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| | Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc. |
 | | In 853, the Viking Olaf the White became King of Dublin and established Ketil Flatnose as Jarl (Earl) of Man. Man subsequently was fought over by the Norwegian Kings of Dublin and the Danish Kings of York, until York absorbed Dublin, around 914. |
 | | After Charles Spencer married Anne Churchill and became the ancestor of the Dukes of Marlborough, his nephew John was made Lord Spencer (1761), Viscount Spencer, and then Earl of Spencer (1765). |
 | | The Earls of Spencer lead directly to Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the 8th Earl, who married Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981 and became the mother of the most immediate Heirs of the Throne of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Princes William and Henry. |
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