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BOLESLAUS I ., called " The See also:Great," 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 See also:Poland (d. 1025), was the son of Mieszko, first See also:Christian See also:prince of Poland, and the Bohemian princess Dobrawa, or See also:Bona, whose See also:chaplain, See also:Jordan, converted the See also:court from paganism to Catholicism. He succeeded his See also:father in 992. A See also:born See also:warrior, he speedily raised the little struggling See also:Polish principality on the See also:Vistula to the See also:rank of a great See also:power. In 996 he gained a seaboard by seizing See also:Pomerania, and subsequently took See also:advantage of the troubles in Bohemia to occupy See also:Cracow, previously a See also:Czech See also:city. Like his contemporaries, See also:Stephen of See also:Hungary and Canute of See also:Denmark, Boleslaus recognized from the first the essential superiority of See also:Christianity over every other See also:form of See also:religion, and he deserves with them the name of " Great " because he deliberately associated himself with the new faith. Thus despite an inordinate love of See also:adventure, which makes him appear rather a wandering chieftain than an established ruler, he was essentially a See also:man of insight and progress. He showed great sagacity in receiving the fugitive See also:Adalbert, See also:bishop of See also:Prague, and when the See also:saint suffered martyrdom at the hands of the See also:pagan Slays (See also:April 23, 997), Boleslaus See also:purchased his See also:relics and solemnly laid them in 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 of See also:Gnesen, founded by his father, which now became the See also:metropolitan see of Poland. It was at Gnesen that Boleslaus in the See also:year loon entertained See also:Otto III. so magnificently that the See also:emperor, declaring such a man too worthy to be merely princess, conferred upon him the royal See also:crown, though twenty-five years later, in the last year of his See also:life, Boleslaus thought it necessary to crown himself king a second 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. On the See also:death of Otto, Boleslaus invaded See also:Germany, penetrated to the See also:Elbe, occupying See also:Stralsund and
See also:Meissen on his way, and extended his dominions to the See also:Elster and the See also:Saale. He also occupied Bohemia, till driven out by the emperor 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. in 1004. The See also:German See also:war was terminated in Io18 by the See also:peace of See also:Bautzen, greatly to the advantage of BolesIaus, who retained See also:Lusatia.
He then turned his arms against Jaroslav, See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Kiev, whom he routed on the See also:banks of the See also:Bug, then the boundary between See also:Russia and Poland. For ten months Boleslaus remained at Kiev, whence he addressed triumphant letters to the emperors of the See also:East and See also:West. At his death in 1025 he See also:left Poland one of the mightiest states.of See also:Europe, extending from the Bug to the Elbe, and from the Baltic to the See also:Danube, and possessing besides the overlordship of Russia. But his greatest achievement was the See also:establishment in Poland of a native church, the first step towards See also:political See also:independence.
See J. N. Pawlowski, St Adalbert (See also:Danzig, 1860) ; Chronica Nestoris (See also:Vienna, 1860) ; Heinrich R. von See also:Zeissberg, See also:Die Kriege Kaiser Heinrichs II. mit See also:Herzog Boleslaw I. (Vienna, 1368).
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