In this production, the grave duke seems an ill match for the mercurial Lucio, and he must rouse all his ducal authority to muzzle the fool. |
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His charming ways and pleasing looks attracted me but once it was time for the duke to leave, he told me he was already married. |
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Having worked for the duke of Richmond, he later worked for the marquess of Rockingham and other members of the same circle. |
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But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility. |
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The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs. |
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Well, technically he is a marquis until his father passes on and the title of duke will be officially his. |
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I am sorry for the silent treatment, but I was under the impression you were a duke that was coming to ask for my sister's hand in marriage. |
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She was given a marshallship of her duchies army because she made good tactical recommendations and talked to her duke regularly. |
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While I was at university, my bitterest regret was not having been born the son of a duke, or at the very least a baronet. |
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He enjoyed wars and was the first prime minister since the duke of Wellington to have fought in battle. |
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She preferred that her husband should be an earl, because an earl was belted, and a duke, we surmised, was not. |
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In 1692, the furniture maker supplied the duke fittings that included a mirrored door for the great chamber. |
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The duke nodded, eager to see his bride and young son after a month-long trip away from London. |
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Men duke it out with each other, bloodying each other up, until one taps out. |
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Being a duke or a count, or holding other royally conferred titles such as vir inluster or vir magnificus, were important privileges. |
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Originally the arms of Burgundy and the initials of the duke and duchess were painted beneath the lower cornice. |
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The duke walked over to the cradle and looked down to see his daughter sleeping peacefully. |
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The duke stood by the vehicle with his duchess beside him and took in the sight before him. |
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When Cosimo died in April 1574, Francis became the second grand duke of Tuscany. |
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In 1867, Luxembourg officially became an independent country, although King William III of the Netherlands remained its grand duke. |
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A prince and a duke dreamed up the idea of a race for non-Czech horses and it soon became an integral part of the European racing calendar. |
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Here he received the backing of the duke of Burgundy, his brother-in-law, who was also threatened by a Franco-Lancastrian declaration of war. |
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None of the dogs belonging to either the duke and duchess or the earl and countess ever barked. |
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Rine decided these were not the friendly, sympathetic guards she and the duke had encountered earlier. |
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As the posthumous only son of Geoffrey and Constance of Brittany, Arthur was duke of Brittany from the moment of his birth. |
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Besides, the duke and the duchess still had much to discuss with each other. |
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That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage. |
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His chief patrons were the Sidney family, the earl of Pembroke, the countess of Bedford, and the duke and duchess of Newcastle. |
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Louis XII became king of France in 1498 and, being a descendant of the first duke of Milan, he claimed the duchy. |
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The duke was a very kind-hearted, amiable man who always enquired after his servants' well-being. |
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He eloped with a daughter of the duke of Richmond in 1744 and they were a devoted couple, dying within days of one another. |
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Regardless, all their lives, the duke and duchess had to deny that they possessed any jewels belonging to the royal family. |
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She stretched languidly on the soft feather bed and imagined the duke sitting there again, just watching her, smiling at the sight of her asleep. |
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In 1236, he became an independent duke of Novogorod during a very hard period for Russia. |
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He escaped and hastened back to Vienna, declared his electorship to be forfeited, and proposed the duke of Bavaria to be chosen elector. |
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From the seventh century the tribal duke became an almost independent sovereign. |
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For fifteen years William, duke of Normandy, had been his heir presumptive. |
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The duke spent time watching the games and when he moved inside for the primary school final spoke to a number of children about the day. |
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My father fully intended to stop me from becoming grand duke if I married Lily. |
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In 1759 he was put in charge of the duke of Bridgwater's canal between his coal pits at Worsley and Manchester. |
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What they know of fighting they've learned from watching highly-trained athletes duke it out in the boxing ring, and from movies. |
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More than 24 million people watched the remaining six contestants duke it out. |
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The Saxon title was offered to a duke in Saxony called Maurice and the title would be his at the end of a victorious campaign. |
