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See also:AREMBERG, or ARENBERG , formerly a See also:German duchy of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire in the circle of the See also:Rhine See also:Palatinate, between Jtilich and See also:Cologne, and now belonging to the Prussian administrative See also:district of See also:Coblenz. The See also:hamlet of Aremberg is at the See also:foot of a See also:basalt See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill 2067 ft. high, on the See also:summit of which are the ruins of the See also:castle which was the See also:original seat of the See also:family of Aremberg.
The lords of Aremberg first appear See also:early in the 12th See also:century, but had died out in the male See also:line by 1279. From the See also:marriage of the heiress Mathilda (1282–1299) with Engelbert II., See also:count of La Marck (d. 1328), sprang two sons. The See also:elder of these, Adolf II, (d. 1347), inherited the countship of La Marck; the second, Engelbert III. (d. 1387), the lordship of Aremberg, which he increased by his marriage with See also:Marie de Looz, heiress of Lumain. The lordship of Aremberg remained in his family till 1547, when it passed, by his marriage with See also:Margaret, See also:sister of the childless See also:Robert III., to See also:John of Barbancon, of the See also:great See also:house of Ligne, who assumed the name and arms of Aremberg, and was created a count of the Empire by See also:Charles V. He was See also:governor of See also:Friesland, and for a while commanded the See also:Spanish and See also:Catholic forces against the " beggars," falling at the See also:battle of Heiligerlee in 1568. His son Charles (d. 1618) greatly in-creased the possessions of the house by his marriage with See also:Ann of Croy, heiress of Croy and of See also:Chimay-Aerschot, and in 1576 was made See also:prince of the Empire by See also:Maximilian II. His See also:grandson, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Francis, was made See also:duke in 1644 by the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand III., and was succeeded by his See also:brother Charles See also:Eugene (d. 1681), who married Marie Henriette de Vergy de Cusance, heiress of Perwez (d. 1700). Their son, Duke Philip Charles Francis, was killed in 1691 fighting against the See also:Turks, and was succeeded by See also:Leopold (1754), a distinguished soldier of the See also:War of the Spanish See also:Succession, and See also:patron of See also:Rousseau and See also:Voltaire. His son Charles (d. 1778) was an See also:Austrian See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal during the Seven Years' War, and married See also:Louise Margaret of La Marck-Lumain, heiress of the countship of See also:Schleiden and lordship of Saffenberg. By the See also:peace of See also:Luneville (See also:February 1801), the next duke, 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 Engelbert, lost the greater See also:part of his ancestral domain, but received in See also:compensation Meppen and See also:Recklinghausen. On the See also:establishment of the See also:con-federation of the Rhine, his son Prosper Louis (to whom, becoming See also:blind, he had ceded his domains in 1803) became a member (18o6), and showed great devotion to the interests of See also:France; but in 1810 he See also:Jost his See also:sovereignty, See also:Napoleon incorporating Meppen with France and Recklinghausen with the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Berg, and indemnifying him by a See also:rent of 240,702 francs. In 1815 he received back his possessions, which were mediatized by the See also:congress of See also:Vienna, Recklinghausen falling to See also:Prussia and Meppen to See also:Hanover. On See also:account of the one portion he became a peer of the Westphalian estates, and by the other a member of the upper house in Hanover. See also:George IV. of See also:England (9th May 1826) elevated the duke's Hanoverian possessions to a dukedom under the See also:title of Aremberg Meppen. His brother Auguste See also:Raymond, See also:Comte de la Marck (1753-1833), became famous during the early stages of the See also:French Revolution for his friendship with See also:Mirabeau (q.v.). Duke Prosper Louis died in 1861, and was succeeded by his son Engelbert (d. 1875), who was followed in his turn by his son Engelbert (b. 1872).
The duke of Aremberg is one of the wealthiest of the great See also:continental nobles. His feudal domain in See also:Germany covers an See also:area of over 1too sq. m., besides which he has large estates in See also:Belgium and France. The duke has residences in See also:Brussels, where he has a famous collection of pictures, and at the See also:chateau of Klemenswerth near Meppen.
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