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	VIDAME - LoveToKnow Article on VIDAME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The vidame was originally, like the avou (advocatus), an officia chosen by the bishop of the diocese, with the consent of the count (see ADVOCATE).
		Their chief functions were: to protect the temporalities of the see, to represent the bishop at the counts court of justice, to exercise the bishops temporal jurisdiction inhis name (placitum or curia vice-donfini) and to lead the episcopal levies to war.
		For his bravery at the siege of Toulon in 1793 he was raised to the rank of general of brigade.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VI/VIDAME.htm (725 words)

	The Title of Vidame
		The lordship of the vidame consisted in a house near the episcopal palace and a territorial domain in the city or nearby countryside: thus, the vidamé of Chartres consisted in a parcel in the city (located within the episcopal gardens in the 17th c.
		The vidamé de Chartres was in the family of the lords of Meslay; a fairly famous poet in the 13th century was the vidame de Chartres.
		The vidamé of Laon was in the hands of Baudoin, lord of Clacy and Chaufery, whose heiress Marie married Hugues de Chatillon, lord of Rosoy.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/vidame.htm (1686 words)

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		A new Vidame would be appointed by the bishop who marked this establishment in the office by the presentation of a ring to the new officer concerned.
		Generally the title of Vidame was attached to a lordship, and the family holding the title bore the name of lordship over that of the bishoprics.
		Because the bishop’s title is a traditional and legitimate fons honorum (fountain of honors), at least for the title of nobility, some Christian churches revived again the old noble title of Vidame or Vidamesse to reward their benefactors and above all the defenders of the faith, the Church and the Christian religion at large.
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	VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS ENGENE - LoveToKnow Article on VIDOCQ, FRANCOIS ENGENE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thus the vidame de Picquigny was the representative of the bishop of Amiens, the vidame de Gerberoy of the bishop of Beauvais.
		In many sees there were no vidames, their function being exercised by viscounts or chatelains.
		With the growth of the central power and of that of the municipalities the vidames gradually lost all importance, and the title became merely honorary See A. Luchaire, Manuel des institutions franfaises (Paris, 1892); Du Cange,, Glossarium (ed.
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	Creating Noble Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Such was the charge of the Vidame during the Carolinian epoch until the 15th century.
		As the episcopal charge of "vice dominus" (Vidame) is nowadays more that of a venerable historical element, the honorary and noble title of Vidame is granted full legitimacy to deserving Christians by bishops of various denominations.
		The advocate (“advocatus” or "Vogt" in German, or "valvassor" or "Vidame" in England, or "Archon" in the Byzantine world) soon only called "Vidame", was in charge of the judicial and military affairs under the authority of the bishop.
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		As the Vidame had said, these were troublous times when things were done to men--ay, and to women and children--which we scarce dare to speak of now.
		The Vidame's hints, no less than his open boasts, had pointed to something to happen before morning--something wider than the mere murder of a single man. The warning also which the Baron de Rosny had given us at the inn occurred to me with new meaning.
		Why not?" "Well," the Vidame drawled, his manner such as to bring the blood to Madame de Pavannes' cheek, "it depends on the person who--to use your phrase, M. le Coadjuteur--spirited her hither." "And that," Madame herself retorted, raising her head, while her voice quivered with indignation and anger, "was the Abbess of the Ursulines.
	www.outfo.org /literature/pg/etext00/hwolf10.txt (22821 words)

	VIDAME (Lat. vice-dominus) - Online Information article about VIDAME (Lat. vice-dominus)
		The vidames usually took their title from the see they represented, but not infrequently they styled themselves, not after their official fief, but after their private seigneuries.
		Thus the vidame de Picquigny was the representative of the bishop of See also:
		sees there were no vidames, their function being exercised by viscounts or chatelains.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VIDAME_Lat_vice_dominus_.html (600 words)

