, over 2000 were injured and some 220 homes were destroyed. King | personally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. Although ... |
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough | ... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with | . Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ... |
John of Austria | ... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother, | ) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ... |
Edward VI | ... any historic events. In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future | , was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there ... |
Franconia | ... emko of Ścinawa by German settlers, maybe descending from Lower Lorraine or | , in the course of the Ostsiedlung. It obtained its city rights about 1295 ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... Epstein is mounted on the exterior of the new cathedral near the entrance. | 's War Requiem, regarded by some as his masterpiece, was written for the o ... |
Viceroy Linlithgow | When World war II started, | had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain, ... |
Ritchie Calder | ... its organising secretary. The other members of its executive committee were | , journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, King ... |
George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester | Montague Township was supposedly named after the | , as suggested by King George II, who approved the royal patent on March 2 ... |
Princess George of Greece | ... led in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his aunt, | |
Prince-elector | ... ty's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the | of Cologne) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg ... |
Prince Charles | ... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". | wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ... |
John Berkeley | ... n June 24, 1664. The Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to | and George Carteret for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
Otto II | ... Frederick II, and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son | , called the Illustrious, the next duke, found that his loyalty to the Hoh ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President | , he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facili ... |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... authors it is more humane and efficient. The signers of this document are: | , Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Varg ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife, | . A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ... |
Raphael | ... and Attila into a pious "fable which has been represented by the pencil of | and the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter ... |
George V | ... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of | . He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ... |
King William III | William Prince of Orange (afterwards | ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ... |
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | ... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When | , and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... ief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prominent example is that of | , whose power was so great that he was for many years the real ruler of Fr ... |
Gráinne | ... e – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter | as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua ... |
Duke of Montemar | ... Kébir and Oran in 1708. The Spanish returned in 1732 when the armada of the | was victorious in the Battle of Aïn-el-Turk and took again Oran and Mers E ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ow. The even was viewed by an audience of about 3.5 million. The funeral of | , had taken place on the same day, and the Frenchman therefore dedicated " ... |
John of Bohemia | ... ts city rights about 1295. In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King | , who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 i ... |
Louis II | The first of these divisions occurred in 1255. | and Henry XIII, the sons of Duke Otto II, who for two years after their fa ... |
Richard II | ... ses. In 1377 Edward III died, leaving the Crown to his 10-year-old grandson | . Like many of his predecessors, Richard II conflicted with the nobles by ... |
William of Orange | ... s Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on | . He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made cl ... |
Maharaja of Patiala | ... and the Simla Hill States. It was imagined as a theocratic state led by the | with the aid of a cabinet consisting of the representatives of other units ... |
Henry II of England | ... welfth century; they are dedicated to a "noble king", usually assumed to be | , or possibly his eldest son, Henry the Young King. Another of her works, ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... s, which would have been the second-longest reign in Europe (behind that of | ), seventh-longest in the world, and the longest reign by a female monarch ... |
James II | ... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators against | in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ... |
Count of Savoy | Thomas I or Tommaso I (1178, Aiguebelle – 1 March 1233) was | from 1189-1233. He was the son of Humbert III of Savoy and Beatrice of Vie ... |
Louis XI of France | ... political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, | — Edward was a popular and very able king. While he lacked foresight and ... |
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria | ... of Austria and was given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976 after the revolt of | |
Queen Mary I | ... rd VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that | (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend ... |
Earls of Danby | ... n conspirators against James II in 1688. Among those meeting there were the | and Devonshire, commemorated by the ducal crowns around the supporters' ne ... |
James I | ... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as | of the House of Stuart |
Queen Olga of Greece | ... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were | and the Mayor of Corfu |
Mozart | ... ing more to the contrapuntal language of Bach than the Classical clarity of | |
Charles IV | ... El Kébir. Both cities were held until 1792, when they were sold by the king | to the Bey of Algiers |
Edward III | ... deposed and then murdered by his wife Isabella. His 14-year-old son became | . Edward III claimed the French Crown, setting off the Hundred Years' War ... |
Edward IV | ... of only two courtiers to become Knight of the Garter in the second reign of | . Sir William Parr could claim royal descent through King John of England, ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
John of England | ... le, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King | in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was ... |
Fürst | ... nstalling Carantanian dukes (or princes, both an approximate translation of | ), a practice that continued after Carantania was incorporated into the la ... |
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria | ... conveyed. An attempt supported by a wide coalition of parties, to establish | , as a Staatskommisar with dictatorial powers in 1932 to counter the Nazis ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of | or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ... |
Henry the Young King | ... ng", usually assumed to be Henry II of England, or possibly his eldest son, | . Another of her works, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who ... |
John J. Pershing | ... onded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier General | to Mexico to pursue Villa. This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expediti ... |
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet | ... s, the last individual to be expelled from the Council against his will was | , who was removed on 13 December 1921 for pro-German activities during the ... |
Gwilym Lloyd George | ... city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary | . Caernarfon had also vied for this title. Cardiff therefore celebrated tw ... |
Charles I | King James was succeeded in 1625 by his son, the ill-fated | . For this king, Hampton Court was to become both his palace and his priso ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... ten by John Cleese about a zoo in peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, | , Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The dedication displays photos and the li ... |
King John II of Portugal | ... later India. In 1485, Christopher Columbus unsuccessfully tried to persuade | (João II) to sponsor an expedition to Asia, meant to be reached by sailing ... |
Henry II of England | ... the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with | over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers ... |
Elisabeth of Bavaria | ... uri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city of Corfu Greece, Empress of Austria | also known as Sissi built in 1890 a summer palace with Achilles as its cen ... |
Sir Paul Hasluck | ... New South Wales in 1972. He was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1974. | was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister ... |
Duchy of Carinthia | ... a practice that continued after Carantania was incorporated into the later | . It was last performed in 1414, when the Habsburg Ernest the Iron was ent ... |
Edward V of England | ... orge's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, | |
Isabella | ... 322. Nevertheless, in 1327 Edward was deposed and then murdered by his wife | . His 14-year-old son became Edward III. Edward III claimed the French Cro ... |
Frederick II | ... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor | , and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ... |
Władysław Jagiełło | In 1392, the city received an important trade privilege from king | , and with the coming of the peace between Poland and Lithuania developed ... |
Henry X | Henry IX's son | , called the Proud, succeeded in 1126, and also obtained the Duchy of Saxo ... |
Duke of Suffolk | ... Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 – 30 April 1513), | , was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth ... |
Sir Robert Cecil | ... f Burghley on his death, was later created Earl of Exeter. His younger son, | (later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbu ... |
Lord Acton | ... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and | , have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ... |
George Simpson | Sir | was instrumental in establishing the fort, and Dr. John McLoughlin was its ... |
Henry IX | ... Bavaria; two of his sons followed him in succession: Welf II from 1101 and | from 1120. Both exercised considerable influence among the German princes |
Robert Guiscard | ... 1080). The Byzantine Empire also faced foreign invasion, as the Norman Duke | of Apulia declared war under the pretext of defending the rights of young ... |
Lady Mary | ... l in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both | and Lady Elizabeth to the line of succession to the throne |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ing for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of | , writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. ... |
William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg | ... cle appeared in The Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor | , but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next deca ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of | , was an auto-racing enthusiast and created the Vanderbilt Cup, the first ... |
William I, Count of Holland | ... nd took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, | . He besieged the stronghold and captured Ada |
Saxe-Coburg | ... republics before merging to form the state of Thuringia in 1920, except for | , which became part of Bavaria |
Cooter Davenport | (Live action co-stars Waylon Jennings (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones ( | ), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy Enos Strate), and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) ... |
William Paget | ... t erudite students of Greek that England possessed". Lily's pupils included | , John Leland, Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baro ... |
Welf II | ... subsequently regained Bavaria; two of his sons followed him in succession: | from 1101 and Henry IX from 1120. Both exercised considerable influence am ... |
Sir Walter Raleigh | ... er became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by | and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cou ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | In 1613, his sister Elizabeth married | and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the Catholic Ferdinand II was elected kin ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... of Suffolk, was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife | |
Gluck | She sang the title role of | 's opera Orphée et Eurydice at Théâtre Lyrique in Paris in November 1859, ... |
Sir Thomas Cecil | His elder son, | , who inherited the Barony of Burghley on his death, was later created Ear ... |
Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
Welf | In 1070, King Henry IV deposed duke Otto, granting the duchy to Count | , a member of an influential Bavarian family with roots in northern Italy |
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut | ... order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new Count of Holland | , his niece and only daughter of Count William VI of Holland. The army was ... |
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk | ... nd eventually marriages to Henry VIII. Also they were the granddaughters of | . He was the father of Anne's mother Lady Elizabeth Howard, later Elizabet ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... uded John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, | , Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Ev ... |
King Edward III | ... rr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), descendant of | , and the former Maud Green (1492 –1531), daughter and co-heiress of Sir T ... |
Count of Holland | ... ion of Leiden in order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new | Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, his niece and only daughter of Count Will ... |
Enos Strate | ... (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones (Cooter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy | ), and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) did not appear in this cartoon vers ... |
Charles XIV John | ... mself with the liberal opposition critical of the conservative rule of King | |
Edward Elgar | ... 7) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies. | tried to revive the genre in the first years of the next century |
William and Mary | ... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, when | came to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ... |
Bona Sforza | ... humanism and the revival of classical antiquity. He and his third consort, | , daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissa ... |
Henry VII | ... sion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of | following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lincoln took the oath of allegianc ... |
Robert de Beaumont | ... Gray the Bishop of Norwich, Eustace the Bishop of Ely, William Marshal, and | the Earl of Leicester to seek peace with Philip Augustus. Philip insisted ... |
Margaret of York | ... Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister | . Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, th ... |
King James II | ... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as | and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland |
Charles Theodore | ... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector | became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ... |
Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
John Jacob Astor | ... 1810, fur trader, entrepreneur, and one of the wealthiest men in the U.S., | of the American Fur Company, outfitted an expedition (known as the Astor E ... |
Frederick Barbarossa | ... r the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army across Anatolia, but ... |
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | ... his time, Edward was forced to flee when he learned that Warwick's brother, | , had also switched to the Lancastrian side, making Edward's military posi ... |
Richard The Lionheart | In 1194 King | returned from being held captive in Austria, and set about summoning a fle ... |
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore | ... in which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are | (one of the proprietors of Maryland ) |
William | ... rrs were a substantial northern knightly family. She had a younger brother, | , later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, Anne, later Countess of ... |
Emperor Frederick I | The struggle for its possession continued until 1156, when | , in his desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Ba ... |
Dowager Empress Maria | ... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the | in the 1986 miniseries |
Galahad | ... Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and | . Even in the 21st century, books and films about the Arthurian legend and ... |
Mary Tudor | ... crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and | |
Henry I | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: William II, then | . Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter Matilda (his on ... |
Lancelot | ... es and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, | and Galahad. Even in the 21st century, books and films about the Arthurian ... |
Duchy of Spoleto | Pontanus was born at Cerreto in the | , where his father was murdered in one of the frequent civil brawls which ... |
Mozart | She was the mezzo-soprano in the Tuba mirum movement of | 's Requiem at Chopin's funeral at Église de la Madeleine in Paris on 30 Oc ... |
Henry VIII | ... loyalty to the crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, | and Mary Tudor |
William I | ... liam V, Prince of Orange was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king | . This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of ar ... |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
Duke of Valentinois | Cesare Borgia (; , ; 13 September 1475 or April 1476 – 12 March 1507), | , was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. He was t ... |
King James VII | ... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for | in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ... |
Conrad III | ... obtained the Duchy of Saxony in 1137. Alarmed at this prince's power, King | refused to allow two duchies to remain in the same hands, and declared Hen ... |
Louis XI of France | ... by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, | , Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able ... |
Edward VI | ... ven some who had the power to relax restrictions on the press at the end of | 's reign. The first edition may have had little or only partial commercial ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ere candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, | , Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Napl ... |
Lothair I | ... 29 September. Coins that bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor | , who died 28 September 855, exist; therefore, Benedict must have been rec ... |
Stephen | ... as his heir. Following Henry's death in 1135 one of William I's grandsons, | , laid claim to the throne, and took power with the support of most of the ... |
Louis XVI | ... After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of | , was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ercial relations with their former homes. Some migrated as far as Scotland. | invited some New Christian families to settle at Glückstadt about 1626, gr ... |
Anne | ... younger brother, William, later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, | , later Countess of Pembroke. Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, ... |
Medea | Achilles fought and killed the Amazon Helene. Some also said he married | , and that after both their deaths they were united in the Elysian Fields ... |
Henry III | ... and hospice. During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by | and Edward I as a base for attacks against France |
Geoffrey Fitz Peter | ... his relations with other officers, Walter worked closely with the justiciar | , on the collection of taxation, and both men went to Wales in 1203 on a d ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
Henry III | ... ter whose death in 1026 it passed successively to Henry, afterwards Emperor | , and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke H ... |
King John | The town received its market charter in the year 1204 from | and around 250 stalls can still be found in the town centre every Monday, ... |
King Henry VIII | ... as was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Comptroller to | . Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King Henry VIII. Her mothe ... |
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange | ... urice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604–1679), who was a cousin of stadtholder | , bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvij ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | He spent most of his working life in Rome, except for a short period when | ordered him back to France to serve as First Painter to the King |
Henry | ... ecarious hold on power but agreed to a compromise under which Matilda's son | would succeed him. Henry accordingly became the first monarch of the Angev ... |
Lord Cranborne | The line "History teaches; never trust a Cecil!" was quoted with regard to | , a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed fr ... |
Elgar | ... ch just across the border in Cheshire. In 1895, he heard a choir rehearsing | 's King Olaf, attended the first performance and became a fervent enthusia ... |
General Weber | Following the signing of the armistice, Austrian | informed his Italian counterparts that the Imperial army had already laid ... |
Lord John Russell | Throughout the early years of the war, British foreign secretary | , Emperor Napoleon III of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime M ... |
J. Arthur Rank | ... films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of | 's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from ... |
Alphonse de Lamartine | ... tic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, | and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various for ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were | and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ... |
Maximilian | ... who was subsequently executed for these actions. Edmund sought the help of | , the Roman-German king. In 1506, Maximilian's son, Phillip of Burgundy, w ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
Richard I | ... nobility. Henry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs | and John. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's ... |
Richard Harris | A film adaptation was released in 1990, directed by Jim Sheridan with | in the lead role |
Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
James VI of Scotland | The second son of | and Anne of Denmark, Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 No ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question. | became Reichspräsident in 1925 |
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk | ... Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 – 30 April 1513), Duke of Suffolk, was a son of | and his wife Elizabeth of York |
Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
Ferdinand I of Naples | ... Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and | ; one was the able administrator of the Franciscans; and the last two elev ... |
Lord Kitchener | ... ifference of opinion with the British military Commander-in-Chief in India, | , regarding the status of the military member of the council in India, led ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
Charles VII of France | ... that the town took on a new lease of life, as the heir apparent, the future | , had sought refuge in 1418 in the province. The town remained faithful to ... |
Napoleon III | ... e majority of his life. However, he decided to live in exile as a result of | 's Coup d'état at the end of 1851 |
Lech Wałęsa | ... st 31, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, led by an electrician named | , signed a 21-point agreement with the government that ended their strike. ... |
Thomas Modyford | ... anded a ship in the old privateer Edward Mansfield's expedition sent by Sir | , the governor of Jamaica. They seized the islands of Providencia and Sant ... |
Henry | ... chosen German king as Henry II in 1002, gave Bavaria to his brother-in-law | of Luxembourg, after whose death in 1026 it passed successively to Henry, ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... , the epic has also inspired other visual works by well-known painters like | who executed a set of ten colour engravings in 1974. Milton's achievement ... |
Frederick William IV | ... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, | gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
John Hawkwood | ... speare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri | would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing ... |
Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
Henry VIII | ... ller to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King | . Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catheri ... |
Charles | ... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on | 's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ... |
Anne | ... sfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I. His daughter | became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in 1571; she ... |
Guelders | ... and also included much of modern-day Drenthe. In 1336, it was made part of | , though it was ceded to the Bishopric of Utrecht in 1347 and was known as ... |
Charles II | ... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son, | , who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and President | worked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ... |
Prince of Orange | ... s, towns and provinces. He was also a soveriegn ruler in his own right (see | article). This gave him a great deal of prestige, even in a republic. He w ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
Henry VIII | ... other parts were added and a stable form finally appeared in 1540. In 1542 | authorised it as the sole Latin grammar textbook to be used in education a ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | A centre of cloth production, begun under the patronage of | , supported the town until the late nineteenth century |
Richard I of England | ... strategic importance to the Christians, but the leader of the Crusade, King | , constructed a citadel upon the ruins. Ashkelon subsequently remained par ... |
Dave Grohl | ... February 2003, Costello, along with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, and | , performed a version of The Clash's "London Calling" at the 45th Grammy A ... |
King Louis XIV | ... ater, Racine accepted a position as a royal historiographer in the court of | , alongside his friend Boileau. He kept this position in spite of the mino ... |
Thomas Modyford | ... tes from attacking Spanish ships, the Crown relieved him, and appointed Sir | in his place. Although Modyford proclaimed loyalty to the Crown, he became ... |
Shirley Williams | ... n which the stranger replied "I'm so sorry. For a moment I thought you were | " |
Henry IV | ... Henry VII. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king | , entrusted the duchy to Otto of Nordheim |
Lord Kelvin | ... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and | , electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ... |
Robert Carey | ... he charge of Alletta (Hogenhove) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir | , who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spani ... |
Frederick William III | ... ersity professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death of | in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with | . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon |
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte | ... e Napoleon Bonaparte II (5 November 1830 – 3 September 1893) was the son of | and Susan May Williams |
Cao Zhi | ... ge, as their sophistication and complexity reached new heights. The earlier | , son of Cao Cao, is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his day. His ... |
Prince of Wales | ... Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster, | , was killed on the battlefield. A few days later, on the night that Edwar ... |
Nicolás de Ovando | ... tled in Hispaniola, which he helped pacify under the leadership of Governor | |
Henry | Like the family of King | 's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a ... |
Amalric I | ... kuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, Shawar called on King | of Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric sent an army into Egypt ... |
Mark Thatcher | ... bers of the South African Army 32 Battalion. Financial backers included Sir | , son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the ... |
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk | ... ine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of | , who played a major role in the machinations behind their relationships, ... |
James | ... d the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to | on Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasa ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | His mother was the second surviving daughter of | and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England ... |
Cletus Hogg | ... oter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy Enos Strate), and Rick Hurst (Deputy | ) did not appear in this cartoon version) |
King James I | ... and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under | . His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ... |
Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie | ... d, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, | , appointed as his guardian |
Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
Francis I of France | ... rgs and Russia, in 1524 Sigismund signed a Franco-Polish alliance with King | . The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by Ch ... |
Field Marshal Montgomery | ... beret suppliers to the armed forces during World War II, including famously | |
Anne Neville | ... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and | . They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ... |
Henry VII | ... III, and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke | . In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king Henry I ... |
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | ... l College, Oxford. At university he took the Stanhope prize for an essay on | in 1877, became lecturer at Pembroke College in 1887, and fellow of All So ... |
Margaret of York | ... ard IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to | , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England |
Charles VIII of France | ... nso. The most doubtful passage in his diplomatic career is when he welcomed | upon the entry of that king into Naples in 1495, thus showing that he was ... |
Frederick William III | ... ofessorship. Another consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees was the refusal by | to confer the chain of office, the official seal and an official name to t ... |
Prince of Orange | The | was also not just another noble among equals in the Netherlands. First, he ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist | . Somewhere between $3 million and $20 million was expended on the failed ... |
Richard III of England | ... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King | ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ... |
second wife | Like the family of King Henry's | , the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ... |
Edward IV of England | ... enet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to | and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York ... |
Henry III | ... upt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown to his nine-year-old son | . Later in Henry's reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebe ... |
Grace Kelly | ... erican Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and | . The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a ... |
Bohemond III | ... f Christian soldiers and the capture of several Crusader leaders, including | , Prince of Antioch. Nur ad-Din sent the scalps of the Christian defenders ... |
Lord Exeter | ... k that transformed Peterborough from a market town to an industrial centre. | had opposed the railway passing through Stamford, so Peterborough, situate ... |
Nicholas Kaldor | ... essed prices, as he was convinced that Japan would honour its obligations ( | pages 66–67) |
Susan May Williams | ... ember 1830 – 3 September 1893) was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and | |
John the Blind | ... man Emperor and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, | , his son, granted the city its charter and had it encircled by defensive ... |
Electors | ... ere granted far-reaching rights in the Golden Bull, in addition to becoming | . In 1386, the University of Heidelberg was founded by Rupert I, Elector P ... |
Henry II of France | ... together. King Henry III of France confirmed the privileges granted them by | , and protected them against such slanders and accusations as those which ... |
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence | ... and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, | and Richard III of England |
principality of Benevento | ... al of a state comprising a compact and strategic region between the Lombard | and the Byzantine city-states of the coast (Naples, Gaeta, and Amalfi) |
Ferdinand II | ... shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of Isabella I and | , Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus reached land in t ... |
Sybilla | ... ing year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother Princess | , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy of Lusi ... |
Charles II | ... Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke | married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern and in 1797 became queen con ... |
William Crookes | ... the elements it was not until the late 1800s that the element was isolated. | observed the phosphorescent spectra of the rare elements and observed spec ... |
Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
Ferdinand I | ... King Louis II of Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács, Silesia was inherited by | , placing Opole under the sovereignty of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. ... |
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington | ... e Honourable Arthur Wesley", the fourth son—third of five surviving sons—to | , and Anne, the eldest daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungan ... |
Bernard Montgomery | In a visit made sometime before the attack, | had told the British army commander in Palestine, General Sir Evelyn Barke ... |
Louis XIII of France | Under | the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ... |
Władysław Łokietek | ... Voivodeship, one of the provincial capitals Voivodeships of Poland, by king | . A notable centre of trade, Kalisz was also located more or less in the c ... |
Isabella I | ... rope to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of | and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus r ... |
Giorgio Vasari | The sources for Paolo Uccello’s life are few: | ’s biography, written 75 years after Paolo’s death, and a few contemporary ... |
King James I | ... to return without even making it to Roanoke Island. Having been arrested by | for treason, Raleigh was unable to send any further missions |
Treniota | ... e married to Vykintas and another to Daniel of Halych. Vykintas and his son | played major roles in later power struggles. Mindaugas had at least two wi ... |
Arthur of Brittany | ... 's choice was John, but Walter initially leaned towards John's young nephew | . When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the ... |
Frederick V | ... e. In November 1619, the royal crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, | . (He was married to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I and VI of Engla ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of | , star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked wi ... |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call immediately. He took up the Cross at Mainz Cathedral ... |
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon | ... —to Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and Anne, the eldest daughter of | . He was most likely born at their townhouse, 24 Upper Merrion Street, Dub ... |
Samuel Slater | The village of Slatersville was largely built by | and his brother John Slater beginning in 1803. It is a well preserved orig ... |
Henrietta Maria | On 11 May 1625 Charles was married by proxy to | in front of the doors of the Notre Dame de Paris, before his first Parliam ... |
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk | His paternal grandparents were | and Alice Chaucer. Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... s and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However populist | upset Dole in the early New Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... working in the late 18th and early 19th century, particularly Joseph Haydn, | , Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Though Mozart and Schubert did ... |
Henry | In 955 Henry's young son | , surnamed the Quarrelsome, succeeded him, but in 974 he became involved i ... |
Robert Borden | ... as introduced in the House of Commons, 1913, by Conservative Prime Minister | . The new closure rule was immediately tested by the government only a few ... |
Przemysł II of Poland | In 1282 the city laws were confirmed by | and in 1314 it was made the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship, one of the ... |
King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
Charles V | ... t, Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for | where they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascina ... |
Henry | ... e reflects the Tudor period with emblems of the crucifixion and the arms of | and Aragon (the lands passed to Henry VIII as a consequence of the ) |
Otto von Bismarck | ... ppe Garibaldi, a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister | offered Victor Emmanuel II an alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia in the ... |
King George III | ... of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying | became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklen ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ed of little worth to Maria Theresa. The peace was initially broken by King | , who invaded Silesia. Soon other powers began to exploit Austria's weakne ... |
William Marshal | ... Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached | , one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, h ... |
Henry III of France | ... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. King | confirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ... |
Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
Sir William Temple's | ... was appointed a commissioner of the treasury in March 1679, was included in | new modeled council the same year, and was a member of the inner cabinet w ... |
John Hawkwood | File:Firenze.Duomo.Hawkwood.JPG|Sir | (fresco in the Duomo, Florence |
Robert Guiscard | ... the Byzantines lost Bari, their last possession in Italy, to the Normans of | in 1071. Simultaneously, they faced a serious revolt in the Balkans, where ... |
Mozart | ... had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or | . More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s, and sev ... |
Mary Victoria Leiter | In 1895 he married | , the daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter, an American millionaire of German M ... |
Adolphus Frederick IV | ... minent marriages: In 1761 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke | , by marrying King George III became queen consort of Great Britain. In 17 ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), | in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ... |
Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
Charles | ... ogne became part of the lands of the Spanish Crown when the Burgundian heir | became King of Spain in 1516 |
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | With the support of his cousin | ("The Kingmaker"), Edward defeated the Lancastrians in a succession of bat ... |
Henry II | ... res to reform the monasteries. His son and successor, chosen German king as | in 1002, gave Bavaria to his brother-in-law Henry of Luxembourg, after who ... |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... 8, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system, | , proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jou ... |
Lord Willoughby | ... shortly after, but his son, the 2nd Earl of Carlisle, leased the patents to | for 21 years in 1647. Neither ever attempted to settle the northern island ... |
Sir Francis Drake | ... e fort, which the colonists were able to repel. Soon after the attack, when | paused on his way home from a successful raid in the Caribbean and offered ... |
Michael Howard | During the 2005 general election, Conservative leader | visited the town. However, Sanders retained the seat with 40.8% of the vot ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... ician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. | in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his in ... |
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute | # | (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814 |
Frederick of Swabia | ... rned to Germany, in anticipation of the upcoming Imperial election. His son | led the remaining 5,000 men to Antioch. There, the emperor's body was boil ... |
Luitpold | During the reign of Louis the Child, | , Count of Scheyern, who possessed large Bavarian domains, ruled the Mark ... |
King James I | English (and Scottish) monarch | granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to | , who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ... |
Mozart | ... (where her father, mother, brother and sister gave the first performance of | 's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, L ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented by | in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system |
Secretariat | ( | , the 1973 winner, is credited with running 1:53 2/5 by the Daily Racing F ... |
William | ... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to | at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ... |
Louis XIII | ... aris while en route to Spain. It was a good match since she was a sister of | (their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood). Parliament reluct ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... t: Maria Theresa lost the mineral-rich Duchy of Silesia to Prussia, and the | to Spain |
Stephen | ... ing royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous civil war between King | and the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldi ... |
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange | ... ant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to | from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1 ... |
Ilya Prigogine | ... reasing "entropy gap", casting doubt on the heat death hypothesis. Invoking | 's work on far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics, their analysis suggests th ... |
Earl of Cumberland | In 1598 the | is reported to have used the islands as a staging ground for his later att ... |
Alphonso the Magnanimous | ... delli, through whose influence he gained admission to the royal chancery of | . Alphonso discerned the singular gifts of the young scholar, and made him ... |
Earl of Strafford | ... h legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the | and Charles I. However, Parliament and James came to blows when the issue ... |
William McMahon | ... on lost a vote of no confidence in the Liberal caucus. The Liberals elected | as their new leader, and he became Prime Minister. With the Liberals in tu ... |
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon | ... per classes, such as Sir Richard Hill, the Methodist MP for Shropshire, and | were exposed to contempt and ridicule, and Wilberforce's conversion led hi ... |
John III Sobieski | ... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland | , a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ... |
George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
Manfred von Richthofen | On 7 July 1918, after the death of Wilhelm Reinhard, the successor of | , Göring was made commander of the famed "Flying Circus", Jagdgeschwader 1 ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | The son of King | and Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland ... |
Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
Louis Lucien Bonaparte | ... ed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince | in London. He started his academic work on Basque in 1852 |
Prince Henry | ... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son | , Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ... |
Lucrezia Borgia | ... VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of | ; Giovanni Borgia (Juan), Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia (Jofré in Cat ... |
Richard I | Henry II of England died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son | (Lionheart) and Philip II. Richard inherited the crown and immediately beg ... |
King Henry VI | ... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by | , survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ... |
Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of | . However, on the accession of Henry VII following the Battle of Bosworth ... |
Louis XIV | ... ed in the treaty, and for making terms with France. He refused a bribe from | , but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10,000 crowns; in 1670 he was t ... |
Antwerp | Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585, | or Amsterdam - December 22, 1616, at sea) was a Dutch mariner who circumna ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the | 's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ... |
Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... l to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published a eulogy of King | entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la C ... |
Laurence Olivier | When | gave his acclaimed performance of Othello at the Royal National Theatre in ... |
Frederick William III of Hohenzollern | ... r niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II married | and in 1797 became queen consort of Prussia |
Oscar Peterson | ... erforming in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, | , Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She ... |
Rochambeau | ... as "the village of pretty houses." In addition, French troops under General | encamped in Farmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial sup ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... high that television cameras were blown over. The audience, which included | , was on the second evening soaked by rain and wind |
