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AUMONT , the name of a See also:family which played an important See also:part in See also:French See also:history. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it has usually been derived from Aumont, now a small See also:commune in the See also:department of the See also:Somme. The family was of See also:great antiquity, a See also:Jean, sire d'Aumont, having accompanied 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 IX. on crusade. It was already powerful in the 14th See also:century, and during the See also:English See also:wars of that See also:period its members fought in the armies of the See also:kings of See also:France. Towards the end of the century, the family took the part of the See also:dukes of See also:Burgundy, but returned to the See also:side of France on the See also:death of See also:Charles the Bold. Jean d'Aumont, See also:lieutenant-See also:general to the 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 of France in the See also:government of Burgundy, rendered important services to Louis XII. and See also:Francis I. Another Jean d'Aumont (d. 1595) a See also:marshal of France and See also:knight of the 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 of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost since its institution in 1578, fought against the See also:Huguenots under the last of the See also:Valois kings; but he was among the first to9 2 I
recognize See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV., and was appointed See also:governor of See also:Champagne and of See also:Brittany, where he had to fight against the See also:League. His See also:grandson See also:Antoine (1601–1669) was also a marshal of France (1651), governor of See also:Paris (1662), See also:duke and peer (1665). Louis See also:Marie Augustin, duc d'Aumont (1709–1782), was a celebrated See also:collector of See also:works of See also:art. Louis Marie See also:Celeste d'Aumont, duc de Piennes, afterwards duc d'Aumont (1762-1831), emigrated during the Revolution and served in the See also:army of the royalists, as also in the See also:Swedish army. During the See also:Hundred Days he effected a descent upon See also:Normandy in the See also:Bourbon See also:interest, and succeeded in capturing See also:Bayeux and See also:Caen.
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