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Abbot Oliba

Oliba promoted the movement of Peace and Truce of God (Pau i treva), towards 1022 and in 1027 the agreement of this treaty with other bishops and noblemen took place in Toulouges (Roussillon) and was said that all, noblemen, knights, farmers and monks, agreed to make, days in which nobody could quarrel with anybody and in which the fugitives could take refuge in churches and places holy, sure of being protected and respected, some days every year, be days of Peace.

Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn

In 1617 Adam Bysiński from Bysina, heir of Iłownica, accused three Cieszyn noblemen to poisoned Adam Wenceslaus: Erazm Rudzki, speaker of the Chancellor, Waclaw Pelhrzim from Trzenkowice (von Pelchrzim), a Judge court, and Piotr Gurecki from Kornice on Jaworzu.

Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton

At the same time he had acquired the sarcophagus of Pabasa, an important noblemen which is now in the Kelvingrove Museum.

August von Bibra

The Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas was an emigration enterprise first organized by a group of German noblemen in 1842 that resulted in the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, and other German communities in Texas.

Bagaš noble family

There were several Serbian noblemen to which Antonije and Nikola might be related, such as kaznac Baldovin, Knez Baldovin and Župan Maljušat, son of knez Baldovin who controlled region of Vranje.

Baliga

The other notable mention is in The Ancient History of South Canara written by Ganapathi Rao Aigal, which mentions one Damarsa Bale, among nine other Samasthas (Noblemen) of Bantwal, signing a copper inscription of offering to Sri Bhadra Narasimha Temple of Manjeshwar.

Baruny

In the 18th and 19th centuries the local Basilian monastery was famous for its school, where many of young local noblemen, among them poet Antoni Edward Odyniec and writer Ignacy Chodźko, got their primary education.

Battle of Dahlen

In 1568, William I of Orange, stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, and other noblemen dissatisfied with the Spanish rule in the Netherlands, the Geuzen, were determined to expel Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, and his Spanish troops from the country.

Battle of Molodi

On 26 July 1572 the huge horde of the khan, equipped with cannons and reinforced by Turkish janissaries, crossed the Oka River near Serpukhov, decimated the Russian vanguard of 200 noblemen and advanced towards Moscow in order to pillage it once again.

Battle of White Mountain

In May, 1618, wanting to air their grievances over this and other issues, a group of Bohemian noblemen met representatives of the Emperor at the royal castle in Prague; the meeting ended with two of the representatives and their scribe being thrown out a high window and seriously injured.

Berenice I of Egypt

She was the daughter of obscure local noblemen called Magas and Antigone.

Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles

Some thirty-two noblemen or squires contributed the other stories, with some 14 or 15 taken from Giovanni Boccaccio, and as many more from Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini or other Italian writers, or French fabliaux, but about 70 of them appear to be original.

Cold-Food Powder

This refers to Ge Hong's Baopuzi above (26, tr. Sailey 1978:159-160) criticism of "noblemen" from Luoyang who violated mourning rules by taking wushisan and getting drunk.

Daly's Club

This was once "Daly's Club-house," where all the noblemen and gentlemen of both Houses would adjourn to dine and drink; where were seen Mr. Grattan, and Mr. Flood with "his broken beak," and Mr. Curran, and those brilliant but guerilla debaters, whose encounters both of wit and logic make our modern parliamentary contests sound tame and languid.

Eustache de Saint Pierre

Eustache de Saint Pierre is the best known mayor from the six noblemen of Calais, "The Burghers of Calais", who went with "a shirt and a rope around his neck" to the King of England at that time, Edward III, to surrender in the name of the people of Calais (August 1347).

Fleury Abbey

Theodulphus, bishop of Orléans established at Fleury a school for young noblemen recommended there by Charlemagne.

Frisian history

The free Frisians (actually petty noblemen) and the city of Groningen founded the Opstalboom League to counter feudalism.

Gentleman Usher

They were regularly found in the households of Tudor noblemen, and were prescribed by Richard Brathwait, in his Household of an Earle, as one of the "officers and Servants the state of an Earle requireth to have".

Hingene Castle

The duke received important noblemen here, such as Johan von Sinzendorf und Pottendorf (1739-1813) and Joseph de Ferraris.

Hirschholm Palace

The estate, which covered a large area (the present day municipalities of Hørsholm, Karlebo, Birkerød and a part of Allerød) was called the Noble Estate of Hørsholm (adelsgodset Hørsholm), and was endowed to various noblemen and members of the royal court.

House of Silva

Memorias de algunos linages antiguos e nobles de Castilla, Juan de Mena's work of the first half of the 15th century that is much prone to giving families mythical ancestries to link them to the glorious past, indicated that the Silva were "very old and noble knights and noblemen of high rank" with some writings claiming for them descent from the mythical Latin kings of Alba Longa (and hence from Aeneas of Troy).

Humiliati

According to some chroniclers, certain noblemen of Lombardy, taken prisoner by the Emperor Henry V (1081–1125) following a rebellion in the area, were taken as captives to Germany and after suffering the miseries of exile for some time, "humiliated" themselves before the emperor, assuming a penitential garb and mode of life which gained them their release.

Jacques Georges Deyverdun

He also acted as tutor to several English noblemen on the Grand Tour such as Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet.

Jens Schielderup Sneedorff

From his position as professor at the Sorø Academy for young noblemen and later teacher to the prince, Sneedorff played a key role in formulating the political content of "Enlightenment" in his native Denmark.

