His two sons died of the sweating sickness in 1551, when the dukedom became extinct. |
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With the support of the King of Naples, his brother raised an army and expelled him from the dukedom with his daughter. |
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The boy was called Joao, and as heir to the dukedom of Braganca, held the title Duke of Barcellos. |
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Henry I, still angst-ridden by my power, has ordered for my dukedom of Normandy to be invaded. |
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Thenceforward he remained faithful to his brother and, in 947, was given the dukedom of Bavaria. |
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The Admiralty, also angered by his acceptance of the dukedom of Bronte in Sicily from King Ferdinand, sent him an icy order to return home. |
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The castle then became a strategic fortress of the dukedom and was attacked many times during conflicts. |
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Everyone in the dukedom heard of her well-aimed book but not all cheered. |
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The dukedom furthest to the north was Northfield, famous for its horses. |
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Recently, Simon Walker has highlighted the case of one John Kingsley, an esquire in the service of Henry IV's enemy, Thomas Mowbray, heir to the dukedom of Norfolk. |
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Between 763 and 1139 the city, now a dukedom independent of Byzantium, was a cultural centre and an important trade centre with the East. |
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Betrayed by his brother and the King of Naples, Prospero is forced to abandon his dukedom in Milan. |
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After my marriage with Matilda of Flanders, my increasingly powerful dukedom troubled him and he was anxious of having to share his power. |
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Whether to the abbey St. Matthew in Trier, whether to the dukedom of Lothringen and so after Stanislas to the kingdom of France. |
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Antoine died in 1573 without an heir and the dukedom passed to his brother Jacques, a protestant leader known as The Steely Baron. |
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William had a very shaky claim to the English throne, but what he did have in his favour was a dukedom full of Norman knights, all eager for a share of newly conquered land. |
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He says that his magic is over since he has his dukedom back. |
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Anne, whom he had courted in 1682, made him lord privy seal and promoted him in 1703 to the dukedom made available by the death of the second Villiers duke. |
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All Edward III's sons received dukedoms, and the first non-royal dukedom was created in 1385 for Robert de Vere, favourite of Richard II, who became Duke of Ireland. |
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After her husband, Andrew, inherited the dukedom in 1950, Debo found herself in charge of seven houses in short order. |
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This marquisate was merged, for about a century, in the dukedom of Bolton. |
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His library was dukedom large enough, and here on the island he has, besides rich garments, linen stuffs and necessaries, volumes that he prizes above his dukedom. |
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The monarch's grandson, even if he is the heir apparent, does not succeed to the dukedom. |
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The best way to attach the dukedom to the kingdom of France would really have been for Charles VIII, then 15 years old, to marry the little Breton himself. |
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At the close of the Congress of Vienna, the dukedom of Braunschweig was established within the old boundaries of the principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. |
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He succeeded to the dukedom at the age of twelve on the death of his brother, John, 2nd Duke. |
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On the morning of January 5, 1477, a date that would mark the first defining turn in the history of Nancy, Lorraine was just a small, practically insignificant dukedom. |
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To ensure his grandson's succession to the thrown of Spain, Louis XIV was ready to make some concessions and accepted among other things to consider restoring the dukedom of Lorraine and of Bar. |
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Soon Clotaire IV died and Odo surrendered King Chilperic in exchange for Martel recognising his dukedom. |
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The dukedom of Cornwall can only be held by the oldest living son of the monarch who is also heir apparent. |
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He saves his brother's life, is reinvested with the dukedom of Calabria, and, after the death of Daunus, succeeds to Apulia. |
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Edward succeeded to the dukedom in 1402, but was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, with no issue. |
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Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. |
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Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom, with Churchill offered a dukedom. |
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On the promise of French military help, and a French dukedom for himself, Arran agreed to the marriage. |
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Argyll was also a medieval bishopric with its cathedral at Lismore, as well as an early modern earldom and dukedom, the Dukedom of Argyll. |
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The 14th and 15th centuries saw the rapid rise of the dukedom of Burgundy, which in the space of less than a century became one of the wealthiest and most ambitious powers in western Europe. |
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After his death, his brother James, later King James I, received the dukedom. |
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Montrose was Member of Parliament for Richmond from 1780, and for Great Bedwyn from 1784 to 1790, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom. |
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Montrose died in December 1836, aged 81, and was succeeded in the dukedom by his son, James. |
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The Reformation, which reached the city of Braunschweig in 1528 and the territory of Braunschweig in 1568, has influenced the historical development of the dukedom until the present day. |
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All Dukes of Cornwall who have been the eldest living son of the sovereign are generally considered to have held the same creation of the dukedom. |
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The dukedom of York therefore passed to his son, Richard Plantagenet. |
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Consequently, Howard supported Richard III in deposing Edward's sons, for which he received the dukedom of Norfolk and his original share of the Mowbray estate. |
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The city of York opened its gates to him only after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom, as Henry Bolingbroke had done seventy years earlier. |
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Cornwall was the first dukedom conferred within the Kingdom of England. |
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