The Vexin was a buffer state between Normandy and the lands of the French king, and Simon had been a supporter of William. |
His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position. |
At the Battle of Piltown in 1462, the Yorkish supporter Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, defeated the Lancastrian Butlers of Kilkenny. |
The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards. |
Kashkari, an Indian American who looks vaguely like a bald Ray Romano, is both pro-choice and a supporter of same-sex marriage. |
He was a supporter of the republican Jacobin movement, organising clubs in Corsica, and was given command over a battalion of volunteers. |