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3 unusual facts about Estates


Estates-General of 1789

The Estates-General had ceased to exist, having become the National Assembly (and after 9 July 1789, the National Constituent Assembly).

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

Louis Joseph died at age seven of tuberculosis of the spine amidst the political turmoil and power machinations surrounding the Estates-General of 1789, for which period his parents' actions were so heavily criticized, giving rise to the deterioration of relations with the Estates.

Thomas Verny

Lawyer in the Parliament of Toulouse, Thomas Verny was elected député of the third estate of the bailiwick of Montpellier in the Estates-General of 1789


Albanvale, Victoria

Due to the recent development of the Cairnlea and Burnside estates, on the southern and eastern borders of Albanvale, native species of frogs have taken advantage and have taken up residence in the new wetlands and lakes.

Alt-Hohenschönhausen

From 1817 the village and the surrounding estates were under the control of the local state councillor, Christian Friedrich Scharnweber.

Artists' Collecting Society

ACS now represents nearly 500 artists and artists’ estates including well-known artists such as Lucian Freud, Dame Laura Knight, Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin, Paula Rego and Christopher Le Brun.

Battle of Kilsyth

His orders were subject to the approval of the "Committee of Estates", consisting of the Earls of Argyll, Crawford and Tullibardine, and the Lords Elcho, and Balfour of Burleigh, together with a number of Calvinist clergymen.

Bhopawar Agency

#* including the future independent petty states of : Jamnia, Kali-Baori, Nimkhera & Rajgadh ; which were then under administrative control of Dhar State, also known as rajputEstates.

Bílá Voda

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, the later Bishop of Olomouc, established a Piarist college on his inherited Bílá Voda estates in 1723, a response to the 1707 Convention of Altranstädt granting religious freedom to the Silesian Protestants.

Britwell

Britwell was one of a number of London County Council estates built at the time, with other estates in places including Langley and Swindon.

Centreville, Delaware

Centreville is now known primarily for being the location of Du Pont family estates, as well as several other wealthy business families from nearby Wilmington, and the home of Governor Jack Markell.

Charles S. Fairfax

He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

Chilo sacchariphagus

In 1999 the first presence on the African continent was confirmed in sugar estates in Mafambisse, Mozambique and in 2001 also in Marromeu.

Counts and Dukes of Châteauroux

Fearing disunity in the Bourbon line, it became one of the estates confiscated by Constable de Bourbon, and was given by Francis I and Louise of Savoy to Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, and his wife, Renée of Bourbon, sister of the Constable.

De Stafford School

The school has its origins in this institution and derives its name from a wealthy and politically influential Middle Age lord of the manor and noble who owned one of the manors of the former village in 1372, Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, whose wealthy wife Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley owned as co-heir a large set of estates before their marriage including this land.

Earl Fitzwilliam

In 1782 he inherited the Watson-Wentworth estates (including Wentworth Woodhouse) on the death of his uncle Lord Rockingham, which made him one of the greatest landowners in the country.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.

Fourth Estate

In Burke's 1787 coining he would have been making reference to the traditional three estates of Parliament: The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons.

Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton

He succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1729 and inherited estates at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (where he lived) and at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire.

George Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton

Between 1798 and 1800, Lyttelton represented Granard in the Irish House of Commons He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1790 and to his title and his estates in Hagley, Halesowen, and Frankley in 1808.

George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff

When his father, George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff died in September 1668, Ogilvy inherited the estates of Inchdrewer and Montbray and the title of 3rd Lord Banff.

George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor

By royal license, 28 October 1824, he took the name of Trevor, after that of Rice, on inheriting the estates of the Trevor family at Glynde, Sussex.

George Steuart Hume

After Hume's death in c1788, his infant daughter Sophia inherited his estates of Argaty, Ballachallan and Annat.

Göss Abbey

In 1827 the premises were auctioned off and acquired by the wheelwrights' co-operative of Vordernberg, who were primarily interested in the forests of the former abbey's estates.

Joachim Wasserschlebe

Joachim Wasserschlebe (1 May 1709, Salzwedel, Margraviate of Brandenburg - 13 March 1787, Wassersleben estates) was a German-Danish diplomat, politician, councillor, patron of the arts and art collector.

Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels

After his father's death he succeeded him as master of his estates at Ehrenfels, but in early 1822, along with other philhellenes, he sailed to Greece to assist the Greek rebels in their uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

Leighton baronets

The Wattleborough and Loton Park estates came into the family through marriage in the reign of England IV.

Louis of Piedmont

His titles and estates were inherited by his brother-in-law Amadeus VIII, Count of Savoy, who later became Duke of Savoy and Antipope.

