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  Charles I, Duke of Burgundy information - Search.com
Alarmed by these early successes of the duke of Burgundy, and anxious to settle various questions relating to the execution of the treaty of Conflans, Louis requested a meeting with Charles and placed himself in his hands at Péronne.
In the course of the negotiations the duke was informed of a fresh revolt of the Bishopric of Liège secretly fomented by Louis.
Not content with being "the grand duke of the West," he conceived the project of forming a kingdom of Burgundy or Aries with himself as independent sovereign, and even persuaded the emperor Frederick to assent to crown him king at Trier.
www.search.com /reference/Charles_the_Bold   (1323 words)

  
 LORRAINE - Online Information article about LORRAINE
Louvain, a descendant of the Lotharingian dukes of the beginning of the loth century.
Brabant, as the dukes of Lower Lorraine came to be called.
Attacked by the emperor, the duke of Lorraine was forced at the treaty of Amance (1218) to acknowledge himself the vassal of the count of Champagne, and to support the count in his struggles against his ancient ally the count of Bar.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LORRAINE.html   (3953 words)

  
  Everything about Queen Consort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She was also great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and his second wife Constanza of Castile, a daughter of Peter I of Castile.
Mary, born in London, was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York (the future James II of England) and of his first wife, the Lady Anne Hyde.
Princess Anne's last surviving child, William, Duke of Gloucester, died in July 1700, and, as it was clear that William III would have no more children, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement 1701, which provided that the Crown would go to the nearest Protestant relative, Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant heirs.
wikimiki.org /en/queen+consort   (12050 words)

  
 The Belgian Succession
These territories, by a succession of marriages and inheritances, belonged to the Capetian dukes of Burgundy until 1477 and then passed to the Habsburgs.
Duke of Nemours (younger son of king Louis-Philippe)
The king of the French declined for the duke of Nemours under British pressure on Feb. 17 (see a depiction of the event).
www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/belgian_succ.htm   (5350 words)

  
 Time of Troubles Game
The Duke of Lombardy manages to unite Lombardy, Venice, Verona, Florence, Genoa and the Papal States as the new Imperium Romanum.
The player positions that normally hold each of these megafiefs still exist, and when they come into play they can trigger an ancestral rebellion and, given a subsidy from another player, can retake their ancestral megafief.
HLR Lorraine (traditional owner 214, de Lorraine) HLX Luxembourg (de Bohemie, 131) HLG Liege (Baudet) HHN Hainnault (de Baveaux, 83) HBB Brabbant (130 de Lothier) The French royal family (Capetians, not those Valois losers) have better stats.
www.hyw.com /downloads/trouble.htm   (2772 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He actually did not have a distinct nationality.
He was: the Holy Roman emperor, duke of Austria, duke of Milan, ruler of Franche-Comte; grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella on his mother's side and thus king of Spain; king of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia, and ruler of all the Spanish possessions in the New World
His grandson, king Philip III of Spain buried the emperor in the Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, northwest of Madrid.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor   (1570 words)

  
 Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lacks the final five leaves: a blank and the separate calendar.
•  Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750) was a priest active in parish ministry, librarian to the Duke of Modena, and a brilliant scholar in many fields, best noted for his discovery of the oldest known canon, or list of books, of the New Testament (now known as the Muratorian Canon).
In this work on the public good and the role of rulers in achieving it, he covers all aspects of human society, from politics to
www.prbm.com /interest/agricult.shtml   (4380 words)

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