Maria Theresa of Austria | ... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of | , led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ... |
Charles X Gustav of Sweden | ... o territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the Second Northern War, | invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg (January 1656) ... |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | ... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed against | is a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | ... strian defeat. The territorial advances made in the last Turkish War, under | , in Bosnia, Serbia and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia), were obliterated. Popu ... |
Edward | ... hree children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and | , both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's pas ... |
Prince Harry of Wales | ... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, | and The Duke of York |
William Mackinnon | ... n of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir | 's British East Africa Company (BEAC) in 1888, after the company had recei ... |
Henry Wellesley | ... e of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother | and later - in one of the period's more celebrated scandals - married Well ... |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... ow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, | , was a new-minted baron. Elizabeth's marriage to Edward IV made the unmar ... |
Norman Foster | ... entre and Concert Hall, Santiago Calatrava's Zubizuri, the metro network by | , the tram, the Iberdrola Tower and the Zorrozaurre development plan, amon ... |
Charles the Bold | Image:Charles the Bold 1460.jpg|Portrait of | , 146 |
Louis the Bavarian | ... d thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor | |
Sir Oswald Mosley | ... ife peer in her own right; Cynthia, who became the first wife of politician | ; and Alexandra Naldera ("Baba"), who married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, th ... |
Jacques Rogge | ... e invitation from China to the world to share in its culture. IOC president | was very happy with the emblem, saying, "Your new emblem immediately conve ... |
King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
William IV | ... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was | , who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ... |
Henry VIII | ... ms of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and Aragon (the lands passed to | as a consequence of the ) |
Antoine, bastard of Burgundy | Image:Antoine de Bourgogne.jpg|Portrait of | , c 146 |
Arthurian legend | ... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion, | , and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ... |
Conrad I | ... rians in 911, uniting Bavaria and Carinthia under his rule. The German king | unsuccessfully attacked Arnulf when the latter refused to acknowledge his ... |
Louis XIV | ... iage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of | , king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector C ... |
Theobald IV | ... Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of | , count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin. On the ... |
Lord Melbourne | ... . The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was William IV, who dismissed | in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 removed the monarch's authori ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ion focused on Aurora for seven weeks during the fall of 1955, as President | recovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ... |
John Gorton | ... nister for three weeks until the Liberals could elect a new leader. Senator | won the vote and became Prime Minister. The leadership campaign was conduc ... |
Ada, Countess of Holland | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor Henry III. Early 13th century, | took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, W ... |
Henry IV | ... in. It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII (their father, | , had died during her childhood). Parliament reluctantly agreed to the mar ... |
Henry II of England | ... g control of the city. In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, King | reaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and prono ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
Henry Tudor | ... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of | , who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485 |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
Franz Joseph I | ... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser | |
John of England | ... reland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King | . Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the ... |
Antwerp | ... It is on the Albert Canal and the European route E313, the highway between | and Liège, one of the reasons why it was the place for the first Belgian " ... |
Titian | ... rence to others which he did through study of the Antique and works such as | ’s Bacchanals at the Casino Ludovisi and the paintings of Domenichino and ... |
Home | ... th a special act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords | and Hailsham were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation p ... |
Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
Madvig | ... nische Grammatik, 1818), which stood as a standard work until superseded by | 's in 1844. He edited Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria (1831), Cicero's Ve ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that | and Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as | , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ... |
John | ... d peers attempted to undo Henry's reforms by the Magna Carta forced on King | , but by that time the reforms had progressed too far — and their superior ... |
William de Croÿ | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor Charles V, see: | |
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... ng King George III became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece | , daughter of Duke Charles II married Frederick William III of Hohenzoller ... |
Edward I of England | ... not permitted to live in Wales between the 1290 Edict of Expulsion—given by | —and the 17th century. A Welsh Jewish community was re-established in the ... |
Louis XIV of France | In 1604, King | sent a large number of people to settle in Guyana, which would bring the F ... |
Louis XV of France | ... François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King | by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through h ... |
John | ... y career went from strength to strength. Joined by his younger half-brother | , he helped found what some have called London's first police force, the B ... |
Hans Sloane | ... since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects from Sir | . After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". However | argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... and based on a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred | and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve you ... |
Yoshihito | On July 30, 1912, the Meiji Emperor died and Crown Prince | became the new emperor of Japan and succeeded to the throne, beginning the ... |
Meiji Emperor | On July 30, 1912, the | died and Crown Prince Yoshihito became the new emperor of Japan and succee ... |
William Herschel | ... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir | (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | In May 2010, | was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... d III in the first episode of Blackadder, "The Foretelling", which parodies | 's portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy ... |
Tassilo I | ... he Upper Drava region, where they soon fought with the Bavarians under Duke | . In 592 the Bavarians won, but three years later, in 595 the Slavic-Avar ... |
Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet | ... esses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through his great-grandfather | , and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne |
King Juan Carlos I | On 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility by | with the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ... |
Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork | ... Castlehaven sacked the town and Castle. Some restoration was carried out by | (1612-1698) to make it habitable again but neither he nor his successors l ... |
Baroness Catherine Ashton | ... further five years. His vice president, as of 2010, is High Representative | |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... Empire. Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: In 1761 | , sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying King George III became ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
Saxe-Lauenburg | ... tian also became Duke of Schleswig, a Danish fief, and Count of Holstein, a | ian subfief within the Holy Roman Empire. Christian inherited Holstein and ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Alexander II | ... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of | , Czar of Russia |
Duke of York | ... 1 to reign in peace until his sudden death. Before becoming king he was 4th | , 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster. He was ... |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... s. In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President | , introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch. Since ... |
Saigō Takamori | However, he was unable to win over former colleague | regarding the future direction of Japan. Saigo became convinced that Japan ... |
Hailsham | ... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home and | were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ... |
Leopold | ... aden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of | , grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, ... |
Asfaw Wossen | ... Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince | , Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle ... |
Prince of Wales | ... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as | and as king |
Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
Edward de Vere | ... ich supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by | . His part largely revolves around his being father-in-law to de Vere, and ... |
King George III | On 16 February 1768, the Royal Society petitioned | to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the ... |
Sir John King | ... , the government was not keen to continue. In 1983, BA's managing director, | , convinced the government to sell the aircraft outright to British Airway ... |
James I of England | ... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became | , and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ... |
George Carteret | ... he Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to John Berkeley and | for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected New York. The actual ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... graph saying "I will not be marrying Andrew now or in the future." In 2007, | purchased Dolphin House, a mansion directly beside the Royal Lodge. In 200 ... |
the Viscount Bennett | ... in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only Mackenzie Bowell and | were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Mini ... |
Otto von Bismarck | ... he bones of one British grenadier" was an echo of a famous sentence used by | : "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian ... |
George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
Georgios I | ... hing behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King | |
Henry IV | ... Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and | (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieval sources also menti ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... he Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and | in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat. In Septe ... |
Mieszko the Old | ... s initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built. The Polish king | was buried in Kalisz |
Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
Napoleon III | ... de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, | , emperor of the French |
Henry II, King of England | ... lished in the early 7th century. It was still an ecclesiastical centre when | stayed here in 1171, and except for a brief period after 1185 when his son ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns of | and especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ... |
George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
Louis XIV | ... Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of | to the throne of France |
Antwerp | The main cities in Belgium in terms of population are Brussels, | , Ghent, Charleroi and Liège. Other notable cities include Bruges, Namur, ... |
James II | ... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successor | attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ... |
King George II | ... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by | . Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ... |
duke of Spoleto | ... om his see at Cerveteri for safety. Sergius was forcibly exiled by Lambert, | , and all the official records were destroyed; consequently, most of the s ... |
John McEwen | ... House. His maiden speech provoked an interruption by future Prime Minister | , who was told by the Speaker that maiden speeches are traditionally heard ... |
Henry III | ... (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings | (1589) and Henry IV (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieva ... |
Bob Hope | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, | , George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaude ... |
Manfred von Richthofen | ... He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the fighter wing once led by | , "the Red Baron" |
Harold II | ... he petty kingdoms of early medieval Britain. The last Anglo-Saxon monarch ( | ) was defeated and killed in the Norman invasion of 1066 and the English m ... |
Gilbert | ... nkish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king Otto I brought the reigning duke | to heel and incorporated Lotharingia into his realm as one of the "younger ... |
Lord Bassam of Brighton | ... recruits to the same terrorist training camps in Pakistan used by Al Qaeda. | , then Home Office minister, stated that International Sikh Youth Federati ... |
Marquis de Lafayette | ... War hero Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, better known as the | |
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy | ... 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between | and Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate ... |
County of Hainaut | ... , the area was continuously disputed between the County of Flanders and the | . Therefore, the region (including neighbouring places like Lessines, Elle ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Richard Boyle | ... ing his imprisonment for High Treason in 1602 to another famous adventurer, | , later 1st Earl of Cork |
County of Flanders | ... ere. Since the 13th century, the area was continuously disputed between the | and the County of Hainaut. Therefore, the region (including neighbouring p ... |
Sir Cyril Newall | ... d troops during the Battle of France. He, along with his immediate superior | , then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from Winston Chu ... |
duc de Chartres | ... become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the | to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the ... |
Freigraf | ... dy (a branch of the French royal dynasty) to render their rare German title | , which was the style of a (later lost) bordering principality, the allodi ... |
Eudoxia Lopukhina | ... f Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first consort | , and Princess Charlotte |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating that | had been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ... |
James VI and I | ... of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. | , the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark, ... |
Maximilian II of Bavaria | ... dation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King | , a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history. H ... |
Salvador Dalí | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, | |
Giorgio Vasari | His daughter Antonia Uccello (1456–1491) was a Carmelite nun, whom | called "a daughter who knew how to draw". She was even noted as a "pittore ... |
Grand Duke Frederick II | ... , spent the rest of his life in retirement. In 1928, following the death of | , he became head of the House of Baden. He died at Salem the following yea ... |
Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
Frederick II | King | of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Siles ... |
Thomas Browne | ... Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir | , and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Ho ... |
Max Hastings | ... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to | , by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... le:Sir Joshua Reynolds 008.jpg|Colonel John Hayes St. Leger (detail) by Sir | File:Thomas Rowlandson (12).jpg|Rowlandson often satirised the military Fi ... |
Philip II | ... . The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir | . Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the ... |
Otto I | ... nce between the East and West Frankish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king | brought the reigning duke Gilbert to heel and incorporated Lotharingia int ... |
Charles V | ... 16th century, the Rebellion of the Brotherhoods (a peasant uprising against | 's administration) and the frequent attack of Turkish and Berber pirates c ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
principality of Wales | ... sh monarchy passed to the Norman conquerors. In the thirteenth century, the | was absorbed by England, and Magna Carta began the process of reducing the ... |
Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
Henry II of England | The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of | that began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ... |
Charles V | ... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor | in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ... |
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | ... a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander’s son, | established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at Port Royal, Nova Sc ... |
Louis XIV | ... held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the times of | . In its place, the United Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful cou ... |
Christopher Monck | When Thomas Lynch died in 1684, his friend | was appointed to the governorship and arranged the dismissal of Morgan's s ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... ntatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs Bill Bourke "this grizzling Quisling", | (who would, as High Court Chief Justice, play a role in Whitlam's downfall ... |
Radelchis I | ... year of his imperial coronation and compelled the rival dukes of Benevento, | and Siconulf, to make peace. His mediation split the Lombard duchy and gav ... |
James I of Aragon | ... sed by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by | |
Duke of York | ... of Farmington but was sold to the Puritans in a land charter granted by the | in 1830. Avon was originally called Northington (the north parish) before ... |
Henry VIII | ... k. In 1527, with some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries, | built Southsea Castle and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Nav ... |
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | ... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to | , at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ... |
Louis I the Fair | From 1348 Lubin Castle served as the residence of the Piast duke | and his descendants. In the quarrel with his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus ... |
Charles IX of France | On May 1, 1561, King | received a lily of the valley as a lucky charm. He decided to offer a lily ... |
Edward Heath | ... o Dandy in 1986 - was when, in 1974, Else took a leaf out of Prime Minister | 's book and went on a "three day week", forcing Alf to fend for and feed h ... |
John II of Castile | ... Berlin, was given in 1445 to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos by | ; it was described in the deed of gift as the work of great and famous Fla ... |
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars | ... e published a substantial historical novel, Cinq-Mars, based on the life of | ; with the success of these two volumes, Vigny seemed to be the rising sta ... |
James I | ... n Burghley House and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with | for Hatfield House). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor ... |
William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
Duke of York | ... on at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him | , Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by bo ... |
William McMahon | ... "hereditary streak of insanity". After he stated that future Prime Minister | was a "quean", he apologised |
Lloyd George | ... , India, at the time) and had lost “his old pompous ways”. Curzon served in | 's small War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916. I ... |
Charles Calvert | ... ulation was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for | (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore |
Robert Walpole | ... his positions within the government and went into active opposition against | , Britain's first Prime Minister who was regarded as corrupting British po ... |
Charles IV | ... his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus I of Legnica a 1359 judgement by Emperor | alloted Lubin along with Krzeczyn Wielki, Krzeczyn Mały, Osiek and Pieszkó ... |
Henry VII | ... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426. | rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ... |
Richard of Gloucester | Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by | , Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ... |
King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
Treniota | ... ossibly renouncing Christianity, and was assassinated in 1263 by his nephew | and another rival, Duke Daumantas. His three immediate successors were ass ... |
Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
Éamon de Valera | ... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under | , who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ... |
Louis XV | ... he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria become the consort of | and queen of France. From 1725 to 1733, Stanisław lived at Chateau Chambor ... |
Richard III | Prior to his succession, on 22 June 1483, | declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ... |
Ninian Comper | ... Of more modern buildings, St Philip's Cosham is cited as a fine example of | 's work. There are numerous other active churches and places of worship th ... |
Maria Miloslavskaya | Fyodor was born in Moscow, the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and | . In 1676, at the age of fifteen, he succeeded his father on the throne. H ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince | . The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma |
Titian | ... The first objective was originally sought by masters such as Rembrandt and | , to represent folds in clothes or jewels: it was then juxtaposed with mor ... |
Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
Asfa Wossen | ... taged an unsuccessful coup, briefly proclaiming Haile Selassie's eldest son | as emperor. The coup d'état was crushed by the regular army and police for ... |
princess | ... e Thirty Years' War, coupled with the fact that he married a Roman Catholic | , generated deep mistrust concerning the king's dogma. Charles further all ... |
Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Michael Laudrup | ... s fueled speculation in June 2007 that Recreativo had offered Danish legend | a contract to coach the club in 2007–08. According to Laudrup's agent, the ... |
Hugh Trenchard | ... o. 16 Squadron. After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General | , the commander of the RFC, over the need to rest pilots exhausted by non- ... |
Duchy of Savoy | In August 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the | , to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and Philip III of S ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Robert Walpole | ... f his work being savagely critical of the contemporary government under Sir | |
George Simpson | Sir | then instructed Alexander Ross to organize and lead a party of Red River C ... |
Charles Forte, Baron Forte | ... f F1 motor racing fame was educated at St Joseph's College, Dumfries as was | . St Joseph's was founded by Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic F.C |
Traidenis | ... e successors were assassinated as well. The disorder was not resolved until | gained the title of Grand Duke ca. 1270 |
Bobby Robson | ... norary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, | , Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, sa ... |
Adolphus Frederick | ... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after | , seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ... |
Richard le Breton | ... nd four knights, Reginald fitzUrse, Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, and | , set out to confront the Archbishop of Canterbury |
Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
Emperor Napoleon III | ... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition to | and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ... |
Jogaila | ... s the only King of Lithuania; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes from | onward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate. Now ... |
Count Gerhard III | ... ational hero for having assassinated an earlier German occupier of Denmark, | , was a contemporary analogue to World War II-era Denmark |
Queen Mary | ... th would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, when | , Elizabeth's paternal grandmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed ... |
Princess of Wales | ... ederick, Bute became close to his widow, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the Dowager | . It was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon a ... |
King Ferdinand IV | ... this period. Napoleon's troops succeeded in entering Naples itself, forcing | to flee the city with his family. For the Maltese this meant that only Bri ... |
Gian Galeazzo Sforza | ... of classical antiquity. He and his third consort, Bona Sforza, daughter of | of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissance culture, which under them began ... |
Frederick William III | ... ein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussian king | . It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in ... |
Casimir IV | ... at they would turn to Lithuania again, he marched against them. Deserted by | and surrounded on every side by the Moscow armies, that occupied the major ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | ... of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after | |
Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
Adelchis | ... when he was treacherously attacked in his palace, robbed and imprisoned by | , prince of Benevento, in August 871. The landing of fresh bands of Sarace ... |
consort | ... ly son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first | Eudoxia Lopukhina, and Princess Charlotte |
James III of Scotland | ... arete of Denmark (1456–1486), 13 years old married to the 17 years old King | # Frederick (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later ... |
Gothelo I | ... each to the rule of a margrave. Except for one brief period (1033–44, under | ), the division was never reversed and the margraves had soon raised their ... |
James I | ... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession of | in 1406 |
King George III | ... known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of | . In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on ... |
Henry VIII | ... ters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry (a parody of | ) and Carry On Dick (a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin), in both ... |
Prince Wilhelm of Baden | Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of | , third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... n, Robert Graves, David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister | was wounded in the hip, leaving him with a lifelong shuffle to his walk. H ... |
Emperor Joseph II | ... cademy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784 | granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph. ... |
Henry II of England | ... lanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King | in many ways, not just in financial administration, but also including dip ... |
Edward I | ... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III and | as a base for attacks against France |
Charles VI | ... d three-quarters of the nobility were on his side, while his uncle, Emperor | , through the imperial ambassador at Saint Petersburg, persistently urged ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America. In 1500, King | sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to Asia |
Bona Sforza | In 1517, Sigismund married | , with whom he had |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by | , with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ... |
Henry V | ... mouth as a threat, the French again sacked the city in 1369, 1377 and 1380. | built the first permanent fortifications of Portsmouth. In 1418 he ordered ... |
Barbara Zápolya | In 1512, Sigismund married a Hungarian noblewoman named | , with whom he had two daughters |
Robert Menzies | ... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister, | , adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ... |
Henry IV | ... ioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later Holy Roman Emperor, | in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meissen, then und ... |
Fulk of Jerusalem | ... as constantly unstable. In response to these incursions into Outremer, King | constructed a number of Christian settlements around the city during the 1 ... |
Franz von Papen | ... e from the memoirs of Ernst Junger ("Storm of Steel") and future Chancellor | indicates severe German casualties during the attritional fighting of the ... |
King Arthur | Excalibur is the legendary sword of | , sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful ... |
John of Gaunt | ... ough his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of Edward III through | and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan Beaufort, Countess of ... |
John Hawkwood | ... mo. In 1436 he was given the commission for the monochromatic fresco of Sir | . In this equestrian monument he showed his keen interest in perspective. ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... , Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire (a rank bestowed by | on the Leszczyński family) |
Marquess of Winchester | ... h his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House). As the | (Burghley's predecessor as Lord High Treasurer) had said of himself, Burgh ... |
Diego Columbus | ... e then was active in leading the conquest of Cuba in 1511 under orders from | , recently restored as Viceroy of the Indies. He founded a number of new S ... |
Louis XV | ... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King | . The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
John Reith | First hopes for the Empire Service were low. The Director General, Sir | (later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much i ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight | 's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ... |
Lord Lothian | ... rt, son of Frederick and Nettie, served as personal assistant to Ambassador | and supervisor of American Relief to Great Britain through the British emb ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... f the Inquisition. The New Christians of Portugal breathed more freely when | came to the throne. By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privi ... |
Edward III | ... m to the throne through his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of | through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan ... |
William V, Prince of Orange | The collection of paintings of stadtholder | was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king William I. This collect ... |
Edward III | ... roying much of the town, with only the local church and hospital surviving. | gave the town exemption from national taxes to aid reconstruction. Only te ... |
King Louis XIII | ... 'Ancre, a historical drama recounting the events leading up to the reign of | . Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and beca ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... schal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by | , and later sacked by the Normans. This also agrees with the earliest know ... |
Paul I | ... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, | , and Alexander II |
James Ensor | ... ique include Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, | , Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyd ... |
Philip II of Spain | Finally, after several years her pleadings by letter with King | secured relief. As a result, in 1579, the processes before the inquisition ... |
Bettino Ricasoli | ... ow; most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. Baron | (later Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy) created the Chianti recipe ... |
Sophia, Electress of Hanover | ... e succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of | , next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. Soon after the ... |
Charles V | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor | , see: William de Croÿ |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband | . The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ... |
Sir Richard Attenborough | Mountbatten was portrayed by Peter Harlowe in | 's 1982 epic Gandhi |
John Everett Millais | ... founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and | , and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of arti ... |
Madhva | ... ted the temple with his Guru. Shri Vadirajatirtha, most prominent among the | saints, is believed to have climbed the Tirumala hill on his knees because ... |
Peter III | ... came to power following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband, | , at the end of the Seven Years' War. Russia was revitalized under her rei ... |
Nathaniel Dance | Brown's portrait by | , c. 1768, is conserved in the National Portrait Gallery, London |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of | in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ... |
Fulke Greville | ... erary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets | , Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictiti ... |
Henry | ... in October 1216, many began to support the claim of his eldest son, Prince | . War continued between the factions supporting Louis and Henry, with Fitz ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... r Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, | , Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Count of Paris and the c ... |
Robert III | ... ll of Saint Baldred. A century on Wyntown's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King | , apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards James I) from the Du ... |
George I | In 1714, Queen Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, and Sophia's son, | , Elector of Hanover, who consolidated his position by defeating Jacobite ... |
William Cecil | ... knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry Anne Cecil, daughter of Sir | and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen through in 1571. In 1583, he marr ... |
Dmitry Pozharsky | During the expulsion of Poles from Moscow in 1612, Prince | entered the Kremlin through the square. In memory of this event, he built ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
Frank De Winne | ... flight by Russian cosmonauts Yuri Lonchakov, Sergei Zalyotin and Belgium’s | |
Tony Banks | ... eon-bombs: an EDM was tabled in the 2003–04 session of the UK Parliament by | , which concerns itself with a disclosure by MI5 that it had proposed usin ... |
George II | In 1737, | began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ... |
Bob Hope | ... ny to award the Special Juvenile Award. Playfully dubbed the "Oscarette" by | in 1945, the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an Art D ... |
Clement Attlee | ... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister | , Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ... |
King Edward VII | ... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as | . For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ... |
Denzil Holles | ... nt reached Parliament ahead of him, and the wanted men – Pym, John Hampden, | , William Strode and Sir Arthur Haselrig – slipped away shortly before Cha ... |
Lady Mary | ... rine of Aragon, Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with | . By 16 February 1543, Catherine had established herself with Mary and was ... |
Henry Rawlinson | ... arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir | , General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army. Haig ordered that th ... |
Queen Caroline | His Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by | , has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ... |
King Alfonso XIII | ... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of | to Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ... |
Catherine de' Medici | When Italian duchess | married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ... |
Alfonso the Chaste | In 1177, | went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ... |
BeBe Zahara Benet | ... of judges as "America's next drag superstar". The first season's winner was | , and first runner-up Nina Flowers was chosen by fans as "Miss Congenialit ... |
Isabella | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, Ferdinand and | established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brotherhood (Santa ... |
Salomea of Berg | ... lklingen. If this parentage is correct, Judith was the great-grandmother of | , second wife of (her later stepson) |
Thabo Mbeki | ... etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized by South African President | during his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1990s; it con ... |
Robert Peel | ... rth after Tamworth, Staffordshire, represented at the time in parliament by | . The town prospered, and was reached by the railway in 1878 |
Ferdinand | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, | and Isabella established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brothe ... |
Raymond III of Tripoli | ... m was left to his nephew Baldwin V, whom he had crowned as co-king in 1183. | again served as regent. The following year, Baldwin V died before his nint ... |
T.G. Jackson | ... ngs in a free Renaissance style. A key exponent of the style in Britain was | . Some examples can also be found in buildings in the former British Empir ... |
Edward Burne-Jones | ... sts and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and | . His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precurs ... |
Dowager Lady Brabourne | ... xwell, a 15-year-old youth from County Fermanagh who was a crew member. The | , his elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law, was seriously injured in ... |
King Philip II Augustus | ... y names. King John lost all his territories in mainland Normandy in 1204 to | , but retained possession of Jersey and the other Channel Islands. The isl ... |
Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
Charles I of England | ... efs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets. One hundred years later, | was, it was reported, so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered hi ... |
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415. However, after the 1440 death of | , the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united wit ... |
King Henry | ... elf with Mary and was now part of her household. It was in the household of | and Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught ... |
Arthur Balfour | ... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister | in October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... s of the Bavaria, Brazil, Parma, Saxony and the Two Sicilies. The late Lady | (1961-1997) is a descendant of Lucrezia |
George II | ... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch, | , witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ... |
Frederick William II of Prussia | ... ly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King | as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. ... |
Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon | ... iscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens, London councillor and granddaughter of the | . He gained two stepsons from this marriage; Sir Simon Towneley and Sir Pe ... |
Sir Robert Walpole | ... in personal union. Power shifted towards George's ministers, especially to | , who is often considered the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ... |
Duke of Marlborough | King George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; the | had fought with him in the War of the Spanish Succession, and John and Sar ... |
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II of Belgium, | , as well as the Count of Paris and the claimants to the Thrones of the Ba ... |
Henry III | In the 13th century, Kings | (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially crea ... |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | ... son – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – | – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Ke ... |
King Haakon VII | ... r returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of | and Queen Maud (George's sister) |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... scene of the film depicting Buckaroo's test run of the latter-day Jet Car. | plays Buckaroo Banzai's mother, Sandra Banzai |
Richard III of England | ... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun. | increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ... |
Emperor Maximilian | ... y of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of | , while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Ma ... |
Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
Albert | ... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, | , Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Henry I of France | ... n 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to Philip, eldest son and heir of King | . However, the engagement was broken in September 1058, when her brother E ... |
James II's Catholic son | ... rotestant officials, James fled the realm and William and Mary (rather than | ) were declared joint Sovereigns of England, Scotland and Ireland |
Napoleon III | ... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to | (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau |
Raynald of Châtillon | ... r, defeating Saladin at the battle of Montgisard in 1177, with support from | , who had been released from prison in 1176. Later, he forged an agreement ... |
Tom Jones | ... late 1960s and 1970s (although he wrote "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" for | in 1967), and he began to play on the American cabaret circuit. A notable ... |
Edward I | In the 13th century, Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and | (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially creating it as it stands toda ... |
Jay Gould | ... d combining the last names of competing railroad magnates J.W. Paramore and | . Paramore’s Texas & Saint Louis Railway (later the Cotton Belt) and Gould ... |
King George III | ... he independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against | , and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister | of France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ... |
Lucrezia | ... ntroversial of the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, including | and Cesare Borgia, by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his de ... |
James IV | In 1497 King | visited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir Robert Lauder o ... |
Ratchis | ... y Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel | ;, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Paul the De ... |
Henry | ... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, | , George, and John |
Lord Brabourne | ... ception would more likely reflect response to the uncle than to the nephew. | counselled that the intense scrutiny of the press would be more likely to ... |
Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ("scabs") and the business property of the major industrialists, including | |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | ... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on | 's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed by | in 1969 |
Edward V | ... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. | 's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ... |
John Churchill | | died at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
John Lubbock | In his highly influential Pre-historic Times, | described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ... |
Niels Bohr | ... e summer of 1913, this value was naturally obtained by the Danish physicist | as a consequence of his atom model, and also published independently by Pr ... |
Sir Douglas Haig | By 19 December 1915, General | had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British ... |
King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
Sadi Carnot | ... n royalty. Also present were General Joseph Brugère, representing President | ; the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as well as thei ... |
Dharmakirti | ... t millennium BCE, and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists | and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's ... |
Lady Brabourne | Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother (who was also his godmother), | , about his interest. Her answer was supportive, but advised him that she ... |
John | ... imple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and | |
Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria | ... Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and | (who also died in infancy). In addition, Judith had an older half-sister, ... |
Penelope Devereux | Returning to England in 1575, Sidney met | , the future Lady Rich; though much younger, she would inspire his famous ... |
James I | ... n 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards | ) from the Duke of Albany, placed the youthful prince in the safe-custody ... |
Anna d'Este | ... dern Europe including that of the United Kingdom. Through her granddaughter | , Duchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestres ... |
Charles V | ... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor | . Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ... |
Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
Gunhilda of Denmark | ... of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with | |
