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See also:CHRISTIAN OF See also:BRUNSWICK (1599-1626) , See also:bishop of See also:Halberstadt and a See also:general during the earlier See also:part of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, a younger son of 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 See also:Julius, See also:duke of Brunswick-See also:Wolfenbuttel, was See also:born at See also:Groningen on the loth of See also:September 1599• Having succeeded his See also:father as " bishop " of Halberstadt in 1616, he obtained some experience of warfare under See also:Maurice, See also:prince of See also:Orange, in the See also:Netherlands. Raising an See also:army he entered the service of See also:Frederick V., elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, just after that prince had been driven from Bohemia; glorying in his chivalrous devotion to Frederick's wife See also:Elizabeth, he attacked the lands of the elector of See also:Mainz and the bishoprics of See also:Westphalia. After some successes he was defeated by See also:Tilly at See also:Hochst in See also:June 1622; then, dismissed from Frederick's service, he entered that of the See also:United Provinces, losing an See also:arm at the See also:battle of See also:Fleurus, a victory he did much to win. In 1623 he gathered an army and See also:broke into See also:lower See also:Saxony, but was beaten by Tilly at Stadtlohn and driven back to the Netherlands. When in 1625 Christian IV., 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:Denmark, entered the See also:arena of the war, he took the 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 again in the See also:Protestant See also:interest, but after some successes he died at Wolfenbuttel on the 16th of June 1626. Christian, who loved to figure as " the friend of See also:God, the enemy of the priests," is sometimes called " the mad bishop," and was a merciless, coarse, and blasphemous See also:man.
End of Article: CHRISTIAN OF BRUNSWICK (1599-1626)
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