X-Nico

unusual facts about Edward Fitton, the elder



Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski

After graduating from the Kraków Academy, he was ordained a vicar and served under Archbishop Jan Łaski (the Elder), and later under the Bishop of Poznań, Jan Latalski.

Charles Saint-Yves

Saint-Yves was born in 1667 at Maubert-Fontaine (Ardennes, Northern France), out of a family affiliated to Marie de Guise, who called him and his elder brother (1660–1730) to Paris for becoming her pages.

Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

After Gerhard I's death in 1290 his three younger sons partitioned Holstein-Itzehoe and Schaumburg into three branches, with Adolph VI the Elder, the third brother, getting Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg south of the Elbe, the second brother Gerhard II the Blind getting Holstein-Plön, and the fourth Henry I receiving Holstein-Rendsburg.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

Elizabeth was a daughter of Margrave Frederick "the Elder" of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460-1536) from his marriage to Sophia of Poland ( 1464-1512), a daughter of King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland.

Fitton baronets

The first Baronet's ancestors included Sir Edward Fitton (1500-1553), High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1544 and Sir Edward Fitton (1527-1579), Treasurer of Ireland and President of Connaught.

Luigi Sagrati

He began to study the viola in the early 1950s and switched to this instrument on a full-time basis when was invited by Pina Carmirelli and Arturo Bonucci to replace Renzo Sabatini in the Quintetto Boccherini.

Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Maurice Henry was born on 23 April 1626 in Hadamar as the son of Prince John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar and his wife Ursula, the daughter of Count Simon "the Elder" of Lippe-Detmold.

The Elder

The Elder is an independent film adaptation of the 1981 Kiss concept album, Music from "The Elder".

William Paget, 4th Baron Paget

William married before 19 June 1602 Lettice Knollys (1583–1655), daughter of Sir Henry Knollys (c. 1542 - 1583), Member of Parliament representing first Shoreham, Kent (1563) and then Oxfordshire, Esquire of the Body to Elizabeth I (son of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey), and Margaret Cave (1549–1600), daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave and Margaret Willington.


see also