Dignāga | ... , and it was further elaborated on by the Buddhist atomists Dharmakirti and | during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... inal assault on the summit with its second climbing pair, the New Zealander | and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali sherpa climber from Darjeeling, India. They r ... |
Henrietta | ... indsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their daughter, | , became duchess in her own right. Sarah became one of the trustees of the ... |
Sir John French | By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General | as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Haig favou ... |
Edward IV | ... Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time in 1470. However, | soon regained control and Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, ... |
King George III | ... e usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of | |
Richard Harris | ... bellum home located next door to Lee High School. This cult classic starred | , Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel, and Cecily Hovanes |
Fëanor | ... e later largely replaced by the Tengwar (which were enhanced and brought by | ), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language (Ange ... |
Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
Ernest Rutherford | ... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays. | continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ... |
Charles XIII | ... Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and | . In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of ... |
Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
Baldwin of Flanders | ... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed | on the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... were becoming dangerously unruly. In 1258, the discontented barons, led by | , forced the King to agree to reforms including holding regular parliament ... |
Louis XIV | ... he Nine Years' War. In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding | ’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck’s Allied force ... |
Henry VIII | The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1536, brought England alongside this ... |
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange | ... f Prussia, who both claimed the title Prince of Orange. Both descended from | . The King of Prussia was his grandson through his mother, Countess Luise ... |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... ir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of | , and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sist ... |
Maximilian Joseph | ... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, | , the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son | , later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Hort ... |
Afonso V | ... na"), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of | , St. Joana, who died in 1490. The presence of this royal personage, beati ... |
George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | In 1636 | , ruler of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg, moved his res ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... eneralitat, Pau Claris, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of | . This allowed French troops to draw that much closer to the heartland of ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | The choice of Sophia as wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar | , resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestoc ... |
3rd Marquess of Bute | ... r popular parks include Roath Park in the north, donated to the city by the | in 1887 and which includes a very popular boating lake; Victoria Park, Car ... |
Prince Waldeck | ... uxembourg, commanding Louis XIV’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated | ’s Allied force of approximately 38,000 men comprising mainly Dutch, Germa ... |
King George II | ... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to | –making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ... |
William IV | ... reign, the power of the monarchy declined and by the time of his successor, | , the monarch was no longer able to effectively interfere with parliamenta ... |
Walter Devereux | ... he 16th century in Ireland, where it was used by English commanders such as | and Richard Bingham. Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during ... |
Charles VII | ... burg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of | , fought side by side with the French, and by the Treaty of Pressburg, sig ... |
Lamoral, Count of Egmont | Laakdal - Laarne - Labour Court (Belgium) - | - Lanaken - Land of Herve - Langemark-Poelkapelle - Language legislation i ... |
Strongbow | ... 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by | and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... Matilda (later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking), | and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (who also died in infancy). In addition, Ju ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy, | , who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ... |
Northumberland's | ... Montrose, Strafford was sent north to command the English forces following | illness. The Scottish soldiery, many of whom were veterans of the Thirty Y ... |
Queen Mary | ... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowager | reportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ... |
Lord Parr of Horton | ... rd, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle | became her Lord Chamberlain |
Louis XIV | ... to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King | (the Sun King), then France would in fact have the same population as the ... |
James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
Edward II | ... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of | and III |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... dest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of | . His younger sister, Mary Sidney, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pemb ... |
Richard | ... d Edward was confined to the Tower of London along with his younger brother | . The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in July. The prin ... |
Brunswick-Lüneburg | In 1636 George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ruler of the | principality of Calenberg, moved his residence to Hanover. The Dukes of Br ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General | , known for his organizational skills |
Otto I | In 953 the German king | had appointed his brother Bruno the Great Duke of Lotharingia |
Joachim Murat | ... ed to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of Italy, and | , who called for Italian patriots' help for the unification of Italy under ... |
Marshal Humières | ... Luxembourg (a position he would keep until his death in 1695), superseding | who had suffered defeat at the Battle of Walcourt the previous year. Luxem ... |
Queen Caroline | ... the royal family continued, and Sarah was occasionally invited to court by | , who attempted to cultivate her friendship |
Mary Sidney | ... and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, | , married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Mary Sidney, who upon her m ... |
Lord Hertford | ... low appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and | , Catherine obtained effective control and was able to rule as she saw fit ... |
Aistulf | ... of Charles Martel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King | ; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards |
Philip V of Spain | ... between 1700 and 1720. After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714, | briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assi ... |
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor | She was the daughter of | by his second wife Agnes, daughter of William V, Duke of Aquitaine and Cou ... |
Frederick I of Bar | ... later, around the fifteenth century. The first duke and deputy of Bruno was | , son-in-law of Bruno's sister Hedwig of Saxony |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign of | as Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
Julius Scaliger | ... references say that the Julian in "Julian day" refers to Scaliger's father, | , in the introduction to Book V of his Opus de Emendatione Temporum ("Work ... |
William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby | ... . In 1285 the husbands of two of these, Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan and | , jointly claimed view of frankpledge over Napton. There are further refer ... |
Marshal Boufflers | ... 4 battalions and 94 squadrons; if necessary he could call upon support from | ’ forces on the Moselle |
King Edward's | ... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English | forces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ... |
William V, Duke of Aquitaine | ... hter of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor by his second wife Agnes, daughter of | and Count of Poitou |
Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | ... ert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sister, Mary Sidney, married | . Mary Sidney, who upon her marriage became the Countess of Pembroke, was ... |
Lloyd George | ... es into gold – but with Keynes's help the Chancellor of the Exchequer (then | ) was persuaded that this would be a bad idea, as it would hurt the future ... |
Prince Henry | ... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young | |
Benito Mussolini | ... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to | , the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ... |
King William | Once again | entrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ... |
1st Earl Roberts | ... military commanders: past examples included the 1st Viscount Nelson and the | |
Robert Menzies | ... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under | |
Gisulf II of Benevento | In 744, a donation of | created the Terra Sancti Benedicti, the secular lands of the abbacy, which ... |
James I | During the 15th century | consigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ... |
Brabant | ... ler territories and only the title of a "Duke of Lothier" remained, held by | . After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of René of Anjou ... |
Sir Robert Peel | ... Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, | . In the ensuing elections, however, Peel lost. The King had no choice but ... |
Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester | ... f Winchester. Napton was still part of the Honour of Winchester in 1271 but | had died in 1265 with no male heir, leaving his estates to his three daugh ... |
James Callaghan | ... e of great importance. The censure motion by which the Labour Government of | was ejected had its origin in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), pu ... |
Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
George Simpson | ... s route through northern Canada. In 1841 James Sinclair, on orders from Sir | , guided nearly 200 settlers from the Red River Settlement (located at the ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of | . He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ... |
Walter Stewart | ... 15th century James I consigned several of his political enemies, including | to The Bass. In this period, many members of Clan MacKay ended up here, in ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
James I of England | ... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King | for a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ... |
Edward II's | During | reign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ... |
Duchy of Savoy | ... laude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires, near Annecy, then part of the | , in 1749 |
Duke Cosimo I de' Medici | ... d the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, which prompted | to invite him to move to the expanding university in Pisa, which he turned ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King | . Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ... |
Rudolf of Rheinfelden | ... urg), Gisela (who died in infancy before her birth), Matilda (later wife of | , Duke of Swabia and Antiking), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad II ... |
Charles Seymour | ... marriage after the death of her husband, including one from her old enemy, | , the sixth Duke of Somerset. Ultimately, she decided against remarriage, ... |
Henry VIII | ... ders have been the Royal Bodyguard since at least 1509. During the reign of | , the Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In ... |
Pierre Deligne | ... w "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through David Mumford, | and others) hardly includes all of the content |
1st Viscount Nelson | ... ent for such remainders for military commanders: past examples included the | and the 1st Earl Roberts |
Duke of Burgundy | ... This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to Philip the Good, | , before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was rediscovered only in ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | ... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and | |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury | ... It is a prime example of Jacobean architecture and is currently the home of | . The house is open to the public |
Earl of Somerset | ... ement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the | to the infamous . If, moreover, as appears quite likely, his Two Bookes of ... |
Frederick | # | (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King o ... |
Peter I of Russia | During the war, | had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
John IV, Duke of Brabant | In the 15th century the city of Leuven, with the support of | , made a formal request to the Holy See for a university. Pope Martin V is ... |
George V | On 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as | , and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ... |
eldest daughter | ... herself. She was surprised by the grief she felt following the death of her | in 1733. Sarah lived to see her enemy Robert Walpole fall in 1742, and in ... |
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | ... onathan Swift, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and | . This club included several of the notable satirists of early 18th centur ... |
Robert Walpole | ... au (1740–1817); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) and Sir | (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683–1737); John Stuar ... |
Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
James I | ... anor. The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, before | assigned it to his son, the future Charles I |
George III | ... ic Stuarts were completely defeated. During the long reign of his grandson, | , Britain's American colonies were lost, the former colonies having formed ... |
Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma | Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: | (born on 14 February 1924), sometime lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II ... |
Bob Hope | ... enile Award Honoree Judy Garland. Hosting the Annual ceremony that year was | who endearingly dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting ... |
William I of Scotland | ... of the richest in Scotland, but that changed in 1189. He was asked by King | to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar | and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | King | appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ... |
Sir John Norris | Later that year, he joined | in the Battle of Zutphen. During the siege, he was shot in the thigh and d ... |
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro | ... the Orsini brothers, feared Cesare's cruelty and set up a plot against him. | and Giovanni Maria da Varano returned to Urbino and Camerino, and Fossombr ... |
Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
Charles I | ... changed hands many times, before James I assigned it to his son, the future | |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
the Duke of Devonshire | ... iggism; and he criticised White Kennet's adulatory sermon at the funeral of | |
Winston Churchill | ... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and | )—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ... |
Princess of Wales | ... te the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of the Prince and | undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The song became Costello's ... |
George IV | ... orphyria, an illness rendering him incapable of ruling. His son, the future | , ruled in his stead as Prince Regent. During the Regency and his own reig ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with | , the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ... |
Henry Rawlinson | ... eral Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and | , the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very se ... |
Richard I of England | ... I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King | 's terms for a treaty that been signed between them. The treaty said that ... |
Charles IV | On 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king, | and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ... |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | ... bert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683–1737) | ;(1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present Prince ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | Guest married actress | in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend Rob Reiner. They have two adopt ... |
Queen Isabella | ... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refused | admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ... |
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester | ... de Beaumont's manor at Napton became part of the honour of Leicester. When | died in 1204 leaving no male heir his estates were divided between his two ... |
John Everett Millais | ... philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which they founded along with | |
Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... rvations." Germain obtained the lecture notes and began sending her work to | , a faculty member. She used the name M. LeBlanc, “fearing,” as she later ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager | . Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ... |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville | ... thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when | rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New ... |
John IV, Duke of Brabant | ... Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by | and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V |
King George III | ... d the king for repeal of the acts. These measures were unsuccessful because | and the ministry of Prime Minister Lord North were determined not to retre ... |
Fulke Greville | An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, | |
7th Earl of Shaftesbury | ... red William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the | . She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir Ernest ... |
John | # | (1455–1513), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Hol ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queen | in 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ... |
Queen Mary I | ... ing Henry with his daughters from his first two marriages, who later became | and Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... n, telling people that the "A" stood for Amadeus, in homage to the composer | (1756–91). However, he continued to use Wilhelm in official documents thro ... |
Sir Henry Vane | ... dy to present evidence against Strafford. However, the evidence supplied by | in relation to Strafford's alleged improper use and threat to England via ... |
Duc de Luxembourg | ... 0, was a major engagement of the Nine Years' War. In a bold envelopment the | , commanding Louis XIV’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince ... |
Louis XIV | ... United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of | or Napoleon, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 re ... |
Lothair II | ... r Lotharingia was an independent Carolingian kingdom under the rule of King | (855–869). Its territory had originally been a part of Middle Francia, cre ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... rtuguese in 1641 while Spain began to colonize the Philippines (named after | ) from 1560s. Acting through the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch estab ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of | |
Thomas Cromwell | ... he Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In 1532 | spent £3,593 on repairs and imported nearly 3000 tons of Caen stone for th ... |
Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley | Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to | , daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himsel ... |
Henry VIII | In 1519 | granted a market on Saturdays and an annual fair to be held on March 12, w ... |
Prince of Wales | ... of Bute (1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present | and Princess Margaret |
Laurence Olivier | ... have the magic touch, staging a disappointing revival of Twelfth Night with | and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of Macbeth with Ralph ... |
Charles V of France | ... ose to the original. It is found in the inventory of 1373 of the library of | . Furthermore, according to the illuminations, it can be dated to the year ... |
Duchess of Suffolk | ... abounded across Europe that the King was attracted to her close friend, the | . However, she saw the warrant and managed to reconcile with the King afte ... |
Henry IV | ... ttacked unsuccessfully by the Protestants in 1568, and was taken in 1591 by | , who was crowned there three years afterwards |
Michał Kleofas Ogiński | ... h art music. Polonaises for piano were and remain popular, such as those by | , Karol Kurpiński, Juliusz Zarębski, Henryk Wieniawski, Mieczysław Karłowi ... |
Stratonice | ... (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus and | , was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Antigonid dynasty |
Wallis Simpson | ... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American, | , even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ... |
Edward of Portugal | ... the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King | , whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power |
King Philip II's | ... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command of | illegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 |
Henry III | ... death in 1216. She had five children by the king including his heir, later | . In 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by who ... |
Earl of Euston | ... granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once removed); the | ; the Lord Elphinstone (his 1st cousin once removed); and Mrs Harold Phill ... |
Raphael | ... e mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded | and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir Joshua R ... |
Edward III | ... Tower and release the prisoners held there. For three years he ruled while | was too young to do so himself; in 1330, Edward and his supporters capture ... |
Lord North | ... ere unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of Prime Minister | were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary supremacy. ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In most of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
King Charles VII | ... ntil 1801, when George III abandoned his formal claim to the French throne. | ennobled Joan of Arc's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symb ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... rew his Notizie, in which he consciously intended to build upon the Vite of | ; Baldinucci's was the first art history to trace the lives and work of ar ... |
Widukind | ... , grew up in the abbey of Herford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader | . In Herford she met Henry the Fowler, who later became king of Germany |
Grace Kelly | ... televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by | for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly c ... |
Edward VII | ... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future | and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
Saigō Takamori | ... tation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as Ōkubo Toshimichi and | taking up key government positions |
Maurice of Saxony | ... y. In 1552 a number of insurgent Protestant Imperial princes around Elector | by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King Henry II of F ... |
Maximilian I | ... visited Charles of Burgundy, acting as intermediary between him and emperor | . He stayed in Burgundy for several months, moving to the Netherlands in t ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by | , following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ... |
Winston Churchill | ... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister | , and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ... |
John | ... 1188 – 31 May 1246) was queen consort of England as the second wife of King | from 1200 until John's death in 1216. She had five children by the king in ... |
Christian III | ... The next year, following his victory in the Count's War, he became king as | and continued the reformation of the state church with assistance of Johan ... |
Lord Godolphin | ... in her over to her own preferred political party. In 1704, Anne confided to | that she did not think that she and Sarah could ever be true friends again |
Sir Lawrence Bragg | ... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of | , who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir | . Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ... |
Lloyd George | The three principal players at Versailles were Britain's | , France's Clemenceau and America's President Wilson |
Laurence Olivier | ... chose to ‘blacken up’ include Ralph Richardson (1937), John Gielgud (1961), | (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black Ame ... |
Louis X of France | ... 1309 to her son, Louis, king of Navarre and count of Champagne, the future | |
Frederick I | Under the reign of | (1523–33), Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederic ... |
Ermengol IV of Urgell | ... em (Runciman, 1947). Andorra was ceded to the bishop of Urgell by the count | in the twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 ... |
family of Orléans | ... r the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the | |
Seyum Mangasha | ... don, Geneva, and Athens. With him on his tour was a group that included Ras | of western Tigre Province, Ras Hailu Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam Province, Ra ... |
Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
Allenby's | ... that a breakthrough was imminent. On 29 September he had outlined plans for | Third Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the ... |
Henry III | ... ant political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor | . He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the z ... |
Conrad II | ... mily was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor | (1024–1039). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon a ... |
Charles of Burgundy | ... which would be created in 1478 or 1479. In the autumn same year he visited | , acting as intermediary between him and emperor Maximilian I. He stayed i ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... lm, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite | |
Philip II of France | ... pture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, Henry II of England and | ended their conflict with each other to lead a new crusade (although Henry ... |
Louis XIV | ... t was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by Francis I. After the time of | the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the family of Orléans |
Charles Boyle | ... ject of academic controversy. The Christ Church College editor of Phalaris, | , resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarreled with Bentley in tryin ... |
Lord Wriothesley | ... rotestant officials such as Stephen Gardiner (the Bishop of Winchester) and | (the Lord Chancellor), who tried to turn the king against her in 1546. An ... |
J. Pierpont Morgan | ... Dickens collector, Stuart M. Samuel for £300. Finally, it was purchased by | for an undisclosed sum. It is now held by the Pierpont Morgan Library, New ... |
Stirling Moss | ... technical problems. His rivals included Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina and | |
Henry the Fowler | ... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met | , who later became king of Germany |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
Prince of Wales | ... spite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the | know the Pimpernel's true identity. Like many others, Marguerite is entran ... |
Alexander I | In 1812 Czar | was able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ... |
Charles V | ... n Alsace, east of Lorraine. In 1670, the French invaded again, forcing Duke | to flee to a Viennese exile, where he formed strong ties to the Imperial H ... |
Lord Cunliffe | ... lace was taken by the Heavenly Twins – the judge Lord Sumner and the banker | whose nickname derived from the "astronomically" high war compensation the ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
Frederick III | ... Ribe 5 March 1460 (Treaty of Ribe). In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperor | elevated Christian I as Count of Holstein to Duke of Holstein, thus becomi ... |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... 3, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell, against the king | |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named | |
Isabella | To support | 's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government de ... |
King John | ... June 1202, by which time she was already queen of England. Her marriage to | took place on 24 August 1200, at Bordeaux, a year after he annulled his fi ... |
Katherine Mansfield | The graves of G. I. Gurdjieff and | can be found in the cemetery at Avon |
Charles Spencer | ... or political disagreement occurred when Sarah insisted that her son-in-law, | , the third Earl of Sunderland, be admitted into the Privy Council. Sarah ... |
Maximilian I | ... it is no coincidence either that the reign of his nationalistic predecessor | saw the beginning of the movement. While the centralized states of western ... |
Edward III | ... rative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of Edward I and | , collection of ship money had been authorised only during wars, and only ... |
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... the collection of the Uffizi. For Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, brother of | and a scholar and patron of the arts, he began as bookkeeper in 1664 and d ... |
Henry II of England | ... stian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, | and Philip II of France ended their conflict with each other to lead a new ... |
Henry I | The death in 1135 of | left England with a disputed succession; although the king had persuaded h ... |
Joseph Fourier | ... ers. Seven years later this tradition was broken when she made friends with | , a secretary of the Academy, who obtained tickets to the sessions for her |
Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
Lord Sumner | ... erning reparations. Their place was taken by the Heavenly Twins – the judge | and the banker Lord Cunliffe whose nickname derived from the "astronomical ... |
Prince Louis of Battenberg | ... itles were dropped in 1917. He was the youngest child and the second son of | and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandpa ... |
Lord Teverson | ... h seeks to equalise the size of constituencies. An amendment to the bill by | that would have ensured that "all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scill ... |
Edward I | ... ular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of | and Edward III, collection of ship money had been authorised only during w ... |
Prince Edward | ... till alive. Catherine retired from court after the crowning of her step-son | on 31 January 1547, to her home at Old Manor in Chelsea |
Benito Mussolini | ... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of the | period in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ... |
Ōkubo Toshimichi | ... had a strong representation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as | and Saigō Takamori taking up key government positions |
George V | ... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and | ) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ... |
Norman Foster | ... cuted), it has been added to over subsequent decades by major names such as | and Rick Mather |
Charles V | Though | fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ... |
Leopold III, Duke of Austria | The Battle of Sempach in 1386, in which | was defeated by the Old Swiss Confederacy had important repercussions on T ... |
King Charles I | ... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts with | to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ... |
Charles the Bold | ... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories over | of Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries |
Marshal Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
Eddy Merckx | ... out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that | , the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded "oxygen uptake" of a ... |
King Henry VII | ... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of | |
Thomas Wentworth | By this stage | , created Earl of Strafford and elevated to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in ... |
Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
Philip II Augustus of France | ... nsept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower. On 24 June 1204, | entered Rouen and annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom. The fall of Roue ... |
Jill Eisenstadt | ... ture novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and | . In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is given ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
Manuel I | ... e modern flag of Portugal and has been a national symbol since the reign of | |
Robert May | ... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist | , in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ... |
Maximilian | ... urgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son | . With the inheritance of Burgundy, the House of Habsburg began to rise to ... |
Mary Archer | ... tack on Jeffrey Archer, who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, | , was a fellow panellist. She was noticeably angry that the matter had bee ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... swear support for the Empress Matilda, just a few days after Henry's death | arrived from France to lay claim to the throne. The importance of the city ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... e and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and | |
The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
Joseph II | ... l ("national Singspiel"), a pet project (1778–1783) of the Austrian emperor | . The Emperor had set up the company to perform works in the German langua ... |
Thomas Cromwell | ... nry the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Between 1535 and 1540, under | , the policy known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries was put into effe ... |
Abigail Hill | Sarah had previously introduced her impoverished cousin, then known as | , to court, with the intention of finding a role for her. Abigail, the eld ... |
Frederick | On his death his titles passed to his brother | |
Harold Macmillan | ... oncorde, with the French spelling, but was officially changed to Concord by | in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the Fr ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... ere opposed to attacking Zara, and some, including a force led by the elder | , refused to participate altogether and returned home. While the Papal leg ... |
James II of Urgell | ... bed by the County of Barcelona in 1413, after the revolt of the last count, | , against the king Ferdinand I of Aragon |
Lord Lindsey | ... ord Levels together formed the biggest scheme, they were not the only ones. | and his partner Sir William Killigrew had the Lindsey Level inhabited by f ... |
House of Châlon-Arlay | ... nge-Nassau from the joining of the house of Nassau-Breda/Dillenburg and the | to the end of the Dutch Republic. The family spawned many famous statesmen ... |
Francis I | ... 1286 sold it to the crown. It was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by | . After the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, which it had occupied during the conflict. | ("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the re ... |
Duchess of Kent | ... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the | , and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ... |
B. V. Bowden | The appointment of | (later Lord Bowden) in 1953 marked the beginning of a phase of expansion. ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... gue, which was built specially for the Court in 1913 with an endowment from | . From 1922 on, the building also housed the distinctly separate Permanent ... |
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | ... amed with Fascist names. A failed assassination attempt was carried towards | by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, ... |
Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
Godolphin | ... ful intimacy with the two most powerful men in the country, Marlborough and | . Godolphin, though a great friend of Sarah's, had even considered refusin ... |
Lord Charles Townshend | ... nd, to settle here. Some were veterans of the Revolution of 1688. Named for | , this settlement survived and was incorporated November 3, 1764. It was r ... |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... hirty Years' War. Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King | , Conti ordered his troops to burn houses, destroy villages and generally ... |
The Duke of Gloucester | ... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: | (his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ... |
Richard I of England | ... er own library. A deep affection existed between Marie and her half-brother | , and his celebrated poem J'a nuns hons pris, lamenting his captivity in A ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... n Time editions (13 as of September 2010). In one he made an open attack on | , who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, Mary Archer, was a f ... |
Nicolas Oudinot | ... August. However, in the same days, a part of the French Army led by Marshal | was stopped in the Battle of Polotsk by the right wing of the Russian Army ... |
John Herschel | In his book Outlines of Astronomy, first published in 1849, the astronomer | wrote |
Mary | ... e, Catherine of Aragon, bore him only a single child that survived infancy, | . As England had recently gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (see Wa ... |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
Isabella I of Castile | Ferdinand's 1469 marriage to | brought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ... |
King Frederick VI | ... he recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named after | of Denmark and Norway and received its current name in 1939. After the dis ... |
Edward I of England | ... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King | (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ... |
George III | ... ter of Great Britain) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, when | abandoned his formal claim to the French throne |
her husband | ... s permanent mourning and lengthy period of seclusion following the death of | in 1861 |
Henry VIII | ... he separation of the Church of England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537, brought England alongside this ... |
Henry III of Bar | ... France remained relatively stable throughout the Middle Ages. In 1301 Count | had to receive the western part of his lands (Barrois mouvant) as a fief b ... |
Lord Stanley of Preston | In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, | , whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Mont ... |
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette | ... nch-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton. In 1884, it was renamed for General | , a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the Ameri ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... the parents of three daughters: Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. When | passes away, or abdicates the throne, the Crown Prince will take the thron ... |
Charles I | ... l Assemblies, moreover, met only at times and places approved by the crown. | inherited a settlement in Scotland based on a balanced compromise between ... |
Queen Isabel II | ... 843 to 1852, who founded Isabel Segunda, the "town of Vieques", named after | of Spain). Vieques was formally annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854 |
Niels Bohr | ... retation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with | , who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis ... |
Leofric, Earl of Mercia | ... seback in protest at high taxes being levied on the cityfolk by her husband | |
Stirling Moss | ... to race with Mercedes—driving the W196 Monoposto—in in a team that included | . At the end of the second successful season (which was overshadowed by th ... |
Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
Friedrich Wilhelm II | The Brandenburg Gate was commissioned by | to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the C ... |
Henry II | ... own, he entered the household of Henri d'Angoulême, the illegitimate son of | , governor of Provence. He served this prince as secretary in Provence, an ... |
Geoffrey de Mandeville | ... was usually left in the charge of a Constable, a post held at this time by | . As the Tower was considered an impregnable fortress in a strategically i ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with | , the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ... |
Louis Philippe | The French Foreign Legion was created by | , the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of | (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ... |
Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
Duke Leopold | Richard was arrested and imprisoned in December 1192 by | , who suspected him of murdering his cousin Conrad of Montferrat, and had ... |
Grand Duke Paul | ... ntative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian | (son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne). However, it w ... |
Duke of Valentinois | ... ign the cardinalate. On the same day the French King Louis XII named Cesare | , and this title, along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia, ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... ulture expanded into the islands of the Western Mediterranean. The reign of | ("the Great") included the conquest of Sicily and the successful defense a ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
Lady Margaret Beaufort | ... nd received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by | , mother of King Henry VII |
The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
Antwerp | ... ories, and a replay on a neutral ground took place. The match was played in | , Belgium and 30,000 Feijenoord fans travelled by bus to see their team pl ... |
Velázquez | ... sky, people and objects take form with the brilliance and subtle drama of a | . A distant and discreet irony endows the figures, insignificant in themse ... |
Gluck | ... he Russian throne). However, it was ultimately decided to perform operas by | instead, giving Mozart more time |
Prince George | ... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to | , in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge |
Lord Cambridge | ... her niece, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, the daughter of her brother, | . Her personal belongings were transported from London in seventy pieces o ... |
the Duke of Marlborough | In July 1708, | , with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the Battle ... |
Henry II | ... bey and ordered her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside | and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, ... |
Odo of Bayeux | ... cts with the Danes and the devastation north of the River Tyne inflicted by | after the 1080 rebellion against the Normans, Monkchester was all but dest ... |
Emperor Joseph II | ... 1787, Clerfayt, as a Walloon by birth, came under great pressure to abandon | . But he resisted all overtures, and in the following year went to fight i ... |
Prince Louis of Battenberg | ... 959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, | , some forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence S ... |
King Emeric | ... enice throughout the 12th century, but had rebelled in 1181 and allied with | of Hungary and . Subsequent Venetian attacks were repulsed, and by 1202 th ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... 5), which explored psychoanalysis and featured a dream sequence designed by | . Gregory Peck plays amnesiac Dr. Anthony Edwardes under the treatment of ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532, | imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ... |
Frederick William | In the time of | (1688), shortly after the Thirty Years' war and a century before the gate ... |
The Duke of York | ... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and | |
Philip IV | ... he Palatinate, Charles declared war on Spain, which under the Catholic King | had sent forces to help occupy the Palatinate |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
Sir Henry Sidney | Born at Penshurst Place, Kent, he was the eldest son of | and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of John Dudley, 1 ... |
Chi Chi LaRue | ... hom he also co-hosted on WKTU radio. On one episode, RuPaul featured guests | and Tom Chase speaking about the gay porn industry |
King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
William Howe | ... hey were preparing for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General | . The Continental Army also camped near White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road ... |
Edward Lord Montagu | ... ughton House in his native county, where he and his son were entertained by | , who had been one of his contemporaries at the university and had taken t ... |
Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
James Steuart | ... or manifesto of the movement. Perhaps the last major mercantilist work was | ’s Principles of Political Economy published in 1767 |
Friedrich Barbarossa | ... ecords dating to as early as 854. The city was declared an Imperial City by | in 1181 |
Samuel Masham | ... s to her flattery and charm. She was present at Abigail’s secret wedding to | , groom of the bedchamber to Prince George, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowl ... |
Ivan the Terrible | ... Poland. In 1577, Dünaburg castle was captured and destroyed by Russian tsar | . That same year, a new castle was built 20 km downriver. In 1582 Daugavpi ... |
Catherine of Bulgaria | ... on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress | . Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery |
George C. Marshall | ... f under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general | resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist Russell Baker ... |
