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See also:CALIXTUS III . (c. 1378-1458), See also:pope from 1455 to 1458, was a Spaniard named See also:Alphonso de See also:Borgia, or Borja. A native of Xativa, he gained a See also:great reputation as a jurist, becoming See also:professor at See also:Lerida; in 1429 he was made See also:bishop of See also:Valencia, and in 1444 a See also:cardinal, owing his promotion mainly to his See also:close friendship with Alphonso V., 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:Aragon and See also:Sicily. Chosen pope in See also:April 1455, he was very anxious to organize a crusade against the See also:Turks, and having sold many of his possessions, succeeded in equipping a See also:fleet. Neither the princes nor the See also:people of See also:Europe, however, were enthusiastic in this cause, and very little result came from the pope's exertions. During his papacy Calixtus became involved in a See also:quarrel with his former friend, Alphonso of Aragon, now also king of See also:Naples, and after the king's See also:death in See also:June 1458 he refused to recognize his illegitimate son, See also:Ferdinand, as king of Naples, asserting that this See also:kingdom was a See also:fief of the See also:Holy See. This pope was notorious for nepotism, and was responsible for introducing his See also:nephew, Rodrigo Borgia, afterwards Pope See also:Alexander VI., to See also:Rome. He died on the 6th of See also:August 1458.
See A. Hauck's Realencyklopadie, See also:Band iii. (See also:Leipzig, 1897).
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