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See also:PRAGUERIE, THE , a revolt of the See also:French See also:nobility against 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 VII. in 1440. It was so named because a similar rising had recently taken See also:place in See also:Prague, Bohemia, at that 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 closely associated with See also:France through the See also:house of See also:Luxemburg, See also:kings of Bohemia, and it was caused by the re-forms of Charles VII. at the See also:close of the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War, by which he sought to lessen the anarchy in France. The See also:attempt to reduce the brigand-soldiery, and especially the ordinances passed by the estates of Languedoil at See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans in 1439, which not only gave the king an aid of See also:ioo,000 francs (an See also:act which was later used by the king as though it were a perpetual 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 and so freed him from that See also:parliamentary See also:control of the See also:purse so important in See also:England), but demanded as well royal nominations to officerships in the See also:army, marked a gain in the royal See also:prerogative which the nobility resolved to See also:challenge. The See also:main instigator was Charles I., See also:duke of See also:Bourbon, who three years before had attempted a similar rising, and had been forced to ask See also:pardon of the king. He and his See also:bastard See also:brother, See also:Alexander, were joined by the former favourite, Georges de la Tremoille, See also:John V., duke of See also:Brittany, who allied himself with the See also:English, the duke of See also:Alencon, the See also:count of See also:Vendome, and captains of mercenaries like See also:Antoine de Chabannes, or See also:Jean de la See also:Roche. Mr duke of Bourbon gained over to their See also:side the dauphin 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—afterwards Louis XI.—then sixteen years old, and proposed to set aside the king in his favour, making him See also:regent. Louis was readily induced to See also:rebel; but the See also:country was saved from a serious See also:civil war by the See also:energy of the king's See also:officers and the solid See also:loyalty of his " See also:good cities." The See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable de Richemont marched with the king's troops into See also:Poitou, his old battleground with Georges de la Tremoille, and in two months he had subdued the country. The royal See also:artillery battered downthe feudal strongholds. The dauphin and the duke of Alencon failed to bring about any sympathetic rising in See also:Auvergne, and the Praguerie was over, except for some final pillaging and plundering in See also:Saintonge and Poitou, which the royal army failed to prevent. Charles VII. then attempted to ensure the loyalty of the duke of Bourbon by the See also:gift of a large See also:pension, forgave all the rebellious gentry, and installed his son in See also:Dauphine (see Louis XI.). The See also:ordinance of Orleans was enforced.
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