Ferdinand II | ... , had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the Holy Roman Emperor | . Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatinate, Charles ... |
Henry I, Count of Champagne | In 1164, Marie married | . They had four children |
Harvey Fierstein | ... e tour in November 2009 due to torn muscles in his arms. He was replaced by | |
King Louis IX | In the reign of | (St. Louis) the three petals of the flower were said to represent faith, w ... |
Carinthia | ... he Habsburg family, the ruler of Inner Austria, i.e. the duchies of Styria, | and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife Cymburgis of Masovia. He became duke of ... |
Dowager Empress Marie of Russia | ... . She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate of | and paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridg ... |
Robert Peel | ... urne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis. Prospective prime minister | requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MP ... |
Frederick V | ... ally confined to Bohemia, was spiralling into a wider European war. In 1620 | was defeated at the Battle of White Mountain and by 1622, despite the aid ... |
Richard II | When | was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ... |
Boss Hogg | ... boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against | , Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize ... |
Napoleon III | However, in 1865, | allowed them to apply for full French citizenship, a measure that few took ... |
Judith of Bohemia | ... me to Sophia, perhaps to distinguish herself from Władysław I's first wife, | . She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vla ... |
Napoleon III | ... rbances in Italy from 1820 until after unification. The Carbonari condemned | to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in ass ... |
Robert Curthose | ... mans, Monkchester was all but destroyed. Because of its strategic position, | , son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden there in the year 1080 an ... |
first Earl of Lytton | ... amed "Giles Lytton" after an early sixteenth-century Gyles Strachey and the | , who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... ve been made by composers from a classical, music-school background such as | or Percy Grainger |
Edward Burne-Jones | ... s of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired William Morris and | . Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti personally, but both were m ... |
Charles VII | ... pported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy. The king of France | recaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death of Joan of Arc and a ... |
the King | ... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when | , convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ... |
Richard | ... after the King's father, Henry II. He was quickly followed by another son, | , and three daughters, Joan, Isabel, and Eleanor. All five children surviv ... |
Robert Peel | ... led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir | an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Comm ... |
Frederick of Swabia | ... e were further outbreaks of dysentery and fever, which claimed the lives of | , Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem, and Theobald V of Blois. When the sail ... |
Ruth Rendell | ... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist | , writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ... |
Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
Alphonse | ... d to the French court to swear fealty to King Louis IX of France's brother, | , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowage ... |
James I | ... nts and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of | through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain |
Maximilian I | ... an Emperor as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son | after ten years of joint rule |
James VII and II | ... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was | , who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
John of England | ... and, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and | |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... h century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts of | and Władysław IV. These included Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... as in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. When | returned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He ... |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer, | , the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ... |
Henry II | ... a gave birth to a son and heir who was named Henry after the King's father, | . He was quickly followed by another son, Richard, and three daughters, Jo ... |
Sir Thomas Morgan | ... Park, a swampy meadow behind the Cardiff Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by | , during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this ho ... |
Richard I of England | ... am IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, | , Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and J ... |
John Conroy | ... ing influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and her mother's advisor, | . Over the next four years Melbourne trained her in the art of politics an ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg | ... establish his rule in Luxembourg, which he regarded as his inheritance from | who had died over three centuries earlier. At the Congress of Vienna, the ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love, | returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ... |
Norman Foster | British architect | designed Tower Two, also known as 200 Greenwich Street. The building's dis ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... castle probably retained its form as established by 1100 until the reign of | (1189–1199). The castle was extended under William Longchamp, Richard's Lo ... |
Leopold Joseph | ... raine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Duke | continued to reign at the Château de Lunéville |
Duke of Somerset | ... ne began having altercations with the Lord Protector, the King's uncle, the | and a rivalry developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in ... |
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | ... rs, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, | , Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England |
Ludwig II of Bavaria | By 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, sponsored by King | . He returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he ... |
Ernest the Iron | Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke | of the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family, the ruler of Inner Austri ... |
Francis Bacon | ... o the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher | used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Sha ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | | , wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ... |
William I of the Netherlands | ... next became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830), and | founded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a state university |
King Arthur | Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary | . Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-c ... |
the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
Edward VII | ... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King | , who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ... |
Conrad II | In 1033, when | inherited the Kingdom of Arelat, Avignon passed to the Holy Roman Empire. ... |
Charles I | ... f Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of | . Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel. From 1803, the Cardiff Arm ... |
Archduchess Maria Theresa | ... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter | , was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ... |
Queen Anne | ... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. | died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ... |
Henry the Young King | ... he was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, | , Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of B ... |
Louis IX | In 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of the king of France, | (the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusad ... |
Dowager Duchess of Suffolk | ... d for treason on 20 March 1549, and Mary Seymour was taken to live with the | , a close friend of Catherine's. Catherine's other jewels were kept in a c ... |
Prince Charles | ... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and | , called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ... |
3rd Marquess of Bute | The | stipulated that the ground could only be used for "recreational purposes". ... |
Prince Louis | ... rons. John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to | , the eldest son of the French king. However, after John's death in Octobe ... |
Marquis de Lafayette | ... he could save France alone, he refused to act with the Comte de Mirabeau or | . He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive veto, by which he sacr ... |
Alys | ... f Navarre, breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister | . Philip left Sicily directly for the Middle East on March 30, 1191, and a ... |
Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
John Hawkwood | ... e White Company, comprising men-at-arms and longbowmen and commanded by Sir | , is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century. The powerful ... |
John of Lancaster | ... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, | bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | William III had a rather unhappy marriage with | , and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ... |
Philip's | ... saintliness. Louis VII ordered the use of fleur-de-lis clothing in his son | coronation in 1179, while the first visual evidence of clearly heraldic us ... |
Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
Prince John | ... rtook its expansion while preparing for war with Richard's younger brother, | , who in Richard's absence arrived in England to try to seize power. As Lo ... |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... te is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring | as Banzai's mother) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some ... |
Dave Grohl | ... s. It has become highly popular amongst musicians; Foo Fighters lead singer | said "We play the Big Day Out because it's the best tour in the world. You ... |
James Tyrrell | Sir | , who was subsequently executed for these actions. Edmund sought the help ... |
Philip II of France | ... paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, Alys, Countess of the Vexin, | and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to William ... |
Comte de Mirabeau | ... sman. Believing that he could save France alone, he refused to act with the | or Marquis de Lafayette. He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... yed in the unpublished first draft sketches. It is most probably based upon | 's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose cari ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... ared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister | 's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections. The American actress, wh ... |
Abigail Masham | Sarah had always been jealous of Anne's affection for | . Together with the Duke of Marlborough and most of the Whig party, she ha ... |
Francis Stephen | ... y Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession. The Lorraine duke | , betrothed to the Emperor's daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa, was compe ... |
Duchess of Somerset | ... y developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in-waiting, the | , which became particularly acute over the matter of Catherine's jewels. C ... |
Garfield Barwick | ... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir | , who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam |
Earl of Marlborough | ... ed to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition. He persuaded the | to ask for additional rooms in the palace for the books. This was granted, ... |
Frederick William IV | ... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to | , Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ... |
Titian | ... not on medievalism, but on the Italian High Renaissance artists of Venice, | and Veronese |
Anne Boleyn | ... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of | |
Blanche | ... , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager | openly snubbed her. This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hat ... |
Brunswick-Lüneburg | ... of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of | (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the Napoleonic ... |
John Abbott | | (1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892 |
Catherine de' Medici | ... rst, a simple velvet-covered hoop and plate of iron, was supposedly worn by | . The other—said to have been worn by Anna of Austria—is a hinged pair of ... |
Dwight Eisenhower | ... the well-being of the town despite the refusal of the townspeople to help. | loved the film and frequently screened it in the White House, as did many ... |
Ludovico Sforza | ... XII invaded Italy in 1499: after Gian Giacomo Trivulzio had ousted its duke | , Cesare accompanied the king in his entrance in Milan |
Louis VII | ... t was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century Louis VI and | started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so connecting their ru ... |
Prince Albert | ... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by | |
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | ... irst as Souhegan East, then as Bedford in 1750. The town was named for Lord | , Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close ... |
King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
James I | ... ied in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son | , had been taken captive by the English. Having paid a large ransom, James ... |
Boleyn's father | ... nry VIII made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because | owned property there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval res ... |
Catherine Sedley | ... lly, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sarah had a rival for Churchill in | , a wealthy mistress of James II and the choice of Churchill's father, Sir ... |
Datu | ... lcántara Monteclaro in his book Maragtas tell the story of the ten chiefs ( | s) who escaped from the tyranny of Datu Makatunaw from Borneo and came to ... |
Henry | ... into a major fortress along the Anglo-Scottish border. His son, also called | (1299–1352), continued the building. The Abbot's Tower, the Middle Gateway ... |
Titian | ... human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V. Most believe it was illustrated by | 's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar. A few weeks later he published an abridge ... |
Charles I of England | Sir Owen's descendants include | and Oliver Cromwell; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the curre ... |
Joseph | ... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince | |
Charles V | ... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperor | obtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ... |
Frederick Maurice | ... battle. In compiling his biography of General Rawlinson, Major-General Sir | was supplied by the Reichsarchiv with a figure of 164,055 for the German k ... |
King Henry VIII | ... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that | made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is an opera Singspiel in three acts by | . The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations ... |
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle | ... hat, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to | for his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much ... |
Count of Toulouse | ... inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers (the last | ), made them over to Charles II, King of Naples and Count of Provence (129 ... |
Henry VI of England | After defeat at the Battle of Towton, | crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... 854 Cartier was appointed to cabinet. From 1857 to 1862 he served alongside | as co-premier of the united province. Cartier was a loyal friend of Macdon ... |
Stanley Rous | ... rst to run the full length of the pitch. It was opened on 23 August 1961 by | , secretary of the Football Association. The 10,008 capacity all-seater st ... |
Henry II | ... ained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by | , the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made stea ... |
Henry, Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, later King Henry II of England | ... ix, was awarded to their father, King Louis. Their mother, Eleanor, married | , and so left France. In 1160, when her father, King Louis, married Adele ... |
Francis I | ... f Dreux and of Rethel, governor of Champagne (d. 1524), who was employed by | in many diplomatic negotiations, more particularly in his intrigues to get ... |
King Charles I | ... med by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of | , in 1634. The county was largely composed of farms and undeveloped land u ... |
Hans Sloane | ... ney to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir | , their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner. At Mount ... |
Pelé | ... 2002), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by | ). Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon called Hamm, "Perhaps the most ... |
Karl Mack von Leiberich | ... trians began the war by invading Bavaria with an army of about 70,000 under | , and the French army marched out from Boulogne in late July 1805 to confr ... |
Countess of Champagne | Marie of France, | (1145 – March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and ... |
Francis I | Though he was not personally interested in religious reform, | (1515–47) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, arising from his ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from | to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ... |
Lew Grade | ... ial television in the 1950s, where it was broadcast on Sunday afternoons by | 's Associated TeleVision. This exposure gave Liberace a dedicated followin ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... , who then sold it to James Osborn, who then donated it to Yale University. | gave the first rediscovered performance of the Hamburg version in 1967, af ... |
Henry IV | ... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of | , king of France |
Peter II of Aragon | ... erritory (the "Reconquista"); to the east, in 1213, the defeat and death of | ("Peter the Catholic") in the Battle of Muret put an end to the project of ... |
Ferdinand | ... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with | , king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ... |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | ... pt, the object of their crusade; one of the envoys was the future historian | . Genoa was uninterested, but in March 1201 negotiations were opened with ... |
Queen Mary II | ... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and | of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ... |
Empress | ... strong Commonwealth. The nobility's Targowica Confederation appealed to the | for help and in May 1792 the Russian army entered the territory of the Com ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by | , head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ... |
Harvey Fierstein | ... iews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. Alfred Molina, and later | , starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and Rosie O'D ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ce, Countess of Champagne (1145 – March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of | and his first wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Grace Kelly | ... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wife | for her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ... |
Sir Thomas Borough | ... dward. Sir Edward Borough was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron's eldest son, | , who would become the 1st Baron Burgh in December 1529 after his father w ... |
Suchet | ... ptain, and in 1809 - 1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under | in the eastern theatre of the Peninsular War, in which he rose to the rank ... |
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland | The Percy family were powerful lords in northern England. | (1341–1408), rebelled against King Richard II and helped dethrone him. The ... |
Louis X | ... after a violent quarrel, to grant a share in the government to his brother | , an arrangement which lasted until the death of Louis in 1545 |
Seguin II | ... the latter appeared c. 844 in the region of Bordeaux. In Autumn 845, count | marched on the Vikings assaulting Bordeaux and Saintes but was captured an ... |
Louis XIV | ... defensive lines in the west. Villars moved after him, under new orders from | to prevent the fall of Mons at all costs – effectively an order for the ag ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... t the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and | . He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair ... |
William the Silent | ... ited all his lands. This "William I of Orange" - in English better known as | - became the founder of the House of Orange-Nassau |
Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
Alys, Countess of the Vexin | She was an older paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, | , Philip II of France and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal ... |
Béla | ... ughter, Agnes of Châtillon, in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince | , who was living at the court of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Co ... |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | ... -Jean-Baptiste Society and became active in politics as campaign manager of | . In 1848, Cartier gave up his law practice and ran for office as a Reform ... |
Prince William of Orange | ... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited | , husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ... |
Queen Anne | ... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from | . Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ... |
King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
Robert III | ... II of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, | , were marked by a general decline in royal power. When Robert III died in ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
William IV | ... maintenance of peace. He died in March 1508, and was succeeded by his son, | , whose mother, Kunigunde, was a daughter of the emperor Frederick III |
Romanework Haile Selassie | ... sie was married to Woizero Altayech, and that from this union, his daughter | was born |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, | |
Duke of Vasconia | ... sometimes the Counts of Bordeaux held the title concomitantly with that of | . They were meant to keep in check the Basques and defend the mouth of the ... |
Earl of Derby | ... ental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the | , who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers' Associatio ... |
Alix of France | Marie's younger sister was | |
Henry II | ... se which could be removed in the event of an attack. It was probably during | 's reign (1154–1189) that a forebuilding was added to the south side of th ... |
James I of Aragon | ... to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. His successor | did not fully consolidate his power until 1227; once he consolidated his i ... |
Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden | In 1804 the parish of Volgsjö was renamed Vilhelmina in honour of Queen | |
James Anderton | ... ester Police which was at that time run by devout Christian Chief Constable | , police raids on video hire shops increased. However the choice of titles ... |
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland | ... d III through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) | . Although this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker th ... |
Sigurd the Mighty | ... the Sudreys as a vassal of King Harald. His grandson Thorstein the Red and | , Jarl of Orkney invaded Scotland were able to exact tribute from nearly h ... |
Mary | ... en invited Prince William of Orange, husband of James's Protestant daughter | , to invade England and remove James from power, though the plan became pu ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
Isabel | ... r relationship improved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more children: | , in 1846; Leopoldina, in 1847; and lastly, Pedro, in 1848. However, both ... |
William V | The succeeding duke, Albert's son, | (called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ... |
George III | ... rd (1987) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of | , and finally Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) in 1917, set in the trenches of ... |
Henry the Lion | ... of importance only after the division of the duchy of Saxony on the fall of | , when the archbishop of Cologne, duke of Westphalia from 1180 onwards, pl ... |
Marquis of Dalhousie | ... twenty-four umbrellas." In 1855 the King of Burma directed a letter to the | in which he styles himself "His great, glorious, and most excellent Majest ... |
Henry II | ... e Wars of Religion. The civil wars were helped along by the sudden death of | in 1559, which began a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. ... |
Lloyd George | ... te being asked to do so on three separate occasions in 1920. From 1926 when | became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the pa ... |
Maria of Montferrat | ... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter | (born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem |
Richard II | ... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King | and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... n. Sparrows became a nuisance; Queen Victoria mentioned this problem to the | , who offered the famous solution, "Sparrowhawks, Ma'am" |
Arthur Fadden | ... ewly created Advisory War Council in October 1940. New Country Party leader | became Treasurer and Menzies unhappily conceded to allow Earle Page back i ... |
Giorgio Vasari | Among Bandinelli's pupils were | and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati). His sons Clemente Bandinelli, a col ... |
Tenchi Masaki | In the series' main continuities, | is the main character who was living a peaceful life in the countryside wi ... |
Uilleam II, Earl of Ross | ... heir chief, the Earl of Ross was captured. This meant that for a short time | sided with the English but he later supported Robert the Bruce of Scotland ... |
Louis IV | ... policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with Holy Roman Emperor | , and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then ... |
George V | ... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" by | on 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ... |
Mozart | ... e, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by | , but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the wi ... |
Louis-Amable Jetté | ... ember 1867. At the next federal election on August 1872, he was defeated by | while seeking a second term in Montreal East in the face of the Pacific Sc ... |
Henry IV | ... ent, turned. He was presented by his countryman, the Cardinal Du Perron, to | ; and, though that economical prince did not at first show any great eager ... |
Prince of Brazil | ... eight more children, including John himself. When John was born, he became | as the king's heir-apparent, as well as the 11th Duke of Braganza |
Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
Albert I | ... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium | , the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ... |
Richard I of England | ... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire, | sold the island to the Knights Templa |
Duke of Marlborough | ... sive lines and the Marshal's orders from Versailles not to risk battle, the | concentrated instead on taking the fortresses of Tournai and Ypres. Tourna ... |
Albert V | ... many. William, whose death occurred in March 1550, was succeeded by his son | , who had married a daughter of Ferdinand of Habsburg, afterwards the empe ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | Another route established by | in 1849 was across Nicaragua. The long San Juan River to the Atlantic Ocea ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... ally easier and is the more frequently used route. It was the route used by | and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognized of fifteen routes to t ... |
Anne Boleyn | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of | as the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ... |
Dukes of Parma | ... eurs-de-lis have been used for some papal crowns and coats of arms, Farnese | , and by some doges of Venice |
Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
The Jarl of Orkney | ... as were ruled over by local Jarls, originally captains of ships or Hersirs. | and Shetland however, claimed supremacy |
Duke of Buckingham | ... n the UK today. The arms were first borne at the Battle of Agincourt by the | |
Émile Loubet | ... euil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the President of France, | , was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Albert de Dion, own ... |
George II of Great Britain | ... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King | 's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ... |
William Erskine | ... nd four Portuguese (Arentschildt (2), Da Cunha, Rozierres) 6-gun batteries. | (5th Division), Alexander Campbell (6th Division) and 300 Portuguese caval ... |
Henry IV | ... en 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when | , himself a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes, promising officia ... |
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna | ... th the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards | , whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... hester, and a major hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital, named after | and Countess of Chester |
Leopold VI, Duke of Austria | ... Vienna, Austria, traces its history to an endowment made by the Babenberger | (“the Glorious”) to the Cistercian monks at Lilienfeld Abbey in 1202, thou ... |
Arthur Coles | ... y, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, | and Alexander Wilson. The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor partie ... |
Henry VIII | ... uted to 19th century historian Agnes Strickland's book on the wives of King | . Research of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan Ja ... |
King James I | ... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for | , it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ... |
Lord Gambier | ... mudians had preceded him into senior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral | , and Bermudian-born Royal Marines Brigadier Harvey, who, when promoted to ... |
Louis I, Duke of Bavaria | ... 1195, the Palatinate passed to the House of Welf through marriage. In 1225, | obtained the Palatinate, and thus the castle came under his control. By 13 ... |
Christian II | ... e laid to rest after her death in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King | , with his wife Isabella of Austria, was also interred in the royal family ... |
Anne of Brittany | ... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry | , and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declare | the legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... tures a difficult and very high double bass solo in the "Romance" movement. | 's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra contains a prominent passage ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Louis XIII | ... , elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses - the odes to Marie de' Medici and to | , are the best-remembered of his works |
Prince of Orange | ... is son René of Châlon-Orange in 1538, who was, as his full name stated, the | . When René died prematurely on the battlefield in 1544 his possessions pa ... |
King Edward | ... de according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held against | until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-c ... |
Mary I of England | ... o make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or | . By 1580, men also wore them, and a person with authority or wealth was o ... |
Clement VII | ... the antipopes Clement VII and Benedict XIII returned to reside at Avignon. | lived in Avignon during his entire anti-pontificate, while Benedict XIII o ... |
the Duke of Somerset | ... ms also emerged. In 1689, Anne's supporters (including the Marlboroughs and | ) demanded that she be granted a parliamentary annuity of £50 000, a sum t ... |
Napoleon III | ... arly years of the war, British foreign secretary Lord John Russell, Emperor | of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston ... |
Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of | . With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's ... |
Richard Rogers | ... eodesic domes while the George Pompidou Center, designed by Renzo Piano and | , which opened in 1977, was a prominent example. As the decade drew to a c ... |
Henry IV | ... ng Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King | and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar | . However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor | personally present. On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russi ... |
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria | ... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commander | stated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ... |
Franz II | ... I. His mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of | , the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of N ... |
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus | ... Scotland for help. They organised a mainly Scots relief force which, under | and de Brézé, set out on 22 November. Warwick's army, commanded by the exp ... |
Charles Seymour | ... eaving the court as well, and Sarah and she went to stay with their friends | , the sixth Duke of Somerset, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at Sy ... |
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher | ... ant and a High Sheriff. Currently the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire is | and the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire is Amanda Nicholson. The office of ... |
Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark | ... f Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were | (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and ... |
Charles II | ... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting | to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ... |
Lord Grey | When the Whigs came to power under | in November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During th ... |
Friedrich V, Duke of Austria | ... til Sigismund came of age. The Landstände of Tyrol choose Sigismund’s uncle | . The contracts of the guardianship were put in Oswald's care. Oswald used ... |
Prince of Orange | ... t Languet, who served as de Saxe under Emperor Charles V and then under the | , who claimed in 1565 that Vesalius was performing an autopsy on an aristo ... |
King Edward VII | ... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of | , began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ... |
Baden-Powell | ... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words of | at the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ... |
Raphael | File:Raffael 006.jpg| | , Tempera and gold on wood, 1503–150 |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... (1941), she fictionalized Genghis Khan; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), | ; in A Pillar of Iron (1965), the Roman senator and orator Cicero; and in ... |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Philip II | Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of | contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to th ... |
Duke of York | ... its were found. Conflict over uncertain colonial limits continued until the | captured New Netherland in 1664." On the other hand, Connecticut's origina ... |
James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
Maximilian I | Whatever lustre the international position won by | might add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ... |
Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
J. P. Morgan | ... ng to convince Hoover to veto the bill, calling it "an economic stupidity." | 's chief executive Thomas W. Lamont said he "almost went down on [his] kne ... |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
Mary | ... h in the same year left the Crown in the hands of his six-day-old daughter, | . Once again, a regency was established |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of | and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ... |
King | ... step-children; a trait which she would again show after her marriage to the | . Her teenage stepson, John, proved to be difficult. There is some indicat ... |
Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
Philip II of Spain | After the Magellan expedition, King | sent Ruy López de Villalobos and Miguel López de Legazpi in 1543 and 1565 ... |
Maximilian I | ... summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector | . He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and af ... |
Napoleon's | ... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by | . It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ... |
Lord Fitzwilliam | In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee | . He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the ... |
elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
Sibylla | That year he allied with | and Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ... |
Hugh Capet | ... the count Borrell II made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to | , the first Capetian monarch. In those years of the formation of the Catal ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States. | , the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ... |
James Ensor | ... e personal than that of other Symbolist painters such as Gustave Moreau and | . Nonetheless, Munch was highly influential, particularly with the German ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | In 1914, their son, | (1888–1969) married Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (M ... |
Sigismund | ... This changed with the death of Count Friedrich on 24 June 1439. As the heir | was only twelve years old at the time, a guardian had to be found until Si ... |
Lord Carnarvon | Following a campaign by which | had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that s ... |
John William Friso, Prince of Orange | ... ench left wing back into the forest behind them. The Dutch under command of | , on the Allied left wing, attacked the French right flank half an hour la ... |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of | and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg, thus str ... |
Anthony Eden | ... o met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister | the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion. In 1 ... |
John de Vere, Earl of Oxford | ... ', 'idiot uncle'. From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the | , he had two children, John and Margaret. Neville was one of fifteen child ... |
George Marshall | ... to prevent troopers in training from seeing it, for fear of morale. General | came to the film's defense, stating that because of the film's gritty real ... |
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Duke Eudes | ... was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated | in the Battle of the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was ... |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | ... oup of Russian expatriates, led by Yul Brynner, into passing herself off as | , the daughter of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. However, the ul ... |
Raphael | ... amazed by the paintings in the gallery, particularly those of Correggio and | . During the summer of 1798 his uncle was promoted to a court in Berlin, a ... |
Maximilian I | ... the family for nearly 200 years. In 1597 he abdicated in favour of his son | , and retired into a monastery, where he died in 1626 |
Gugsa Araya Selassie | ... fter avoiding capture for about five years, Iyasu was taken into custody by | |
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia | ... 9 April, between the French and the Piedmontese, and within only two weeks | was forced to sign an armistice. On May 15 the French general then entered ... |
Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine | ... title of Prince-Elector. In 1648, at the end of the war, Frederick V's son | , was able to recover his titles and lands |
Robert Peel | ... 9, 1829, the Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament, allowing Sir | , the then home secretary, to found the London Metropolitan Police. This p ... |
Vasari | ... the Baroque period. Patronised by the Medici, he aspired to become the new | by renewing and expanding his biographies of artists, to which Baldinucci ... |
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland | ... berland carried out renovations in the 16th century. After the execution of | , in 1572 Alnwick castle was uninhabited. In the second half of the 18th c ... |
Queen Louise of Sweden | ... s Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), | , and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven |
Sir Henry Bartle Frere | ... African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, | was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to br ... |
Rutherford's | ... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering | atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ... |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona | ... an early 12th-century Latin chronicle called the Liber maiolichinus, where | is referred to as catalanicus heroes, rector catalanicus, and dux catalane ... |
King William IV | ... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. | 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ... |
James V | ... r noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As his son and successor, | , was an infant, the government was again taken over by regents. James V l ... |
Henry VIII | ... d his queen. It was rebuilt by Edward I at a cost of over £300 and again by | in 1519; the current building dates from this period, although the chapel ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | ... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial | , Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt. Controversy surrounds | , who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Min ... |
André Masséna | ... Wellington checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal | to relieve the besieged city of Almeida |
Joanna, Countess of Provence | ... d from that time till 1377 was the papal seat. In 1348 the city was sold by | , to Clement VI for 80,000 florins |
Medea | ... xample, to that of Jason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or Euripides' | ; the entry in Ovid's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Orion, bu ... |
Counts of Bordeaux | ... r sympathise with a Basque rebellion. Under the Carolingians, sometimes the | held the title concomitantly with that of Duke of Vasconia. They were mean ... |
James III | ... ccident at the age of thirty, and a council of regents again assumed power. | was defeated in a battle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leadin ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | John married Archduchess | , daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ... |
Warwick | ... nd cousin, a twice-widowed descendant of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, | , the 'Kingmaker's', 'idiot uncle'. From his first marriage to Dorothy de ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican | . African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ... |
André Masséna | ... ated (another army under Archduke Charles manoeuvred inconclusively against | 's French army in Italy), Napoleon occupied Vienna. Far from his supply li ... |
Sir Garfield Barwick | ... November, Kerr consulted the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, | . Kerr asked Barwick to advise him on whether he had the constitutional po ... |
Edward III | ... aim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from | to George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually contr ... |
Sir Anthony Mason | ... hat he did. He also advised him that at least one other High Court justice, | , concurred in this view |
René of Châlon | ... continue the use of the name Châlon-Orange. History knows him therefore as | . After the death of René in 1544 his cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg ... |
The Shah of Iran | ... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. | drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ... |
Simon de Montfort | Following the Battle of Lewes a year earlier, where | had gained control of parliament, the Battle of Evesham in August 1265 was ... |
George III | ... was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from Edward III to | , regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled.) The a ... |
King Henry VIII | ... on period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, with | intervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | ... h considerable British and Prussian contingents, was led by Marlborough and | , while the French and a contingent of Bavarians were commanded by Villars ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... vince of Hesse-Nassau. The deposed duke Adolph of Nassau in 1890 became the | (see House of Nassau) |
Daniel Drew | ... lties for failure to deliver on a short selling contract inspired financier | to warn: "He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to pris'n. ... |
Tam Dalyell | The West Lothian question is often said to have been raised by | , then member of Parliament for the former West Lothian constituency, in h ... |
James IV | ... tle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leading to another boy-king: | |
Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
Henry VIII | ... the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King | . They were sold off or given away to the nobility and landed gentry. Gran ... |
King William III | In 1702, | died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ... |
Peter I | ... antilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success. Russia under | (Peter the Great) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success ... |
King Charles I | When civil war broke out, Peterborough was divided between supporters of | (known as Cavaliers) and supporters of the Long Parliament (known as Round ... |
Grace Kelly | After I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift, three popular films starring | followed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Fred ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel | His good work, however, was largely undone by his son | (1679–1726), whose far-reaching ambition set him warring against the Ottom ... |
Prince George, Prince of Wales | ... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, | , dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ... |
