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See also:GALEN, CHRISTOPH BERNHARD, FREIHERR VON (16o6-1678) , See also:prince See also:bishop of See also:Munster, belonged to a See also:noble Westphalian See also:family, and was See also:born on the 12th of See also:October 16o6. Reduced to poverty through the loss of his paternal See also:inheritance, he took See also:holy orders; but this did not prevent him from fighting on the See also:side of the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand III. during the concluding stages of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. In 165o he succeeded Ferdinand of See also:Bavaria, See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, as bishop of Munster. After restoring some degree of See also:peace and prosperity in his principality, Galen had to contend with a formidable insurrection on the See also:part of the citizens of Munster; but at length this was crushed, and the bellicose bishop, who maintained a strong See also:army, became an important personage in See also:Europe. In 1664 he was chosen one of the See also:directors of the imperial army raised to fight the Turk;and after the peace which followed the See also:Christian victory at St Gotthard in See also:August 1664, he aided the See also:English 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:Charles II. in his war with the Dutch, until the intervention of 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 XIV. and See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I. of See also:Brandenburg compelled him to make a disadvantageous peace in 1666. When Galen again attacked See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland six years later he was in See also:alliance with Louis, but he soon deserted his new friend, and fought for the emperor See also:Leopold I. against See also:France. Afterwards in See also:conjunction with Brandenburg and See also:Denmark he attacked Charles XI. of See also:Sweden, and conquered the duchy of See also:Bremen. He died at Ahaus on the 19th of See also:September 1678. Galen showed himself anxious to reform 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, but his See also:chief energies were directed to increasing his See also:power and See also:prestige.
See K. Tucking, Geschichte See also:des Stifts Munster unter C. B. von Galen (Munster, 1865); P. Corstiens, See also:Bernard See also:van Galen, Vorst-Bisschop van Munster (See also:Rotterdam, 1872) ; A. Basing, Furstbischof C. B. von Galen (Munster, 1887); and C. Brinkmann in the English See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. xxi. (1906). There is in the See also:British Museum a poem printed in 1666, entitled See also:Letter to the bishop of Munster containing a Panegyrick of his heroick achievements in heroick See also:verse.
End of Article: GALEN, CHRISTOPH BERNHARD, FREIHERR VON (16o6-1678)
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