Julian Cesarini

The widow Queen Elisabeth of Luxembourg was left alone with her newborn son who was crowned as Ladislaus V of Hungary, however the Turkish wars represented a serious danger to the Kingdom, and the noblemen called from Poland the young King Władysław, and crowned him as Hungarian King making him promise he will defend the State against the Ottomans.

Knight Crusader

A notable aspect of the book is the bringing into contrast of the refinements of the medieval Islamic civilization, which had been adopted by the Outremer noblemen, with the comparatively stark and crude European living conditions of the time, and the suggestion that the returning Crusaders brought Eastern standards of culture to the West.

Kupiah

During the Sultanate of Aceh, kupiah meukeutob were worn specially for sultans and ulemas, while the kupiah riman were worn by noblemen and ordinary people.

Laws of cricket

In 1755 there is further reference to the laws being revised by "Several Cricket Clubs, particularly the Star and Garter in Pall Mall", followed by a revision of the Laws by "a committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London at the Star and Garter" in 1774.

Love and Other Demons

The different levels of narration and action in the story have their own characteristic language: English is the 'everyday language' of the noblemen, Latin is the language of the church rites, Spanish is used by Delaura whenever his conversations with Sierva touch on personal feelings, and Yoruba is the 'secret' language of the slaves.

Miklos Udvardy

He was born on March 23, 1919 in Debrecen, Hungary to the noblemen Miklos Udvardy de Udvardy et Básth and Elizabeth Komlossy de Komlos.

Mirăslău

The commune is the site of a battle in 1600 between the Wallachian army led by Michael the Brave and the Hungarian noblemen supported by the Austrian general Giorgio Basta (see Battle of Mirăslău).

Mokrzyszów, Tarnobrzeg

For centuries, the village belonged to the Starosta of Sandomierz, and after the Partitions of Poland, it was transferred to the government of the Habsburg Empire, which leased it to several noblemen, such as Karol Kaschmitz, and Jan Feliks Tarnowski.

Nicolau Chanterene

From 1533 he stayed at the court in Évora, entering in daily contact with noblemen, humanists, such as André de Resende, and the highest ecclesiastical ranks.

Nob and Nobility

After Edmund disparages the Pimpernel, two effete noblemen, Topper (Tim McInnerny) and Smedley (Nigel Planer), bet him a thousand guineas that he can't go to France, rescue an aristocrat and present him at the French Embassy Ball.

Peter Sliker

He made his debut with the company on November 29, 1961 as one of the noblemen in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin with Sándor Kónya in the title role, Ingrid Bjoner as Elsa, Margaret Harshaw as Ortrud, Randolph Symonette as Telramund, Jerome Hines as King Heinrich, and Joseph Rosenstock conducting.

Popular sovereignty

Popular sovereignty in its modern sense, that is, including all the people and not just noblemen, is an idea that dates to the social contracts school (mid-17th to mid-18th centuries), represented by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), John Locke (1632–1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of "general will" and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.

Riviera del Brenta

From 16th to 18th century many venetian aristocratic family built their beautiful villas here (like Villa Pisani, placed in the little of Stra, Villa Ferretti-Angeli in Dolo, Villa Widmann-Foscari in Mira and Villa Foscari, also called "La Malcontenta" in Malcontenta), and it is navigable to river boats, whose best example is the famous Burchiello, which used to carry venetian noblemen from Venice to the countryside and is now a tourist attraction.

Robert de Lawedre of Edrington

On 3 February 1424, Sir "Robertus de Lawedre de Bass, chevalier", with 18 men, had a safe-conduct with a host of other noblemen etc., as a hostage for King James I of Scotland at Durham.

Robert Nicholl Carne

This article incorporates public domain text from John Bernard Burke's A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain (1853).

Sir William Hodges, 1st Baronet

James Peller Malcolm describes his funeral, which was of unusual grandeur, with forty-two noblemen's coaches following the procession.

Strachocina

Local tradition has it that there lived three kinds of people in the village: serfs (persons in a condition of feudal servitude, required to render services to a lord and attached to the lord's land), tenants of the estate, and szlachta zaściankowa (village noblemen).

The Monastery of Sendomir

The main part of the film is told in a flashback by a monk to two visiting noblemen on their way to Warsaw in the 17th century.

The Shadow of Night

The three noblemen and their associates, like Sir Walter Raleigh, John Dee and Thomas Harriot among others, have been interpreted as members of a clique of advanced thinkers called The School of Night, who were interested in promoting new ideas like the Copernican and Galilean view of a heliocentric solar system, and the spirit of open inquiry that underlay it.

Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg

He was one of the noblemen who joined in inviting William of Orange to England, and was by that king raised on 9 April 1689 to the rank of Earl.

Tibiriçá

His granddaughters and their descendants married Portuguese noblemen that led the colonization of São Paulo under Martim Afonso de Sousa, including Jorge Ferreira, Domingos Luiz (a knight of the Order of Christ), and Tristão de Oliveira, son of capitão-mor Antonio de Oliveira and Genebra Leitão de Vasconcelos, both of important noble families.

Tod und Teufel

The background is set in the period of 10 to 14 September 1260 in Cologne, and focuses on the struggle for power between the Colognian noblemen and the Archbishop of Cologne.

William of Jülich

William of Jülich (The Younger) (Dutch: Willem van Gulik (de Jongere)) (unknown - August 18, 1304) was one of the Flemish noblemen that opposed the annexation policies of the French king Philip IV - together with Pieter de Coninck.


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