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He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman. |
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Such matchmaking is increasingly common as dot-coms duke it out for seasoned financial expertise. |
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A traditional ex-voto figure would have shown the duke kneeling, his hands folded in prayer, without the reliquary or Saint George. |
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William's left, comprised of Bretons, broke in panic amidst rumours that the duke was slain. |
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In fact, she had very strong urge to confide in a friend about her unfortunate situation regarding the duke. |
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Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, fifth son of the duke of Leinster, inherited a legacy of active family rebellion against England in Tudor times. |
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He became King George VI upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, later duke of Windsor. |
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It's the kind of school where your grandfather the duke has to put you down for enrollment when your dad is born. |
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The duke, who sits in judgement, will not intervene as Portia enters in the guise as a lawyer to defend Antonio. |
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The duke meanwhile enjoyed the vision she made, eyes wild and blue with alarm, lips slightly open in complete shock. |
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The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count. |
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Warwick, Clarence, Lancastrians, and dissident Yorkists returned to England and sent Edward IV fleeing to his ally, the duke of Burgundy. |
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The duke and duchess will be very glad to pension you off, for they've been worried about your health as well. |
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The central character is Vendice, intent on revenging the death of his mistress, poisoned by the lecherous old duke. |
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Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf. |
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He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed. |
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The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him. |
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The duke touches the arm of a bearded man in Eastern headdress and brocade robe. |
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The duke blocked the attack and parried the following barrage of cuts the prince delivered. |
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The duke slashed out with a sound of fury, backhanding Edith across the face. |
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Therefore, if I wish to marry, I would have to marry either a duke, a marquess, or an earl. |
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It was fairly early the next morning when the duke sent a messenger down to gather up the five and bring them back to his audience chamber to meet with him. |
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Never again in Britain will someone have the right to make laws which affect the lives of ordinary families solely because their ancestor was a duke, an earl or a viscount. |
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Where once you could duke it out with a reader on the phone over the facts of story or slant of column, you now do so with pause when that reader is on e-mail. |
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In this book are contained all the songs, ballads, roundelays and virelays, which that gentle duke had composed, and of them I had made this collection. |
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The tomb consists of a prominent polychromed alabaster effigy of the duke lying in state on a slab of heavy black marble surrounded by heraldic symbols. |
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If you want to duke it out with the big boys then start acting like one. |
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The duke and duchess met key figures involved in the building and running of the health centre, before being taken on a guided tour of the facilities. |
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It is so comforting to know that one day you will be grand duke. |
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Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property. |
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The duke had no heirs, only a wife who was about five months with child. |
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But previous attempts to persuade the duke to cut back on his workload have fallen on deaf ears. |
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The question remains as to why the duke supported a project that documented his political affairs within a religious painting commissioned by a confraternity. |
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively. |
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The duke was characteristically droll about his political career. |
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Kirkwood always insisted the rumours were false, but was aggrieved that the duke himself never stepped in to clear her name. |
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Miranda Hansen, 67, a widow who lost the home she built with her husband, was one of those who spoke to the duke. |
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With the death of his elder brother the duke of York in 1827, he became heir presumptive to the Hanoverian throne, since his niece Princess Victoria could not inherit it. |
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The 14th duke wanted a house that was big enough to absorb the world-famous Hamilton Palace collection but that was small enough for a family home. |
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Ferdinand hated my being friends with my cousins and thought that were trying to secure a place by the future grand duke, which is what he wanted to do. |
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois. |
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He afterwards commanded with distinction in the War of the Spanish Succession, though he conceived a lasting hatred of the duke of Marlborough, much to Tory delight. |
