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  Christian Friedrich, Baron von Stockmar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Freiherr Christian Friedrich von Stockmar (22 August 1787 - 9 July 1863) was an Anglo-Belgian statesman born in of a Swedish family who was a player in the affairs of Victorian England.
In 1837 was sent by Leopold to serve as to Queen Victoria : one of his first tasks was brief her on whether Prince Albert (later Prince Consort) was a suitable After the marriage of Victoria and Albert became their unofficial counsellor and intervened in crises.
Stockmar was raised to the rank of by the King of Saxony.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Leopold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von BERCHTOLD, LEOPOLD, GRAF VON [Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von], 1863-1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1912-15).
Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von BUCH, CHRISTIAN LEOPOLD, FREIHERR VON [Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von], 1774-1853, German geologist and paleontologist, graduate of the mining academy, Freiberg, Germany, and taught by geologist Abraham G. Werner, who founded the influential Neptunist School (rocks from aqueous origins).
Stockmar, Christian Friedrich, Baron von STOCKMAR, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, BARON VON [Stockmar, Christian Friedrich, Baron von], 1787-1863, Anglo-Belgian diplomat and courtier, b.
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 Leopold I of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On July 2, 1829, Leopold participated in nuptials of doubtful validity (a private marriage-contract with no religious or public ceremony) with actress Caroline Bauer, created Countess of Montgomery, a cousin of his advisor, Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Stockmar.
Marie-Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine of Belgium, born in Laeken on June 7, 1840 and died in Meise on January 19, 1927, wife of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
With the opening of the railway line between Brussels and Mechelen on May 5, 1835, one of King Leopold's fondest hopes—to build the first railway in continental Europe—became a reality.
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 Wikinfo | Leopold I of Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Marie-Charlotte Amélie Auguste Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine, born in Laeken on June 7, 1840 and died in Meise on January 19, 1927, wife of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
The king also had two sons, Baron Georg von Eppinghoven (1849-1904) and Baron Arthur von Eppinghoven (1852-1940), by a mistress, Arcadia Claret, created Baroness von Eppinghoven (1826-1897).
With the opening of the railway line between Brussels and Mechelen on May 5, 1835, one of King Leopold's fondest hopes -- to build the first railway in continental Europe -- became a reality.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Leopold,
During the Balkan Wars he successfully worked for the creation of an independent Albania to block Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea.
As a lieutenant in the navy he was assigned to his first arctic service in 1848, when Sir James Clark Ross went in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.
A physician, Stockmar became (1816) adviser of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, who in 1831 became King Leopold I of the Belgians.
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