	Collection of Antiquities, The
		The Vidame was a Chevalier de Valois raised to the tenth power, invested with all the prestige of wealth, enjoying all the advantages of high position.
		The dear Vidame was a repositary for everybody's secrets, and the gazette of the Faubourg besides; nevertheless, he was discreet, and, like other gazettes, only said things that might safely be published.
		The Vidame told young d'Esgrignon, without mincing matters, to make conquests among women of quality, supplementing the advice with anecdotes from his own experience.
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	The Duchesse de Langeais - Part XVI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Vidame punctually came towards two o'clock that afternoon, to find his young cousin looking white and worn, but resigned; never had her divine loveliness been more poetic than now in the languor of her agony.
		For the grey-headed Vidame the Duchess displayed all the brilliancy of her wit; she was more charming than she had ever been before.
		At first the Vidame tried to look on all these preparations as a young woman's jest; but now and again the attempted illusion faded, the spell of his fair cousin's charm was broken.
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	Voth explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The reverences just made, and those I shall have are seen at the receptions of the chevaliers of the Saint-Esprit, and in is assumed that the new chevalier is ignorant of the proposition made for needed in order to look for him.
		The Duc de Liria returned, and as before, saying that the Vidame de Chartres was in the other room.
		Upon this the King ordered him to go and ask the Vidame if he wished to undertake to observe its statutes, its duties, its ceremonies, take its is admitted into it, and agree to conduct himself in everything like a he had before withdrawn.
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		The Vidame de Pamiers was still, at sixty-seven years of age, a very brilliant man, having seen much and lived much; a good talker, a man of honor and a gallant man, but who held as to women the most detestable opinions; he loved them, and he despised them.
		The worthy vidame did not share his young friend's confidence when Auguste declared that in the time in which they now lived, the police and the government were able to lay bare all mysteries, and that if it were absolutely necessary to have recourse to those powers, he should find them most powerful auxiliaries.
		Monsieur le vidame knows about these things too well to want me to tell him if it is the husband who takes the wife, or the wife who takes the husband; but Madame Jules is so pretty, I'd bet on her.
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	HOUSE OF THE WOLF by Stanley J. Weyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There could be no doubt—at any rate we had none—that the assault on the courier had taken place at the Vidame's instance.
		And no doubt it had fallen in with the Vidame's grim humor that the bearer of Pavannes' first love-letter should enter his mistress's presence, bleeding and plaistered with mud.
		Our main hope was that the Vidame would at once go on to Paris, and post-pone his vengeance.
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	HOUSE OF THE WOLF by Stanley J. Weyman
		"What will the Vidame say, Kit?" She dropped her kerchief from her face, and turned so pale that I was sorry I had spoken— apart from the kick Croisette gave me. "Is M. de Bezers at his house?" he asked anxiously.
		As the Vidame had said, these were troublous times when things were done to men—ay, and to women and children—which we scarce dare to speak of now.
		We could see—a bend in the street laying it open—part of the Vidame's house; the gloomy square hold which had come to him from his mother.
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	Book One -- Chapter Six (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He would take advantage of this strange boldness to put the bastard in his right place, get rid of Lévrier, destroy the remnant of liberty still to be found in the city, and establish the ducal authority therein.
		The evening of the day when La Val d’Isère had reprimanded the bishop, the ducal envoy, with one of his colleagues and the vidame, supped at the priory of St. Victor: the ambassador was Bonivard’s cousin, and had purposely gone to visit him.
		He assembled the companies, and the men marched through the streets in close order with drums beating, passing and repassing the house of the vidame, Aymon Conseil, where the ambassadors were staying.
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	The Collection of Antiquities - Chapter V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		And thither, accordingly, this pair of rakes betook themselves, calculating that by that time the tragedy would have been read; for of all things to be taken between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, a tragedy in their opinion was the most unwholesome.
		The Vidame introduced his young friend to one of the most amiable and frivolous duchesses of the day, a lady whose adventures caused an explosion five years later.
		This woman was, in fact, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, a daughter of the d'Uxelles; her father-in-law was still alive; she was not to be the Princesse de Cadignan for some years to come.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/debalzac/TheCollectionofAntiquities/chap6.html (4756 words)