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The presence of the rude mechanicals who put on a play for their duke gives the audience a comical but telling image of theatre as a vital form of social exchange. |
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To maintain high standards, the duke issued the third set of ordinances in 1799, emphasizing the production of sculptural objects in pipe clay and soft-paste porcelain. |
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At his death, the role of the emperor as a patron of Eastern Orthodoxy was claimed by Ivan III, Grand duke of Muscovy. |
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The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging. |
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It had not helped the duke to build himself a cannonproof stone chamber to sleep in for dread of vengeance after the assassination of Orleans. |
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As a mere duke, William owed allegiance to Philip I of France, whereas in the independent Kingdom of England he could rule without interference. |
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Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke. |
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While the Bretons were fleeing, rumours swept the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William rallied his troops. |
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Gytha, Harold's mother, offered the victorious duke the weight of her son's body in gold for its custody, but her offer was refused. |
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The anarchy in the duchy lasted until 1047, and control of the young duke was one of the priorities of those contending for power. |
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Yet another guardian, Osbern, was slain in the early 1040s in William's chamber while the duke slept. |
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The duke travelled constantly around the duchy, confirming charters and collecting revenues. |
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Its effect, though, was to destabilise Brittany, forcing the duke, Conan II, to focus on internal problems rather than on expansion. |
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William of Poitiers also relates that the duke obtained the consent of Pope Alexander II for the invasion, along with a papal banner. |
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The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark. |
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During the Bretons' flight rumours swept through the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William succeeded in rallying his troops. |
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To oversee his expanded domain, William was forced to travel even more than he had as duke. |
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They were based at Malatya and Edessa, under the Byzantine duke of Antioch, Isaac Komnenos. |
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Edmund did not possess sufficient finances to maintain his status as a duke, so as a compromise he accepted the title of earl of Suffolk. |
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After Geoffrey's investment as duke, further rebellion occurred in Anjou, including Geoffrey's younger brother, Helie, demanding Maine. |
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Le Mans refused to declare allegiance to John, so he ran to Normandy, where he was invested as duke in Rouen on 25 April. |
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At the same time, Edward expanded the ranks of the peerage upwards, by introducing the new title of duke for close relatives of the king. |
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The title of duke was relatively new in England, with only Cornwall being a previous ducal title. |
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The duke abandoned his plans and fled to Wem, where he was betrayed by his servant and arrested by Richard's men. |
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The duke had served Richard's brother for many years and had been one of Edward IV's closer confidants. |
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After the founding, the duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley. |
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The duke and his estate manager John Gilbert produced a plan of the canal, and in 1759 obtained an Act of Parliament, enabling its construction. |
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The duke therefore gained a second Act of Parliament, which superseded the original. |
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The new extension also met with opposition from the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, until the duke purchased a controlling interest in the company. |
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Sayers depicts in the House of Lords the fictional trial of a duke who is accused, and eventually acquitted, of murder. |
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The duke had not taken advantage of this, but Bonaparte had later rewarded his magnanimity by having him put to death. |
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Many former capitals display a Palazzo Ducale, the seat of the local duke or lord. |
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The duke made clear to Handel that the King George II had a preference for only wind instruments and drums. |
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In the early 14th century, the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV, also Bavarian duke, vested the Kufstein citizens with rights of jurisdiction. |
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The new duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, blamed Charles for the murder and entered into an alliance with the English. |
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The duke violated the purpose of the agreement by using it as a stalling tactic to reinforce the defense of Paris. |
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Douglas replied that having failed to find the duke in England he had come to seek him in France. |
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Though the title of Earl was nominally equal to the continental duke, unlike them, earls were not de facto rulers in their own right. |
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The 11th duke, although resident in South Africa, visited Blair Atholl almost every year to inspect the regiment's annual parade until his death. |
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After the Mad War, the duke Francis II could not marry off his daughter Anne without the King of France's consent. |
