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	Worldroots.com
		Franz von Taxis had moved to Brussels in search of fortune and it was there that he became a successful merchant.
		Louisa von Thurn und Taxis married Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen a brother of King Carol I of Romania.
		Prince Albert of Thurn und Taxis was deeply opposed to the advent of Adolph Hitler.
	worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/thurnandtaxis.htm (1918 words)

	Thurn und Taxis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Princely House of Thurn und Taxis is a German family that was a key player in the postal (mail) services in Europe in the 16th century and is well known as owners of breweries and builders of countless castles.
		The house of Thurn und Taxis still exists and is currently headed by HSH Albert Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel 12th Fürst von Thurn und Taxis, son of Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, and is among the wealthiest in Germany.
		The mail monopoly of Thurn and Taxis was central to the plot of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, which deals with a secret rival mail system W.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thurn_und_Taxis (339 words)

	Civilization.ca - History in a Box - Colour, a new postal symbol
		From the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, the princes of Thurn and Taxis managed a postal network that stretched from the Baltic to the Adriatic and from Poland to the Strait of Gibraltar.
		Franz von Taxis, whose family was originally from Italy, was appointed to the hereditary office of Postmaster General by the emperor of Germany.
		In countries where the postal service was controlled by the Thurn and Taxis family, the family's coat of arms shows the imperial eagle, a distinction awarded by Emperor Maximilian I. Notice the horn, the emblem associated with the position of Postmaster General.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/histbox/couleu_e.htm (380 words)

	Civilization.ca - A Chronology of Canadian Postal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		About 1500, Franz von Taxis moved his family business to Brussels in the hopes that the city would prosper as a result of the marriage of the Emperor Maximillian von Hapsburg to Maria of Burgundy, heiress to the ruler of Flanders.
		In 1505, von Taxis was named the Empire’s Postmaster General and he was granted a monopoly to deliver the royal mail.
		Franz vonTaxis’s heirs are among the world’s most eligible bachelors and they are prominent participants in the most exclusive events of the aristocratic social season.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/chrono/ch1506ae.html (401 words)

	Taxis \| von Taxis Genealogy Page, Page 4
		Rogerius de TAXIS was born in 1513, in Malines; and died in 1593, in Antwerp.
		Margareta de TAXIS died in 1596, and is buried in Malines.
		Maria de TAXIS died in 1601, and is buried in Louvaine.
	www.angelfire.com /va/ValsGenealogyPage/taxis-4.html (786 words)

	Wikipedia: Mail
		Von Thurn und Taxis' family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city states from 1290 onwards.
		Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806 the Thurn und Taxis postal system continued as a private organisation, continuing to exist into the postage stamp era before finally being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.
		Modern mail is usually organised by national services (that in recent times are increasingly being replaced by privately-owned companies), reciprocally interconnected by international regulations (some of which still in their original 18th-century form, many others of which are set out by the Universal Postal Union), organisations and agreements.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/ma/mail.html (1935 words)

	Master
		THURN, von, und TAXIS, Eulalia Maria, Pss-38850 (21 XII 1908 - 30 XII 1993)
		THURN, von, und TAXIS, JOHANNES Baptista, Fst-38830 (5 VI 1926 - 14 XII 1990)
		THURN, von, und TAXIS, Maria Ferdinande, Pss-36381 (19 XII 1927 -)
	czartoryski.netfirms.com /genealogy/index23.html (2085 words)

	Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero, by Murray N. Rothbard
		Ludwig von Mises was born on September 29, 1881, in the city of Lemberg (now Lvov), in Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		Ludwig von Mises entered the University of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century and his major professor was the economic historian Karl Grünberg, a member of the German Historical School and a statist who was interested in labor history, agricultural history, and Marxism.
		Indeed, Ludwig’s own younger brother, by two years, Richard von Mises, a mathematician and aeronautical engineer, became a leading member of this “Vienna Circle.” In addition, one of the devoted students in Mises’s seminar, Felix Kaufmann, was later to write a positivist work on the methodology of the social sciences.
	www.mises.org /rothbard/scholarcreator.asp (16837 words)

