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VALDEMAR I ., 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 See also:Denmark (1131-1182), the son of the chivalrous and popular Canute Lavard and the. See also:Russian princess See also:Ingeborg, was See also:born a See also:week after his See also:father's See also:murder, and was carefully brought up in the religious and relatively enlightened See also:household of See also:Asser Rig, whose sons See also:Absalon and EsbjSrn Snare, or " the See also:Swift," were his playmates. On the See also:death of King See also:Eric Lam in 1147 Valdemar came .forward as one of the three pre-tenders to the Danish See also:crown, See also:Jutland falling to his portion (compact of See also:Roskilde, 9th of See also:August 1157). Narrowly escaping assassination, at a banquet a few days later, at the hands of his See also:rival, King Sweyn III., he succeeded only with the utmost difficulty in escaping to Jutland, but on the 23rd of See also:October utterly routed Sweyn at the See also:great See also:battle of Grathe See also:Heath, near See also:Viborg, Sweyn perishing in his See also:flight from the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. Valdemar had no longer a competitor. He was the See also:sole male survivor of the See also:ancient royal See also:line; his valour and ability were universally recognized, and in Absalon, elected See also:bishop of Roskilde in 1158, he possessed a See also:minister of equal See also:genius and patriotism. The first efforts of the new monarch were directed against the Wendish pirates who infested the Baltic and made not merely the See also:political but even the commercial development of the Danish See also:state impossible. What the Northmen were to the Western See also:powers in the 8th and 9th the See also:Wends were to the Scandinavian lands in the 11th and 12th centuries. But the Wendish pirates were more mischievous because less amenable to See also:civilization than the Vikings. They lived simply for See also:plunder, and had neither the ambition nor the ability to found colonies like See also:Normandy or See also:Northumbria. We may See also:form some See also:idea of the extent and the severity of their incursions from the fact that at the beginning of the reign of Valdemar the whole of the Danish eastern See also:coast See also:lay wasted and depopulated. Indeed, according to Saxo, one-third of the See also:realm was a See also:wilderness. The stronghold of the Wends was the isle of See also:Rugen. Here lay Arkona their See also:chief See also:sanctuary and Garz their political See also:capital. Both places were captured in 1169 by a great expedition under the command of Valdemar and Absalon; the hideous See also:colossal idol of Rugievit was chopped into firewood for the Danish caldrons, and the Wends were christened at the point of the See also:sword and placed beneath the See also:jurisdiction of the see of Roskilde. This See also:triumph was only obtained, however, after a fierce struggle of ten years, in which the Danes were much hampered by the uncertain and selfish co-operation of their See also:German See also:allies, chief among whom was See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the See also:Lion, See also:duke of See also:Saxony and See also:Bavaria, who appropriated the lion's See also:share of the spoil. For at the beginning of his reign Valdemar leaned largely upon the Germans and even went the
length, against the See also:advice of Absalon, of acknowledging the over-lordship of the See also:Emperor See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa at the reichstag of See also:Dole, 1162. Very different was Valdemar's second See also:conference with Barbarossa, on the See also:banks of the See also:Eider, in 1182, when the two monarchs met as equals in the presence of their respective armies, and a See also:double See also:marriage was arranged between two of Valdemar's daughters and two of the emperor's sons. The only serious domestic trouble during Valdemar's reign was the See also:rebellion of the Scanian provinces, which objected to the See also:establishment of a strong See also:monarchy inimical to See also:local pretensions and disturbances, and especially to the heavy taxes and See also:tithes necessary to support the new reign of See also:law and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. The rising was ultimately suppressed by Absalon at the battle of Dysiaa, 1181. In the following See also:year died King Valdemar. His services to his See also:country are aptly epitomized in the See also:epitaph on his ancient See also:monument at Ringsted 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 which describes him as " Sclavorum dominator, patriae liberator et pacis See also:conservator." His fame has been somewhat obscured by that of his great minister Absalon, whom their See also:common chronicler Saxo constantly magnifies at the expense of his See also:master. Valdemar's worst faults were a certain aloofness and taciturnity. He is the only one of Saxo's heroes in whose mouth the chronicler never puts a speech. But his See also:long reign is unstained by a single ignoble See also:deed, and he devoted himself See also:heart and soul to the promotion of the material and spiritual welfare of Denmark.
See Danmarks Riggs Historic?, vol. i. pp. 57o-670 (See also:Copenhagen, 1897-1905) ; Saxo, Gesta Danorum, books 10-16 (See also:Strassburg, 1886). (R. N.
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