Louise d'Aumont

Through their descent from Louise and her mother, the princely family of Monaco now lays claim to the wealth and estates bequeathed by Cardinal Mazarin, including the Duchy of Rethel, and the Principality of Château-Porcien.

Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria

By 1936, by marriage and inheritance, the painting had become a part of the Panshanger Estate in Herfordshire, England, and hung in the estates gallery, owned by Baron and Lady Desborough.

Naryshkin Baroque

The first baroque churches were built in the estates of the Naryshkin family of Moscow boyars.

Plœuc-sur-Lié

The Count de La Rivière was the ancestor of Lafayette, who sold his estates at Ploeuc to cover the expenses which fell on him as a result of the American War of Independence.

Rabbula

During a journey to his country estates he was converted to Christianity partly through coming in contact with a case of miraculous healing and partly through the teaching and influence of Eusebius, bishop of Kenneschrin, and Acacius, bishop of Aleppo.

Richard Field Conover

In 1900, Conover moved to Bay City, Michigan where he concentrated on managing his wife's real estates in Bay County.

Rowborough Manor

It was then sold with the other estates of the Wright family, the purchaser being Sir William Oglander.

Royal Literary Fund

Among the estates from which the Fund earns royalties are those of the First World War poet Rupert Brooke, the novelists Somerset Maugham and G. K. Chesterton and children's writers Arthur Ransome and A. A. Milne.

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

St-Julien contains no First Growths but it does have estates ranked as Second, Third and Fourth Growths in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.

Salzgitter-Ringelheim

During the Thirty Years' War, Imperial and Catholic troops tried to reconquer the former Hildesheim estates and defeated a Protestant army under King Christian IV of Denmark at the nearby Battle of Lutter in 1626.

Sarah Rhodes

On 1 December 1807 in Leeds, Sarah married a banker, Stephen Nicholson (1779 Chapel Allerton -23 Feb 1858 Roundhay), son of William Nicholson and Grace Whitaker, who inherited Roundhay Park and Chapel Allerton estates on 8 February 1833 after the death of his older half-brother Thomas' widow.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell

On 4 September 1658, Thomas Wyberg Esq., of St Bees, Joseph Patrickson of Howe, and William Barwis of Paddigil signed a deed on behalf of their wives the three co-heiresses, transferring the Brayton Manorial Estates and other property valued at one thousand pounds to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel.

South African Class NG6 4-4-0

Known users were, amongst others, Premier Portland Cement in Bulawayo, the Rhodesian Native Timber Concessions at Gwaai, the Cam and Motor Mine at Gatooma, the Selukwe Peak Light Railway of the Selukwe Chrome Mine, the Lupane Forest Estates, the Igusi Saw Mills and the Arcturus Mine east of Salisbury, all these in Rhodesia.

Søndre Campus

A Rambla connects it, in opposite directions, to Islands Brygge Metro Station and a new park, Grønningen, separating the campus area from the housing estates Boligslangen and Karen Blixens Have to the south.

Strohn

The balances are meant to stand for the high court at Strohn, belonging within whose jurisdiction were not only Strohn, but also Mückeln and Oberscheidweiler as well as the estates of Sprink and Trautzberg.

The forty-five guards

After the Catholic League revolt in Paris, King Henry III was forced to flee to Blois, there, he staged a coup, regaining control of the Estates-General by employing the Forty-five to kill Henry I, Duke of Guise when he came to meet the king at the Château de Blois on 23 December 1588, and his brother, Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, the following day.

The Tragedy of Arthur

He wants Arthur to claim the quarto was found by Sil in an attic in the 1950s, and to verify that nobody else would have a claim to the text (namely, the estates of the printer and publisher, William White and Cuthbert Burby).

Townhill Park House

Townhill Park House is a Grade II listed former manor house between the neighbouring housing estates of Townhill Park in Southampton and Chartwell Green in Eastleigh.

Winkel, Rhineland-Palatinate

This lordship comprised the villages of Wollmerath, Filz, Wagenhausen and Niederwinkel, several mills (among them one in Winkel) and estates (among them the great estate in Oberwinkel, whose chapel still stands).

Wolfgang-Ernst Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

He had sold all other estates, but in 2010 he repurchased the Castle Ronneburg.

Worrall

The manor of Worrall was transferred to the ownership of Robert Swyft in 1557 and then to Sir Francis Leake before passing into the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

York Buildings Co v MacKenzie

Its estates (land in Widdrington, a lease of Strontian Mines, and some bonds and annuities) had been sold to pay creditors.


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