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STAVELOT , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Belgium, in the See also:south-See also:east of the See also:province of See also:Liege. Pop. (1904), 5037. Here See also:Charles Martel gained a See also:signal victory over See also:Neustria in 719. A monastery had been established there See also:half a See also:century earlier by St Remacle, See also:bishop of Tongres. The See also:prince-See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Stavelot exercised See also:secular authority over many towns in the Amble-Nee and Warche valleys, including See also:Malmedy (now in See also:Prussia), and had a seat in the old See also:German See also:Diet. In 1815 the treaty of See also:Vienna See also:broke up the Stavelot principality, giving half to Prussia and half to the See also:Netherlands. Only the See also:tower of the old See also:Benedictine See also:abbey remains, and the See also:shrine of St Remacle is preserved in the See also:parish 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.
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