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	William of Modena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William of Modena, Bishop of Modena in 1221, was frequently appointed a legate, or papal ambassador by the popes Honorius III and Gregory IX, especially in Livonia in the 1220s and in the Prussian questions of the 1240s.
		As a young man, William the bishop of Modena, was sent as Papal legate to resolve differences that resulted from the outcome of the Northern Crusades in Livonia in 1225.
		William of Modena, who had been appointed papal legate for Prussia, disregarded the rights of Christian, who had the misfortune to be captured by the pagan Prussians and held for ransom (1233-39), and proceeded in his absence appointed another Bishop of Prussia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Modena (996 words)

	William III of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William, the son of William II, Prince of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, was born in The Hague.
		William III felt insecure about his position; though only his wife was formally eligible to assume the throne, he wished to reign as King in his own right, rather than as a mere consort.
		William was opposed to the imposition of such constraints, but he wisely chose not to engage in a conflict with Parliament and agreed to abide by the statute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_III_of_England (3766 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		William III (William of Orange), born in 1650, was the son of William, Prince of Orange, and Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I).
		William maintained a long-lasting affair with Elizabeth Villiers, one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting, which prompted Mary to be completely devoted and subservient to her husband.
		William was reluctant to accept the throne by means of conquest, preferring to be named king by Parliament through birthright.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon51.html (810 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Modena
		As Francesco II died without progeny (1658), Modena came into the possession of his uncle Rinaldo, a cardinal also, who married Carlotta of Brunswick, and after a reign frequently troubled by French incursions, left the ducal throne to his son Francesco III in 1737, when the latter was fighting against the Turks in Hungary.
		Modena became the capital of the Cispadan, united later to the Cisalpine republic, and eventually was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy.
		William, bishop in 1221, frequently served the popes, Honorius III and Gregory IX, as legate, especially among the Prussians, the Livonians, the Esthonians, etc.; eventually he resigned his see to devote himself to the conversion of those peoples (cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10413a.htm (1889 words)

	WILLIAM FULLER - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM FULLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		After 1688 he served James II.s queen, Mary of Modena, and the Jacobites, seeking at the same time to gain favor with William III.; and after associating with Titus Oates, being imprisoned for debt and pretending to reveal Jacobite plots, the House of Commons in 1692 declared he was an imposter, cheat and false accuser.
		Fullers other writings are Mr William Fullers trip to Bridewell, with a full account of his barbarous usage in the pillory; The sincere and hearty confession of Mr William Fuller (1704); and An humble appeal to the -impartial judgment of all parties in Great Britain (1716).
		He must be distinguished from WILLIAM FULLER (1608-1675), dean of St Patricks (1660), bishop of Limerick (1663), and bishop of Lincoln (1667), the friend of Samuel Pepys; and also from William Fuller (c.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FU/FULLER_WILLIAM.htm (274 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : The "Glorious Revolution" of 1688
		William of Orange, the stadtholder or Dutch Head of State, feared an alliance between Catholic James II and the Catholic French king.
		These envoys learned that William of Orange and his wife, Mary, would be prepared, if necessary, to lead an armed force to England to place the Protestant princess on the throne, if a suitable invitation from men of influence was sent.
		Although the new English king, William III, was in difficulty fighting the French, a Protestant army was able to deliver a crushing defeat against James and his Catholic supporters at the Battle of the Bryne, in June 1689.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/chap4013.html (893 words)

	Who was Prince William III of Orange?
		William was born November 1650, 2 weeks after his father, King William II of the Netherlands had died.
		When William was 27 years old he married (14th November, 1677) a 15-year-old – Henrietta Mary Stuart – known as Mary, the daughter of James II (the heir-apparent and brother to the ruling Charles II of England).
		William’s wife Mary had died of smallpox on December 28, 1694 and William was heartbroken.
	wy.essortment.com /whowasprincew_rlbt.htm (1542 words)

	The Unofficial Modena Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		William Mode was president of the Bank from 1882 until 1893.
		William and Alexander Mode were operating a large paper mill at Modena in 1870.
		When visiting the Modena paper mill in the autumn of 1963 it was learned that this mill continued to have a water right to water from the Dennis Run and that it had equipment to pump water from it to the Modena plant.
	www.chesco.com /~jsgraves/modena/modena.html (4832 words)

	William of Modena -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		As a young man, William the bishop of Modena, was sent as Papal legate to resolve differences that resulted from the outcome of the (additional info and facts about Northern Crusades) Northern Crusades in (A region on the Baltic that is divided between northern Estonia and southern Latvia) Livonia in 1225.
		William sought to remove (A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea) Estonia from contention by placing it directly under papal control, appointing his own vice-legate as governor, and by bringing in German knights as vassals.
		The (additional info and facts about Chronicle of Henry of Livonia) Chronicle of Henry of Livonia one of the greatest medieval narratives, was written probably as a report for him, giving him the history of the Church in Livonia up to his time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_of_modena.htm (860 words)

