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  Duke
Duke of Cleveland The Dukedom of Cleveland was a Earldom of Chichester and Barony of Newbury, for Charles Fitzroy, the i...
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria Henry II the Wrangler, Duke of Bavaria (951-995) was the son of Henry I the Quarrelsome and Ju...
Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy Hugh I of Burgundy (Abbey of Cluny.
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 Articles - Henry the Lion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Henry the Lion (1129 - August 6, 1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156, both until 1180.
Henry's mother was Gertrud, only daughter of Emperor Lothair II and his wife Richenza of Nordheim, heiress to the Saxon territories of Nordheim and the properties of the Brunones, counts of Brunswick.
In 1168 Henry married Matilda (1156 -1189), the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and sister of Richard Lionheart.
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 List of rulers of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry became Duke of Lower Bavaria, and Louis of Upper Bavaria.
Following the death of the last Duke of Lower Bavaria, Bavaria was reunited under Emperor Louis IV (Louis III of Bavaria).
In 1623, Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria was raised to Electoral Status, gaining the seat of the Elector Palatine, who had been put under the ban of the Empire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elector_of_Bavaria   (269 words)

  
 The Titles of the European Rulers
Bavaria was finally re-united by Duke Albert IV (+1508) from the Munich branch of the House.
Henry XII "the Lion" (+1195), Duke of Saxony, became Duke of Bavaria (1156).
Emperor Frederick II deposed the rebellious Henry XII "the Lion" (+1195), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and bestowed the Duchy of Bavaria to Otto of Wittelsbach (+1183) (1180).
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Dukes of Gascony, 768-1038 AD The culture of the South of France in the 12th century is one of the first signs of the revival of civilization in Francia after the "second Dark Age" of the 9th and 10th centuries.
Duke William V had three wives, and subsequent Dukes were descendants of William VIII, son of William V and Agnes of Burgundy.
Bavaria, allied with the French, was lost to the Elector Maximilian II for the rest of the war.
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 HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF WITTELSBACH - ROYAL HOUSE OF BAVARIA AND PRINCELY HOUSE OF LÖWENSTEIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maximilian was elevated to the dignity of Elector of the Empire with the deprivation of that title from the Elector Palatine 25 Feb 1623 (this title restored by the Treaty of Westphalia 1648, increasing the number of Electors).
The Electorate of Bavaria passed to the Elector Palatine, head of the senior line, by the terms of the Treaty of Westphalia.
The achievement is borne on a mantle purpure, fringed and tasselled or, doubled ermine and surmounted by the Royal Crown of Bavaria.
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 FRANCIA
Henry V was conceded the French Crown in 1420.
Finally, the succession of Henry IV, to anticipate a bit, brings with it the remaining possessions of the Kingdom of Navarre and the Duchy and Counties of Vendôme, Foix, Albret, etc. By then, few fiefs within West Francia were left outside the control of the King.
Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France.
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 Henry
Henry is the English form of an old Germanic name, Haimirich.
Duke of Bavaria (Henry VI), Duke of Swabia (Henry I), German king, and Holy Roman Emperor.
Duke of Bavaria (Henry VIII of Bavaria), German king, and Holy Roman Emperor.
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 Henry III --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of Saxony (1142) and Bavaria (1154–56), thereafter founding the city of Munich (1157), enhancing the position of Lübeck, and greatly extending his territories.
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI, 1027–41), duke of Swabia (as Henry I, 1038–45), German king (from 1039), and Holy Roman emperor (1046–56), member of the Salian dynasty.
Henry V is Shakespeare's ideal monarch: brave, eloquent, honorable, and efficient to the point of ruthlessness when necessary.
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 Timeline 1450-1499
The army of the Duke of York met the army of Queen Margaret at the Battle of St. Alban’s.
The 2nd Duke of Somerset was killed as Yorkists briefly took possession of King Henry VI.
During the war Margaret of Anjou, wife of the feeble-minded King Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster whose heraldic badge was a red rose.
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 Germany A-E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Deeply fragmented from 1253, the duchy re-coalesced in the 15th and early 16th centuries and, with the establishment of Salic succession laws in 1505, Bavaria once again achieved a stable and significant position within Germany.
The Rhine Palatinate's electoral status was transfered to Bavaria in 1623, which retained the vote even after re-establishment of elector privilege to the Palatinate in 1648.
Thereafter, the descendents of Henry the Lion and Otto IV managed their extensive allodial lands and, though partitioned a great deal, grew in power and influence until old Saxony was theirs once again.
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 Mind Over Matter
He conducted seances with the kings of Bavaria and Wurtemburg as well as William I of Germany and assorted nobility throughout Europe.
Earlier in the discussion of UFOs, I presented some material suggesting that Ted Owens, now deceased, had an ability to create various large-scale effects through telepathic communication with "space intelligences." Owens, himself, vacillated as to whether these effects were due to his own PK abilities or to the intervention of beings from another dimension.
Owens learned about psychokinesis in the late 1940s, when, as a Duke University student (after having served in the Navy during the war) he was a clerical assistant in the Parapsychology Laboratory under the direction of J. and Louisa Rhine.
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 Henry
1973 Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70
1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1927 Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), dies at 82
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