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Ducados

Duchy or dukedom and governed by a Duke or Duchess regnant

Johann Stegner

Johann Stegner, the son of a construction worker, was born on 20 December 1866 in Frohnlach, District of Sonnefeld, in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha but he was raised in Scheuerfeld, then a village west of Coburg, in the same Duchy.


Abraham Abramson

Jacob Abraham (1723–1800) originated in the German duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Adam Contzen

Adam Contzen (17 April 1571, Monschau (Montjoie), Duchy of Jülich—19 June 1635, Munich) was a German Jesuit economist and exegete.

Administrative division of Duchy of Warsaw

It was a solution adopted after the French model, as the entire Duchy was in fact created by Napoleon, and based on French ideas, although the departaments were divided into traditional Polish powiats (counties).

Adolph Douai

Karl Daniel Adolph Douai was born February 22, 1819 in Altenburg, Thuringia in the Duchy of Saxon-Altenburg, the son of a school teacher.

Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Anthony Ulrich (German: Anton Ulrich; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.

Antin, Hautes-Pyrénées

The former Barony then Marquisate, was elevated to a duchy by Louis XIV (former lover of Mme de Montespan) in 1711 for Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin and was passed down his family till its extinction in 1757 at the death of Louis Antoine's great grandson Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1727–1757) who died in Breme during the Seven Years' War.

Battle of Méribel

The Battle of Méribel took place at Méribel, above Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France, on 13 September 1793, when the forces of the Duchy of Savoy were defeated by the French Army.

Bogislaw I, Duke of Pomerania

They were defeated in the 1164 Battle of Verchen, but allowed to keep their duchy as a fief from Henry.

Burchard II, Duke of Swabia

In 919, King Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy seized the county of Zürich and invaded the region of Konstanz, then the centre and practical capital of the Swabian duchy.

Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg

After the divisionary treaty of the duchy in 1680, Christian retained Eisenberg and the towns of Ronneburg, Roda and Camburg.

Chronique de la Pucelle

Shorty before Agincourt, Charles d'Orléans, soon to be made captive, appointed Cousinot his chancellor; Cousinot administered the affairs of the duchy during Charles' interminable captivity in England.

Couronian colonization

The Duchy also took other local land including St. Mary Island (modern day Banjul) and Fort Jillifree.

Duchy of Cleves

The Hohenzollern margraves thereby got a first foothold in the Rhineland, however, large parts of the Duchy of Cleves were occupied by the United Provinces until the Franco-Dutch War in 1672.

Duchy of Montbazon

The Duchy of Montbazon is the area around Montbazon, near Tours, in France.

Duchy of Opole and Racibórz

Mieszko's son Casimir I of Opole, Duke from 1211, invited German settlers immigrating to his duchy in the course of the Ostsiedlung, and granted German town law to settlements like Leśnica, Ujazd, Gościęcin, Biała and Olesno.

Duchy of Reggio

The Duchy of Reggio was one of the states that belonged to the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, ruled by the House of Este, in the north of Italy, in a territory now belonging to the Province of Reggio Emilia.

Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen

In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line upon the death of Duke Frederick IV in 1825, Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen received the lands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen as well as the Saalfeld territory of the former Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld duchy.

Duke of Bouillon

In the wake of the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Army invaded the Duchy of Bouillon in 1794, creating the short-lived Republic of Bouillon.

Fortress of Doboj

One of the most important defenses in the medieval bannate/duchy of Usora, this large stone structure was built in the early 13th century on the site of an earlier, clay and wood-based structure from the 10th or 11th century.

Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions (1795), with the exception of Danzig (Gdańsk), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon "protection", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.

Gervase of Tilbury

It has been suggested that, after the resounding defeat of Otto and his English ally John at the Battle of Bouvines (1214), Gervase was forced to retire to the duchy of Braunschweig, where he became, and died, provost of Ebstorf, and it is apparent that his work was known to the authors of the Ebstorf world map (ca. 1234–40).

Gmina Jemielnica

With the death of Duke Albert, before 1375 withouts sons, the direct line of the Duchy of Strehlitz came to an end, and Himmelwitz passed to duke Bolko III.

Hanxleden

Goddert II von Hanxleden (b about 1340, d 1410) was Lord (Burgmann) of Grevenstein and Fredeburg, Drost in Nyle in the Duchy of Jülich.

