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See also:EDGEWORTH DE FIRMONT, 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:ESSEX (1745-1807) , last See also:confessor to 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 XVI., was the son of See also:Robert Edgeworth, See also:rector of Edgeworthstown in See also:Ireland, his See also:mother being a See also:grand-daughter of See also:Archbishop Ussher. When he was three years old his See also:father became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, resigned his living and emigrated to See also:Toulouse, where the boy was brought up by the See also:Jesuits. In 1769, after his father's See also:death, he went to See also:Paris to be trained for the priesthood. On taking orders he assumed the additional surname of de Firmont, from the See also:family See also:estate of Firmount near Edgeworthstown. Though originally studying with a view to becoming a missionary, he decided to remain in Paris, devoting himself especially to the Irish and See also:English Roman Catholics. In 1791 he became confessor to the princess
See also:Elizabeth, See also:sister of Louis XVI., and earned the respect even of the sans-culottes by his courage and devotion. By Madame Elizabeth
he was recommended 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 when his trial was impending; and after Louis' condemnation to death he was able to obtain permission to celebrate See also:mass for him and attend him on the See also:scaffold, where he recommended the king to allow his hands to be tied, with the words: " Sire, in this new See also:outrage I see only the last trait of resemblance between your See also:Majesty and the See also:God who will be your See also:reward." It is said that at the moment of the See also:execution, the confessor uttered the celebrated words: " Son of St Louis, ascend to See also:heaven." But it is certain that the phrase was never spoken. The See also:abbe himself does not quote it, either in his See also:memoirs or in a See also:letter written in 1796 to his See also:brother, in which he describes the death of the king. Moreover, Edgeworth declared to several persons who asked him about it, that the words were not his. In spite of the danger he now ran, Edgeworth refused to leave See also:France so See also:long as he could be of any service to Madame Elizabeth, with whom he
still managed to correspond. At length, in 1795, his mother having meanwhile died in See also:prison, where his sister was also
confined, he succeeded in escaping to See also:England, carrying with him Elizabeth's last See also:message to her brother, the future King CharlesX. whom he found in See also:Edinburgh. He afterwards went with some papers to See also:Monsieur (Louis XVIII.) at See also:Blankenburg in See also:Brunswick, by whom he was induced to accompany him to Mittau, where,
on the 22nd of May 1807, he died of a See also:fever contracted while attending some See also:French prisoners.
Edgeworth's Memories, edited by C. S. Edgeworth, were first published in English (See also:London, 1815), and a French See also:translation (really the letters and some See also:miscellaneous notes, &c.) was published in Paris in 1816. A translation of the Lettres de l' abbe Edgeworth avec See also:des memoires sur sa See also:vie was published by Madame Elizabeth de See also:Bow in Paris in 1818, and Letters from the Abbe Edgeworth to his See also:Friends, with Memoirs of his See also:Life, edited by T. B. England, in London in 1818. See J. B. A. Hanet-Clery, See also:Journal de ce qui s'est passe, &c. (Paris, 1825); A. H. du D. de Beauchesne, Vie de Madame Elisabeth (Paris, 1869); J. C. D. de See also:Lacretelle, Precis historique de la Revolution francaise (Paris, 1801-1806).
End of Article: EDGEWORTH DE FIRMONT, HENRY ESSEX (1745-1807)
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