Tom Jones | ... In 1999, she recorded a cover of the song Never Tear Us Apart by INXS with | which appeared on his album Reload |
Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
Titian | ... anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which most believe was illustrated by | 's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, though others believe was illustrated by ... |
Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | ... ife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandparents were | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Vi ... |
Peter IV of Aragon | ... gon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by | ("Peter the Ceremonious"). Ramon Berenguer IV used "Aragon" as his primary ... |
James II | ... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles. | continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ... |
James Lancaster | ... e very first Englishmen to reach Penang was the navigator and privateer Sir | who on 10 April 1591, commanding the Edward Bonadventure, set sail from Pl ... |
Sir Philip Game | ... on as Governor-General. In so doing, Kerr was aware of the precedent set by | , the Governor of New South Wales, who had dismissed Jack Lang's governmen ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nk the French lines, Wellington caught up with and smashed the army of King | in the Battle of Vitoria, for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 ... |
Michael Heseltine | ... irect steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence | setting up Defence Secretariat 19 "to explain to the public the facts abou ... |
Ferdinand Maria | ... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son, | (1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ... |
Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
Philip V | ... coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported by | with some success. Russia under Peter I (Peter the Great) attempted to pur ... |
Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland | However in the 19th century | replaced much of Adam's architecture. Instead he paid Anthony Salvin £250, ... |
Lupo | ... was appointed count of Bordeaux, probably undermining the power of the Duke | , and possibly leading to the Battle of Roncevaux Pass that very year. In ... |
Matt Busby | ... South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that | , manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to repo ... |
Charles III of Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ... |
Philibert of Châlon | ... ené inherited in 1530 the Principality of Orange from his mother's brother, | . As the first Nassau to be the Prince of Orange, René could have used "Or ... |
James II of England | ... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king | . In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ... |
the Earl Grey | ... ociation was placed before the Royal Society of Canada and Governor General | initiated his plan to preserve the battlefields, having visited the site a ... |
Duchy of Spoleto | ... ame under the rule of the Lombards as part of the Lombard and then Frankish | |
Grand Duchess Maria | ... assassination in 1979, Mountbatten kept a photograph of Anastasia's sister, | , beside his bed in memory of his youthful romantic attachment to her |
King George III | Although her mother was a grandchild of | , May was only a minor member of the British Royal Family. Her father, the ... |
Louis XV | ... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King | , under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ... |
Queen Mary | ... ard and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter | lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then P ... |
William III | ... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, | and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ... |
Duke of Norfolk | ... ng Catherine and her step-children penniless. The King himself wrote to the | pressing him to make sure Latimer would 'condemn that villain Aske and sub ... |
Robert Peel | Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by | , whilst the party evolved into the Conservatives. When the Tories were re ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the | (played by Stephen Fry) |
King Louis | ... , wanted to order Luxembourg to immediately besiege Namur or Charleroi, but | , concerned about the dauphin’s forces on the Rhine, ordered Luxembourg to ... |
Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
Anne Cecil | ... l, to Lord Rich. Sidney was knighted in 1583. An early arrangement to marry | , daughter of Sir William Cecil and eventual wife of de Vere, had fallen t ... |
Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
Viscount Wellington | ... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army under | checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ... |
John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of g ... |
John Major | ... er Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of | (1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat wit ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... e wrote and arranged three masques, "The Lords' Masque" for the marriage of | , an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and ... |
Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
King Charles II | ... y constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull. Boniface VIII, and | of Naples should be considered one of the first great protectors and benef ... |
Edward | Henry VIII's children | and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter Qu ... |
Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
Lucrezia Borgia | ... , who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, | |
Robert Peel | ... ws in 1846, with Wellington and most of the former Cabinet still supporting | , but most of the MPs led by Lord Derby supporting a protectionist stance. ... |
Marshal Ney | ... with false intelligence. He divided his army into a left wing commanded by | , a right wing commanded by Marshal Grouchy, and a reserve, which he comma ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, | (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ... |
Ottokar I | ... ould return to the title of duke. The title of king became hereditary under | (1198). His grandson Ottokar II (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-li ... |
Dauphin | ... ed was that the royal household was still in mourning over the death of the | (the king's oldest son) two weeks earlier; ordinarily, political matters c ... |
Charles II | ... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of | , a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ... |
Bismarck's | ... ts who founded St. Ignatius College were exiles from Germany, forced out by | Kulturkampf. They brought with them the traditional structure of the Jesui ... |
Duke of Marlborough | ... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem on | and his adherents |
Queen Anne | ... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement of | at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ... |
Francis I | ... e Palace of Fontainebleau. This was accomplished by the great builder-king, | (1494–1547), who, in the largest of his many construction projects, recons ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
James II | ... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, | , was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... r Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis of the musical, Cats, by | , first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the ... |
Pierre Deligne | Jean Bourgain, Alain Connes, | , Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Laffo ... |
Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois | ... . She was a sister of John III of Navarre. They were parents to a daughter, | , (1500–1553) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Bur ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... of the partisan-controlled Supreme Headquarters and the capture of Marshal | . The offensive took place in April and May, 1944. The Waffen-SS units inv ... |
Prince Henry | ... 613, issued a volume of "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of | ", set to music by John Cooper (also known as Coperario). The same year he ... |
Henry VIII | ... wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized by | with other church properties |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | John married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of | , his first cousin, in 1708. From that marriage were born six children, th ... |
Lagrange | ... tional symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by | and Laplace in the 1770s has been put in the form of operator equalities b ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... aturely ended when he died of tuberculosis in 1830. Also worthy of note was | , the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose contributions on French t ... |
Jaromír of Bohemia | ... The jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted when | was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry II of the ... |
William | ... h earl, was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, and his successor | died without male issue. The earldom of Ross and the chiefship of Clan Ros ... |
Francis I | From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, from | to Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ... |
Charles Mackerras | ... et in Portsmouth Harbour. Using the operetta music of Sullivan (arranged by | ) and The Bumboat Woman's Story by Gilbert, John Cranko's 1951 ballet Pine ... |
Mary II | ... omoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and | . When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of ... |
Charles Albert | Untaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son, | (1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ... |
Charles II | ... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as | . Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in 1189. He attempted to take command of the Christian forces at Tyre, but | held power there after his successful defence of the city from Muslim atta ... |
Christoph Willibald Gluck | ... Gluck, a story about a man who meets, or believes he has met, the composer | (1714–87) more than twenty years after the latter's death. The theme allud ... |
Augustus III | ... farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, Augustus II and | , brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Great Northern War, ... |
Henry VII | ... vourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, | 's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surr ... |
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden | Heidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. | , refounded the University, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. ... |
Edward VI | ... olitical and historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of | , Mary I, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronat ... |
Félix Faure | ... 'Aurore on 13 January 1898. The letter was addressed to President of France | , and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of ... |
Elector of Brandenburg | Prince Waldeck had hoped to delay the campaign to enable the | to move on the Moselle and tie down Boufflers, but Luxembourg’s early mano ... |
Queen Margherita | ... Puccini opera was a national event. Many Roman dignitaries attended, as did | , though she arrived late, after the first act. The Prime Minister of Ital ... |
King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex | ... f sermons appeared in 1640 under the title of Joseph's party-coloured Coat. | , who lived at Copt Hall, near Waltham, gave him what remained of the book ... |
Charles VI | ... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperor | proved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ... |
Rudolph I of Habsburg | ... rritory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power. | , who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, effectively revoked the status of ... |
Galahad | ... ngs and knights. In a mighty castle stands the Round Table; it is here that | conquers the Siege Perilous, and where the knights see a vision of the Hol ... |
King Edward II | In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by | and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ... |
King Henry II | ... en Jaromír of Bohemia was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor | of the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal onc ... |
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin | ... constant is a recurring constant in number theory. The French mathematician | proved in 1898 that when taking any positive integer n and dividing it by ... |
King Arthur | Twelve of | 's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of T ... |
Duke of Savoy | ... ne. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the | , whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catal ... |
Bevil Grenville | ... ly, and many panicked. 1,400 of them fled, some as far as Oxford. Under Sir | , Hopton's Cornish pikemen stormed Waller's breastworks, while Royalist mu ... |
Sir William Hamilton | ... vement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, between | who supported the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's ... |
Mary I | ... d historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of Edward VI, | , and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronations |
Charles I | ... reat Britain" in 1604—they remained separate kingdoms. James I's successor, | , experienced frequent conflicts with the English Parliament related to th ... |
Lord Hunt | ... officers. This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary | , who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that "there is absol ... |
Edward I | ... ases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and | in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late ... |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Born in London, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of | . From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ration of Ireland in a lengthy document. More seriously, he quarrelled with | , probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de ... |
King James I | ... uilt in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to | and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a prime exampl ... |
Robert Peel | ... inst repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132. The first year that | voted in favour was 1846, though he had spoken in favour of repeal during ... |
Charles Theodore | ... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to | , the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ... |
Duke of Northumberland | ... me name in the English county of Northumberland. It is the residence of the | , built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a numb ... |
Sir Robert Baden-Powell | ... ich are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen by | as it had been the arm-badge of those soldiers qualified as "Scouts" (reco ... |
King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
Horace Mann | Sir | , but according to Wolf (1902) this must be a mistake, for, apart from th |
Harold Macmillan | ... e of his life" in Dan Macmillan, older brother of the future Prime Minister | . Despite his middle-class background, Keynes mixed easily with upper-clas ... |
William III | ... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between | , and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ... |
James I | ... facto capital of Scotland for much of the period until the assassination of | in 1437. Following her marriage to King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret encour ... |
Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet | ... son of Frederick Henry Norman and Lina Susan Penelope Collet, a daughter of | , himself a Bank of England Governor. The Norman family were well known in ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. | . She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ... |
Napoleon III | ... an claiming to be Napoleon to travel to France. That person turns out to be | , the nephew of Hornblower's great nemesis and the future President (and l ... |
Francesco I Sforza | ... dier of fortune Biordo Michelotti, Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his successor | , dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and Federico II da Montefeltro, lord of ... |
Henry II of England | | died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son Richard I (Lionheart) a ... |
Henry VIII | ... s succeeded by the Scottish monarch James VI, who was the great-grandson of | 's older sister and hence Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed. James VI ... |
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ... |
Isabella of Austria | ... th in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King Christian II, with his wife | , was also interred in the royal family chapel. In 1807 the former Francis ... |
Charles of Lorraine | ... who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death of | . Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
William the Conqueror | In the Harrying of the North, | 's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ... |
Gian Galeazzo Visconti | ... er under several despots, such as the soldier of fortune Biordo Michelotti, | and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and ... |
Augustus II | ... th most peasant farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, | and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Gre ... |
Mary I | ... atholic heir, and consequent persecution of the Protestant Church (as under | ), or foreign intervention by the Habsburgs or French, meant that the righ ... |
Frederick I of Prussia | ... n Prince John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz of the Frisian Nassaus and King | , who both claimed the title Prince of Orange. Both descended from Frederi ... |
Sasami | ... the space pirate Ryoko, the Juraian princesses Ayeka and her little sister | , the legendary scientist Washu, and Mihoshi and Kiyone, officers of the G ... |
Rudolph II | ... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor | who made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ... |
William the Conqueror | When, in 1069, Malcolm Canmore and | held a conference respecting the claims of Edgar Atheling to the English C ... |
Collis Potter Huntington | ... strial scale production centered around Richmond. In 1886, railroad magnate | founded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six ... |
James I | ... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown. | on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ... |
Thomas Browne | The English physician Sir | (1605–82) was one of the earliest scientists to adhere to the scientific e ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... ly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-Americans | and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald that was prominent in American politics and ... |
Sidney Godolphin | ... hrone after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with | , the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a re ... |
John II Casimir Vasa | Following the abdication of King | and the end of The Deluge, the Polish nobility elected Michael to the Poli ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
Elector of Bavaria | ... (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed by the | , who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death ... |
Ferdinand | ... g Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke | of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent sta ... |
Robert Cecil | ... the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) chief minister | , First Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds which was the Cecils' ... |
Gartzia Semeno | ... eaux. Failure to suppress the rebellion started a widespread revolt, led by | (who according to late traditions was a near-kinsman of Eneko Aritza, was ... |
Christina of Saxony | ... ng Hans of Denmark (d. 1513) was buried in the cathedral in 1513. His wife, | , who lived the latter part of her life in a nunnery in Odense, commission ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... e one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe, and the only one to defeat | . Many members of the House of Orange were devoted admirers of the King-St ... |
James I | Elizabeth's successor | did not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) c ... |
Earl of Bothwell | ... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the | , who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... short period of time. Two of these periods were in the feudal era. In 1503, | occupied the republic until his death several months later. On October 17, ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... ice, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, Prime Minister Sir | , anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of th ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... hed success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In 1552 | , appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. ... |
Mozart | ... the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and | . It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student t ... |
James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle | ... n on the death of Charles, but he did not break with his Roundhead patrons. | made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of ... |
Louis VII | This hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel by | in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, Louis IX, also call ... |
Charles IV | ... he Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I of Bohemia in 1310. His son, | became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, c ... |
Anthony Zinni | ... pt is probably the strongest aspect of their strategic partnership. General | , the former Commandant of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), once said, "E ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... into a museum in 1929. The American Room was opened by the U.S. Ambassador, | , in 1938. The cells in which the pilgrims are said to have been held at t ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... about the business practices of the Standard Oil Company and its president, | , which sparked legislative action in Congress concerning monopolies |
Marshal de Lorge | ... d forestalling King James' attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres | commanded French forces in the Rhineland, (although the Dauphin held honor ... |
second Duchess of Marlborough | ... equent disagreements with many important people, including her daughter the | ; the architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert W ... |
Robert Peel | During 1841 Sir | became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent o ... |
Ottokar II | ... e. The title of king became hereditary under Ottokar I (1198). His grandson | (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-lived empire which contained moder ... |
William the Conqueror | ... the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of | . The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade and it later bec ... |
Colin Hannah | ... joyed beer and prawns, Bjelke-Petersen advised the Queensland Governor, Sir | , to issue writs for only the usual five vacancies, since Gair's seat was ... |
James IV | ... thumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King | and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended i ... |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | ... żanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of | , by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga |
Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
King James' | ... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestalling | attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ... |
Louis IX | ... chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, | , also called Saint Louis, who held Fontainebleau in high esteem and refer ... |
King George III | The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by | following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America ... |
Napoleon III | When Louis Napoleon ( | ) seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary consti ... |
Lord Darnley | ... endancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying her Catholic cousin, | , in 1565. After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an ... |
Queen Mary | ... . After her two months of imprisonment in the Tower of London by her sister | , Elizabeth returned to Hatfield. The Queen Elizabeth Oak on the grounds o ... |
Emperor Frederick II | ... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site. | regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ... |
Peter the Great | ... of Sciences, an honor previously granted to only two other heads of state: | and Napoleon Bonaparte. Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philos ... |
Federico II da Montefeltro | ... and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and | , lord of Urbino. The city went into a deep decline through the plague of ... |
Sigismund of Luxembourg | ... s passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection by Emperor | prior to the journey. Hus was invited to attend the council to defend hims ... |
James II | ... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and | , it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... Home, Lord Kames. Another descendant was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of | |
current Prince of Wales | ... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the | ). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ... |
Grand Duchess Anastasia | ... was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors' claims to be the living | , who had been his first cousin. Until his own assassination in 1979, Moun ... |
Berengaria of Navarre | ... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry | , breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ... |
Edgeworth David | ... Darwin in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor | of the University of Sydney lead the expeditions in 1896 & 1897. Photograp ... |
Edward Bromhead | ... s Institute, the Lincoln Mechanics' Institution, which was founded in 1833. | , who knew John Boole through the Institution, helped George Boole with ma ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... later the library moved to Medford's new city hall, in another four years, | 's donation allowed a dedicated library to be built. Construction on the M ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... alked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's | as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall |
Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh | ... ower. The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son | (who calls himself "The Black Adder") in his various attempts to increase ... |
Queen Caroline | ... John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, | . The money she inherited from the Marlborough trust left her as one of th ... |
William Pulteney | In 1787, through his wealthy patron | , he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire. Civil engineering was ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... at stake; Whitlam agreed to Gair's request and had the Governor-General Sir | appoint him Ambassador to Ireland. Word leaked of Gair's pending resignati ... |
Mario Lemieux | ... rdiopulmonary resuscitation pioneer Peter Safar. Pittsburgh Penguins legend | used to reside in Mt. Lebanon as well, though he now resides in Sewickley, ... |
Franconia | ... ancia (which would evolve into the Holy Roman Empire). The town was part of | , the heartland of East Francia. In the 1170s, the Counts of Nassau, Walra ... |
Edward | ... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: | , Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John |
John Byron | ... hen this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir | , the Lieutenant of the Tower. The Trained Bands had switched sides, and n ... |
Béla III of Hungary | ... f 2,000 men from the Hungarian prince Géza, the younger brother of the king | also went with Barbarossa to the Holy Land |
John Stuart | ... granted in 1770 and incorporated in 1795. Originally named Stuart after Sir | , it was incorporated as Stewartstown after the Revolutionary War, followi ... |
Antwerp | ... atham, failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled | . For the most part of the years of the Fifth Coalition, British military ... |
William of Orange | ... nown as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter Mary and her husband | to depose the king. William obliged, arriving in England on 5 November 168 ... |
Franconia | ... e the fertile terraces of Lower Swabia, which continue north-eastwards into | |
King George II | ... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole | ;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ... |
William the Lion, King of Scotland | ... as described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by | and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. E ... |
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine. In 1716 | issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chiant ... |
Edward I | ... y, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle and was built under | . Although there were several phases of expansion after William the Conque ... |
Napoleon | ... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor | was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ... |
William Houston | ... brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, | the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded ... |
Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Emperor Maximilian | ... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of the | and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ... |
Louis XIV | ... rom great territorial nobles, some of whom were leaders of the Fronde. When | became king in 1643, he was only a child, and though Richelieu had died th ... |
Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
Lord Brabourne | ... Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law | and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight (of which ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... East. The court of King Narai (1656–88) had strong links with that of King | , whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris |
Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... ed (and often marketed as) a fantasy novel, but like Peter Pan and Wendy by | and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, both of which influen ... |
Richard II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, | and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but ha ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang (227 BC). In 1192, | , the de facto King of Jerusalem, was assassinated by hashshashin |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
Maximilian I of Mexico | ... e had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor | but to no avail. His complete archives (published by Pauvert) show also th ... |
John II Casimir | ... because of large scale internal conflicts (e.g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against | and rebellious confederations), corrupted legislative processes and manipu ... |
Queen Mary | ... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and | |
Charles I | ... they had moved to a position in the inner ward. Political tensions between | and Parliament in the second quarter of the 17th century led to an attempt ... |
Harold Macmillan | ... the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, | . This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been ... |
Earle Page | ... yons formed an exclusively UAP government supported by the Country Party of | . In 1934, however, the UAP lost six seats, forcing Lyons to renew the tra ... |
Stanley Baldwin | ... itain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister | 's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceive ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | ... river, which moved east and reached Höchstädt on 19 September. Villars and | moved their army of 17,000 to intercept this force, ordering another Frenc ... |
Henry VIII | On 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to | 's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to ... |
James II | ... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future | , brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of | . The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ... |
Cuthbert Collingwood | ... ishop of Westminster (1976–1999) was born in the city in 1923. Vice Admiral | , 1st Baron Collingwood (1748–1810) born in Newcastle upon Tyne; admiral o ... |
Earl of Plymouth | ... osts became unsustainable, and in 1911 bankruptcy was declared. In 1913 the | purchased it, to save it from developers. A public subscription quickly re ... |
Eustace de Vesci | ... nd and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. | , lord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against ... |
Philip Game | ... instead of into Government bank accounts. The New South Wales Governor, Sir | , intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the s ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... t to the north, east, and west is the inner ward, built during the reign of | (1189–1199). Finally, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle ... |
John Major | ... for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under his predecessor | ) and for the fact that the total salary cost of special advisers across a ... |
James II | ... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read | 's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... ecessor, El Cielo was a concept album. Initially intended to revolve around | 's Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Seco ... |
Mary | ... roup of Protestants known as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter | and her husband William of Orange to depose the king. William obliged, arr ... |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan first named as such by King | in 1160. The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O'Beo ... |
Duke of Suffolk | ... liam Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the Duke of Norfolk and the | against the rebellion. It is to most likely to Catherine's credit that Lor ... |
Joachim Murat | ... the Kingdom of Naples and granted it to his brother and then (from 1808) to | , along with marrying his sisters Elisa and Paolina off to the princes of ... |
John | ... ord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against King | in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Ba ... |
Edward II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs ( | , Richard II and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their succe ... |
Robert I, Count of Flanders | ... easily as valid as that of William of Normandy's. With the co-operation of | , his father-in-law, Canute ordered an armada of 1,000 Danish ships and 60 ... |
Conti | ... sk for Spanish aid, as proposed by their princely and noble adherents under | , and having no prospect of military success without such aid, the noble p ... |
Sir Edmund Hillary | ... rst accomplished in 1913 by Freda du Faur and guides Peter and Alex Graham. | made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, H ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... reduced by fever. Young Frederick had to ask the assistance of his kinsman | to lead him safely to Acre, by way of Tyre, where his father's bones were ... |
Fearchar, Earl of Ross | ... as such by King Malcolm IV of Scotland in 1160. The first of the chiefs was | from the O'Beolain family, also known as 'Fearchar Mac-an-t-sagairt' (mean ... |
Saer de Quincy | ... half that passed to his younger sister Margaret, and thereby to her husband | who in 1207 was made Earl of Winchester. Napton was still part of the Hono ... |
King Richard III | ... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that | won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ... |
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham | ... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander, | , failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ... |
George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
William the Silent | ... n again in Western Europe. The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland (1296), | of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and Henry ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ... |
Magnus Forteman | ... is eyes and cut off his tongue for his earlier actions, only to be saved by | and 700 Frisian nobles of his army. He was then formally deposed and sent ... |
Henry VIII | ... established during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of | |
Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
William III | ... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from | 's Act of Indemnity |
Frances | ... le). James's first impressions were favourable, and in 1664 Sarah’s sister, | , was appointed maid of honour to the Duchess of York, Anne Hyde |
Richard II | ... mes under Edward I and was expanded to its current size during the reign of | (1377–1399) |
Stanley Matthews | ... 4 to show their admiration for the former Blackpool and England player, Sir | |
Crown Princess of Sweden | ... of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the | helped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in ... |
Ludovico Sforza | ... domain. Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of | for many years, until Charles VIII of France drove Sforza out of Italy. Af ... |
Joh Bjelke-Petersen | ... t close the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney. The Queensland premier, | refused to consider any adjustment in Queensland's border with Papua New G ... |
Henry II of England | ... ristians across Europe. The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. | and Philip II of France ended their war with each other, and both imposed ... |
Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
Prince Edmund | ... der character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling | of the first series. To make the show more cost-effective, it was also sho ... |
Robert Cecil | ... ld, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by | , First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been ... |
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden | On 5 September, the main force of the Imperial Army under | had taken the free city of Augsburg, threatening Bavaria from the west. Lo ... |
Louis Alexandre Berthier | ... choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General | addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop ... |
Philip II of France | ... The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. Henry II of England and | ended their war with each other, and both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on the ... |
Henry I | ... rt de Beaumont, Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 | made de Beaumont Earl of Leicester and de Beaumont's manor at Napton becam ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in | 's sky atlas. Unwilling to risk his reputation by releasing unverified dat ... |
Sir Francis Bacon | The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by | . The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New ... |
Charles II | ... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King | ) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ... |
Charles Theodore | ... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt. | , who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ... |
Franconia | ... nal courts of Westphalia which, in turn, were based on the county courts of | . They received their jurisdiction from the Holy Roman Emperor, from whom ... |
Henry VI | ... trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, Richard II and | ) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but had never been ... |
Maximilian IV | ... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. | Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... alk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their works. | offered the society his protection, and in this way (1635) the Académie fr ... |
Tennyson's | ... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of | Poems (1857 |
Field Marshal Montgomery | ... d of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably | , later claimed was ill-conceived from the start. However at a meeting in ... |
Josiah Child | ... culated the Elizabethan System, which in turn was then developed further by | . Numerous French authors helped cement French policy around mercantilism ... |
Henry Bolte | ... to White Australia and the death penalty. The Liberal Premier of Victoria, | , called The Age "that pinko rag," a view conservatives have maintained ev ... |
Juan Domingo Perón | ... rk in fact existed, and in Argentina was largely run by Argentine President | , a Nazi sympathiser who had been impressed by Mussolini's reign in Italy ... |
Duke of Norfolk | ... liam Parr and uncle, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the | and the Duke of Suffolk against the rebellion. It is to most likely to Cat ... |
Lord Dorchester | ... s, and pockets of local resistance continued. Some rebel leaders approached | , the British governor of Quebec for assistance, who was reported to promi ... |
Robert Fitzwalter | ... of Alnwick. Eustace de Vesci, lord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with | against King John in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Aln ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
William Parr | ... clemency'. Latimer was more than happy to comply. Both Catherine's brother, | and uncle, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the Duke of ... |
Charlotte of Albret | On 10 May 1499, Cesare married | (1480 – 11 March 1514). She was a sister of John III of Navarre. They were ... |
Robert de Beaumont | The Domesday Book records that in 1086 | , Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 Henry I made ... |
Irene of Athens | ... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress | was too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ... |
Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby | ... n (London, 1709—1710) and the preface to Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for | (1708)—both without his name. His manuscript collections on the history an ... |
Fearchar, Earl of Ross | ... s army but was unable to crush the insurgents from Ross and Moray. However, | , with a large body of men from his own clan and his allies, appeared on t ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the | combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ... |
Henry III | ... asons. The precursor of the Liberties was laid out in the 13th century when | ordered that a strip of land adjacent to the castle be kept clear. Despite ... |
Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland | ... balls. Churchill, who had previously been a lover of Charles II’s mistress, | , had little to offer financially, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sar ... |
Roger Bigod | Mill (100 herrings). 43 pigs.' | or Bigot was a Norman Knight who came to England in the Norman Conquest |
Maria Feodorovna | ... sia. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, | (Helen Hayes), of her authenticity |
Prince of Wales | ... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the | and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ... |
Princess of Wales | ... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the | , and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ... |
Charles VIII of France | ... o had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until | drove Sforza out of Italy. After Cesare, Leonardo was unsuccessful in find ... |
Drahomíra | By his wife | , a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, Wenceslaus and B ... |
Przemysł II | ... ical reasons—became more common again in Western Europe. The reigns of King | of Poland (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the Fr ... |
Bettino Ricasoli | ... , Mammolo and Marzemino. It was not until the work of the Italian statesman | that the modern "Chianti recipe" as a Sangiovese-based wine would take sha ... |
James, Duke of York | ... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, | . A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ... |
Louis IX | ... during the 11th Century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers. In 1254, | issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing. ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... red again until 1966 when Donald Mitchell unearthed it. The following year, | conducted the first performance of it since Mahler's time at Aldeburgh. Th ... |
Earle Page | ... plan. On this issue, deputy leader Robert Menzies and Country Party leader | would have a public falling out |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
John Churchill | ... the two grew older. In late 1675, when she was still only fifteen, she and | , began courting after having danced together at parties and balls. Church ... |
Billy Snedden | From the start of the Whitlam government, the Opposition, led by | (who replaced McMahon as Liberal leader in December 1972) sought to use co ... |
Marguerite de Navarre | ... River"; and he named Upper New York Bay the Bay of Santa Margarita - after | - the elder sister of the king |
Count of Meulan | The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Robert de Beaumont, | held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 Henry I made de Beaumont Earl ... |
Villars | ... chstädt in Bavaria, and resulted in a French-Bavarian victory under Marshal | against the Austrians under General Limburg Styrum |
Lancelot | ... y to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero | and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also ... |
Michael Hicks Beach | ... e Middle Drift. Sir Bartle Frere described this matter in a despatch to Sir | , who had replaced Carnarvon as Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Henry IV | ... cousin, Lord Rhys. At the age of seven he was sent to the English court of | as page to the King's Steward. He went on to fight for the English at Agin ... |
King William I | ... f the powers gathered at the Congress of Vienna, William proclaimed himself | . He was also made grand duke of Luxembourg, and the title 'Prince of Oran ... |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge | ... was also close to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (née | ), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the Crown Prin ... |
King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | ... igin of the city's name is unknown, it is believed to have been named after | |
Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
Denis Healey | ... us. Sir Michael founded the institute together with the British Labour M.P. | and journalist Alastair Buchan |
Cecily Bonville | ... d William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. Grey's wife was the wealthy heiress | , who also happened to be the stepdaughter of Hastings. Jane was instrumen ... |
Princess Märtha of Sweden | On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin | with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ... |
Jogaila | Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke | (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
