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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 I . [See also:FRIEDRICH KARL] (1781-1864), 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:Wurttemberg, son of See also:Frederick, afterwards King Frederick I. of Wurttemberg, was See also:born at Liiben in See also:Silesia on the 27th of See also:September 1781. In his See also:early days he was debarred from public See also:life owing to a See also:quarrel with his See also:father, whose 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-serving deference to See also:Napoleon was distasteful to him. In 1814-1815 he suddenly See also:rose into prominence through the See also:Wars of Liberation against See also:France, in which he commanded an See also:army See also:corps with no little See also:credit to himself. On his See also:accession to the See also:throne of Wurttemberg in 1816 he realised the expectations formed of him as a liberal-minded ruler by promulgating a constitution (1819), under which See also:serfdom and obsolete class privileges were swept away, and by issuing ordinances which greatly assisted the See also:financial and See also:industrial development and the educational progress of his See also:country. In 1848 he sought to disarm the revolutionary See also:movement by a See also:series of further liberal reforms which removed the restrictions more recently imposed at Metternich's instance by the Germanic See also:diet. But his relations with the legislature, which had from time to time become strained owing to the bureaucratic spirit which he kept alive in the See also:administration, were definitely broken off in consequence of a prolonged conflict on questions of Germanic policy. He cut the See also:knot by repudiating the enactments of 1848-1849 and by summoning a packed See also:parliament (1851), which re-enforced the See also:code of 1819.
The same difficulties which beset William as a constitutional reformer impeded him as a See also:champion of Germanic See also:union. See also:Intent above all on preserving the rights of the See also:Middle Germanic states against encroachments by See also:Austria and See also:Prussia he lapsed into a policy of See also:mere obstruction. The protests which he made in 1820-1823 against Metternich's policy of making the See also:minor See also:German states subservient to Austria met with less success than they perhaps deserved. In 1849-1850 he made a See also:firm stand against the proposals for a Germanic union propounded in the See also:National Parliament at See also:Frankfort, for fear lest the exaltation of Prussia should See also:eclipse the lesser principalities. Though forced to accede to the proffering of the imperial See also:crown to the king of Prussia, he joined heartily in See also:Prince See also:Schwarzenberg's schemes for undoing the See also:work of the National Parliament, and by means of
' Chalandon, La Domination normande, ii. 389.
the coup dual described above forced his country into a policy of See also:alliance with Austria against Prussia. Nevertheless his devotion to the cause of Germanic union is proved by the eagerness with which he helped the formation of the See also:Zollverein (1828-183o), and in spite of his conflicts with his See also:chambers he achieved unusual popularity among his subjects. He died on the 25th of See also:June 1864, and was succeeded by his son See also:Charles.
See Nick, Wilhelm I., Kanzg von Wurttemberg, and See also:seine Regierung (See also:Stuttgart, 1864) ; P. Stalin, " See also:Konig Wilhelm I. von Wurttemberg," Zeitschrift See also:fur allgeineine Geschichte, 1885, pp. 353-367, 417-434.
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