	History of the family von Pidoll
		His third oldest son Hubert (20.12.1691, +1.1.1757), which was master of the Thurn and Taxis* post office, married in 1720 into one of the most respected noble families of Trier: Josepha Margaretha von Geisen (+3.10.1759), daughter of the director at court Friedrich Franz von Geisen and Maria Magdalena Buchholz.
		For this reason father Franz subscribed him at this date the ironwork of Eichelhütte near Himmerod, acquired in 1704, and a great farm called Heeg as premature inheritance and gave Quint castle and the Quint ironworks to his son Hubert.
		Gottfrieds son Ludwig von Pidoll (9.1.1740, +5.10.1812), which called himself Ludovicus, was married at 11.2.1771 to Maria Franziska Jacobi (*12.8.1754, +8.5.1805), daughter of Konrad Jakobi, master of the cellar of the castle of Ulmen, and Maria Anna Fier.
	von-pidoll.com /geschich/history.htm (1091 words)

	Zuccalmaglio
		From "Heinrich von Zuccalmaglio and the Bergische Sicherheitskorps" by Fritz Hinrichs: Antonio was an officer in the "Kurpfälzischen Graf Eliotischen Regiment zu Pferde".
		Klara Josepha Maria13 von Zuccalmaglio (Salentinus Jacobus12 von Zuccalmaglio, Marian Henricus11, Antonio Simeon10, Angelo9 de Zuccalmaglio, Antonio8, Angelo7, Giacomo6, Giovanni5, Bortolamio4, Bernardino3, Tommaso2, Clemente1) was born Mar 20, 1808 in Schlebusch, Rheinland, Germany, and died Dec 23, 1871 in Lutzenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
		Margarete15 von Zuccalmaglio (Heinrich Ferdinand Maria14, Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Joseph13, Ferdinand Joseph Maria12, Marian Henricus11, Antonio Simeon10, Angelo9 de Zuccalmaglio, Antonio8, Angelo7, Giacomo6, Giovanni5, Bortolamio4, Bernardino3, Tommaso2, Clemente1) was born 1902 in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, and died 1992 in Frankfurt, Germany.
	www.jowest.net /Genealogy/Jo/Zuccalmaglio/Zuccalmaglio.htm (4125 words)

	The Imperial Council of Princes and Counts of Germany , The Nobility of The Holy Roman Empire .
		Herzog von Swabia, Duke of Mantua and Guastalla,(1974-)
		The project is open to males with the surnames: Taxis, von Taxis, von Thurn und Taxis, Tassis, de la Tour et Tassis, Tacques, Tasso, Tazzo, and all of the variations of the surname.
		Franz, and the family, were granted the right to carry government and personal mail throughout the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
	imperialcollegeofprincesandcounts.com /_wsn/page4.html (5176 words)

	Thurn und Taxis: The history of an enterprising family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was then that Franz von Thurn und Taxis obtained the mail monopoly over all the Habsburg lands.
		The Thurn und Taxis originated from the region of Bergamo in Italy.
		One of the first prominent matrimonial alliances of the family was that of Eugene-Alexander, I Prince of Thurn and Taxis, to Princess Anna of Fürstenberg.
	www.eurohistory.com /thurn.html (1647 words)

	Thurn und Taxis Palais (Palace of Thurn & Taxis) - Frankfurt am Main
		Prince Anselm Franz von Thurn and Taxis had this palace built between 1727 and 1741 after Emperor Karl VI decreed the headquarters of the Post be moved from Brussels to Frankfurt (1724).
		It was the most opulent palace in town when the Thurn and Taxis moved their operations to Regensburg in 1748.
		Fürst Anselm von Thurn und Taxis hatte den Palast zwischen 1727 und 1741 erbauen lassen nachdem Kaiser Karl VI.
	www.altfrankfurt.com /NeueStadt/GrEschenheimerStr/ThurnundTaxis (438 words)