	LEON OF MODENA - LoveToKnow Article on LEON OF MODENA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The city of Leon, founded by Francisco Hernan-dez de Cordova in 1523, was originally situated at the head of the western bay of Lake Managua, and was not removed to its present position till 1610.
		Until 1855 Leon was the capital of Nicaragua, although its great commercial rival Granada contested its claim to that position, and the jealousy between the two cities often resulted in bloodshed.
		It was the seat of everal ecclesiastical councils, the first of which was held under Alphonso'V. in 1012 and the last in 1288.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEON_OF_MODENA.htm (1752 words)

	August 2003 AGGMAN Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The main mineral resources produced in the Province are: (1) sand and gravel from alluvial fans at the front of the Apennine Mountains and from terraces and floodplains of the Secchia and Panaro Rivers; (2) clay for ceramics and brick from the hills and high plain; and (3) landscaping stone from the Apennine Mountains.
		Modena Province is encouraging the extraction of aggregate between adjacent pits within a polo estrattivo, which should result in a more efficient method of aggregate extraction than leaving the intervening land in place.
		Aggregate producers in Modena Province are being given the opportunity to make a positive contribution to biodiversity and sustainable ecosystems through carefully planned and managed aggregate extraction and the reclamation of previously degraded areas.
	www.aggman.com /0803_pages/0803carved.html (879 words)

	200 Years in the melting pot with the PRESTON-STONER-BROWN-HAWKINS-WRIGHT-WATSON-JORDAN
		Benjamin, William, Peter and Hezekiah and they all wish to be remembered to all their relation that is in that part of the country.
		Subsequent information suggests that one of the young males is William Preston, the young female his wife, and the infant is their son.
		I have speculated that the older male was William Preston, father of the two grown sons.
	www.graphicheaven.com /Family/200YearsInTheMeltingPotH1.htm (6213 words)

	William Jenks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Radetzky was no stranger to the provocations that ended in the tobacco riots, and he had reason to worry that his army in the kingdom might not be able to handle an emergency.
		Feldzeugmeister Ludwig Baron Welden reoccupied Modena and Parma, but his attempt to hold the key gates to Bologna caused pitched battles with the citizenry and a retirement to the line of the Po.
		He was the most incensed of the councillors, he was cognizant of Austria's severe financial pinch, and he had a liberal reputation that might blunt Sardinian protests to France and England that Austria was trying to throttle constitutionalism in the defeated state.
	chnm.gmu.edu /history/faculty/kelly/archive/radetzky/william_jenks.htm (2978 words)

	Primary Source Analysis of The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia
		He was assigned to a parish in the district of Imera, built a church at Papendorp and lived out his life there, with infrequent interruptions.
		Why he wrote the Chronicle: It is believed that Henry wrote this history of the church in Livonia as a report to the papal legate William of Modena, to whom he was assigned as interpreter in 1225 through 1227.
		The intended audience: Henry’s audience was William of Modena, other papal representatives, other educated Christian churchmen and possibly the pope himself.
	depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/henry_of_livonia_williamson.htm (450 words)

	Saints of June 8
		William Fitz Herbert--son of Count Herbert, treasurer to Henry I, and Emma, half sister of King Stephen--had impressed many as canon and treasurer of York Minster.
		William failed to receive the official 'pallium,' symbol of the pope's authority, before the pope who sent it had died.
		William was mild and conciliatory towards his enemies, but within a few months he was dead, perhaps, it was rumored, from poison at the hands of Osbert, the new archdeacon of York.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0608.htm (1581 words)

	pgs. 88-95; Southern New York, 1906
		All efforts to find the ancestry of William in any part of new England or Old England have failed, and it is certain that he was not descended from any of the other early Barnes settled on Long Island; so that, if he was not a son of Charles, we know nothing of his ancestry.
		(II) William Barns, the supposed son of Charles and Mary Barnes or barns, was born probably in England, and died at East Hampton, Long Island, December 1, 1699.
		The town meeting at Southampton in 1672 granted unto William Barns and John Rose should have ten acres of land at Sagabonack, adjoining the house lot of William Barns, instead of the land which Rose was to have taken up at the Mill Stone brook.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_14.htm (4209 words)

	Francis I
		He was the elder son of Duke Francis IV of Modena, Archduke of Austria, and of his wife, Princess Mary Beatrice of Savoy.
		Five days after his birth, on Trinity Sunday, the prince was baptised by the Archbishop of Modena in the Cathedral of the city; the Archduke Ferdinand, uncle to the prince, acted as proxy for the godfather, the Emperor Francis I of Austria (formerly Holy Roman Emperor).
		In 1859 Modena was attacked by the armies of Piedmont and France.
	www.jacobite.ca /kings/francis1.htm (815 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christian (Bishop of Prussia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Up to the year 1227 none but Cistercians assisted Christian in his apostolic labours; but with the arrival of the German Knights, the Dominicans, who were favoured by the order and by Pope Gregory IX, took a strong foothold in Prussia, while Christian and his Cistercian colabourers were thrown into the background.
		William of Modena, who had been appointed papal legate for Prussia, disregarded the rights of Christian and proceeded as it there were no Bishop of Prussia.
		William of Modena, the papal legate, did not give up his plans of dividing Prussia into various dioceses.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03704a.htm (996 words)