Jan I of Żagań

Ultimately, the division was made in 1412: Jan I retained Żagań, and one year later (in 1413) he also took possession over the Duchy of Przewóz, inn the Polish-German border area (obtained as a result of his marriage with Scholastika, a daughter of Elector Rudolph III).

Joachim Frederick of Brieg

His Duchy also expanded thanks of the districts of Dzierżoniów and Srebrna Góra, who had rich deposits of precious metals.

John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg

When is father died in 1547, John Albert and his brothers Ulrich III and George were jointly invested with the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow by Emperor Charles V.

John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach

Johann Georg received an income from the new duchy of Saxe-Eisenach and took his residence in the small town of Marksuhl.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Nevertheless Emperor Louis IV in the same year secretly promised the Carinthian duchy including the March of Carniola and large parts of Tyrol to the Austrian dukes Albert II and Otto the Merry from the House of Habsburg.

John Leventhorpe

By March 1404, he had taken possession of a number of houses belonging to the duchy in Sawbridgeworth, including purchasing the manor of Shingle Hall from William Wyot in August 1400, and, by 1416, he owned the manor of Thorley.

Joseph von Radowitz

In 1836, Radowitz went as Prussian military plenipotentiary to the federal diet at Frankfurt, and in 1842 was appointed envoy to the courts of Karlsruhe, Darmstadt and Nassau.

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Leopold Eberhard of Württemberg-Montbéliard (21 May 1670, Montbéliard - 25 March 1723, Montbéliard), was the last ruler of the Duchy of Württemberg-Montbéliard from 1699 until his death.

Lithuanian Metrica

By 1569, when the regions of Podlaskie, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev were separated from Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and incorporated into Kingdom of Poland, the books which concerned these regions, were removed from the Lithuanian Metrica, and merged into the Polish Metrica.

Luca Antonio Colomba

There he works alongside Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, architect of castle Ludwigsburg and general superintendent of the Building for the Duchy.

Łomża Department

From January to July 1807 the Department was known as the Białystok Department (Departament Białostocki) with the capital of Białystok, but after Treaties of Tilsit, Russia agreed for the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, but in exchange it was ceded for powiats: Białostocki, Bielski, Sokólski and Drohicki.

Main–Weser Railway

Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen.

Mangkunegara II

At the time of Raffles ruled Java replaced Janssens, Sultanate Yogyakarta threatened dibubarkan.Campur Mangkunegaran hands with Legion Mangkunegaran successfulto prevent the dissolution of the Sultanate with the completion of the founding of the Duchy Paku Alaman.

Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan

A great heiress, she inherited the Duchy (later principality) of Soubise which was given to her daughter Anne.

Mary of Guelders

It had been agreed that any sons they might have would have no right to the duchy of Guelders.

Nicetius of Provence

He received, as constituting his duchy, the cities of Rodez, Clermont, and Uzès.

Oleśnica

When the Podiebrad family became extinct in 1647, town and duchy were inherited by the Swabian dukes of Württemberg, and in 1792 by the Welf dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Palatinate-Neuburg

After the so-called Kölner Spruch (Verdict of Cologne) the Duchy was created from the territories north of the Danube for Otto Henry and Philipp, the sons of Ruprecht of the Palatinate.

Polish Livonia

Inflanty Voivodeship, a district of the Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621) that was retained by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Treaty of Oliva in 1660

Prosper Louis, 7th Duke of Arenberg

In 1801, Louis Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, Prosper's father, lost the former Duchy of Arenberg on the left bank of the Rhine but received a larger duchy on the right bank in 1803.

Prussian Guelders

Besides Geldern, other towns in the Prussian duchy were Horst, Venray, and Viersen, the latter of which was an exclave surrounded by the Duchy of Jülich.

Przewóz, Żary County

Duke Jan II the Mad had his older brother Balthasar imprisoned and starved to death at the castle's tower in 1472, shortly before he sold his duchy to Duke Albert III of Saxony.

Samuel Hirsch

In 1843 he was appointed chief rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by King William II of the Netherlands.

Treaty of Pyritz

In 1464, the dispute escalated due to the death of Otto III, Duke of Pomerania: Otto III had died without issue, and left his partition of Pomerania, the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin vacated.

Vinzenz Lachner

Vinzenz scratched out a living teaching music in Augsburg until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Poznań.

Viscounts and Dukes of Uzès

The viscounty of Uzès became a duchy by letters patent of Charles IX issued at Mont-de-Marsan in May 1565.


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