	Mecklenburg-Strelitz Royal Family
		Franz von Taxis (1459-1517) was the first to establish a well organized postal network in Italy In 1615 the Emperor Mathias rewarded the family for its merits by making Lamoral von Taxis hereditary Postmaster General which was raised into the status of imperial office in 1744.
		In the 17th century the family was raised to the rank of Baron (1608) and count (1624) - and in 1695 under the Emperor Leopold I. to the rank of Prince.
		Franz Eduard was a brother of Friedrich Karl von Oppersdorff
	www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm (1120 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By Adolph von Menzel Emperor William I. By Franz von Lenbach King William's Departure for the Front at the Beginning of the Franco-German War.
		By Franz von Lenbach The Bismarck Monument at Hamburg.
		By Anton von Werner The Capitulation of Sedan.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/0/5/13056/13056.txt (17510 words)

	The Succession Laws of Modena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Should Franz Ferdinand decline, his brothers Otto and Ferdinand would be called, and if they also declined, the inheritance would be shared by the duke of Madrid and the duke of San Jaime (with the same conditions!).
		Franz Ferdinand's brother Otto (1865-1906) had left two sons, the eldest Karl (1887-1922) inherited the Este claim and was styled Erzherzog von Österreich-Este.
		Reich sich von den ältesten Zeiten her verdient gemacht, auch fernerhin demrelben nützlich zu seyn, die fortwährende Gelegenheit habe, und sich dazu stetshin bereit zu erzeigen die besondere Angelegenheit sich mache; daß mithin in oberwähntes Ansuchen willfährig einzugehen, von Kayserl.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/modena.htm (4460 words)

	PageR.html
		The abbey of Essen exercised sovereignty until the territory was mortgaged to the Herren von Gemen and their descendants the Counts von Schaumburg.
		The bishopric was secularized in 1803 and territory passed to Elector of Mainz Karl von Dalberg....
		The family of Ursin (Orsini) von Rosenberg lineage is not clear and may not be connected to the Orsini family of Italy.
	www.remmick.org /Remmick.German.Facts/PageR.html (1110 words)

	Thurn und Taxis - The Royal Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Thurn und Taxis company lasted until the 18th century, when the postal service was finally bought by the heir to the Spanish throne.
		The house of Thurn und Taxis is currently headed by HSH Albert Maria Lamoral Miguel Johannes Gabriel 12th Fürst von Thurn und Taxis, son of Gloria Princess von Thurn und Taxis.
		Their young son inherited a huge fortune, but his father must have had a lot of debts (I guess the wealth was all tied up in industry, etc.) So Gloria rolled up her sleeves and sold off some of the family heirlooms.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3938&page=1 (1316 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg196 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Ferdinand I of ANTEQUERA was born 27 Nov 1380 and died 2 Apr 1416.
		Marie August VON THURN-TAXIS was born 11 Aug 1706 and died 1 Feb 1756.
		Charles I Alexander VON WÜRTTEMBERG Duke was born 24 Jan 1684 and died 12 Mar 1737.
	www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk /maximilia/pafg196.htm (421 words)

	Taxis Surname Dna Project
		According to historians, Omodeo was part of the family that was originally known as the Torriani, or della Torre family.
		This project is open to males with the surnames: Taxis, von Taxis, von Thurn und Taxis, Tassis, de la Tour et Tassis, Tacques, and all of the other variations of the surname.
		If you are a TAXIS surname researcher, but you do not have the TAXIS Y-DNA, there is another way to participate in the project: Make a contribution to the General Fund, and help pay for the Y-DNA test of someone else.
	www.taxisdna.com (567 words)

	Glossa Extraordinaria: Renaissance - English
		Gtz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand is one of the heroes of the Bavarian War of Succession
		Franz von Taxis becomes postmaster-general of the Netherlands; the imperial mail service is extended to Rome and Naples
		Subscribed to by princes, pastors, and other individuals, it gave confessional status to the three ecumenical creeds, the Augsburg Confession, its Apology, Martin Luther's Large and Small Catechisms, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, and the Formula of Concord.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/hafner/medieval/Public/newmedchronD.html (796 words)