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The University of Nantes was founded under the duke Francis II, who wanted to affirm the Breton independence from France. |
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A rumour started that the duke had been killed, which added to the confusion. |
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Archers appear to have been used again before and during an assault by the cavalry and infantry led by the duke. |
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One story relates that Gytha, Harold's mother, offered the victorious duke the weight of her son's body in gold for its custody, but was refused. |
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Charles gave Rollo the title of duke and granted him and his followers possession of Normandy. |
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The Duchy of Normandy survived mainly by the intermittent installation of a duke. |
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In Lotharingia he earned the enmity of the new duke Gilbert, who in 919 declared loyalty to the new king of East Francia Henry the Fowler. |
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During the Bretons' flight, rumours swept through the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William succeeded in rallying his troops. |
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In 1477, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold perished in the Battle of Nancy. |
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If the monarch has no male children, the rights and responsibilities of the duchy belong to The Crown and there is no duke. |
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The duke appoints a number of officials in the county and acts as the port authority for the main harbour of the Isles of Scilly. |
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The duke had a ceremonial role in summoning the Cornish Stannary Parliament. |
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Authari died in 591 and was succeeded by Agilulf, the duke of Turin, who also married Theodelinda in the same year. |
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After Dagobert's death in 639, the duke of Thuringia, Radulf, rebelled and tried to make himself king. |
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In 730 Alemannia had to be subjugated by the sword and its duke, Lantfrid, was killed. |
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Though ruled by their own dukes, it is not likely that they were very often united under one duke in the 6th and 7th centuries. |
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It was granted to Charles the Bald in 829, though it is not certain whether he was recognised as duke or king. |
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In 730, he marched against Lantfrid, duke of Alemannia, who had also become independent, and killed him in battle. |
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His son Waifer took an early inheritance, becoming duke of Aquitaine and ratified the alliance with Lombardy. |
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Finally, Louis was in charge of the Spanish March and fought the duke of Benevento in southern Italy on at least one occasion. |
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In 1269 AD the duke of Novgorod planned a raid against Karelians, but he abandoned the plans as he was advised against it by his councilors. |
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The text's first redaction is ascribed to the Alamannic duke Lantfrid in ca. |
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Eight weeks later she married Henry, thus Henry became duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and count of Poitiers. |
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In September 1129 Roger was generally recognized as duke of Apulia by Sergius VII of Naples, Robert of Capua, and the rest. |
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This practice was only possible, because these independent city states were not ruled by a duke but a council of influential citizens. |
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Among the fiefs destined for the duke of Gandia were Cerveteri and Anguillara, lately acquired by Virginio Orsini, head of that powerful house. |
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However, although in some countries and periods the rank of voivode was equivalent to a Western duke, it was not universally so. |
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Income from the Duchy of Cornwall goes to the Duke of Cornwall, or, when there is no duke, to the Sovereign. |
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The completion of his first canal led the duke to undertake a more ambitious work. |
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Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureaucracy. |
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Thereafter, the heads of the three families and the duke retreated to the Ji's palace complex and ascended the Wuzi Terrace. |
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Thus, Confucius could not achieve the idealistic reforms that he wanted including restoration of the legitimate rule of the duke. |
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The duke indulged himself in pleasure and did not attend to official duties for three days. |
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A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke. |
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I had six weeks of hitting old, grey balls rather than rock-hard duke balls and there was that bit more whippiness in my game. |
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Scalise never would have spoken to EURO had duke been there in person. |
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The Florentine duke, for instance, never advanced a claim to thaumaturgical powers or mythical ancestry. |
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This is the height of infotainment, which began when NBC and ABC decided to duke it out over who would dominate the prime-time news show market. |
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In fact, as the minister of the duke, Grazioso Graziosi, reported, lines formed outside the church for three days after the unveiling of the painting. |
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Treachery rears its peruked head in the form of Nevers' cousin Gonzague who, next in line to inherit the Nevers fortune, looks to off the duke and his progeny. |
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The duke and duchess will sleep in a luxury tent at Ayers Rock. |
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Ghost Car races can be played asynchronously with a remote friend, while 5 local Wi-Fi players and 3 local Bluetooth players can duke it out in real time. |
