The Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Chamberlain-MecklenbergHugh Chisholm At the University Press, 1911 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... became one of the chancellor , by patent . His status was definitely fixed ( in the the chief officers of the crown . He took an important part case of lord keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon ) by an act of Elizabeth , in the equitable ...
... became one of the chancellor , by patent . His status was definitely fixed ( in the the chief officers of the crown . He took an important part case of lord keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon ) by an act of Elizabeth , in the equitable ...
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... became the boundary , receding from the left bank in the neighbourhood of Bingen so as to leave the cities of Worms and Spires to Germany , and embracing the duchy of Alsace . After crossing the Jura , the frontier joined the Saône a ...
... became the boundary , receding from the left bank in the neighbourhood of Bingen so as to leave the cities of Worms and Spires to Germany , and embracing the duchy of Alsace . After crossing the Jura , the frontier joined the Saône a ...
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... became reconciled with Otto III . Lothair died on the 2nd of March 986. By his wife Emma , daughter of Lothair , king of Italy , he left a son who succeeded him as Louis V. See F. Lot , Les Derniers Carolingiens ( Paris , 1891 ) ; and ...
... became reconciled with Otto III . Lothair died on the 2nd of March 986. By his wife Emma , daughter of Lothair , king of Italy , he left a son who succeeded him as Louis V. See F. Lot , Les Derniers Carolingiens ( Paris , 1891 ) ; and ...
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... became 3rd earl of Ancrum on the death of his uncle Charles in 1690 , and was created marquess of Lothian in 1701. His eldest son William , the 2nd marquess ( c . 1662-1722 ) , who had been a Scottish peer as Lord Jedburgh since 1692 ...
... became 3rd earl of Ancrum on the death of his uncle Charles in 1690 , and was created marquess of Lothian in 1701. His eldest son William , the 2nd marquess ( c . 1662-1722 ) , who had been a Scottish peer as Lord Jedburgh since 1692 ...
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... became first commissioner of the treasury . In 1642 he was sent by the Scottish council to York to offer to mediate in the dispute between Charles and the parliament , and later on to Oxford , but in the second of these instances ...
... became first commissioner of the treasury . In 1642 he was sent by the Scottish council to York to offer to mediate in the dispute between Charles and the parliament , and later on to Oxford , but in the second of these instances ...
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