	Prinz von Thurn und Taxis - The Aerodrome Forum
		All I could find about Leutnant Prinz von Thurn und Taxis was he served in Jasta 9 in 1916.
		Franz Joseph Prinz von Thurn und Taxis (P):
		Franz Joseph Erbprinz von Thurn und Taxis, Herzog zu Wörth und Donaustauf, Fürst zu Buchau, gefürstlicher Graf zu Friedberg-Scheer, Graf zu Valle-Sessina, Marchtal, Nevesheim "etc" (!!!) was born in Regensburg 21 December 1893, son of Albert Maria Fürst von TuT ("etc"!!!
	www.theaerodrome.com /forum/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=21117 (546 words)

	Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On either side of the chancel are two magnificent tombs of the Thurn and Taxis family.
		The Thurn and Taxis family originated in Lombardy in the 12th century.
		The title Prince of the Empire was conferred on Anselm Franz in 1695.
	www.heritagesites.eu.com /belgium/notreda.htm (154 words)

	These Against My Ruin - The Collective Works of Kathryn Bohan
		Von Taxis secured the right to carry both government and private mail throughout the Holy Roman Empire and in Spain for a fee and thereby founded the first public-access mail service.
		Taxis hired many relatives to operate his vast network, and the family was granted a patent of nobility by Maximilian I in 1512.
		The last Thurn and Taxis postal system was purchased and nationalized by the Prussian government in 1867.
	webpage.pace.edu /rmartin/studentprojects/kbohan/studies/terms.htm (2986 words)

	Postal Services History
		The best-known and most extensive such service was the Thurn and Taxis system.
		Franz von Taxis served as postmaster for the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I, beginning in 1489.
		He obtained the right to carry government as well as private mail throughout the empire.
	www.lookd.com /postal/history.html (1136 words)

	History of postage stamps
		Two years prior to this, Franz von Taxis was ordered by the Emperor-to-be, Maximilian I, to set up a mail line across Germany.
		In 1615, the Emperor elevated the Taxis family to the rank of Postmasters of the German Empire.
		More than 100 years ago, the Postmaster-General, Heinrich von Stephan, found in Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck a willing listener to his far-sighted plans.
	www.bundesdruckerei.de /en/print/stamps/2_4_4 (616 words)

	Tour et taxis Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tour Et Taxis are great for when you're looking to get better at tour et taxis for selfish purposes.
		If you need help locating tour et taxis then you've come to the right place because we have all the tour et taxis you could want.
		Dna project for the Taxis surname and its variations.The von Taxis genealogy is included.
	taxi.10intercore8.info /shannon-airport-taxi/tour-et-taxis.html (341 words)

	Glossa Extraordinaria: Renaissance - German
		Das Fresko Danse Macabre/Totentanz wird in der Kirche von Reval fertiggestellt.
		Piedro Alvarez Cabral entdeckt Brasilien und erklärt es als Besitz von Portugal.
		Subscribed to by princes, pastors, and other individuals, it gave confessional status to the three ecumenical creeds, the Augsburg Confession, its Apology, Luther's Large and Small Catechisms, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, and the Formula of Concord.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/hafner/medieval/Public/newMittChronD.html (891 words)

	Article '96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first post contract was signed in 1505 with Postmaster Franz von Taxis, who maintained his post offices with a horse, in addition to clerks and riders.
		The reward was a coat of arms uniting the Torini and Tassis (Italian for "Thurn" and "Taxis") families and presentation of a princely state, Thurn and Taxis.
		The Taxis family moved the mail on a post-pay basis by courier, horse, coach, and occasionally by boat on rivers and canals.
	www.wfscstamps.org /wfsc_atfp_articles_1996.shtml (6090 words)

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