Alexandrine | He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen | , born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President | in 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ... |
Leopold Wilhelm | ... assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in Artois under the archduke | , governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands. But peasants of the country ... |
Faramir | ... sed the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frodo, | , Éowyn, and Merry |
The Marquess of Queensberry | The cast was: | , the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas (who was on ho ... |
Roland | ... randal or Durendal most often refers the legendary sword of the French hero | |
Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... commissioned for the painting, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the | and Spike Milligan |
Busby Babes | ... n 1956, losing 4–3 on aggregate to the Manchester United team of the famous | . He made his debut for the first team at home in November 1958 against Co ... |
Charles VIII | ... war with the League of the Public Weal. The matter became more urgent after | 's invasion of Italy (known as the First Peninsular War) |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while | , was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ... |
Pinklao | ... on during the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV. It was his brother, Vice-king | , who, after watching demonstration of Western dining etiquette by America ... |
E. H. Harriman | ... ying a six-man team that has been specially outfitted by Union Pacific head | to hunt Butch and Sundance. The robbers flee in multiple directions, but t ... |
George Carteret | ... help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, Charles II gave | , bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the American colonies in ... |
Adolphe Thiers | ... istricts. One of the chief "cannon parks" was on the heights of Montmartre. | was elected "Executive Power" of the new government to postpone the issue ... |
Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... Margaret of Prussia, daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of | . Nicholas flatly declared that he would rather become a monk than marry t ... |
William II | ... ded to abdicate in 1840. Royal power was curbed during the reign of his son | in a constitution ordered by the King to prevent the Revolution of 1848 fr ... |
George II | ... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign of | and designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ... |
Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... law being applicable to Luxembourg but not to the Netherlands. The present | is Henri |
Bedwyr | ... pears in one of the Welsh Triads. Arthur's main protagonist in the fight is | , later known as Sir Bedivere, and an earlier reference in the poem indica ... |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
Louis VIII of France | ... ring Albi). After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to King | and the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, ... |
Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
Moses Montefiore | ... e of the straw bonnet trade. Moses Chaim Montefiore, the grandfather of Sir | , also came to the country at much the same time for precisely the same re ... |
Louis XVIII | ... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by | and Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ... |
William III | William II died in 1849. He was succeeded by his son, King | , a rather conservative, even a reactionary man. William III was sharply o ... |
Lord Burlington | ... e house was completed in 1729 during the reign of George II and designed by | . William Kent (1685–1748), who took a leading role in designing the garde ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
Crown Prince Frederick | ... was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of | and Princess Louise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise) ... |
John Maynard Keynes | In 1921 the economist | published a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ... |
Montagu family | ... sion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the | for £20,000. The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occup ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas, | 's chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellor | to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ... |
Henry VII | ... bourgeois respectability. Lynom lost his position as King's Solicitor when | defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, but he was ... |
Richard | ... vember. Only in the summer of 882, Vienne was taken after being besieged by | , Count of Autun |
Juliana | ... complete extinction until 1909, when Wilhemina gave birth to her daughter, | . The Dutch royal house remained quite small until the latter 1930s and th ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... se War is on and Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by Count Witte ( | ) and Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costi ... |
Alexander I | ... e Diet of Porvoo in 1809 was a landmark in the History of Finland. The Tsar | confirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish ... |
King Christian IX | ... lace in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather | . His father was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
Napoleon III | The war with Prussia, initiated by | in July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September Paris i ... |
Henry II | ... er. In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop in Derbyshire by King | . The hilltop Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder o ... |
Friedrich IV | In 1414 Oswald became a member of the entourage of | , Duke of Austria and Count of Tyrol at the Council of Constance (1414–141 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from | , then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressed | that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future | ), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ar withdraws at the last minute after learning his true identity is that of | (who assumed another identity hoping he will get a rare chance to compete ... |
Velázquez | Image:Innocent-x-velazquez.jpg| Innocent X, | , c 165 |
Prince Christian of Denmark | ... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was | (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
Richard | ... e Province of Leinster. In 1781 Arthur's father died and his eldest brother | inherited his father's earldom |
Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
Sir Hans Sloane | ... al museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist | (1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable ... |
Edward III of England | ... ly associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), | sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and ... |
The Marquess of Queensberry | ... g night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. | , father of Lord Alfred Douglas, an intimate friend of Wilde, planned to p ... |
Queen Anne | ... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law | |
Charles, duke of Lorraine | ... le de Montpensier, while the archduke took more fortresses in Flanders, and | , with an army of plundering mercenaries, marched through Champagne to joi ... |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
Charles II | ... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by | in 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband, | in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ... |
Lech Wałęsa | ... 1946 address built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: | , Margaret Thatcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, Geo ... |
Ludwig I of Bavaria | ... mples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for | between 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens V ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... ions and four wins), Jack Nicholson (twelve nominations and three wins) and | (ten nominations and one win) |
Crown Prince Naruhito | ... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when | of Japan studied there (1983–85) |
King George II | ... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to | , for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000 |
Princess Irulan | ... mperor Paul remains in a political marriage with Shaddam's eldest daughter, | , and has yet to beget another child with his true love Chani. His rule is ... |
Edward IV of England | ... abeth "Jane" Shore (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King | , the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ghthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, | , to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, ... |
Frederick III | ... ties of the Franc (Flanders), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father | proving decisive. Both sides came to terms in the Peace of Senlis in 1493, ... |
Montesquieu | ... ng (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especially | and Cesare Beccaria |
Wilhelm II | ... elves at the front of the movement, and on 7 November, demanded that Kaiser | abdicate. When he refused, Prince Max of Baden simply announced that he ha ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... iblings and a very small number of the otherwise close-knit Romanov family: | (husband of Nicholas's sister Xenia), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovic ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iammetta (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of | (model: Marie Spartali Stillman |
Henry VII | ... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of | at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | ... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and | |
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr | ... port, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor | in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supp ... |
Felipe, Prince of Asturias | ... na to his first-born son, Alfonso. The title is currently carried by Prince | , the first since the 16th century to do so |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
Edward I of England | Quo warranto had its origins in an attempt by King | to investigate and recover royal lands, rights, and franchises in England, ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
King Henry II | ... ly member of the family to Ireland was during 1171, as a Standard Bearer to | . The surnames "Wesley" was adopted from a childless wealthy cousin, Garre ... |
William, Prince of Orange | ... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under | 's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands |
Dorothea of Brandenburg | ... tine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christopher married | (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen |
King Louis XIV of France | ... heir in William III's will. The principality was captured by the forces of | under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch W ... |
Knights of Columbus | ... olumbus Day celebrations because of its association with immigrants and the | . They were afraid it was being used to expand Catholic influence. By far ... |
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset | ... She also became a courtesan to other noblemen, including Edward's stepson, | , and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, his close friend and advisor |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
Richard III | ... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of | at Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ... |
Richard Harris | ... g. The musical was adapted into a 1967 film of the same name, which starred | as Arthur, and which featured the Castle of Coca, Segovia as a fittingly o ... |
Xenia | ... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister | ), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ... |
Elizabeth | ... 's Men during the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess | and Frederick V, Elector Palatine |
Eric of Pomerania | ... r married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen. | was deposed as king of Denmark and Sweden in 1439. As Eric's nephew, Chris ... |
Niels Bohr | After spending 1928 and 1929 in England and Denmark, working briefly with | , Hückel joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart. In ... |
Robert Lauder of The Bass | ... erecta" at that time. On the 5 January 1542 we find John Lauder, son of Sir | , Knt., as "the Cardinal's Secretary" representing Cardinal David Beaton a ... |
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings | ... lemen, including Edward's stepson, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and | , his close friend and advisor |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | ... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King | ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ... |
John Major | ... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government of | sought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ... |
Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
Henry VI | ... land on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King | , before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign and taking Tudor ... |
Charles XIII | ... he Swedish throne because the Swedish royal family was dying out with King | . Baron Carl Otto Mörner (22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868), who was a Swedish ... |
Emperor Henry III | ... ed, in Juan de Mariana, who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the | urged Victor II to prohibit under severe penalties the use of the imperial ... |
Louis VIII | ... his son, also named Raymond. In 1223, Philippe II died and was succeeded by | . In 1224, Amaury de Montfort abandoned Carcassonne. The son of Raymond-Ro ... |
Henry III of Castile | ... lian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered the Canary Islands for | |
Arthur | Chapter 56 discusses twelve battles fought and won by | , here called dux bellorum (war leader) rather than king |
Duke of Normandy | Elizabeth II's traditional title as Head of State is | . "The Crown" is defined by the Law Officers of the Crown as the "Crown in ... |
Lazare Carnot | But not all the credit for the innovations of this period go to Napoleon. | played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to ... |
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings | ... r the title of “The Rose of London”. She attracted many suitors, among them | , friend and confidant of Edward IV. It is likely Hastings fell in love wi ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... e 11th century. The ancient countship later became a duchy (1351) when King | gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King Ferdinan ... |
Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich | ... nstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperial house) and his family, and | , who was married to Nicholas's maternal first cousin, Maria of Greece). A ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King | and Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ... |
Caesar de Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin | ... ainst the invaders; the royal army in Champagne was in the capable hands of | , who counted 52 years of age and 36 of war experience; and the little for ... |
Thomas Browne | ... anz Bardon). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir | in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divi ... |
Infanta Joanna | ... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married | , daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ... |
Charles II of Spain | In 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King | , war broke out over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Althoug ... |
Edward, Earl of March | ... , Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against | . They were defeated. Owen was subsequently executed, beheaded at Hereford ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. The son of | , Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgu ... |
William III | ... illiam died of smallpox on November 6, 1650, leaving only a posthumous son, | (*November 14, 1650). Since there was no Prince of Orange upon the death o ... |
Joseph Fourier | Taking his mathematical cues from the heat flow work of | (and his own religious and geological convictions), Thomson believed that ... |
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich | ... e). Alexandra disliked in particular the family of Nicholas's senior uncle, | , and his wife Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who, during the war, openly ... |
Sir Henry Vane the Elder | ... , and been most active in conducting it, the object of which was to prevent | 's elevation to the office of Secretary of State. This unfortunate quarrel ... |
William III of Orange | ... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for | . The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ... |
Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... ld at that point become overwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by | and Cardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's ... |
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | ... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who played | in "Goodbyeee", the final, fatal episode of Blackadder Goes Forth |
Henry V of England | ... p with, and probable secret marriage to, Catherine of Valois, widow of King | |
Laurence Olivier | ... prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring | , Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson. Burghley (spelled Burleigh in the film) ... |
Henry II | ... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to | that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ... |
House of Glücksburg | ... xandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the | |
Stanley Baldwin | ... Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of | , despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year co ... |
Edward Hyde | ... o ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops' Wars had bankrupted him. | recalled the subdued tone of his entrance to Parliament |
Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
Christian I | ... ied suddenly at Helsingborg in 1448. On 28 October 1449, Dorothea remarried | . King Christopher was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In 1654 his Wittelsba ... |
King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
Archduke Ferdinand | World War I begins with the assassination of | . Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ... |
Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
Earl of Uxbridge | ... y of his staff officers on Wellington, including his second-in-command, the | . Uxbridge commanded the cavalry and had carte blanche from Wellington to ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... for a short time as a party nickname in the civil wars during the reign of | |
Madame Royale | ... d to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled " | ". The style is granted by Royal Warrant |
Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... alls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings | , Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layo ... |
Earl of Suffolk | ... ch included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including the | who as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade ag ... |
Victor, 5th duc de Broglie | ... roglie was born to a noble family in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, younger son of | . He became the 7th duc de Broglie upon the death without heir in 1960 of ... |
Ramon Berenger | ... was carried off by the French in 1809. The cathedral contains the tombs of | and his wife |
Pauline Julien | ... r to arrest people without warrant, and 497 people were arrested, including | |
Charles I | ... the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as | 's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captur ... |
Edward Elgar | ... n. Norrington caused controversy during the 2008 Proms season by conducting | 's Enigma Variations, and the Last Night of the Proms, in non-vibrato styl ... |
Edward III | ... ng of the king's eldest daughter; and by a statute of the 25th year of King | , sleeping with the king's eldest daughter before her marriage constitutes ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by | , took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ... |
Nick Oliveri's | ... "Quick and to the Pointless" were recorded simultaneously in just one take. | vocal performance was originally intended to be a scratch vocal, but the b ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
Henry V of England | ... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King | , focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ... |
Peter III | ... rts during the reign of Catherine. Under her leadership, she completed what | had started; the church’s lands were appropriated, and the budget of both ... |
Lyon Playfair | For example, in 1854 | (later 1st Baron Playfair, GCB, PC, FRS (1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898), a Brit ... |
Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President) | as a "horrid little man" |
Benito Mussolini | In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of | as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ... |
Hans Wiegel | ... 0. This cabinet fell after a few months. Meanwhile the charismatic young MP | had attracted considerable attention. He became the new leader of the VVD: ... |
Henry IV of France | ... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father | had once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ... |
Nicholas I | ... Muskau; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars | (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victori ... |
Edward VI | ... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under | . Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
Henry III | ... were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, | , and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout establis ... |
Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie | ... th duc de Broglie upon the death without heir in 1960 of his older brother, | , also a physicist. He did not marry. When he died in Louveciennes, he was ... |
Mary Stuart | ... predecessors from the Eighty Years War. In 1677, William married his cousin | , the daughter of the future king James II of England. In 1688, William em ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to | , the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ... |
Boris | ... criticized the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, | and Andrei to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal ... |
King George I | ... James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of | , were eligible for this honour but did not receive it. At the time she be ... |
Henry VIII | ... ntly and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son, | , decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He aband ... |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be | (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ... |
Henry | ... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old | |
Eric of Pomerania | ... merania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister of the Scandinavian king, | . Count Palatine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christ ... |
Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie | ... When he died in Louveciennes, he was succeeded as duke by a distant cousin, | |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... verwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by Louis XIII of France and | , to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father Henry IV of Fra ... |
Guelders | ... not establish permanent control. In 1514/15 Groningen came to the Duchy of | , and in 1536 to the Habsburg Netherlands. In 1594, Groningen was conquere ... |
Clement Attlee | ... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to | appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ... |
Lord Byron | ... et, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and | 's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny. Severn made a sketch of Tr ... |
John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
James J. Hill | ... las Beachley, arrived later that year. With investments from railroad owner | and Helena businessman Charles Arthur Broadwater, houses, a store, and a f ... |
Alexander I | ... an Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and | (1777–1825); the king of Persia; Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and Prince Alb ... |
King Charles I | ... te. This unfortunate quarrel became the fruitful source of infinite evil to | and to his government. Two parties were formed in the cabinet, and through ... |
Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... dynasty – including his relationship with, and probable secret marriage to, | , widow of King Henry V of England |
Andrei | ... the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, Boris and | to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal for the ha ... |
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford | ... s of Bertie County, Chowan County, and Northampton County. It was named for | , later 1st Marquess of Hertford |
Louis XV of France | ... Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King | , who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia ... |
Sir Hans Sloane | ... ed in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist | . The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu Hous ... |
William of Orange | ... lowing the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by | en route to Dublin city. He is believed to have camped near the Labour Exc ... |
Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. Around 1500, | gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert, Duke of Saxony, who could however ... |
Ivan III of Russia | In 1493, the Danish and Norwegian king, Hans, formed an alliance with | against Sten Sture. From 1495 to 1497, Sten successfully repelled a Russia ... |
King James II | Princess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of | (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ... |
Niels Bohr | ... roposed the name nielsbohrium (Ns) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist | . The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ... |
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) | ... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the | and his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
Raymond III of Tripoli | ... umphrey IV of Toron to Isabella of Jerusalem. The siege was raised by Count | , and Raynald was quiet until 1186 |
German Empress Frederick | ... was unnecessary to attempt to secure the approval of the people. Her aunt, | , wrote to Queen Victoria that "Alix is very Imperious and will always ins ... |
Philip II | ... and he did not persecute his Protestant subjects on a large scale. His son | inherited his antipathy for the Protestants but not his moderation. Under ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
Louis VIII | ... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of | . She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX |
John of Denmark | ... ion to his distant kinsman Sten Sture the Elder, going as far as supporting | . Unwillingly he then switched sides and supported Sten Sture in overthrow ... |
Leopold I | ... the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
Ralph the Staller | After the Norman Conquest, | ’s property was taken over by Count Alan a . It subsequently came to be at ... |
Ragnhild | ... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, | and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... recusants, he promised to do exactly that in a secret marriage treaty with | . Moreover, the price of marriage with the French princess was a promise o ... |
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark | ... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ... |
George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Grand Duchess widow | ... barded and has never since been repaired, the other part is occupied by the | of the late Grand Duke who was succeeded by his uncle having left only thr ... |
Joshua Homme | All tracks by | and Nick Oliveri, except where noted |
Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | ... tury, when it was recorded as "Inverlethane". It is said that a son of King | (who was staying at Traquair House on a hunting trip), drowned accidentall ... |
Maurits | William was succeeded by his second son | , a Protestant who proved an excellent military commander. His abilities a ... |
Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
Henry IV | ... d at Tours, working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in | 's train in March 1594. He continued until 1604 at his work in the chambre ... |
Viscount Mandeville | ... n Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with | (the future Earl of Manchester) who sat in the House of Lords, had encoura ... |
Henry III | ... osopher David Hume, in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of | (r.1216 - 1272) the English Navy destroyed an invading French fleet, by bl ... |
Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
Wartislaw VII | ... hn, Count Palatine of Neumarkt, and Catherine of Pomerania, the daughter of | , Duke of Pomerania in Pomerania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister ... |
Fourier | ... nsive formulation of classical mechanics and investigated light and optics. | founded a new branch of mathematics — infinite, periodic series — studied ... |
Prince Michael of Kent | ... named Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express was launched on 26 April 2007 by | |
Antwerp | ... Allied forces. This caused the remaining V-1s to be directed at the port of | and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks ... |
Harald | ... arried his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, | , and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, C ... |
Princess Louise of Sweden | ... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and | (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ... |
Queen Mary | ... egan the process of modernising Kenilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by | for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
Olga | ... to the tsar, Alexandra gave birth to the couple's first child: a girl named | , who was born on 15 November 1895. Olga could not be the heir presumptive ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
King Arthur | ... nds heavy scrutiny for being the earliest source of any substance regarding | , naming the twelve battles he fought (cf. Annales Cambriae which assigns ... |
Prince Carl of Denmark | ... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to | and Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ... |
Henry | ... to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to | , the Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, whi ... |
Ferdinand | ... g year, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind in Madrid, where she gave birth to | , later Holy Roman Emperor. Philip's life with Joanna was rendered extreme ... |
Philip Augustus | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between | and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
Thomas Beecham | ... imì. It is the only recording of a Puccini opera by its original conductor. | , who worked closely with Puccini when preparing a 1920 production of La b ... |
Robert Runcie | ... stant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Leb ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | In July 1708, the Duke of Marlborough, with his ally | , won a great victory at the Battle of Oudenarde. On the way to the thanks ... |
Bobby Robson | Cruyff was briefly replaced by | , who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. The club sig ... |
Diego Velázquez | ... fight the Moors and later membership became a precious honour. People like | longed for the royal favour that allowed to put on their clothes the red c ... |
Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
Andrew Carnegie | In 1915 | gave the school a grant of $50,000 for a central academic building. The te ... |
Paul I | ... uld not be the heir presumptive due to the Pauline Laws implemented by tsar | : only a male could succeed to the Russian throne, although there had been ... |
Ulrich von Liechtenstein | ... nts to joust, and joins the jousting circuit under the assumed name of "Sir | " from Gelderland. Chaucer is then discovered to have a gambling problem, ... |
Walter V of Brienne | ... Athens, under the rule of the French House of Brienne. In March 1310, Duke | and all his knights were defeated and slain by the Almogavars at the Battl ... |
Eleanor of England | ... ncia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and | . Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... vided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as | at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... t his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends (he had a relationship with | , who also was part of the Bloomsbury group), it was not widely publicised ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf | ... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of | (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
Joachim Murat | ... o a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by | ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-p ... |
Elizabeth Stuart | ... ian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popular | and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen ... |
Tatiana | ... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: | on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... m Almogavars became less numerous. In 1502, violating the 1492 peace treaty | forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert to Catholicism or be e ... |
Frederick V | ... g Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. Elector | of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protestant, was elected by the Bohe ... |
Ambrose, Earl of Warwick | ... n debt. In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother | , and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Rober ... |
Prince of Wales | ... ing back in Britain and on the King's sixtieth birthday, George was created | . The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlbo ... |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | ... setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir | . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906 |
Magdalen of Sweden | ... future Charles VIII. He was married to Ingeborg Tott, niece by marriage of | , in 1467; she was a renaissance personality interested in theology and sc ... |
Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age EP | ... e Desert Sessions, and a re-recording of "Born To Hula", an early song from | . The other Reading Festival tracks are concert takes on "Ode To Clarissa" ... |
Louis IX | ... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, | |
Anne Boleyn | ... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage to | and its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ... |
Sidney Herbert | In Rome in 1847, she met | , a brilliant politician who had been Secretary at War (1845–1846), a posi ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... ie Jahreszeiten, Der Sturm, Orfeo de Euridice and secular cantata choruses. | uses trombones in connection with death or the supernatural. This includes ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... yday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier." | said that Gielgud's performance in The School for Scandal was "the best li ... |
Richard of Cornwall | ... y period of Ottoman rule. Richard the Lionheart retook the city soon after. | , brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars an ... |
Queen Henrietta Maria | The title Princess Royal came into existence when | (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charle ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
Caroline of Brunswick | ... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife | , who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ... |
Louis VIII of France | ... unt of Foix and Aragonese crown forces decided the military intervention of | from 1226 with the support of Pope Honorius III |
Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
Napoleon III | ... tatus under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and | , only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830. During ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
King Charles XIII | ... he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted by | under the name of "Charles John" (Karl Johan). Many honours were bestowed ... |
Chris Goss | ... irectly after the tour. They also announced that they would be working with | , who performed with Masters of Reality as a supporting act the same eveni ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members | and the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ... |
Prince of Wales | ... est man in England" and, according to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the | said that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing. Wilberforce used ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, | ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ... |
Alexei Nikolaevich | ... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir: | was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... attempting to overthrow Mazarin and reverse the policies of his predecessor | who had taken power for the crown from great territorial nobles, some of w ... |
Lord Hill | ... de batterie drew up in the centre. These opened fire at 11:50, according to | (commander of the Anglo-allied II Corps), while other sources put the time ... |
Henry IV, King of France | ... yal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of | , and wife of King Charles I (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the el ... |
King George VI | ... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy." | , as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... e. The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings | and Sigismund II Augustus) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lit ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... quarter still existed in the town during the early period of Ottoman rule. | retook the city soon after. Richard of Cornwall, brought from England to s ... |
Wilhelm II | ... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and | . The final version shows a swastika |
Chris Goss | ... band has also just finished recording a four-track "Capsule" with producer | . Capsule 1 is said to be the first of three or four and to be released so ... |
Olav IV | ... was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since | , and his parents made sure he was given as Norwegian an upbringing as pos ... |
Sir John Lubbock | ... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker | introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ... |
Maria | ... her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: Tatiana on 10 June 1897, | on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Three more years passed bef ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... iopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy ( | ), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomatic recognition), and ... |
Clement Attlee's | St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister | proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ... |
Charles August | ... tive to the Swedish throne had become acute since the previous crown prince | had died of a stroke on 28 May 1810, just a few months after he had arrive ... |
Tom Jones | ... e Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, | , Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
Mary Tudor | ... y, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on | , goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The ... |
Henrietta Maria of France | ... t Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess | , whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain. It was a good mat ... |
Victoria of Baden | ... . In particular, he served as the personal physician of the Crown princess, | , and he continued in these duties while she was Queen consort, up until t ... |
Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
Queen consort | ... princess, Victoria of Baden, and he continued in these duties while she was | , up until the time of her death in 1930, although this does not mean that ... |
Sebastian Coe | ... Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, | |
Robert Carey | ... ave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria; he bestowed the stewardship on | , earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and Thomas, after t ... |
Lothair II | ... the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's kingdom. However on the death of | , who had no heir, king Charles the Bald tried to gain control of his king ... |
Gérard | ... hen too far away to reach Waterloo. Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, | , to "march to the sound of the guns", but stuck to his orders and engaged ... |
Ingrid of Sweden | Instead, he married Princess | (1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ... |
Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
Christian I | ... g in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of | . This victory elevated Sture to the position of a national savior. The sc ... |
Adolphe | ... y, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke | —an arrangement necessitated by Salic law being applicable to Luxembourg b ... |
William the third | ... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson | , King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ... |
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland | ... enclosure was a result of inflation, he was only ignored. It was not until | was Protector that his finance minister William Cecil took action on debas ... |
Duke of Cumberland | ... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the | . Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ... |
Arthur | ... a similar story in another work. The speaker relates how he journeyed with | and three boatloads of men into Annwfn, but only seven returned. Annwfn is ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
Jean-Baptiste Bessières | ... mpress Dragoons was also present at the battle under the command of Marshal | . The reinforcements that Bessières brought were almost symbolic, despite ... |
Grand Duke Paul | ... s a Regent or as an usurper, tolerable only during the minority of her son, | . In the 1770s, a group of nobles connected with Paul (Nikita Panin and ot ... |
Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King | when he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ... |
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | ... liament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by | , leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind w ... |
George Lauder of The Bass | ... 508). The boatmen who conveyed the King from Dunbar were paid 14 shillings. | entertained King James VI of Scotland when he visited The Bass in 1581 and ... |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | In 1975, French President | invited the heads of government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Unite ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... means sling, which Parisian mobs used to smash the windows of supporters of | |
Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
Charles XIII | ... ernor of Rome when he was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive to King | of Sweden, who was childless and old |
King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
Prince of Wales | ... rth. Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as | ; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his ... |
Lord Carnarvon | In 1874 | , Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about ... |
Robert Runcie | ... the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr | , appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for Anglican Communio ... |
Robert Lauder of The Bass | ... 97 King James IV visited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir | (d.bef Feb 1508). The boatmen who conveyed the King from Dunbar were paid ... |
Isabelle | # | (14 April 1225 – 23 February 1269) |
Francis Bacon | ... onopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of | by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment ... |
William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton | ... ore than happy to comply. Both Catherine's brother, William Parr and uncle, | fought with the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Suffolk against the rebell ... |
Urien | In the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by | and gives birth to Owain and Morvydd |
Henry | ... stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, | and Thomas, after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular loca ... |
Pelé | ... the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by | and commissioned by FIFA for that organization's 100th anniversary.Other a ... |
Charles I's | ... ment was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment of | execution on 30 January 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling du ... |
Constance of Antioch | ... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of | , whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ... |
Otto I | ... he count, who ruled the city and county, and the bishop, ceased when in 948 | granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor Hen ... |
Grace Kelly | ... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie ( | ) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ... |
Trencavel | ... the nobility of Toulouse led by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and the family | that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon Peter II the Catholic, i ... |
Queen Louise's | ... shed the military decoration of the Iron Cross, backdated to March 10, late | birthday. The Iron Cross was awarded to soldiers during the Wars of Libera ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... nce currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and | ) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expa ... |
Princess Margaret of Connaught | ... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, | . They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ... |
Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
Catherine of Aragon | Using her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen | , Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ... |
Caravaggio | ... mus Bosch, Bruegel and others). Some surviving artworks are "Cardsharps" by | (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and "The Triumph of Death" by ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and | . The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ... |
Hjalmar Siilasvuo | ... rthern part of the country. Finnish forces, under the leadership of general | , struck aggressively in August 1944 by making a landfall at Tornio. This ... |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She married | and two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ... |
