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See also:AMBOISE, GEORGES D' (1460-1510), See also:French See also:cardinal and See also:minister of See also:state, belonged to a See also:noble See also:family possessed of considerable See also:influence. His See also:father, See also:Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain to See also:Charles VII. and See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI. and See also:ambassador at See also:Rome. His eldest See also:brother, Charles d'Amboise, was See also:governor of the Isle of See also:France, See also:Champagne and See also:Burgundy, and councillor of Louis XI. Georges d' Amboise was only fourteen when his father procured for him the bishopric of See also:Montauban, and Louis XI. appointed him one of his almoners. On arriving at manhood d'Amboise attached himself to the party of the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, in whose cause he suffered imprisonment, and on whose return to the royal favour he was elevated to the archbishopric of See also:Narbonne, which after some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he changed for that of See also:Rouen (1493). On the See also:appointment of the duke of Orleans as governor of See also:Normandy, d'Amboise became his See also:lieutenant-See also:general. In 1498 the duke of Orleans mounted the See also:throne as Louis XII., and d'Amboise was suddenly raised to the high position of cardinal and See also:prime minister. His See also:administration was, in many respects, well-intentioned and useful. Having the See also:good See also:fortune to serve a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king who was both economical and just, he was able to diminish the imposts, to introduce See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order among the soldiery, and above all,. by the ordinances of 1499, to improve the organization of See also:justice. He was also zealous for the reform of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and particularly for the reform of the monasteries; and it is greatly to his See also:credit that he did not avail himself of the extremely favourable oppoxtunities he possessed of becoming a pluralist. He. regularly spent a large income in charity, and he laboured strenuously to stay the progress of the See also:plague and See also:famine which See also:broke out in 1504. His See also:foreign policy, less happy and less See also:wise, was animated by two aims—to increase the French See also:power in See also:Italy and to seat himself on the papal throne; and these aims he sought to achieve by See also:diplomacy, not by force. He, hdwever, sympatlured with, and took See also:part in, the See also:campaign which was begun in 1497 for the See also:conquest of See also:Milan. In 1500 he was named lieutenants general in Italy and charged with the organization of the See also:con-quest. On the See also:death of See also:Alexander VI. he aspired to the papacy. He had French troops at the See also:gates of Rome, by means of which he could easily have frightened the See also:conclave and induced them to elect him; but he was persuaded , to See also:trust to his influence; the troops were dismissed, and an See also:Italian was appointed as See also:Pius III.; and again, on the death of Pius within the See also:month, another Italian, See also:Julius II., was chosen (1503). D'Amboise received in See also:compensation the See also:title of See also:legate for See also:life in France and in the Comtat Venaissin. He was one of the negotiators of the disastrous See also:treaties of See also:Blois (1504), and in 1508 of the See also:League of See also:Cambrai against'See also:Venice. In 1509 he again accompanied Louis XII. into Italy, but on his return he was seized at the See also:city of See also:Lyons with a fatal attack of See also:gout in the See also:stomach. He died there on the 25th of May 1510. His "See also:body was removed to Rouen, and a magnificent See also:tomb, on which he is represented kneeling in the attitude of See also:prayer, was erected to his memory in the See also:cathedral of that See also:town. Throughout his life he was an enlightened See also:patron of letters and See also:art, and it was at his orders that the See also:chateau of Gaillon near Rouen was built.
See Leltres du roi Louis XII. et du cardinal d'Amboise (See also:Brussels, 1712) ; L. Leeendre, See also:Vie du cardinal d'Amboise (Rotten, 1726); E. See also:Lavisse, Histoire de France (vol. v. by H. See also:Lemonnier, See also:Paris, 1903);
J. A. Deville, T'ombeaux de to cathedrale de Rouen (3rd ed., 1881). For a bibliography of the printed See also:sources, see H. See also:Hauser, See also:Les Sources de l'histoire de France, X Vie siecle, vol. i. (1906). (J.
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