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2 unusual facts about Giles Fletcher, the Elder


Lukomorye

Giles Fletcher in his Of the Russe Common Wealth repeats the fantastic tale of dying/reviving Lukomorians.

Osip Bodyansky

Bodyansky's publication of Giles Fletcher's sketch of Muscovy was deemed an act of Russophobia and incurred the displeasure of Tsar Nicholas I, leading to the scholar's departure from Moscow to Kazan.


Alderton, Suffolk

The poet Giles Fletcher was rector of St. Andrew's from 1619 until his death in 1623.

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.

Clement Edmondes

In 1601, Edmondes obtained the post of Assistant Remembrancer of the City of London, and succeeded as Remembrancer on the resignation of Dr Giles Fletcher, with a salary of £100.

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.

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.

Feodor I of Russia

Elizabeth I sent a new ambassador, Giles Fletcher, the Elder, to demand Boris Godunov to convince the tsar to reconsider.

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.


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