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LIONEL OF See also: ANTWERP , See also:duke of See also:Clarence (1338-1368), third son of See also:Edward III.,was See also:born at Antwerp on the 29th of See also:November 1338. Betrothed when a See also:child to See also:Elizabeth (d. 1363), daughter and heiress of 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 de See also:Burgh, 3rd See also:earl of See also:Ulster (d. 1332), he was married to her in 1352; but before this date he had entered nominally into See also:possession of her See also:great Irish See also:inheritance. Having been named as his See also:father's representative in See also:England in 1345 and again in 1346, Lionel was created earl of Ulster, and joined an expedition into See also:France in 1355, but his See also:chief energies were reserved for the affairs of See also:Ireland. Appointed See also:governor of that See also:country, he landed at See also:Dublin in 1361, and in November of the following See also:year was created duke of Clarence, while his father made an abortive See also:attempt to secure for him the See also:crown of See also:Scotland. His efforts to secure an effective authority over his Irish lands were only moderately successful; and after ,holding a See also:parliament at See also:Kilkenny, which passed the celebrated See also:statute of Kilkenny in 1367, he threw up his task in disgust and returned to England. About this 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 a See also:marriage was arranged between Clarence and Violante, daughter of Galeazzo See also:Visconti, See also:lord of See also:Pavia (d. 1378); the enormous See also:dowry which Galeazzo promised with his daughter being exaggerated by the rumour of the time. Journeying to fetch his See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride, the duke was received in great See also:state both in France and See also:Italy, and was married to Violante at See also:Milan in See also:June 1368. Some months were then spent in festivities, during which Lionel was taken See also:ill at See also:Alba, where he died on the 7th of See also:October 1368. His only child Philippa, a daughter by his first wife, married in 1368 See also:Edmund See also:Mortimer, 3rd earl of See also:March (1351-1381), and through this See also:union Clarence became the ancestor of Edward IV. The poet See also: Chaucer was at one time a See also:page in Lionel's See also:household.
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