A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Band 3Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... counts of Capua were expelled from their terri- tory ; and the abbot Desiderius mentions his having seen the children of Landulphus V. , the last count , begging . The pope alarmed by these conquests excommunicated the Normans in a body ...
... counts of Capua were expelled from their terri- tory ; and the abbot Desiderius mentions his having seen the children of Landulphus V. , the last count , begging . The pope alarmed by these conquests excommunicated the Normans in a body ...
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... count of Boulogne . Having accompanied his brother God- frey into Palestine , he there obtained the country of Edessa . He ascended the throne of Jerusalem , as his brother's succes- sor in 1100 , and next year took Antipatris , Cæsarea ...
... count of Boulogne . Having accompanied his brother God- frey into Palestine , he there obtained the country of Edessa . He ascended the throne of Jerusalem , as his brother's succes- sor in 1100 , and next year took Antipatris , Cæsarea ...
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... count of Flanders , who invaded Lorraine , took place in 1055 , in which year Henry again visited Italy . He was present in a council held at Florence , and , after a progress through the country , returned into Germany . The empire was ...
... count of Flanders , who invaded Lorraine , took place in 1055 , in which year Henry again visited Italy . He was present in a council held at Florence , and , after a progress through the country , returned into Germany . The empire was ...
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... count of Flanders , who discharged his trust with zeal and fidelity . He defeated the Gascons who were inclined to revolt , and died in 1067 , leaving his pupil fifteen years of age . This young prince made war in Flanders against ...
... count of Flanders , who discharged his trust with zeal and fidelity . He defeated the Gascons who were inclined to revolt , and died in 1067 , leaving his pupil fifteen years of age . This young prince made war in Flanders against ...
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... count of Calabria . The treaty was con- cluded , and the princess sent over , with much treasure and jewels , and ready money ; but the king retained her fortune , dismissed the princess , and carried off the princess of Anjou , one of ...
... count of Calabria . The treaty was con- cluded , and the princess sent over , with much treasure and jewels , and ready money ; but the king retained her fortune , dismissed the princess , and carried off the princess of Anjou , one of ...
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Seite 18 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Seite 455 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
Seite 160 - Richard, therefore, concluded a truce with that monarch, and stipulated that Acre, Joppa, and other sea-port towns of Palestine, should remain in the hands of the Christians, and that every one of that religion should have liberty to perform his pilgrimage to Jerusalem unmolested.
Seite 203 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Seite 186 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Seite 440 - This gentleman being sent out by Henry, before the battle, to reconnoitre the enemy, and to find out their strength, made this report : — " May it please you, my liege, there are enough to be killed, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away.
Seite 38 - Godeva, bearing an extraordinary affection to this place, often and earnestly besought her husband that for the love of God and the blessed Virgin, he would free it from that grievous servitude whereunto it was subject : but he rebuking her for importuning him in a...
Seite 192 - Innocent may boast of the two most signal triumphs over sense and humanity, the establishment of transubstantiation, and the origin of the inquisition.
Seite 434 - This prince lived in a more magnificent manner than perhaps any of his predecessors or successors. His household consisted of ten thousand persons : he had three hundred in his kitchen ; and all the other offices were furnished in proportion1".
Seite 238 - It was on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian aera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia *; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster.