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	Alexander
		Alexander also granted various lands to the monastery of Dunfermline which his father had founded, and is said to have finished the church.
		Alexander, on his part, always insisted either on restitution being made to him of the three northern counties of England, or on the repayment of the fifteen thousand merks paid by his father to King John.
		Alexander, however, was fully aware of the true motive of this visit, namely, the exac tion of money, and he had no desire to gratify the legate in the matter.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/nation/alexander.htm (8709 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Barbarossa and Alexander III
		The lord emperor and the lord king Henry, his son, closes a true peace with the illustrious king of Sicily for 15 years, as has been ordained and put in writing by the mediators of the peace.
		The lord pope, moreover, and all the cardinals, just as they have received the lord emperor Frederick as Roman and catholic emperor, so they will receive Beatrix his serene wife as catholic and Roman empress, Provided, however, that she shall be crowned by the lord pope Alexander or by his legate.
		And the lord pope, calling together a council as quickly as it can be done, shall, together with the cardinal bishops and the monks and ecclesiastics who shall be present, declare the excommunication against all who shall attempt to infringe this peace.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/barbarossa1.html (2867 words)

	Post
		Lord Alexander DeLion was a traveler from another realm that was trapped here when his town (Ankhar Liet) rifted to this world.
		Lord Alexander was said to be a Knight from his original dimension.
		Lord Alexander did prove himself to be blood related to the House of DeLion, which gave him the title Lord.
	www.angelfire.com /yt/ifra/handv.html (1455 words)

	Guardian \| Lord Alexander of Weedon
		Lord Alexander of Weedon, who has died aged 69, followed his career as the country's top barrister with one as top banker at NatWest.
		In an exceptionally political speech in the House of Lords in 2002, Alexander joined the former Tory minister Lord (John) Patten in an attack on New Labour, concentrating on the government's proposals to ban fox-hunting.
		He spoke often enough in the Lords and was a member of Roy Jenkins' commission on the voting system, which called for reform of the electoral law by way of proportional representation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5328138-103684,00.html (1161 words)

	alex062702
		Alexander is humbled that mission organizers approached him about speaking, but he doesn't figure that it is any more important whether he is addressing a sold-out NFL stadium or talking to five students at Boone County High or sharing his faith with a couple hundred kids at a Shaun Alexander Family Foundation youth rally.
		Alexander was a season or two away from being the Crimson Tide's starter, and he was all but a forgotten figure when Alabama headed to Baton Rouge.
		Alexander, rushed into action because the first- and second-string tailbacks were either hurt or ineffective, rushed 20 times for a school single-game record 291 yards and scored all four of Bama's touchdowns in the 26-0 rout.
	www.cincypost.com /2002/jun/27/alex062702.html (782 words)

	The ten-horned beast: Alexander the Great. (15) Lord of all
		Alexander tried to convince them that their sons would soon be fighting on his side and that there was no need to fear that he was becoming a Persian despot, but the soldiers were too frustrated.
		In the middle was Alexander, probably with his closest friends and the most important commanders; in a wider circle were the Macedonians; the Persians were sitting in an outer circle; other people -Carians, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Dahae, Indians- were sitting on the periphery.
		Alexander's father Philip had once ordered his own throne to be placed between statues of the twelve Olympic gods and several Greek commanders (e.g., the Spartan Lysander) had received sacrifices.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander15.html (1978 words)

	Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander became the youngest lieutenant-colonel in the British Army during the war, and when the Great War ended he was in temporary command of a brigade.
		Alexander was very popular with both US and British officers, and was Eisenhower's preference for the ground command of D-Day, but Field Marshal Alan Brooke applied pressure to keep him in Italy, considering him unfit for the assignment.
		Lord Alexander of Tunis died of a perforated aorta on 16 June 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis (1498 words)

	Caledon, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
		James Alexander, the second son of Alderman Nathaniel Alexander of Londonderry, was the effective founder of the Alexander/Caledon family, and certainly the founder of its fortune.
		Lord Caledon was not, literally, the first British civil governor of The Cape, having been preceded in that capacity by Lord Macartney and Sir George Yonge, successive holders of the office between the first conquest of The Cape, and its cession back to the Dutch under the terms of the Peace of Amiens of 1802.
		In a letter from Lord Minto [Governor General of India] upon that occasion, he acknowledges the public service I rendered, not only as relating to the fall of the Mauritius, but adds that it was to the co-operation I afforded he was indebted for the means of moving against Java.
	www.caledon.org.uk /proni.php (2836 words)

	ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, "THE LORD'S DAY", 0101
		He was also constituted lord of the inferior animals; and the exercise of this dominion would of necessity occupy a portion of his time and attention.
		It is where he says, that "the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." They have interpreted this to mean, that Christ claimed the right to do those things on the Sabbath, which would be unlawful to others on that day.
		And when the apostle wrote his first epistle to the Corinthians, it was already established as a custom, not only in the church of Corinth, but in the churches of Macedonia and Galatia, that their contributions for the poor, should be collected on this day.
	www.ondoctrine.com /2ale0101.htm (2289 words)

	Viscount Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lord Alexander also travelled abroad on official trips, visiting President Truman in the United States in 1947, and paying a State visit to Brazil in June 1948.
		Lord Alexander was an avid sportsman, enjoying fishing, golf, hockey and rugby.
		Lord Alexander returned to England quietly, due to the sudden death of King George VI on February 6, 1952.
	www.canadahistory.com /sections/politics/polviscountalexander.htm (1083 words)

	The Russian Shakespeare
		Alexander Puskin, Russia's greatest poet of all times, was born Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin on June 6, 1799 in Moscow.
		Alexander grew up in an aristocratic, but not well off family; his mother was of African heritage.
		Alexander's mature works reflect his deep regard to compatriots, a deep interest in history, and a distinct distaste for the rigid class structure of his time.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/russian_literature/25376 (477 words)

	Lord Alexander Home 5th Lord Home
		Alexander, 5th Lord, was taken by the English at a skirmish at Fawside, the day before the battle of Pinkie.
		Lord Home afterwards joined the brave band that held out in her name the Castle of Edinburgh against the Regent; wishing, too late, to lend a helping hand to his unfortunate Queen, and perhaps, feeling remorse of conscience for the part he had previously taken against her.
		Alexander married Margaret Ker of Cessford, daughter of Sir Walter Ker of Cessford.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~humefamily/5124.htm (544 words)

	Field Marshal the Earl Alexander of Tunis
		Lord Alexander hosted various dignitaries, including Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip who came to Canada for a Royal Tour in October 1951, less than two years before the Princess would become Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
		In early 1952, after his term was extended twice, Lord Alexander left the office of Governor General, after British Prime Minister Churchill asked him to return to London to take the post of Minister of Defence.
		Lord Alexander was educated at Harrow, in Great Britain, and then pursued a military career by attending the Military College at Sandhurst.
	www.gg.ca /gg/fgg/bios/01/alexander_e.asp?printVersion=true (1092 words)

	Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter III - Earldom and Earls of Huntly - Section II
		Alexander, Lord Gordon, resigned his lands into the King’s hands for new infeftment on the 3rd of April, 1441, and on the same day he and Elizabeth his wife received a charter of the lordships of Gordon and Strathbogie; the lands of Aboyne, Glentanner, Glenmuick, and others.
		On the 5th of October, 1443 Alexander, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles, and Justiciary beyond the Forth, granted the barony of King Edward and the patronage of all the benefices within it to Alexander Seton, Lord Gordon, for his life-time; and commanded all the tenants to obey him.
		While Lord Gordon, under a strictly fenced and guarded matrimonial contract, dated the 20th of May, 1455, he married Elizabeth Dunbar, Countess of Moray, and widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, who was slain at the battle of Arkinholm on the 1st of May the same year.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/earldoms/chapter3s2.htm (1735 words)

	Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
		Alexander was initially planning to deploy the usual oblique formation with the offensive right wing commanded by himself and the defensive left wing commanded by Parmenio.
		Alexander was now the new lord and master of Asia as he planted his feet in Parsa and sat himself at the throne of Xerxes.
		Alexander was about to set out for Bactra, the capital city of Bactria, in pursuit of Bessus when he received news that the satrap of Areia was in support of Bessus’s recognition and himself was planning an insurrection in Areia.
	www.unitedmacedonians.org /macedonia/stefov24.html (8888 words)

	Former Law Lord Attacks 'Folly' of Iraq War
		Lord Steyn, who retired last month as a judge sitting in the UK's highest court, described the invasion of Iraq as "military folly" and accused the Government of "scraping the legal barrel" in trying to justify it.
		Lord Steyn, speaking upon his appointment as the new chairman of Justice, the civil rights group, went on to condemn the Government's legal justification for war.
		He said he agreed with his predecessor, Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, who in his 2003 annual lecture concluded that in its search for a justification in law for war the Government was driven to "scrape the bottom of the legal barrel".
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/1019-03.htm (802 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Peace of Venice; 1177
		The lord emperor Frederick, according as he has received the lord pope Alexander as catholic and universal pope, so he will exhibit to him due reverence, just as his, Frederick's, catholic predecessors have exhibited it to his, Alexander's, catholic predecessors.
		Alienations made and benefices given by Hero, and likewise by all intruders, shall be cancelled by the authority of the lord pope and the lord emperor and shall be restored to their churches.
		The lord emperor, also, shall corroborate the aforesaid peace with the church, and with the illustrious king of Sicily for 15 years, and the truce with the Lombards, in a writing of his own, and with his own signature and that of the princes.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/medieval/venice.htm (1180 words)

	Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander also served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 21 January 1924 to 21 December 1930, as Governor General of Canada from 21 June 1940 to 12 April 1946, and was Chancellor of the University of London from 1932 to 1955.
		Alexander was born on 16 January 1874 at Kensington Palace in London.
		Alexander's wife, Alice, retained her title of a British princess with the style Her Royal Highness and became known as Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Cambridge,_1st_Earl_of_Athlone (1393 words)

	Lord Alexander Home 3rd Lord Home
		Lord Home was executed on the 8th, and his brother William on the 9th of October, 1516.
		As a specimen of the accuracy of the old historians with respect to dates, it is to be observed that Lesly mentions the 8th, Buchanan the 11th, and his authority is followed by Crawfurd in his Officers of State.
		Alexander married Isabel Stewart, daughter of Sir James Stewart Earl of Buchan and Margaret Murray.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~humefamily/5115.htm (368 words)

	Obituary: LORD ALEXANDER OF WEEDON Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In some respects Bob Alexander " the distinguished lawyer and banker Lord Alexander of Weedon " resembled the heroes from the novels of C.P. Snow.
		Lord Denning described him as 'the best barrister of his generation'.
		Alexander was a master of the modern 'conversational' style of advocacy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20051108/ai_n15802853 (896 words)

	Maj.Gen. William Alexander, Lord Stirling and Sarah Livingston
		During his brief command of the troops of New York City, while General Lee was active in the South, General Alexander continued Lee's policy against the Tories, severed by means of warships all communications between Staten Island and Long Island, and constructed new barracks for expected augmentation of troops.
		The son of James Alexander, who had fled from Scotland in 1716 after participating in the Jacobite rising of that time, William was born in New York City in 1726 and inherited a position of wealth and prominence.
		It is even possible that the Society's action may have been influenced by the fact that William Alexander had chosen to assume a dignity to which he was not properly entitled and which he had been forbidden to assume by the House of Lords.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/bios/lordstirling.htm (2954 words)

	thePeerage.com - Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie and others
		She married Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie, son of Sir John Montgomerie and Agnes of the Isles.
		She was the daughter of Alexander Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan and Elizabeth de Quincy.
		She married Alexander Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan, son of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan and Margaret, Countess of Buchan.
	www.thepeerage.com /p523.htm (1299 words)

	Dragonlegion
		Alexander's mother screamed in horror as Alexanders father fell from his red dragon.
		In later years, Alexander took the thrown of the realm and vowed to relocate the realm to a safer location.
		He would be the guardian of the weak, and ruler of the Dragon Knights.
	geocities.com /lord_alexander_of_dragonlegion/Dragonlegion.html (263 words)

	The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Baron Alexander Irvine of Lairg
		Alexander Irvine and Richard Field were flown first class to Singapore by the Chungs to set the wheels of justice in motion.
		Alastair Irvine - the 25-year-old son of Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg, a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government - was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to six charges in a deal with prosecutors.
		Lord Alexander Irvine of Lairg, the Queen’s Counsel, who was hired by Hin Chew, has now become Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and a member of the British Cabinet.
	www.escapefromparadise.com /NewFiles/ai.html (820 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Roger of Hoveden: The Chronicle: On the Disputes between Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
		However, our lord the pope was not willing to send any cardinal or any legate, as he was aware that the king of Eng-land was powerful both in word and deed, and that legates might easily be corrupted, as being more athirst for gold and silver than for justice and equity.
		Let not my lord then disdain to show respect to those to whom the Supreme ruler of all has not disdained to show respect; ‘I have said ye are Gods’ and again, ‘I have made you a God unto Pharaoh,’ and ‘thou shalt not revile the Gods; ‘meaning the priests.
		This, then, is the cruelty of our lord the king towards the Church of God which has been so loudly exclaimed against throughout the whole kingdom, this is his persecution, this is his malignity, the reports of which have been spread abroad among ourselves as well as in other quarters.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/hoveden-becket.html (12932 words)

	NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726-1783), Correspondence, 1764-1782
		In 1775, having committed himself to the patriot cause, Alexander was chosen by Congress to command the New Jersey militia.
		Later released in a prisoner exchange, Alexander rejoined the army and fought at the Battle of Trenton in December 1776.
		While in Albany, Alexander suffered a severe attack of gout and died on January 15, 1783 at the age of 56.
	www.state.nj.us /state/darm/links/guides/palex001.html (1076 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, The Sixth Baron of Carrington
		Foreign Secretary, Defense Minister, Parliamentary leader, and tank commander, Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, the Sixth Baron Carrington, has proved himself the devoted servant of Her Majesty's government, a friend of the American people, and the faithful defender of human freedom.
		Upon the Conservative return to office he was foreign secretary (1979--82), until he and his ministerial team resigned over the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Is. He later became secretary-general of NATO (1984--8) and Chancellor of the University of Reading.
		He entered Alexander Douglas-Home's cabinet in 1963 and, after the Conservative defeat in the general election of 1964, led the opposition in the House of Lords.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /AlexanderRupertCarrington.htm (503 words)

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