	The Thirteen by Honore de Balzac eBook by BookRags
		The chief pushed up his green spectacles in amazement, blew his nose several times, and offered snuff to the vidame, who, to save his dignity, pretended not to use tobacco, although his own nose was discolored with it.
		Then the chief took notes and promised, Vidocq and his spies aiding, to send in a report within a few days to the Maulincour family, assuring them meantime that there were no secrets for the police of Paris.
		He gave them in bureaucratic style his thanks for the indications they had afforded him, and told them that Bourignard was a convict, condemned to twenty years’ hard labor, who had miraculously escaped from a gang which was being transported from Bicetre to Toulon.
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	Memoirs Of Louis XIV And His Court And Of The Regency — Volume 06 by duc de Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy eBook ...
		The Vidame of Amiens saw that not a moment was to be lost.
		He cried to the light horse, of which he was captain, “Follow me,” and pierced his way through a line of the enemy’s cavalry.
		At the same moment, the household troops and others, profiting by a movement so bold, followed the Vidame and his men, and all escaped together to Ghent, led on by the Vidame, to whose sense and courage the safety of these troops was owing.
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	Elegy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Croisette came back to us slowly, third time may bring luck." Not that I felt.html">felt much indignation at the Vidame's insult, or any occasion.
		We were placed in the middle of a knot of troopers who closed the gazing intently at the sentry on the roof of the third house.html">house from he was gesticulating wildly.
		But this passed away, and I started silence, rang along the front of the mob like a rolling volley of gallery had dropped his pike's point, and was levelling it at Vidame's precautions, as a moment showed.
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	The House Of The Wolf by Stanley Weyman : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These preparations made--and they took up scarcely a moment--I met the Vidame at the head of the ramp.
		"But the Vidame was riding with only half-a-dozen attendants also!" I answered, flicking my boot in a careless way.
		The priest's hand shook as he raised a full glass to his lips, but he made no rejoinder, and the Vidame, seeing we had finished, rose.
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	The House of the Wolf by Stanley Weyman - Full Text Free Book (Part 4/4)
		But the Vidame went on as if he had not heard.
		Yet the Vidame seemed to be put out by the interruption.
		The Vidame de Bezers died as he had lived.
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	Vidame
		This is the definition of the term Vidame
		Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
		For people who have trouble spelling, this is the defintion of the term Vidame
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	The House of the Wolf by Stanley Weyman - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/4)
		Vidame's eyes at that moment which I had never seen before.
		Vidame would not dare to do that in time of peace.
		Vidame's house; the gloomy square hold which had come to him from
	www.fullbooks.com /The-House-of-the-Wolf1.html (12635 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions - 4
		A vidame was a minor noble in mediaeval France, often one deputising in temporal affairs for his bishop.
		The vidame title advertised on the “prestigetitles” website is acknowledged to be honorary.
		The value of any honorary title is based on the prestige of the body awarding it.
	www.baronage.co.uk /2002b/faqs-04.html (1552 words)

	Nobility and Titles in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This process was pretty much complete by the 16th c., so that, with a handful of exceptions, titles of duke, marquis, count, or viscounts in existence after 1600 are created rather than feudal in origin.
		A few feudal titles of viscount, baron and vidame made it down past 1500.
		There were no creations of the title of vidame.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/noblesse.htm (8886 words)

	Stanley J. Weyman : The House of the Wolf : Chapter VI. Madame's Fright.
		"Well," the Vidame drawled, his manner such as to bring the blood to Madame de Pavannes' cheek, "it depends on the person who--to use your phrase, M. le Coadjuteur--spirited her hither."
		In a moment it flashed across my mind that we were too late that the Vidame had been before us.
		I saw that Croisette had only stepped back to avoid some one who was coming out--the Coadjutor in fact.
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	Welcome to Teanthril, Home of The Equalizers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		3) Report to direct the Vidames any issues or suggestions that that will benefit the Generation G as well as any of those forwarded to you by Scribes.
		Contact the Vidames and volunteer for work in that field.
		9) Work closely with the Vidame of Angroth to ensure that Generation G continues to grow and excel.
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	Equalizers Chain of Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Vidame of Epsilon who is an executive editor of Generation G in charge of assignments and deadlines.
		The Vidame of Angroth who is an executive editor of Generation G in charge of copy editing, submission approval and awards.
		The areas of the Newsletter and Generation G collectively make up the House of Knowledge.
	www.arktic.net /Equalizers/Chain.html (619 words)

	Generation G Forums - Pegasus an Overview for all current Squires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Herald — helps the two Vidame’s with Generation-G the site by gamers for gamers.
		Vidame Sarem Guildenleaf and Vidame Omega will provide any help you require; that may be help with your writing or editing skills.
		So you feel like being part of a site for gamers and helping run it, you are an expert?
	www.gen-g.net /forums/showthread.php?t=4678 (563 words)

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	The House of the Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Mademoiselle de Caylus," I said, bowing, "is, I regret to say, indisposed to-day, Vidame."
		But the Vidame was not one to accept any man's statement.
		I saw Croisette stoop to enter and as quickly fall back a pace.
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		The Relais de Poste Saint-Jacques was at the origin the House of the vidame
		The building of this Relais was under the responsibility of the vidame
		We can discover there on the outside vertical beams the blazon building,
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