	William Murphy - Chapter Ten
		B. Captain Dubart Murphy, youngest son of William and Rachel Henderson Murphy, was born on the farm his father received as a Spanish grant, two miles southeast of Farmington, Mo. He was born May 26, 1806.
		Modena Murphy, daughter of Lafayette and Virginia V. Wade Murphy, and E. Thompson were married September 11, 1892, and lived at Kaufman, Tex. Madena died August 22, 1900, leaving four children:
		William Murphy, son of Dubart and Elizabeth Anthony Murphy, was born October 12, 1844, and died January 10 1863, in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
	www.pastracks.com /murphy/murphy10.htm (8254 words)

	Prussia - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		By 1250, the Papal legate William of Modena[?] had divided Prussia into four bishoprics, Culmer Land, Pomesania, Ermland (Warmia), and Samland under the archbishopric of Riga.
		In 1688, Frederick William I died and his possessions passed to his son Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (ruled 1688-1713).
		After Frederick the Great died (in 1786), his nephew Fredrick William II continued the partitions through military and diplomatic force, gaining a large part of western Poland in 1793 and a large area (including Warsaw) to the south of East Prussia in 1795, when the Polish kingdom ceased to exist.
	openproxy.ath.cx /pr/Prussia.html (2293 words)

	Home: Orange Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		William Bartley, of El Modena, accompanied by his wife, Margaret, an adopted daughter, Rose, and Mrs.
		Simultaneously with their arrival at the crossing, the overland train reached the point, striking the wagon in which the four people were seated, hurling them all to a violent and almost instantaneous death.
		The family of which William Bartley and Margaret, his wife, were the parents consist of four surviving sons, all residents of this county, and three daughters residing in Nebraska, all prominent and respected people in their respective localities.
	www.newspaperabstracts.com /print.php?id=5822 (931 words)

	Sharon's Family History Page - pafg64 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William Marion HUBBLE "Hick".William married Modena Effie POSEY.
		Modena Effie POSEY [Parents] was born on 15 Apr 1875 in Winston Co., Alabama.
		William COCK died in 1814 in White Co., Tennessee.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~shill957/pafg64.htm (780 words)

	The Glorious Revolution of 1688
		Thus, the date William of Orange landed in England with his invasion force was Monday, November 5, 1688 O.
		November 15/5 On this Monday William's fleet arrives at Torbay; the army begins to disembark.
		March 8 In a letter to William of this date Sunderland (hiding in Holland) uses the term "Glorious Revolution" for the first time.
	www.lawsch.uga.edu /~glorious/chron.html (1465 words)

	Joseph Kenny's Translation of the "Vitae Fratrum", Part 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		William of Sissac Vasco, third provincial of Provence, died on 23 May 1238 - C:1258; 5.9.5
		William of Melitona, Franciscan, regent-master in theology at the University of Paris 1247-1254 - 5.4.12
		William of St. Amour, born 1200, Master of Arts at Paris by 1228, Regent Master of Theology around 1250.
	www.diafrica.org /nigeriaop/kenny/VF8.htm (1983 words)

	La biblioteca pubblica
		Given the state of readiness of the people, it was better to keep books and libraries frozen under state control rather than to hand them over to communities unfit and unready to receive them.
		Previous scholars have noted the very large place in the evidence presented to the first committee occupied by foreign libraries and the rosy picture thereof painted by Edward Edwards, who had hardly ever set foot out of his native country.
		The other principal weakness is a plodding style, while in general Traniello is more at ease with laws than with people, so that the purely historical parts of the book sometimes lack conviction and even a volcanic figure such as Panizzi comes across rather flatly.
	web.uniud.it /libroantico/discipline/disci1/d1harr2.html (1331 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 18
		William accepted the Declaration of Rights passed by the Convention Parliament, which met on Jan. 22, 1689, and on February 13, William and Mary were proclaimed joint sovereigns of England.
		In February 1702 William was riding at Hampton Court when his horse stumbled on a mole hill and threw him, breaking his collar bone.
		Contemptuous of the luxury of his father's reign, he instituted a system of rigid and efficient economy at court and transferred public financial administration from local governments to the central royal authority.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r18.html (769 words)

	ROMEYN DE HOOGHE ETCHINGS, 1667-ca.1700 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The eight general scenes include festival scenes--the funerals of Queen Mary and Fieldmarshal Paulus Wirtz, peace negotiations, and an allegory of the marriage of William and Mary.
		Others depict the political murder of Cornelis and Jan de Wit, the persecution of Protestants in France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and William leaving for and arriving in England.
		De Hooghe was well-known for his support of William of Orange, and most of these prints consequently attack James II and Louis XIV.
	www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/dehooghe_m5.html (396 words)

	William Hogarth Online
		William Hogarth at the National Gallery, London, UK Sir John Soane's Museum
		William Hogarth Archive at the University of Wales
		All images and text on this William Hogarth page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/hogarth_william.html (530 words)

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