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unusual facts about Marquis



12687 de Valory

It is named after Guy Louis Henri, Marquis de Valory, a French aristocrat of the 18th century and friend of Voltaire.

Abbey of Vangadizza

The creation of the abbey is generally connected with the large donations from marquis Aimeric of Este, in the 950s, followed by others from Hugh of Tuscanya few years later.

Al Ferrara

After leaving baseball, he spent four years as a greeter at the Martoni Marquis on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles before going into sales for various home-improvement companies, eventually starting his own company, Major League Construction.

Aldford

The River Dee outside the village is crossed by the Aldford Iron Bridge, which was built in 1824 by William Hazledine for the 1st Marquis.

Alexandre Bontemps

Alexandre succeeded him on his death in 1659, dying in office in 1701, by which time he was a count and marquis, holding several key offices controlling both the palaces and towns of Versailles and Marly, the Swiss Guard who guarded the King and his palaces, and the household of the Dauphin.

Battle of Torroella

The viceroy of Catalonia, don Juan Manuel Lopez Pacheco Acuña Giron y Portocarrero, marquis of Villena duke of Escalona, who was also the Captain General of the army, had deployed along the banks of the river Ter practically all the marching troops he could muster to oppose the strong French expeditionary corps, led by the French Marshal duke of Noailles, who wanted to capture Gerona.

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier

Becoming marquis de Montausier at the death of his elder brother in 1635, he was the recognised aspirant for the hand of the Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet|

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries, marquis de Castries, baron des États de Languedoc, comte de Charlus, baron de Castelnau et de Montjouvent, seigneur de Puylaurens et de Lézignan (25 February 1727, Paris - 11 January 1801, Wolfenbüttel) was a French marshal.

Charles, Prince of Rochefort

He married Eléonore Eugénie de Béthisy de Mézières, younger daughter of Eugène Marie de Béthisy, Marquis de Mézières, and Eléonore Oglethorpe, like her sisters, a loyal and active Jacobite, who was in turn a daughter of Theophilus Oglethorpe, an English soldier and MP.

Château de Kintzheim

Taken care of during the 18th century by J. G. de Gollen, then by the marquis de Broc, his heir, the castle was abandoned following the French Revolution of 1789.

Château de Méréville

Next, an entirely new type of structure was built on a small island in the centre of the main lake - a rostral column, in honour of the marquis' two young sons Edouard (1762–1786) and Ange Auguste (1766–1786), news of whose disappearance had arrived in France earlier that year.

Ciriè

In 1576 the Savoy family exchanges the Ciriè area with an access to the sea with the Doria Marquis of Genoa: Gian Gerolamo D'Oria establishes his residence in Ciriè, starting the long dynasty (the D'Oria e del Maro di Ciriè) which ruled the city till the last Marquis Emanuele D'Oria, who becomes the first mayor when Ciriè, in force of a royal decree, is established a "city" in 1905.

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor also known as the Marquis de las Torres, was the Viceroy of Navarre in the 1700s.

Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda

Cristóbal Gómez de Sandoval-Rojas y de la Cerda, known as the duque de Uceda (Duke of Uceda), but also titled second marquis of Cea, fifth marquis of Denia, and knight of the order of Santiago (1581 – Alcalá de Henares, 31 May 1624) was the official minister of state, also known as the valido or valued one, for King Philip III of Spain.

De la Rochejacquelein

The marquis fled abroad with his second son Louis at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Duke of Bar

In 1354 Robert of Bar, who had married a French princess, was made Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson by the Emperor Charles IV and took the title of Duke of Bar.

Empress Quan Huijie

In 260, Sun Liang's elder half-brother and successor, Sun Xiu (who eliminated Sun Chen after ascending the throne in 258) further demoted Sun Liang to "Marquis of Houguan" and sent Sun Liang to his marquisate in Houguan County (侯官縣; around present-day Fuzhou, Fujian).

Georges Cadoudal

Cadoudal features as a main character in the 1940 Rafael Sabatini novel, Marquis of Carabas (tr. "Master-at-Arms").

Honoré Armand de Villars

Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris - May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, was a French nobleman, soldier and politician.

House of Carafa

Girolamo Caraffa, Marquis of Montenegro (1564 - 1633), a general in Spanish and Imperial service.