Thomas Cochrane | ... talemate during the siege of Sevastopol. The proposal was backed by Admiral | of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmersto ... |
Kevin Aviance | ... title as that year's theme: Being Out Rocks. Participating artists include | , Janis Ian, k.d. lang, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rufus Wainwrigh ... |
Duke of Cambridge | ... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and the | was chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ... |
Catherine of Valois | Owen entered the service of Queen | as keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the ... |
William III | ... bourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when | , King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leavi ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ntment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with | , and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste Biot, to ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
Humphry Davy | ... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir | , a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ... |
Antwerp | ... Victor Hugo found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add | , and you have Bordeaux". Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux ... |
Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
Duke of Normandy | In the islands, Elizabeth II's traditional title as head of state is | |
Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
Heinrich II | ... athedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under German Emperor | |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia | ... a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and | |
Hans Sloane | ... The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by | in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia ... |
Lord Palmerston | ... Thomas Cochrane of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, | , but the British Ordnance Department rejected the proposal as "as bad a m ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... f the Renaissance Popes. He fathered seven children, including Lucrezia and | , by at least two mistresses. Fourteen years after his death, the corrupti ... |
Harold Wilson | ... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments of | and James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and | 's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ... |
King Arthur | ... ho was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by | |
Theobald IV of Champagne | ... Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped by | and the papal legate to France, Romano Bonaventura, she organized an army. ... |
James I | ... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for both | and Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ... |
Mary II of England and Scotland | Princess Mary (later Queen | ) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia ... |
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière | ... n 20 October 1792 a letter was read before the National Convention in which | , interior minister, proposed that the furnishings of the palace and those ... |
Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany | ... once consigned to the castle of The Bass, Walter Stewart, the eldest son of | , his cousin. The person who received the payments for the prisoner's supp ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... is home to two Carnegie Libraries funded by the donations of steel magnate | . Both are considered historically and architecturally significant by the ... |
Charles II | ... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of | in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ... |
Eleonora de' Medici | ... Mantua (Gonzaga) (1598–1655), the daughter of Duke Vincenzo I of Mantua and | , at Innsbruck |
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg | ... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince | . The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ... |
Louis XIII | ... dua (where he attended Cesare Cremonini's lessons), and became physician to | |
Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | He died in 1637, leaving to his son | an empire still entangled in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increas ... |
Morgan le Fay | ... erived from the Gaulish goddess Matrona. She may have been the prototype of | from Arthurian legend. She was the mother of Mabon, who bears her name as ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... 1899. The young prince had 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather | , Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grand ... |
Henry VI | ... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include | , Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ... |
William I | ... dent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, | . Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1 ... |
Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
Hainaut | ... county was between its more powerful neighbours the counts of Flanders, of | and the kings of France, especially during the Hundred Years' War |
King Henry | ... hardt's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with | , portrays More as an idealist bound to fail in the power struggle with a ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ... |
Sir Michael Hicks Beach | ... istration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The fact is," wrote | , who would replace Carnarvon as Secretary of State for the Colonies, in N ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
Francis Drake | ... tled two years before. Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir | and Sir Walter Raleigh. The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the fla ... |
Edward III | In 1339, in the early stages of the war, the English king | laid siege to the city but eventually had to withdraw. By the 14th century ... |
George I of Greece | ... them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, | , Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, t ... |
Alexander I | ... ime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar | (who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy and France) from gaining i ... |
comte d’Artois | ... sieur Fayolle during his voyages in America. The collection was sold to the | and was later confiscated by the state. Fayolle, who had been nominated to ... |
King James II | In 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of | , disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ... |
Margaret Pole | ... ying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, | , and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside ... |
Henry VIII | ... The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on | and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles | ... bly Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and | and also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were publi ... |
Napoleon I | ... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of | , and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême | ... own's influence in Poitou, Blanche managed to keep the English Queen mother | and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan from supporting the English side ... |
Datu | ... collapsing empires of Srivijaya, Majapahit and Brunei, led by the chieftain | Puti and his tribes, settled in the island of Panay and its surrounding is ... |
Felix V | ... ntury Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope | |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
Lord Brooke | ... the battle, however, the royalist garrison was withdrawn on the approach of | and the castle was garrisoned by parliamentary forces. The new governor of ... |
Theodore Judah | The original townsite was surveyed and laid out in 1859 by | along the proposed line of the California Central Railroad. The name "Linc ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign. | depicted him in the film Elizabeth. He was a prominent supporting characte ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman | , the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ... |
Pierre Mauclerc | ... and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan from supporting the English side. | did support the English and Brittany rebelled against the crown in 1230. B ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
King Charles I | ... rietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of | (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... dfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, | , his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Prince of Wales ( ... |
Louis XVIII | ... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King | was worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ... |
James Callaghan | ... any references to the policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and | , with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dead, as if it had bee ... |
William III | ... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province, | let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ... |
Keith Murdoch | In October 1915, the journalist | reported on the situation in Gallipoli at Fisher's request, and advised hi ... |
Anne Jules de Noailles | ... 653, under Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds in 1684, and twice in 1694 under | . In May 1809, it was besieged by 35,000 French Napoleonic troops under Ve ... |
Welf | ... Tostig's two sons took refuge in Norway, while his wife Judith married Duke | of Bavaria |
Zenobia | The Augustan History ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that | queen of Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... ganized Congolese troops, known as the (FP), were created in 1888 when King | , who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secre ... |
Sir Bedivere | ... ified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, | threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another legend relating to the po ... |
Duke of Rothesay | ... Charles automatically gained several titles (including Duke of Cornwall and | ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in Nov ... |
Saint-Simon | ... of Parma, had quit because the duke had wiped his buttocks in front of him: | in his Mémoires relates that Alberoni gained Vendôme's favor when he was r ... |
Louis XIV | ... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when | moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ... |
Thomas Graham Jackson | ... Henry Crossland (?), C. Hodgson Fowler (1856–60), Thomas Gardner (1856–61), | (1858–61), John T. Micklethwaite (1862–69), Benjamin Mountfort (1841–46), ... |
Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford | ... is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for | . The population was 2,046 at the 2000 census |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
Catherine of Aragon | ... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to | . In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ... |
Arthur de Gobineau | ... Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, | , Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castel ... |
Rurik | ... stly from the Primary Chronicle. According to the document, Igor was son of | , the first king of Kievan Rus' |
Charles VII of France | ... ritory. The Château Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Hâ, built by | , were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city ... |
Arthurian | ... mary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to | legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another lege ... |
Wilhelm II | ... ple, who accused her of collaboration with the Germans. The German Emperor, | , was also Alexandra's first cousin. Ironically, one of the few things tha ... |
Farquhar Buzzard | ... attention to his care. During his illness in 1928, one of his doctors, Sir | , was asked who had saved the King's life. He replied, "The Queen". In 193 ... |
Freiherr | ... second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below " | ". For its historical association with warfare and the landed gentry in th ... |
Earl of Cambridge | ... of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the | and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King | , the last crowned English King of England |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
Sir Robert Menzies | ... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including | , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ... |
Maurice of Nassau | ... generals, including two of the acknowledged "first captains of their age", | and the Marshal de Turenne |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... urer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. His vacant post was offered to | , who declined it and proposed Burghley, stating that the latter was the m ... |
Duke of Cornwall | ... son of the sovereign Charles automatically gained several titles (including | and Duke of Rothesay), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Ea ... |
Louis XIV | ... 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by | |
Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | ... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, | (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ... |
André de Chauvigny | ... g with his niece the fiefs of Issoudun and Graçay, together with those that | , lord of Châteauroux, held in Berry, of the English crown. The marriage w ... |
Lord Byron | ... related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with | , discussing publication of Byron's works |
Louis XIII | ... ailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited | on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased wi ... |
Charles Oudinot | Time was at the essence and Masséna at once sent one of his aides-de-camp, | , the son of Marshal Duke of Reggio, with orders to bring forward the Guar ... |
Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
Gráinne | ... a in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is most famous as the lover of | , the intended wife of Fianna leader Fionn mac Cumhaill in The Pursuit of ... |
Earl of Northumbria | Tostig Godwinson (died 25 September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon | and brother of King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned English King of Eng ... |
Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
Mabel Wisse Smit | ... ch Parliament. For example, this happened with Prince Friso when he married | . This is written down explicitly in the part of the constitution of the N ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... very of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist | , begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is over 14 feet tall and over 9 f ... |
the King | In April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester," was addressed to | (the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of ... |
Arthur Harris | ... ed version of Churchill's memo by Bottomley, on 29 March, Air Chief Marshal | wrote to the Air Ministry |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/ | |
Duke of York | ... es personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charles was created | , which is customary in the case of the sovereign's second son. However, w ... |
Clement Attlee | ... spite his popularity as a war hero Churchill suffered a landslide defeat to | whose government's economic policy continued to be influenced by Keynes's ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
Henry II of England | ... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter of | and , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ... |
King George II | ... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from | in 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ... |
Antwerp | ... other Eastern European Jewish origins; his great-grandfather emigrated from | before 1914 Gaiman, Neil. , Neil Gaiman's Journal, 16 January 2009 and his ... |
James Callaghan | ... sh from the Industrial North East and Northern Irish. Former Prime Minister | 's father was a Protestant from Northern Ireland. Similarly, some of the l ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... n notables. On 20 October 1496, he married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King | and Queen Isabella I of Castile, in Lier, Belgium |
Artois | ... ed to do this with Spanish assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in | under the archduke Leopold Wilhelm, governor-general of the Spanish Nether ... |
Prince of Wales | Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, | , whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charle ... |
Sir Edward Hyde | ... g as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to | , whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon. The ruined c ... |
Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
Sir Richard Hill | ... s stigmatised in polite society. Evangelicals in the upper classes, such as | , the Methodist MP for Shropshire, and Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntin ... |
Winston Churchill | ... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war | attempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ... |
Morcar | ... orters, then declared Tostig outlawed for his unlawful actions and sent for | , younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia. The northern rebels marched so ... |
Henry V of England | ... een's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the death of her husband | on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Hen ... |
Isabella di Aragona | | , princess of Naples and widow of the Duke of Milan Gian Galeazzo Sforza, ... |
Grand Master | In 1525 during the Protestant Reformation, the | of the Teutonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territor ... |
duke of Parma | ... oseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the | had sent him. That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the d ... |
Kurfürsten | ... ar was due to the new Binger Kurverein (Alliance of Bingen) by the Empire's | against Sigmund, who could not afford to fight three wars at once: the pla ... |
Queen Christina | ... y was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, and | invited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's a ... |
George Pearce | Fisher passed this report on to Hughes and to Defence Minister | , ultimately leading to the evacuation of the Australian troops in Decembe ... |
James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of | , although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ... |
Don Carlos | ... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, | , as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... ra in charge as Regent in the capital Saint Petersburg. Her brother-in-law, | recorded, "When the Emperor went to war of course his wife governed instea ... |
Otto of Nordheim | ... , mother of and regent for the German king Henry IV, entrusted the duchy to | |
Lord Robert Baden-Powell | ... tradition on their own. Scouts do not necessarily encounter this tradition. | , the founder of Scouting and the Chief Scout of the World, would gather s ... |
William the Conqueror | ... land. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by | in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by ... |
Edwin | ... g outlawed for his unlawful actions and sent for Morcar, younger brother of | , Earl of Mercia. The northern rebels marched south to press their case wi ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... tatesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to | and was from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He is commemorated by the Church ... |
Harold Wilson | ... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of | , and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ... |
Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
Philip the Good | ... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather, | . In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... aly"; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of | , he addressed his letters of credence to the "King of Italy and Emperor o ... |
Henry VII of England | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King | , founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richar ... |
Louis XIII | ... La Rochelle and Montauban. The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by | , following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which Cardinal Richelieu blockade ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
King George V | ... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, | refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ... |
Crown Prince Willem-Alexander | ... he population. The first-born son of Beatrix and her husband, Prince Claus, | , was born on April 27, 1967 - the first male heir to the Dutch throne in ... |
Cardinal Mazarin | ... e Naudé his librarian, and on his death Naudé accepted a similar offer from | . For the next ten years he devoted himself to bringing together from all ... |
Montague Burton | ... - towards the end of its working life this clothing factory was acquired by | of Leeds - and the Blackett Hutton steel works |
Francis I of France | In 1536 king | invaded the papal territory, in order to overthrow Emperor Charles V, who ... |
Henry II of England | ... ntagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King | . The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of S ... |
King Albert II of the Belgians | ... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by | |
Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
Lothair I | When Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son, | , claimed overlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... St. André was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under | (1362–1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it was a ... |
Paul I of Russia | ... opold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In descent from | , Frederick was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother |
Duke of Marlborough | Named "New Marlborough" for the | until 1800, the town was a New Hampshire grant chartered on April 29, 1751 ... |
Stanley Baldwin | ... king. After receiving advice from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, | , as well as the Dominion governments, that he could not remain king and m ... |
Sigismund | ... cle (by Ulrich von Richental). Oswald entered as diplomat in the service of | , King of the Holy Roman Empire and of Hungary. His first diplomatic voyag ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was | . Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ... |
Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Louis XIV | The later revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685 by | , the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased ... |
Brabant | ... territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of | , included the central part of the Low Countries. The bishopric had some l ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir | . When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ... |
Diego Velázquez | The painting contains numerous references to the works of | , specifically The Surrender of Breda, a Spanish painter who had died 300 ... |
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden | ... t. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and | , they were double third cousins. In descent from Paul I of Russia, Freder ... |
Nicholas Kaldor | ... elopment was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, | and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky writes that the Post ... |
Queen Mary | ... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and | ) |
Beatrix | ... al marriage policy quarrel occurred starting in 1966, when the future Queen | decided to marry Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat. The marriage of a m ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
Lord Clarendon | The castle remained the property of the Clarendons until 1937, when | found the maintenance of the castle too expensive and sold Kenilworth to t ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... pher Layer (born 1683), who was a militant Jacobite and supporter of Prince | , the 'Young Pretender'. He was tried for high treason and hanged at Tybur ... |
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | ... Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert. One of the latter branch, | (1830–1903), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and ... |
Philip V | ... n furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, | . Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appoi ... |
Prince Friso | ... ithout the consent of the Dutch Parliament. For example, this happened with | when he married Mabel Wisse Smit. This is written down explicitly in the p ... |
Xenia Alexandrovna | ... le harm. From Tobolsk, Alexandra managed to send a letter to sister-in-law, | , in the Crimea |
Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
William Osler | ... become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including | , William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hop ... |
Anne of Denmark | The second son of James VI of Scotland and | , Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His pa ... |
Oudinot | ... ully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against | in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and D ... |
Duchess of York | ... 0th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the | , Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen El ... |
George II | Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son | were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ... |
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall | ... fray when a group of school children sang it for the 1901 tour of Canada by | (later King George V and Queen Mary) |
Sir Charles Middleton | ... ifteen years, he accepted the living of Teston, Kent in 1781, and there met | , Lady Middleton, Thomas Clarkson, Hannah More and others, a group that la ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers | and George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | At the desire of | he began a controversy with the Benedictines, denying Jean Gerson's author ... |
Neil Kinnock | ... ublished an election pamphlet, Move On Up, with a foreword by Labour leader | |
King George III | ... e, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 | presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts ... |
Christoph Willibald Gluck | ... bligato line in the oratorio Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (K35, 1767) | includes trombones in five of his operas: Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), Orfe ... |
Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale | ... is buried at North Berwick, where a United Free Church was named after him. | held the Bass for James VII for a brief period after the Scottish parliame ... |
Louis XIV | In October 1685, | , the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
Essex's | On the basis of an apparent allusion to | failed mission to quell Tyrone's Rebellion, the play is thought to date fr ... |
Joseph Cook | ... t voting 'No'. At the 1913 election, the Commonwealth Liberal Party, led by | , defeated the Labor Party by one seat |
Salomon | ... ègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin Peninsula to the Breton king | , on the condition that Salomon would take an oath of fidelity and fight a ... |
Duke of York | ... he Fitzgeralds, Lords of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the | , later King George V, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the ... |
John of England | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and | , Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ... |
Friedrich IV | ... o Tyrol, where he joined the Elefantenbund, an alliance of noblemen against | , who had been banned by King Sigismund for aiding the flight of Antipope ... |
Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
Charles Pierce | ... and was frequently imitated by female impersonators such as Tracey Lee and | . Attempting to explain her popularity with gay audiences, the journalist ... |
Louis IX of France | Some people claim that Isabella formed a conspiracy against King | in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile fo ... |
Marquess of Queensberry | Lord Alfred's father, the | , was known for his outspoken atheism, brutish manner and creation of the ... |
El Cid | ... uspension of disbelief can we accept that in the space of twenty-four hours | kills Chimène's father in a duel, overwhelms the Moorish invaders during t ... |
Nick Oliveri | All tracks by Joshua Homme and | , except where noted |
Imru Haile Selassie | ... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Ras | as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, | for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ... |
Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
General Lake | ... uccessful attack at the fortress at Gawilghur, combined with the victory of | at Delhi forced the Maratha to a peace settlement (not concluded until a y ... |
Eyskens, Gaston | ... - Eupen-Malmedy - European Movement Belgium - Eurostar - Evere - Evergem - | |
Josh Homme | In an interview with NME, | revealed plans of a re-issue of Rated R which would feature B-side recordi ... |
Antwerp | ... ensity of hits were received by Croydon, on the southeast fringe of London. | , Belgium was hit by 2,448 V-1s from October 1944 to March 1945 |
Godwin | Tostig was the third son of | (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ... |
Francis Spellman | ... s father insisted the wedding not be put off. They were married by Cardinal | on November 29, 1958, at St. Joseph's Church in Bronxville, New York. They ... |
Sir Thomas Elder | ... avels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of | , he began his third expedition. Proceeding considerably to the north from ... |
Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
King George III | ... t. John's in Newfoundland. The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of | , Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent (1767–1820), who subsequently l ... |
Anna | During the reign of her cousin | (1730–1740), Elizabeth was gathering support in the background; but after ... |
Louis VII of France | ... y ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King | the following year |
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, | . The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ... |
King Henry VIII | ... into lawlessness, though the Vicar of Wymondham was appointed by the Abbot. | 's Dissolution of the Monasteries brought about the closure of Wymondham A ... |
Johann | # | , Viceroy of Valencia (9 January 1493, Plassenburg–5 July 1525, Valencia) |
King George V | ... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter, | and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ... |
Frederick II | ... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, | , alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ... |
John Maynard Keynes | ... ted with other men who would greatly influence him like G. Lowes Dickinson, | , Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, Bertrand Ru ... |
King George III | ... ch included the profits of the Crown Estate (the royal property portfolio). | agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the ... |
Frederick II, Elector of Saxony | ... he Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of | . His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Fri ... |
Mussolini | ... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when | 's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ... |
Henry I | ... he monastery was founded in 1107 by William d'Aubigny, Chief Butler to King | . William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and ... |
Duke of York | ... was a prominent naturalist. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, | (the future James II, brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiat ... |
Ludwig II | Maximilian was succeeded on 10 March 1864 by his son | , a youth of eighteen. The government was at first carried on by Schrenk a ... |
Thomas Cromwell | ... gue of Comfort against Tribulation. While More was imprisoned in the Tower, | made several visits, urging More to take the oath, which More continued to ... |
Edward I of England | ... ieve Wallace must have had some earlier military experience; campaigns like | 's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landho ... |
Nicholas I | ... seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828-1840. By the time of | 's visit in 1837, Yerevan had become an uyezd. In 1840, the Armenian Oblas ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of | 's wife Julie Clary - Désirée had previously been engaged to Napoleon. Ber ... |
William III | ... irst King of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great grandfather | in 1890 |
Napoleon | ... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of | in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's | ... er 2011, the Hall was used to broadcast the 25th anniversary performance of | Phantom of the Opera to cinemas across the UK - it was also the first time ... |
Philippe II | ... penalties on him, and he soon reconciled with the Church. The French king, | , decided to act against those nobles who permitted Catharism and undermin ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... by the king including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220, Isabella married | , Count of La Marche, by whom she had another nine children |
Henry VIII of England | ... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by | , they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain |
Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
General George C. Marshall | ... lery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 | asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Pre ... |
Thomas Lunsford | ... to anarchy, when he placed the Tower of London under the command of Colonel | , an infamous, albeit efficient, career officer. When rumours reached Char ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Michael Lindsay-Hogg | In January 1969, the group got together with director | to film the rehearsals for the band's first live concert since 1966. The r ... |
Nick Oliveri | All tracks by Joshua Homme and | , except where noted. Lead vocals by Homme, except where noted |
Duchess of York | ... e, and in 1664 Sarah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the | , Anne Hyde |
Empress Consort | ... ttorp, succeeded to the throne as Peter III of Russia, and Catherine became | of Russia. The imperial couple moved into the new Winter Palace in Saint P ... |
Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
Sir Thomas Audley | ... e was tried before a panel of judges that included the new Lord Chancellor, | , as well as Anne Boleyn's father, brother, and uncle. He was charged with ... |
Titian | ... andaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and | . The same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelleschi, Leone A ... |
Duke of Normandy | ... s the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then | by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter an ... |
Antwerp | ... ndisclosed De Beers technology developed in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, and | , Belgium |
Kellermann's | ... mperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were committed. When these were repulsed, | heavy cavalry corps and Guyot's heavy cavalry of the Guard were added to t ... |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were | , who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ... |
Ernest Rutherford | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by | as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Lothair II | ... —the eldest, Louis II, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, | , received Lotharingia; the youngest, Charles, received Provence |
Fëanor | When the Elves came to Valinor, the Noldor became the students of Aulë. | was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsma ... |
Bob Hope | ... s. A few famous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including | , Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yan ... |
Jeffery, Lord Amherst | ... he institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after | , a veteran from the Seven Years' War and later commanding general of the ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... orwegian king Harald III (Haraldr Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King | in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dubli ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, | , and Adrien-Marie Legendre. At the end of the century, the members of the ... |
Edmund Hillary | ... he subject among prominent mountaineers are strictly negative. For example, | , who went on record saying that he hasn't liked "the commercialization of ... |
Nazgûl | ... ower of the Moon (Moontower), on the borders of Mordor, was captured by the | and renamed Minas Morgul, Tower of Black Sorcery (Dead City, accursed towe ... |
Prince Igor | The cathedral square in Putivl | is about to set out on a campaign against the Polovtsy and their Khans who ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and | 's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ... |
Queen of England | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn as the | . Technically, this was not an act of treason, as More had written to Henr ... |
Milhaud's | Initially | reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers and Lefebvre-Desnoëttes' light cavalr ... |
Empress Matilda | ... 129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the | , daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Cu ... |
Niklot | ... ted against the Polabian Slavs in 1147, as a part of the Northern Crusades. | , pagan chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lotha ... |
Major-General Baird | ... opened in the main walls of the fortress of Seringapatam. An attack led by | secured the fortress. Wellesley secured the rear of the advance, posting g ... |
John Beresford | ... British naval vessels led by HMS Poictiers under the command of Captain Sir | briefly and ineffectually bombarded the town. A cannonball from the bombar ... |
Henry I of England | ... rench name for the planta genista, or broom shrub) he wore in his hat. King | , having heard good reports on Geoffrey's talents and prowess, sent his ro ... |
Nicholas Serota | Unlike recent years, Sir | was not the jury chairman; instead, the chairman was Christoph Grunenberg, ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... . Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and | , a member of the British Royal Family. To her family, she was informally ... |
Margaret, Maid of Norway | The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, | . As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a gove ... |
Louis XV | ... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and | to get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ... |
Frederick II of Legnica | ... h 1485, Ansbach–24 May 1537, Liegnitz), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke | |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... chool and enable use of the Charity School's unspent trust funds. Named for | — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in ... |
Alice of Courtenay | ... e was the only daughter and heir of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by | , who was sister of Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople ... |
Frederick the Great | ... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of | . She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ... |
Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson | ... nate's blocking of his legislation, recommended to the new Governor-General | that both houses of the parliament be dissolved and elections called. This ... |
Conrad II | ... tz (in 1035 as the royal Salian estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor | ) and St. Johannis (possibly 1149 as Altentrebgast). Even the district of ... |
Finarfin | ... Arda. On the Flight of the Noldor, the Noldor who returned to Valinor under | named themselves the Aulendur, Followers of Aulë |
Arthur Balfour | | 's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs. | , the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ... |
Robert Walpole | ... arlborough; the architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister | ; King George II; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited fr ... |
Charles IV | As early as 1361 Emperor | had conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the town ... |
Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
Maurice Maeterlinck | ... sed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 which was awarded to his friend, | |
William X, Count of Poitou | # | (1136–1164) died unmarrie |
Maximilian I | ... exico, Sonora was invaded by French troops as part of the effort to install | as a monarch in Mexico. The port of Guaymas was attacked by forces under A ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... e, at Vitoria, the combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies won against | , finally breaking French power in Spain. The French had to retreat out of ... |
Edward, the Black Prince of Wales | ... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as | and Geoffrey Chaucer |
Richard I | ... ns on a red background are still part of the arms of Normandy. Henry's son, | , added a third lion to distinguish the arms of England |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after | |
Queen Mary | ... ular with white audiences, and it even gained a royal audience, principally | . Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at Bu ... |
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | ... made among his high-born clients, Ogilby was eventually taken to Ireland by | , on his appointment as lord deputy there, and became tutor to his childre ... |
Igor Svyatoslavich | ... epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince | against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185. The opera was left unfinis ... |
John Jacob Astor | ... ed down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, arriving at the mouth just after | 's Pacific Fur Company had founded Astoria. On his return to the north, Th ... |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
Charles VIII | ... Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French king | invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he rea ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of | and Prince Claus, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the dea ... |
William V | ... 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of Duke | of Bavaria. They had seven children |
Mozart | ... aphies of several prominent figures of his time, including Napoleon, Haydn, | , Rossini and Metastasio |
Lord Camden | ... f secretary of war in the new Irish government but the new lord-lieutenant, | , was only able to offer him the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | ... of 26, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King | . There he published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's o ... |
Joseph I | ... Habsburg sovereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, | , as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia ... |
Raphael | ... accio, Piero della Francesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, | , Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian. The same is true for architec ... |
Anna Komnene | ... rence and exclusion, (the word barbarian was used by 12th century historian | to describe non-Greek speakers), a sense of Greek identity and common sens ... |
Henry Royce | ... nineteenth century; artist, Christopher Perkins – brother of Frank; and Sir | , 1st Baronet of Seaton, engineer and co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Physician ... |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Louis XI | ... rgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of Charles the Bold in 1477. | immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Cambrai, but left th ... |
Frederick V | ... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of | , who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ... |
Louis XV | Simultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed to | a confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ... |
Alfonso XIII | ... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain, | . and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ... |
Sancha | ... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry | , sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ... |
Porfirio Díaz | ... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with | , the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ... |
Charles X of France | ... e French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against | in 1830. In a very strange turn of events after the end of the Second Fren ... |
Mozart | ... was an avid fan of music, particularly the works of the composers Cimarosa, | and Rossini. He wrote a biography about Rossini, Vie de Rossini (1824), no ... |
Christian X | ... stival at the park. The first Rebild Festival took place in 1912, when King | spoke to a crowd of 10,000. The day has been celebrated every year since t ... |
Prince Claus | ... of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and | , and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
Louis XIV | In 1677, | , in an effort to "safeguard the tranquility of his borders for ever" ("as ... |
Mozart | ... fluences on the Romantic movement generally. In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann called | , Haydn and Beethoven the three "Romantic Composers", and Ludwig Spohr use ... |
Luitpold | ... s crisis, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince | , became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in ... |
El Cid | In the Taifa of Zaragoza Christian infanzon exiled of Castilla | with his supporters (Mesnada) offer their service to Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn ... |
Empress Matilda | ... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the | , just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ... |
Alfonso XII | ... pos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of | . A period of political stability, of repression of the workers movement, ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
Laplace | ... on of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and | , the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and ... |
Duchess of York | ... bsequently became king. Before her husband's accession she was successively | , Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales. As his queen consort from 191 ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... itance. The border districts submitted to her, but England chose her cousin | for its king, and Normandy soon followed suit. The following year, Geoffre ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, | , was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ... |
Derek Rayner | ... tting numbers from 732,000 to 594,000 over her first seven years in office. | , the former chief executive of Marks and Spencer, was appointed as an eff ... |
Knights of Columbus | ... provide insurance for the struggling immigrants. One such organization, the | , chose that name in part because it saw Christopher Columbus as a fitting ... |
Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
