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  William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (1304–1354) and Lord High Admiral, was the younger son of Baron John Clinton of Maxstoke (Warwickshire) and Ida De Odingsells, who was a great-great-granddaughter of Henry II.
Geoffrey de Clinton was Lord Chamberlain and Treasurer of Henry I, while Roger de Clinton was Bishop of Coventry 1127–1148.
William de Clinton was a boyhood companion of Edward III of England, and as one of the king's followers who secretly entered Nottingham Castle and captured Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_de_Clinton,_1st_Earl_of_Huntingdon   (209 words)

  
 Kenilworth - LoveToKnow Watches
Geoffrey's grandson released his right to King John, and the castle remained with the crown until Henry III.
After the battle of Evesham the rebel forces rallied at the castle, which, after a siege of six months, was surrendered by Henry de Hastings, the governor, on account of the scarceness of food and of the " pestilent disease " which raged there.
The only mention of Kenilworth as a borough occurs in a charter of Henry I. to Geoffrey de Clinton and in the charters of Henry I. and Henry II.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kenilworth   (439 words)

  
 CLINTON
The family of Clinton is of Norman origin, and settled in England at the Conquest.
Roger Climpton or Clinton was Bishop of Coventry from 1228 to 1249.
John De Clinton was summoned to Parliament at the first of Edward I, by the title of Baron Clinton of Marstock.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /CLINTON.htm   (674 words)

  
 Kenilworth Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But the current ruin is of Norman origin, a great square stone tower was built by Geoffrey de Clinton, Treasurer and Chief Justice of England to Henry I, in about 1125.
Simon de Montfort became a leader in the Second Barons' War (1263-1267) against Henry III, Kenilworth was the centre of his operations and Prince Edward, Henry's heir, was briefly imprisoned at Kenilworth before escaping.
De Montfort was killed in battle near Evesham on August 4, 1265 facing Edward.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenilworth_Castle   (675 words)

  
 Rea Genealogy - pafg129 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Geoffrey de Clinton, Lord-Chamberlain and Treasurer to Henry I.
William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny [Parents] was born 1204 in Brecknock, Surrey, England.
Isabel de Clare, Countess Strigoil married William Marshall, Fourth Earl of Pembroke And The Marshal of England on Aug 1189 in London, England.
members.tripod.com /~GaryR45/pafg129.htm   (287 words)

  
 Kenilworth
De Montfort had previously left it, and gone to France to procure succour; but his place was admirably filled by the governor he left in charge, who repulsed every attack of the besiegers.
The family of De Montfort is excluded from this benefit, and all persons are forbidden, under both civil and spiritual penalties, to circulate stories of vain and foolish miracles done by Simon De Montfort, who was now popularly esteemed a saint and martyr.
The dictum was rejected by the followers of Simon De Montfort; but at length provisions failed at Kenilworth, and a pestilence broke out which obliged the governor to surrender to the king, who immediately bestowed the castle on his youngest son Edward, Earl of Lancaster, afterwards created Earl of Leicester.
www.mspong.org /picturesque/kenilworth.html   (1205 words)

  
 Uktravel.com - Castle Guide
Clinton was Treasurer and Chief Justice of England and he established a castle worthy of his office.
Simon de Montfort had become a leading rebel against King Henry III and the Barons' War was waged between 1263 and 1267 in an attempt to curb Henry's abuse of power.
Simon de Montfort was killed in battle at nearby Evesham on August 4th 1265, and in the summer of 1266, his fellow nobles, under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, used the castle as a refuge when the King surrounded Kenilworth.
www.uktravel.com /castlecontent.asp?timeID=Kenilworth&offset=50   (1192 words)

  
 Welcome to the Clinton Daily News!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Clinton police are con-tinuing to investigate the theft of an estimated $1,000 worth of tools and equipment from a storage shed near Custer Avenue and Stratton Lane.
A potentially very dangerous case of bad electrical wiring was discovered by Clinton firemen Sunday in a house at 119 Regency after a child received a minor shock when she tried to retrieve a sock that had fallen behind a clothes dryer.
Clinton city officials, buoyed by bigger-than-expected sales tax checks the first four months of the current fiscal year, had their bubble burst Monday when the Oklahoma Tax Commission advised that Bar-S Foods was due a refund of $92,273.94.
www.clintondailynews.com /cgi-bin/newspost/extras/archives.cgi?category=2&view=11.03.03-11.11.03   (11613 words)

  
 Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 85
Juliana de Multon was born circa 1164 at of Sutton (Steeton), Yorkshire, England.
Geoffrey de Clinton married Agnes Beaumont, daughter of Roger de Newburgh and Gundred de Warenne.
Henri de Ferriers was born circa 1110 at of Oakham, Rutland and Lechlade, Gloucester, England.
www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p85.htm   (1722 words)

  
 Sources of English Constitutional History: Chapter 25
Geoffrey de Clinton renders account of the farm of Wargrave.
And the same Geoffrey renders account of the old farm of the bishropic for the previous year....
And the same Geoffrey renders account of the new farm of the bishropric.
www.constitution.org /sech/sech_025.htm   (1787 words)