House of Carrillo

Marquis Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1659 and 1664), Governor of Milan, Spanish general and political figure.

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana

As a politician, Don Íñigo remained loyal to Juan II throughout his life, for which he was richly rewarded with land and the title of Marquis of Santillana in 1445, after the First Battle of Olmedo.

Jerry Marquis

Jeery Marquis was also infamous for NASCAR's former commentator Bill Weber and the "bodyguard to the stars" incident.

John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

Joseph Bernard de Chabert

Joseph Bernard, marquis de Chabert (28 February 1724, Toulon - 1 December 1805) was a French sailor, geographer and astronomer.

Lettre de cachet

In addition, Charles Darnay suspected that his uncle, a marquis, would have used a lettre de cachet to throw Darnay in prison if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis had fallen out of favour with the Court.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

Louis Pierre de Cubières

Simon Louis Pierre, marquis de Cubières, brother of Michel de Cubières (1747, Roquemaure, Gard – 1821) was a French writer.

Louvois

Camille le Tellier de Louvois (1675-1718), French clergyman, son of the marquis

Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real

Initially, he was baptized Manuel of Noronha, but when his older brother (the 4th Marquis of Vila Real) died unexpectedly without issue in 1564, he inherited his house and changed his family name from Noronha to Menezes, once this was the name used by the Heads of the House of Vila Real.

Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau

In 1753, a Paravana of Asif ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang, Subedar of Deccan conceded to Marquis de Bussy the paraganas of Chicacole, Ellore, Rajahmundry etc. with an annual revenue RS.2, 00,000 for the maintenance of the French troops in the Subah in recognition of the help of these Circars amounted up to 10 lakhs of Rupees per year.

Marquis de Champcenetz

Louis René Quentin de Richebourg, marquis de Champcenetz was governor of the Tuileries Palace at the time of the French Revolution.

Marquis James

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – November 19, 1955) was an American journalist and author, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Marquis St. Evrémonde

The Marquis or Monseigneur St. Evrémonde appears (in life) for only three chapters in Book the Second, symbolizing the pitiless, arrogant, French aristocracy.

Mercury Marquis

Metallic gold examples of the 1969 and 1970 model Marquis convertibles (very low production) were used for the final two seasons of the Green Acres TV series; these replaced the 1965-1967 Continental convertibles that were used earlier in the run of the CBS comedy series.

Minuscule 64

In 1880 Dean Burgon found the manuscript in the library of the Marquis of Bute (Marquess of Bute, Ms. 82 G. 18/19).

Pedro González de Mendoza

The cardinal's and the 1st duke of Infantado father, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st marquis of Santillana-- to use the title he was awarded in the last years of his life --, was a poet, and was conspicuous during the troubled reign of John II of Castile, deceased 1453.

Pier Paolo Crescenzi

Crescenzi was born in 1572, the son of Virgilio Crescenzi, Baron of Montorio, and Costanza, of the Marquises of Drago.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Most of the children have fanciful names, such as Marquis and Jenny Lind, influenced by the father's artistic background (Rebecca is named after both the heroines in Ivanhoe).

Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse

He married, 25 June 1714, Mary Paulet, granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Bolton and the marquis de Montpouillon.

Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers (Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers) (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.

San Ángel Inn

It was initially built by the Carmelites, for the purpose of becoming a monastery, but official records show that the concession was granted by Carlos III to the Counts of Pinillas and the Marquis of Sierra Nevada.

The Skull

In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis.

Title and style of the Canadian monarch

Liberal Member of Parliament Eugène Marquis in 1945 tabled a motion in the House of Commons proposing that a change to the King's title be a subject of discussion at the next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference; Marquis suggested that the title include each of the King's dominions, giving him the designation King of Canada.

Urfé

Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf, a French novelist and miscellaneous writer

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas

He was born in Paris, the son of Scipion Louis Joseph de La Garde, Marquis de Chambonas (1765) and of Louise Victoire Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure.

Victorian Military Society

The Marquis of Anglesey, the distinguished historian of the British Cavalry, became the Society’s president and the late Stanley Baker, the actor and producer of the film Zulu, became the Society’s first vice-president.

Wamin

Sold in 1811 by the daughters of the Marquis of Fléchin to the Lefebvre family from Gouy.


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