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BEAUVILLIER , the name of a very See also:ancient See also:French See also:family belonging to the See also:country around See also:Chartres, members of which are found filling See also:court offices from the 15th See also:century onward. For See also:Charles de Beauvillier, See also:gentleman of the chamber 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, See also:governor and bailli of See also:Blois, the See also:estate of See also:Saint Aignan was created a countship in 1537. See also:Francois de Beauvillier, See also:comte de Saint Aignan, after having been through the See also:campaigns in See also:Germany (1634-1635), Franche-Comte (1636), and See also:Flanders (1637), was sent to the See also:Bastille in consequence of his having lost the See also:battle of Thionville in 164o. In See also:reward for his devotion to the court party during the See also:Fronde he obtained many See also:signal favours, and Saint Aignan was raised to a duchy in the See also:peerage of See also:France (duchepairie) in 1663. His son See also:Paul, called the duc de Beauvillier, was several times See also:ambassador to See also:England; he became See also:chief of the See also:council of See also:finance in 1685, governor of the See also:dukes of See also:Burgundy, See also:Anjou and Berri from 1689 to 1693, See also:minister of See also:state in 1691, and See also:grandee of See also:Spain in 1701. He married a daughter of See also:Colbert. Paul Hippolyte de Beauvillier, comte de See also:Montresor, afterwards duc de Saint Aignan, was ambassador at See also:Madrid from 1715 to 1718 and at See also:Rome in 1731, and a member of the council of regency in 1719. (M.
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