  
 Kenilworth Castle
Within the space of 40 years, for reasons that are unclear, Geoffrey de Clinton, Chamberlain to Henry I, determined to build what was to become possibly the most magnificent castle in England, in this obscure forest clearing.
An Augustinian Priory in Kenilworth was founded between 1123 and 1129 by Geoffrey de Clinton, at the same time as he built the castle.
Geoffrey de Clinton founded the Priory as a spiritual act of gratitude, in response to being given the land on which to build the castle.
www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk /kenilworth.htm   (3121 words)

  
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The present owner of Penshurst is Lord De Lisle and Dudley (Sir Philip Charles Sidney (died 1851) was given the peerage in 1835), who allows visitors to view the historic mansion on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. (admission 1s.).
William the Conqueror gave Lewes to Earl William de Warenne, who had married Gundrada, said to be the daughter of Queen Matilda and the Conqueror.
De Warenne built the castle, or considerably enlarged the old Saxon fortress, which is now in ruins.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/1/6/4/11642/11642-8.txt   (19820 words)

  
 A Political-Security Analysis of the Failed Oslo Process
In drafting the Roadmap, the Bush administration adopted the key assumption of the Clinton strategy, an assumption that is to its core wrong.
At Camp David, Clinton sensed the magnitude of the situation when he said in anger and despair to Arafat, "These things have consequences; failure will mean the end of the peace process.
The Clinton administration clung to fuzzy concepts of natural growth and no significant expansion, which were meaningless in stopping Israel from taking unilateral actions to prejudice a final-status solution.
www.mepc.org /journal_vol12/0503_mahle.asp   (8286 words)

  
 Geoffrey Robertson's Hypothetical
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON: According to the history textbook, the one that Mr Howard wants to ban, the defeat of the Anzacs is worth celebrating for Turkey because it enabled Attaturk to begin to lay the foundation of a secular state that is now about to be admitted to the European Union.
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON: He so hated the bosses in Australia that he only volunteered in order to get a free trip back to Britain and when he was at Gallipoli he showed the kind of mateship that one expects for the fellows of the working classes, fellow workers.
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON: The beauty of Mr Howard’s new labour laws is that she can still remain a member of the trade union but it can’t do anything for her.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/feature_stories/article_1973.asp   (8051 words)

  
 D:\ - pafn94 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Robert [8] de Bellomont, fourth Earl of Leicester, at whose death without issue on 6 January 1203/4, the earldom expired and the estates went to his two sisters.
Gundred De Warrenne, daughter of William de Warrenne, second Earl of Surrey, who was living as late as 1167.
The latter was succeeded by his only son, Thomas 9 de Newburgh, sixth Earl of Warwick, at whose death without issue 26 June 1242 the earldom and estates passed to his sister Margery [9] de Newburgh; she m.
members.cox.net /paradiseoc1/pafn94.htm   (787 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Clinton at this point obviously has enough votes to avoid conviction, which requires a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
Some senators think the House's vote to impeach Clinton is punishment enough: he is, after all, the first president in 131 years to face an impeachment trial.
The idea is to give the Senate a way to say the House prosecutors made their case that Clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice without finding Clinton guilty of those charges.
www.usatoday.com /news/index/clinton/clin1023.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Summer Solstice 2004 at Stonehenge
In 1253, Henry III gave the castle to Simon de Montfort.
The de Montforts turned against the Crown in the Barons’ War of 1266 and the castle was besieged.
After Geoffrey de Clinton established Kenilworth Castle in the 1120s, he began building the stone keep, the defensive core of the fortress.
www.greydragon.org /trips/Warwick&Kenilworth   (770 words)

  
 rea genealogy - pafg154 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Ralph de Mortimer [Parents] was born about 1082.
Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore died in 1215.
Bertram de Verdun, Sheriff of Leicestershire [Parents] died in 1192 in Joppa.
members.cox.net /garyrea/pafg154.htm   (118 words)

  
 Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 206
Guisla de Pailhars married Wifredo III (?), son of Oliba Cabreta (?) and Ermengarde of the Ampurias (?).
Agnes Beaumont married Geoffrey de Clinton, son of Renebald de Tankerville and Agnes de Stigand Tankerville/.
Stephanette de Baux married Bertrand II de Baux, son of Raymond II de Baux and Bigne (?), circa 13 June 1281.
www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p206.htm   (871 words)

  
 Media Reality Check -- 03/05/2002 -- Dancing Around Bill Clinton’s Enron Deals
That’s not as much soft money as was given to the GOP (more than $2 million), but it’s more than enough to get corporate chiefs the "access and influence" that self-appointed reformers find so revolting.
Clinton’s chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Elizabeth Moler, joined Enron’s payroll as an anti-regulation lobbyist in 1999.
That same year, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin turned down a seat on Enron’s board, but he called Bush officials on Enron’s behalf last November as the company’s financial woes mounted.
www.mediaresearch.org /realitycheck/2002/fax20020305.asp   (527 words)

  
 KENILWORTH - Online Information article about KENILWORTH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Clinton now extant, with massive walls 16 ft. thick; the Merwyn's tower of See also:
HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
Henry I. to Geoffrey de Clinton, a Norman who built the castle See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KENILWORTH.html   (679 words)