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When the duke died in 1524, the king sent Leland to Oxford, where as Anthony Wood later claimed from tradition, he became a fellow of All Souls College. |
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Confucius therefore waited for the duke to make a lesser mistake. |
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At least one of the two officers was a retainer of the Ji family, but they were unable to refuse the orders while in the presence of the duke, viscounts, and court. |
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When Confucius heard of the raid, he requested that Viscount Ji Huan allow the duke and his court to retreat to a stronghold on his palace grounds. |
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Even though he disapproved the use of a violent revolution, the Ji family dominated the Lu state force for generations and had exiled the previous duke. |
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The duke accumulated great wealth through his canal and coal interests. |
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What was it all, to have a duke and to have lords dining with her, to dine with lords or with a duke itself, if life were dull with her, and the hours hung heavy! |
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For this reason, the Slavic terms are sometimes translated as duke. |
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Guillaume Dufay composed several songs lamenting the fall of the Eastern church, and the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, avowed to take up arms against the Turks. |
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European traders arrived in the early 16th century, beginning with the envoy of Portuguese duke Afonso de Albuquerque in 1511, followed by the French, Dutch, and English. |
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At San Severino, after the victorious campaign, he and the pope jointly invested Ranulf as duke of Apulia in August 1137, and the emperor then retired to Germany. |
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Pannonian Croat duke Vojnomir of Pannonian Croatia aided Charlemagne, and the Franks made themselves overlords over the Croats of northern Dalmatia, Slavonia and Pannonia. |
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In 709 he launched a war against Willehari, duke of the Ortenau, probably in an effort to force the succession of the young sons of the deceased Gotfrid on the ducal throne. |
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In 953, the archbishops of Cologne first gained noteworthy secular power, when bishop Bruno was appointed as duke by his brother Otto I, King of Germany. |
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After the death of Aistulf, Ratchis attempted to become king of Lombardy, but he was deposed by Desiderius, duke of Tuscany, the last Lombard to rule as king. |
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From 1547 to 1603, there was no male royal heir to hold the title of duke, and the duchy reverted to the Crown, in effect becoming a department of the Exchequer. |
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The title of duke was reintroduced in Sweden in 1772 and since this time, Swedish princes have been created dukes of various provinces, although the titles are purely nominal. |
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The centre was held by the Normans, under the direct command of the duke and with many of his relatives and kinsmen grouped around the ducal party. |
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At that time, the Lower Inn Valley was part of the Bavarian realm under the Agilolfing duke Tassilo III, who was deposed by Charlemagne and replaced by Prefect Gerold. |
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The king was angered when George, who disliked Newcastle, verbally insulted the duke at the christening, which the duke misunderstood as a challenge to a duel. |
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His brother Henry was present and moved quickly to secure the throne before the return of his elder brother Robert, duke of Normandy, from the First Crusade. |
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Alongside the Mersey, the duke built Runcorn Dock, several warehouses, and Bridgewater House, a temporary home from which he could supervise operations at the Runcorn end. |
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In 1540, Henry married for the fourth time to the daughter of a Protestant German duke, Anne of Cleves, thus forming an alliance with the Protestant German states. |
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The Hundred Years' War almost resumed in 1474, when the duke Charles of Burgundy, counting on English support, took up arms against Louis XI of France. |
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A few days after the congress ended in September, Philip III, duke of Burgundy, deserted to Charles VII, signing the Treaty of Arras that returned Paris to the King of France. |
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It seems that at the congress of Arras, in the summer of 1435, where the duke of Beaufort was mediator, the English were unrealistic in their demands. |
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Once on the ground, the duke was slain by Alexander Buchanan. |
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The new duke, Philip the Good, allied himself with the English. |
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Richard's barons joined in the fray and turned against their duke. |
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Evidence was provided that the duke had been listening to prophecies that he would be king and that the Tudor family lay under God's curse for the execution of Warwick. |
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There are records of two tutors for the young duke during the late 1030s and early 1040s, but the extent of William's literary education is unclear. |
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At first, Alan of Brittany had custody of the duke, but when Alan died in either late 1039 or October 1040, Gilbert of Brionne took charge of William. |
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During his childhood and adolescence, members of the Norman aristocracy battled each other, both for control of the child duke and for their own ends. |
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William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by the duke. |
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After din-din, it was upstairs to watch aspiring young boxers duke it out. |
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