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See also:MONTFERRAT, See also:COUNT OF , a See also:title derived from a territory See also:south of the Po and See also:east of See also:Turin, and held by a See also:family who were in the 12th See also:century one of the most considerable in See also:Lombardy.
In 1147 a count of Montferrat took See also:part in the Second Crusade; but the connexion with the See also:Holy See also:Land begins to be intimate in 1176. In that See also:year 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 Longsword, eldest of the five sons of Count William III., came to the See also:kingdom of See also:Jerusalem, on the invitation of See also:Baldwin IV. and the baronage, and married the heiress of the kingdom, Sibylla. He died within a few months; but his wife See also:bore a See also:posthumous son, who became Baldwin V. Count William III. himself (See also:uncle to See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip of See also:France and See also:brother-in-See also:law to See also:Conrad III.) afterwards came to the Holy Land to See also:watch over the interests of his See also:grandson; and he was among the prisoners taken by See also:Saladin at Hittin in 1187. Shortly after the See also:battle of Hittin there appeared in See also:Palestine the ablest and most famous of the family, Count William's second son, Conrad. Conrad, following the family tradition, and invited by the See also:emperor See also:Isaac See also:Angelus, had gone to serve at the See also:court of See also:Constantinople. He soon became a considerable See also:person; married Isaac's See also:sister, and defeated and killed a usurper; but he was repaid by ingratitude and suspicion, and fled from Constantinople to Palestine in 1187. Putting into See also:Tyre he was able to See also:save the See also:city from the See also:deluge of See also:Mahommedan See also:conquest which followed Saladin's victory at Hittin. He established himself firmly in Tyre (refusing See also:admission to See also:Guy, 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 of Jerusalem); and from it he both sent appeals for aid to See also:Europe—which largely contributed to cause the Third Crusade—and despatched reinforcements to the crusaders, who, from 1188 onwards, were engaged in the See also:siege of See also:Acre. His See also:elder brother had been the See also:husband of the heiress Sibylla; and on the See also:death of Sibylla, who had carried the See also:crown to Guy de See also:Lusignan by her second See also:marriage, Conrail married her younger sister, See also:Isabella, now the heiress of the kingdom, and claimed the crown (119o). The struggle between Conrad and Guy paralysed the energies of the Christians in 1191. While See also:Richard I. of See also:England espoused the cause of Guy, who came from his own See also:county of See also:Poitou, Philip See also:Augustus espoused that of Conrad. After the departure of Philip, Conrad fomented the opposition of the See also:French to Richard, and even intrigued with Saladin against him. But he was the one See also:man of ability who could See also:hope to See also:rule the debris of the kingdom of Jerusalem with success; he was the See also:master of an See also:Italian statecraft which gave him the See also:advantage over his ingenuous See also:rival; and Richard was finally forced to recognize him as king (See also:April 1192). In the very See also:hour of success, however, Conrad was struck down by the emissaries of the Old Man of the See also:Mountain (the See also:chief of the Assassins).
Still another son or Count William III. achieved distinction. This was See also:Boniface of Montferrat, the younger brother of Conrad, who was chosen See also:leader of the See also:Fourth Crusade in 1201, on the death of See also:Theobald of See also:Champagne. In the See also:winter of 1201–1202 he went to See also:Germany to visit Philip of See also:Swabia; and there it has been suggested, he arranged the diversion of the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople (see See also:CRUSADES). Yet in the course of the crusade he showed himself not unsubmissive to See also:Innocent III., who was entirely opposed to such a diversion. After the See also:capture of See also:Zara, however, he joined the crusaders, and played a See also:great part in all the events which followed till the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204. But Baldwin of See also:Flanders was elected emperor over his See also:head; and his irritation was not wholly allayed by the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of See also:Macedonia, the See also:north of See also:Thessaly, and See also:Crete (which he afterwards sold to See also:Venice). In 1207 he died, killed in battle with the Bulgarians. He See also:left a son See also:Demetrius, who assumed the title of king of Thessalonica, which the See also:father had never See also:borne (cf. See also:Luchaire, Innocent III:: La question d'Orient, p. 190). In 1222 Demetrius lost his kingdom to See also:Theodore Angelus, and the See also:house of Montferrat its connexion with the East.
See Savio, Studi storici sul marchese Guglielmo III. di Monferrato (Turin, 1885); Ilgen, Markgraf Konrad von Montferrat (188o); and also the See also:works of Cerrato (Turin, 1884) and Desimoni (See also:Genoa, 1886).
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