  
 Power Line: On the use and abuse of history for life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In a sidebar to the article on presidential biographies, Brownstein features Bill Clinton's thoughts on the usefulness of presidential biographies to presidents: "Even Clinton went by the book." Clinton cites Geoffrey Ward's A First-Class Temperament as a book that was particularly useful to him both as a candidate and in office.
Clinton, by the way, wants to adjust the usual criteria applied by historians to determine presidential greatness.
Bill Clinton's complaint is that he presided over quiet times.
powerlineblog.com /archives/013198.php   (686 words)

  
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And so let the aforesaid church be quit in perpetuity of the aforesaid [40] pounds.[7] Witnesses: Roger, bishop of Salisbury; Geoffrey, my chancellor; Robert, [keeper] of the seal; William de Tancarville; William d'Aubigny, steward; Ralph Basset, Geoffrey de Clinton, William de Pont-de-l'Arche.
And all the tenants of all the aforesaid land of Bernard shall likewise perform liege homage to him as to their lord, saving my fealty and [saving the rights of] Bernard so long as he wishes to hold the land.
Witnesses: Roger, bishop of Salisbury; Robert, bishop of Lincoln; Ralph the Chancellor, Robert the King's Son, William de Tancarville, Nigel d'Aubigny, Payn Fitz-John, Geoffrey Fitz-Payn, Geoffrey de Clinton, Ralph Basset, William Brito d'Aubigny.
www.constitution.org /sech/sech_027.txt   (780 words)

  
 Media Research Center CyberAlert -- 02/15/2001 -- Congress Not Networks Examined
Another committee is still investigating former President Clinton’s last minute pardons, and we begin with that because there’s a new development.
The decision by UBS Warburg, parent company of Paine Webber, to withdraw from negotiations to get Bill Clinton to speak was given passing mention Tuesday night by ABC and NBC in their stories on Clinton in Harlem.
Clinton since his departure from the White House, people involved in the negotiations said today.
www.mrc.org /cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010215.asp   (3425 words)

  
 Media Research Center CyberAlert -- 02/20/2001 -- Malaria, Drought & Drowning
When Bill Clinton wanted to vent to a member of the media last week he naturally first thought of NBC's Geraldo Rivera who dedicated his CNBC show on Thursday night to relaying the former President's anger.
Clinton confirmed what some have been reporting that part of his motivation for the pardon is the information he received from Israeli sources, including outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
He [Clinton] does, he does the same thing these other guys do and he doesn't even do it as well as the Republicans or as big time and you cut him down as if he was giving cancer to children.
www.mediaresearch.org /cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010220.asp   (3807 words)

  
 Siege of Kenilworth
By December 14th, the leaders of the garrison such as Henry de Hastings, out of supplies and suffering from sickness, accepted the Dictum of Kenilworth and received safe conduct from the king1.
He was not very successful, as commissions were issued to Osbert Giffard and Reynold son of Peter in Oxford and Warwick to subdue with their posses those holding out in Kenilworth on Christmas Eve of 1265, while John de Verdun the next February was appointed to defend portions of Worcester against raids by the disinherited5.
The young Simon de Montfort, whose father had died at Evesham, had successfully fled abroad to France after coming to terms with Edward at Bycarr’s Dyke13.
www.cusd.claremont.edu /~ccandy/his/kenil.html   (4954 words)

  
 England, 1984
Clinton was Treasurer and Chief Justice of England.
In 1264 Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester and leader of the rebellious barons, attacked the Castle.
Over many years and generations that follow, vast improvements were made.
www.ruudleeuw.com /trv-uk84.htm   (992 words)

  
 The Sampson Independent
CLINTON - A Clinton man charged earlier this year in the breaking and entering of several storage units at Gore's Self Storage in Clinton has received more charges in connection with the break-ins of two others, according to reports at the Sampson County Sheriff's Office.
Travis James Kendall, 34, of The Days Inn on Southeast Boulevard, Clinton, was charged Friday with two counts each of breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and possession of stolen property.
last Thursday, Geoffrey Bass of Clinton reported that a storage unit had been broken into and items stolen from it.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14850822&BRD=1117&PAG=461&dept_id=88473&rfi=6   (377 words)

  
 USNews.com: The Bush Team's Wary Engagement
The administration made clear that President Clinton's far-reaching Camp David peace proposals are now off the table.
Powell said the United States is ready to join in future talks, but he also signaled a less frenetic style of peacemaking than had prevailed under Clinton.
There would be no "talks for the sake of talks." He also wants aides to avoid the open-ended-sounding phrase "peace process." "We don't have a peace process right now," reasons a senior State Department official.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/010219/archive_005229.htm   (455 words)

  
 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - MP for Cotswold
It tells you about the Cotswold Constituency and what the MP has been doing on behalf of his constituents.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Forest of Dean MP Mark Harper with angry
Latest Newsletter: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is issuing regular newsletters, reporting back to constituents on the work he is doing at Westminster on their behalf.
www.cliftonbrown.co.uk   (116 words)

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