Finarfin | ... cond wife of Finwë (the king of the Noldor) and the mother of Fingolfin and | , the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport gol ... |
Henry Curtmantle | ... ss Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, | , who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynasty ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | ... find a legitimate heir to secure the Romanov dynasty. She chose her nephew, | . Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had impr ... |
Reginald Bray | ... s with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted Robert Brygandine and Sir | in the construction of the world's first dry dock. In 1527, with some of t ... |
Frederick the Great | ... ve Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of | . During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint- ... |
Richard B. Haldane | ... would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary. | , the Liberal MP and reformer, visited him and had him transferred in Nove ... |
Charles V of France | ... shield "sown" (semé) with a scattering of small golden fleurs-de-lis), but | changed the design from an all-over scattering to a group of three in abou ... |
Richard | ... r climate. Returning in November to India, he learnt that his elder brother | , now known as Lord Mornington, had been appointed as the new Governor-Gen ... |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... colony. The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after | , King George III's queen |
King Arthur | ... d Cynric were depicted as Saxon invaders, and were killed, respectively, by | and Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cynric was port ... |
Ladislaus the Posthumous | ... thus resorted to more subtle means. He held his second cousin once removed | , the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, (born in 144 ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
Edward III of England | In 1328, King | inherited a claim to the crown of France, and in about 1340 he quartered F ... |
von Hindenburg | ... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal | |
Lothair I | ... n the three sons of Louis the Pious. Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor | , therefore called Lotharii Regnum. Upon his death in 855, it was further ... |
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth | ... ished a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named | |
Thomas Beecham | ... znetsova as Yaroslavna. London saw the same production in 1914 conducted by | , again with Chaliapin as Galitsky. In 1915 the United States premiere too ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen | . Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ... |
General Harris | ... force be sent to capture Seringapatam and defeat Tipu. Under the command of | , some 24,000 troops were dispatched to Madras (to join an equal force bei ... |
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute | ... astle was substantially altered and extended during the Victorian period by | , and the architect William Burges. Original Roman work can, however, stil ... |
Edward I | ... unty to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of Henry II to that of | |
Empress consort | ... Rhine later Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was | of Russia as spouse of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire ... |
Isabella II | ... solutist "Carlist" partisans of Infante Carlos and the liberal partisans of | led to the First Carlist War, which lasted until 1840 and was especially v ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... e la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from | eventually secured their complete triumph and Pierre Corneille, who had no ... |
Francis Bacon | ... by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir | , Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the coll ... |
Joanot Martorell | ... rn. March was twice married—first to Isabel Martorell (sister of the writer | ), and later to Joana Escorna |
Infante Carlos | ... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans of | and the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ... |
Maurice Bowra | ... omb of Orion most likely at the foot of Mount Cerycius (now Mount Tanagra). | argues that Orion was a national hero of the Boeotians, much as Castor and ... |
Rick Santorum | ... %) for John Kerry. In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, | and both had significant victories in Tioga County despite their defeats s ... |
Henry II | ... covered the whole county to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of | to that of Edward I |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... ied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of Edward III, through | and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Buckingham may have hoped ... |
Princess Alexia | ... i in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), | (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). He will become the first Kin ... |
Anne Hyde | ... rah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the Duchess of York, | |
Henry V of England | King | is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passpor ... |
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington | Chiswick House was inherited by | , 4th Earl of Cork and Baron Clifford (1694–1753) on the death of his fath ... |
James Ensor | ... ssels art world. His articles brought many promising young talents, such as | , to the attention of the public |
Paul I | ... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future | , finally born on 20 September 1754 |
Princess Ariane | ... ers Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and | (born 2007). He will become the first King of the Netherlands since the de ... |
Frederik VI | ... eived status as a merchant town under the name of Frederikshavn, after King | |
Mary of Modena | ... , and in 1673 Sarah entered court as maid of honour to James’s second wife, | |
Sir James Hall | ... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist | of Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | In the spring of 1220, she married | , "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of Hugh IX ... |
Ludwig II | ... rown prince, against Germany's common enemy. It was on the proposal of King | that the imperial crown was offered to King Wilhelm I of Prussia |
Lee Myung-bak | ... both the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fukuda Yasuo, and Korean President | emphasized the importance of "open[ing] a new era in Japan – South Korea r ... |
Nicholas II | ... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of | , the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ... |
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester | ... descendant of Edward III, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | , Buckingham may have hoped to accede to the throne himself in due course. ... |
her brother Thomas | ... l of 'gaiety and charm'. In 1793 he sought her hand, but was turned down by | , Earl of Longford, who considered Wellesley to be a young man, in debt, w ... |
Sigismund I of Poland | ... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King | . They had seventeen children |
Sancha | ... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] | (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written. |
Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
Feast of Saint Louis | ... t a church in the central village of La Plaza Medio and dedicated it on the | , June 21, 1851. The village was renamed San Luis de la Culebra in honor o ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... 4 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to the Cavendish family and | , the husband of Charlotte. After William's death in 1764, the villa passe ... |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | ... interested in international water management issues and sports. He married | in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), ... |
Peter the Great | ... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband | in 1725 |
Cesare | ... rally accepted version is that Lucrezia was informed of this by her brother | , and she warned her husband, who fled Rome |
Lord Fulton | ... inistrators at under-secretary level and above had been privately educated. | ’s committee reported in 1968. He found that administrators were not profe ... |
Rick Santorum | ... . received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator | and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
Richard Rich | ... most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, | , to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the ... |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
Nicolás de Ovando | ... s after Columbus's discovery, the administration of Hispaniola was given to | of the Order of Alcántara, founded during the Reconquista. As in the Iberi ... |
James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
Princess Catharina-Amalia | ... s. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters | (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). ... |
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke | ... wning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, | and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême |
Laurence Olivier | ... ielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young | in his first professional Shakespearean leading role. Olivier's performanc ... |
Francis Stephen | The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of | , duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... the service of the royal family, in the household of Catherine's ancestor, | . Their marriage alliance with the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their sta ... |
Admiral Nelson | A lock of | 's hair was given to the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy ... |
Lord Dudley | ... ed Labour from office, with Fisher failing to persuade the Governor-General | to dissolve Parliament |
Princess of Wales | ... d's accession she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and | . As his queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the Fi ... |
Lord Kitchener | ... s Act 1986. In addition, the wreck of the , which hit a mine while carrying | north to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainla ... |
Hugh XI of Lusignan | By Hugh X, Isabella had nine more children. Their eldest son | succeeded his father as Count of La Marche and Count of Angoulême in 1249 |
Ninian Comper | ... he splendid gilded reredos or altar screen, one of the largest works of Sir | . This was dedicated in 1921 as a war memorial, though the gilding was not ... |
Philip the Fair | ... Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countries for the family. His son | married the heiress of Castile and Aragon, and thus acquired Spain and its ... |
Duke Alexander of Württemberg | ... ton Palace, London. Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of | by his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. Her mother ... |
Galeazzo Maria Sforza | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan | |
Benjamin Britten | ... Jennings). Their work involved poets such as W. H. Auden, composers such as | , and writers such as J. B. Priestley. Among the best known films of the m ... |
King Hussein | ... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war. | of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ... |
Charles V | Although | resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ... |
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret | ... tified silver in the United Kingdom. Three singles were released from it: " | ", "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" and "Monsters in the Parasol", with the f ... |
Ramon Berenguer IV | The dynastic union between Petronila, Queen of Aragon, and | , Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II of Aragon who inherited a ... |
Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne | ... d Flahaut resigned his commission. His eldest daughter, Emily Jane, married | . His youngest daughter, Georgiana Gabrielle de Flahaut, (d. 16 July 1907) ... |
Count Lestocq | ... lstein-Gottorp, resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which | , Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and Frederick II of ... |
Charles V | ... Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, | , accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and m ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... he western classical orchestra since around the middle of the 18th century. | , Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven all used it, though sparingly, usu ... |
Princess of Wales | ... f which were transliterated into German. Her godparents were the Prince and | , the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United ... |
Prince of Orange | ... e construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed his son, the | , had been wounded. The Lion's Hillock, a giant mound, was constructed her ... |
Charles of Ghent | ... rik III of Nassau-Breda was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland by | in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son Ren ... |
King William III and Queen Mary II | Colleges created by royal charter from | of England |
Bolingbroke | Still others such as Anthony Collins, | , Thomas Chubb, and Peter Annet were materialists and either denied or dou ... |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ... "March of the Priests" from the opera The Magic Flute, composed in 1791 by | , and that Lavallée's melody was inspired by Mozart's tune. The line "The ... |
Bruno the Great | In 953 the German king Otto I had appointed his brother | Duke of Lotharingia |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Napoleon II | ... lted in failure. He was present at Waterloo, and afterwards sought to place | on the throne |
Winston Churchill | ... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944. | (The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ... |
King George II | Colleges created by | of Great Britain |
Philip Stanhope | ... g Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, and | , the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left little to the poor an ... |
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp | ... only two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth survived. Anna was betrothed to the | , nephew of the late King Charles XII of Sweden, Peter's old adversary. He ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on | 's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ... |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury | ... ts and religious wars since the beginning of the Reformation. In 1642, when | 's De Veritate was published, the Thirty Years War had been raging on cont ... |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince | , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ... |
René of Châlon-Orange | ... hent in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son | in 1538, who was, as his full name stated, the Prince of Orange. When René ... |
Nicholas I | ... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under | . Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ... |
Michael Laudrup | ... Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as Ronald Koeman, | , Romário, and Hristo Stoichkov. Under his guidance, Barcelona won four co ... |
Simon de Montfort | When operations resumed in 1211 the actions of Arnaud-Amaury and | had alienated several important lords, including Raymond de Toulouse, who ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of | , a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children of Rose Fitzgerald and | , who were members of prominent Irish-American families in Boston and who ... |
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine | ... t of the German Empire. She was the sixth child among the seven children of | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen V ... |
Kuveni | ... (6th-5th century BC), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through | , a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused. The Mahavans ... |
Josip Broz Tito | ... for instance, a Yugoslavian, Josip Broz, who would became famous as Marshal | , was in Paris to provide assistance, money and passports for volunteers f ... |
William the Silent | ... assassinated with a firearm were the Regent Moray of Scotland in 1570, and | , the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands in 1584. Gunpowder and other exp ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included | , Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. It is often suggested that Cesare a ... |
Raphael | ... moments, as well as those of high drama. The lives of great artists such as | were commemorated on equal terms with those of rulers, and fictional chara ... |
Wellington | ... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General | signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ... |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... again attached itself to West Francia, but was conquered by the German king | in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King Louis IV ... |
Louis XV | ... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King | , but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ... |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville (or Woodville), sister of | , father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of ... |
Ferdinand VII | The reign of | (reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ... |
Charles II, Archduke of Austria | He was born at Graz, the son of | , and Maria Anna of Bavaria. He was educated by the Jesuits and later freq ... |
Kitty Pakenham | ... agoons and it was during this period that he grew increasingly attracted to | , the daughter of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford. She was described a ... |
The Black Douglas | ... for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, | , and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fi ... |
Lord Caledon | ... m Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included Lord Macartney, | and Sir John Francis Cradock. Irish settlers were brought in small numbers ... |
Johann Georg I | ... Kapellmeister Daniel Eberlin (also a native of Nuremberg), in the employ of | , Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (wh ... |
Solomon | ... part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son and heir, | . When King Andrew I died in 1060, his widow and sons took refuge in the G ... |
Ferdinand | ... pire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the rule of his brother, | |
William I | ... alighting, proceeded to examine the field". In 1820, the Netherlands' King | ordered the construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed h ... |
Felipe V | ... Spanish Army in the battle of Saragossa in 1710. As a result of the battle | was forced to abandon Madrid and retreated to Valladolid |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ... |
Catherine II of Russia | ... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress | , who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ... |
C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... er, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president | . JHU's library was previously housed in Gilman Hall, and other smaller de ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
Charles II | ... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless | (1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ... |
Abigail Masham | ... lly liked it or not, and became angry if she stubbornly refused to take it. | also played a key role in Sarah’s downfall. Modest and retiring, she activ ... |
Joseph de Maistre | ... ists and left-wing Revolutionaries. Herein arose the clerical philosophers— | , Louis de Bonald, François-René de Chateaubriand—whose answer was restori ... |
James I of England | ... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King | . However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ... |
Frederick V | ... ol and Further Austria. The territories were only reunified by Ernest's son | (Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor), when the Albertinian line (1457) an ... |
Mozart | ... and Maciej Kamieński), others imitated foreign composers such as Haydn and | |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | ... ldings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk | , at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" ... |
Josef II | ... ties (1767), and prohibited marriage between Romanies (1773). Her successor | prohibited the wearing of traditional Romani clothing and the use of the R ... |
Leopold I | ... ccession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Henry III of England | ... of repentance for her many misdeeds. On a visit to Fontevraud, her son King | was shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediate ... |
Prince Claus of the Netherlands | ... Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and | , and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince ... |
Rollo | ... verran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by | (Hrolfr), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 91 ... |
Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... ly twice, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshal | in 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
Prince of Wales | ... y Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the | , except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he atte ... |
Philip V | ... er the death of the childless Charles II (1700), the crown of Spain went to | of the House of Bourbon. The Grand Alliance of England, the United Provinc ... |
Sir John Hobart | ... he Corporation of the City of London. The Corporation eventually sold it to | , and through him it passed to the ownership of the Blickling Estate. The ... |
Nazgûl | ... ains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the | in , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War o ... |
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Victor Emmanuel III | ... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and King | were facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ... |
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel | ... third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and | . She was baptised in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 186 ... |
Queen Anne | ... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with | , she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ... |
Lord Moyne | On November 6, 1944, | , British Deputy Resident Minister of State in Cairo was assassinated by L ... |
King Charles III | ... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under | , who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ... |
Titian | Image:Tizian_085.jpg|The Rape of Europa, | , 156 |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen | and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Jul ... |
Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
László I | ... t for the Hungarian throne; in 1077 he accepted the rule of his cousin King | , who gave him in exchange extensive landholdings after his formal abdicat ... |
Charles Augustus | ... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother | (Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... ar from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the Archduke Maximilian, only son of | , married the heiress of Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countrie ... |
Francis Bacon | ... rimental histories" by philosophical reformists such as William Gilbert and | , drew a significant following in the years leading up to and following Ga ... |
Rupprecht | ... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince | , commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. Her mother was | , the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambrid ... |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier | The original French lyrics of "O Canada" were written by Sir | , to music composed by Calixa Lavallée, as a French Canadian patriotic son ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
Medea | ... cal themes, culminating in 1947 with the critically acclaimed adaptation of | for the Broadway stage, which featured Dame Judith Anderson in the title r ... |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of | , and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ... |
Agnes | ... husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia), | (later Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim), Adelaide (by marriage Count ... |
Anthony Zinni | ... entral Intelligence Agency. Clancy has also associated himself with General | , a critic of the George W. Bush administration, and has been critical of ... |
Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
William Pitt | ... in annuities, she made financial bequests to rising Whig ministers such as | , later the first Earl of Chatham, and Philip Stanhope, the fourth Earl of ... |
René of Anjou | ... held by Brabant. After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of | the name "Duchy of Lorraine" was adopted again, only retrospectively calle ... |
Tsarevna | ... godparents were the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and | , HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, a ... |
Napoleon I | ... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of | 's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ... |
Anne Neville | ... Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady | . The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, A ... |
Hedwig of Saxony | ... ke and deputy of Bruno was Frederick I of Bar, son-in-law of Bruno's sister | |
General Mannerheim | ... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent, | , later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ... |
Louis IX of France | ... Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King | 's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their moth ... |
Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and | . The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ... |
Douglas Haig | ... attle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir | , the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, th ... |
King Henry VIII | ... nians. As the English Reformation progressed, their friaries were closed by | . The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a th ... |
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | In 1628 the unpopular favourite of Charles I | was stabbed to death in an Old Portsmouth pub by a veteran of Villiers' mo ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism inspired by Tsar | . This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in ... |
Robert Helpmann | ... bert Donat played Becket at the Old Vic in 1953 in a production directed by | |
Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
William I | In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of | , then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ... |
Archduke Charles | ... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown, | . Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ... |
Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
Archduke Maximilian | ... began also to accumulate lands far from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the | , only son of Emperor Frederick III, married the heiress of Burgundy, thus ... |
Duke of Lothier | ... ne disintegrated into several smaller territories and only the title of a " | " remained, held by Brabant. After the duchy of the Moselle came into the ... |
C. Aubrey Smith | ... oel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, | , Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle ... |
Alfonso XIII | In the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King | , who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ... |
Henry V of England | ... forgotten after centuries of nonuse. During the late medieval period, King | (lived 1387-1422) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings ... |
Louis IX | ... 26. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued under King | and the area was reconquered by 1229; the leading nobles made peace, culmi ... |
Philip II | ... om of the former Aragonese confederation, eclipsing Barcelona. The reign of | marked the beginning of a gradual process of deterioration of Catalan econ ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up | 's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
Arthur Harris | ... the interdiction of these troop movements should be given a high priority. | , AOC Bomber Command (nicknamed "Bomber" Harris in the British press, and ... |
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich | ... was the sister-in-law of Alix's uncle, the Prince of Wales, and whose uncle | was married to Alix's sister Elisabeth. They were also second cousins as t ... |
Lord Buckingham | ... s a day (twice his pay as an ensign), to the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | . He was also transferred to the new 76th Regiment forming in Ireland and ... |
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | ... f courtesan and socialite Martha Ray, his former lover, and the mistress of | . The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, ... |
Strongbow | ... in 1169. The King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada, enlisted the help of | , the Earl of Pembroke, to conquer Dublin. Following Mac Murrough’s death, ... |
Louis VIII | The situation turned again following the intervention of the French king, | , in 1226. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued un ... |
Marie Feodorovna | ... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, | , were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ... |
Isabel Marshal | ... all and King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly | , secondly Sanchia of Provence, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had is ... |
Charles the Bold | ... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forced | of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ... |
Francis Bacon | ... es outlining a philosophy of science which might as easily be attributed to | centuries later. The novel's Roger Bacon serves to motivate Costain's prot ... |
Philip IV | ... of the kingdoms, and were jealously guarded by the Catalan oligarchy. After | acceded to the throne in 1621, the Count-Duke of Olivares attempted to sus ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than | . As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ... |
Edward I of England | ... Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King | |
Ferdinand II | ... ted Emperor to succeed his cousin Mathias, the ultra-pious and intransigent | , as he became known, embarked on an energetic attempt to re-Catholicize n ... |
Charles the Bold | ... Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King Philip IV of France. The Burgundian duke | in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and ... |
Margaret Mercer Elphinstone | ... and thence to Great Britain, where he married in Edinburgh on 20 June 1817 | (1788–1867), daughter of Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Ke ... |
William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel | ... originated from St. Martin d'Aubigny in Normandy. Later, the founder's son, | , in 1174 founded Becket's Chapel close by in the town, to be served by tw ... |
Philippe, Duke of Anjou | ... The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, | , Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for al ... |
King George III | ... r Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of | and the father of Queen Victoria |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | On 2 February 2002, he married | (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Arg ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... n his career as a classical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite | in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appe ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
Nicolás de Ovando | ... es, Spain, the birthplace of then-governor of Spain's Caribbean territories | ), which today is known as the Pueblo Viejo sector of Guaynabo, just to th ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
Godfrey of Bouillon | ... te unless he had prayed as a pilgrim at the Holy Sepulchre. Crusader Prince | , who became the first crusader monarch of Jerusalem, decided not to use t ... |
Archibald Sinclair | ... d Dresden. That evening Churchill asked the Secretary of State for Air, Sir | , what plans had been drawn up to carry out these proposals. He passed on ... |
Mary | ... ame Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the succession of Queen | . He went to Denmark (where his brother-in-law was chaplain to the king), ... |
Charles II | ... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, | gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ... |
Empress Anna | With the death of her father and the later accession of the | , no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court t ... |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... to I granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor | , extended the bishop's temporal power to the territory surrounding Cambra ... |
John | ... at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, King | . A week after his consecration he again appeared before the king with the ... |
Lord Carrington | ... ancaster House Agreement a few months before the 1980 elections, chaired by | , institutionalizes majority rule and protection of minority rights. Since ... |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | ... inent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of | ; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. ... |
Eleanor of Provence | # King Henry III of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married | , by whom he had issue, including his heir, King Edward I of England |
Simon de Montfort | ... Vaux-de-Cernay. "In their shifts and breeches" according to another source. | now was appointed leader of the Crusader army, and was granted control of ... |
Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | ... the retreat of the broken armies he commanded the rearguard of the army of | . Upon the capitulation of the main body after the Battle of Prenzlau on 2 ... |
Count-Duke of Olivares | ... y the Catalan oligarchy. After Philip IV acceded to the throne in 1621, the | attempted to sustain an ambitious foreign policy by taxing the kingdoms of ... |
Omphale | In Greek myth, Lydia was also the first home of the double-axe, the labrys. | , daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was ... |
William the Lion | ... bey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary. | granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the rank of a Royal Burgh in 1186 ... |
Henry VIII | ... ices, and attacked the abuses and excesses of the Catholic Church. In 1521, | responded to Luther’s criticisms with a work known as the Assertio, writte ... |
Catherine the Great’s | Pavlovsk Palace was built by | son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francop ... |
Leopold I | ... eslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor | and of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on ... |
Archduke Leopold William | ... he king"), which identified the tomb. Some 300 golden bees were also found. | , governor of the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium), had the find pub ... |
Louis XIV | ... ough the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of | , the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, ... |
William the Conqueror | ... ates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for | at the Battle of Hastings. The d'Albini (or d'Aubigny) family originated f ... |
Henry III of England | # King | (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom ... |
Josh Homme | ... al recording remained on the finished song. There's also 2 verses in Dutch. | has stated that his favorite song from the album is "I Think I Lost My Hea ... |
Princess Christina | ... -Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, | , and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in th ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister | , who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
Lord Home | ... t Union (represented by Andrei Gromyko), the United Kingdom (represented by | ) and the United States (represented by Dean Rusk), named the "Original Pa ... |
William the Conqueror | ... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, | , spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ... |
Michel Ney | ... same day, the left wing of the Armée du Nord, under the command of Marshal | , succeeded in stopping any of Wellington's forces going to aid Blücher's ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and | . Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ... |
Albert I of Belgium | ... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - | - Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ... |
Prince Charles | ... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid. | of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ... |
Duke of Rutland | ... so upon the advice of his mother, his brother Richard asked his friend the | (then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) to consider Arthur for a commission in t ... |
German Emperor Frederick III | ... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter of | and sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ... |
Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua | ... ning in 1503, Lucrezia enjoyed a long relationship with her brother-in-law, | as well as a love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo. Francesco's wife was ... |
Louis XIV | ... atin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to | , who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal libra ... |
Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
Charles II of England | ... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, which | ordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ... |
Marquis of Townshend | ... ally named "Port Townshend" by Captain George Vancouver (for his friend the | ) in 1792. It was immediately recognized as a good, safe harbor although s ... |
Henry V of England | During the Hundred Years' War, on 19 January 1419, Rouen surrendered to | , who annexed Normandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen di ... |
King Henry VII | ... Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's work, however, little mentions | , the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John ... |
Lord Macartney | ... Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included | , Lord Caledon and Sir John Francis Cradock. Irish settlers were brought i ... |
Pieter Oud | ... e Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by | . The liberals within the PvdA were primarily members of the pre-war socia ... |
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire | ... Savile, and daughter, Charlotte, inherited the house. Charlotte had married | in 1748. Charlotte died in December 1754 and Lady Burlington died in Septe ... |
King George V | ... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 | and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ... |
Maximilian II | ... ves largely converted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, | , Rudolf II, and Mathias largely tolerated |
The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... al authority decayed in the coures of the Thirty Years' War, Chief Minister | urged the occupation of the duchy in 1641. France again had to vacate it a ... |
Albrecht von Wallenstein | ... ion. In order to muster an imperial army to continue the war, he applied to | , one of the richest men in Bohemia: the latter accepted on condition that ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... s of the Capetian mainly from Ile de France and the north of France, led by | , against the nobility of Toulouse led by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and ... |
Henry IV of England | ... bowstaves to England was in 1294. In 1350 there was a serious shortage, and | ordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods ... |
Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria | The marriage of his daughter Kunigunde of Austria to | , was another result of intrigues and deception, but must be counted as a ... |
Duke of Normandy | Victorious at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading | , William the Conqueror, spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, ... |
Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes | # | (1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in ... |
Antwerp | ... loyed in attacks against strategic points in Belgium, primarily the port of | |
Edward Heath | ... 1974 general election when Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister after | resigned the post following his failure to form a coalition. Although Wils ... |
Henry II of England | # | (1133–1189 |
Alfonso | ... and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor | ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son James II, who f ... |
Princess Hélène | ... that Alexander III was angling for a bigger catch for his son, someone like | , the tall dark-haired daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris, pretender to ... |
Joachim Murat | Meanwhile in Italy, | , whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's in ... |
Ingerman | ... ian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of | the duke of Hesbaye. On several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers P ... |
Legolas | ... ing, keeping watch over Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, | , Gimli, and Aragorn arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
Marquess of Lorne | ... een Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the | , then the Governor General of Canada |
Harold Wilson | ... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election when | was appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ... |
John Rushworth Jellicoe | ... main base of the British Grand Fleet, even though it was also unfortified. | , admiral of the Grand Fleet, was constantly nervous about potential subma ... |
J. L. Lagrange | ... for examination at Toulouse, he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of | |
Princess Louise | ... It was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter | , wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada |
James II | ... uccessor Alfonso ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son | , who first acceded to the throne of Sicily and then succeeded his older b ... |
Peter II the Catholic | ... and the family Trencavel that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon | , invoked direct involvement in the conflict at the Aragonese monarch, who ... |
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton | ... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet | , but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... mittee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium - | - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan Beter - Alveringem - An ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... mpton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King | to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage wa ... |
Edward I of England | ... 05, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King | , who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes aga ... |
Hugh XI of Lusignan | # | (1221–1250), Count of La Marche and Count of Angoulême. Married Yolande de ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... Society of Jesus began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit-educated | , who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola before becoming Holy Roma ... |
Alfonso V | Ferdinand's successor, | ("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ... |
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | ... , not love, Sarah enjoyed an unusually close relationship with her husband, | , whom she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's ... |
Henry II of France | ... rice of Saxony by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King | in turn for his support |
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | ... who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; and secondly | , by whom she had issue |
Charles the Bold | # 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ... |
Alexander Haig | ... ime to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff, | . Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only ... |
Zenobia | ... rn provinces of the empire, the so-called "Palmyrene Empire" ruled by Queen | from the city of Palmyra. Zenobia had carved out her own empire, encompass ... |
Oskar Schindler | ... hop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on | . Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, ... |
King George II | ... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British | . However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ... |
Viscount Melbourne | ... otorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister | . The film was written and directed by Robert Bolt and starred his wife, S ... |
Tsar Alexander III | ... ll come true." Alix reciprocated his feelings. At first, Nicholas's father, | , refused the prospect of marriage |
Maeterlinck, Maurice | Maarkedal - Maaseik - Maasmechelen - Maddens Doctrine - | - Magritte, René - Maingain, Olivier - Maldegem - Malle - Malmedy massacre ... |
Ras Mengesha Yohannes | ... alians expected disaffected potentates like Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, | , and the Sultan of Aussa to join them; instead, all of the ethnic Tigraya ... |
Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
John Finch | ... ered a parliamentary adjournment on 10 March, members held the Speaker, Sir | , down in his chair so that the dissolving of Parliament could be delayed ... |
Dave Grohl | Many notable rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including | , Neil Peart, Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
Bob Hope | ... ure as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn opposite | in My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only ... |
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery | ... en travelling on the Continent, through his freemasonry, through his cousin | , through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of Yo ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
Humphry Davy | ... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by | in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ... |
King Henry VIII | As secretary and personal adviser to | , More became increasingly influential in the government, welcoming foreig ... |
Bernard Miles | ... e, and actors Valentine Dyall, Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price and | . The traditional plots involved Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty getting Nedd ... |
Queen Mary | ... nd it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 King George V and | visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched an advertising c ... |
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | # Eleanor (1215–1275), who would marry firstly | ; and secondly Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, by whom she had i ... |
Charles I of England | ... and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King | (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly ... |