As revealed in Blackadder II, he has at least three grandsons: one named Osric is kidnapped and his ransom not paid, another named Nathaniel marries a fanatical Puritan and holds the peerage of Whiteadder, and another one squanders the family fortune " on wine, women and amateur dramatics "; by the end of his life he ekes out a living doing humorous impressions of Anne of Cleves.

In their first appearance, for example, Ximénez has trouble with listing their weapons (" Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms — oh damn!

Since the conflict with Nicaragua in the 1980s, variations of the term " Sandinista " are now sometimes used in the United States to refer to fanatical supporters of a certain cause.

The mayor of St. Gallen, Ulrich Varnbüler, established contact with farmers and Appenzell residents ( led by the fanatical Hermann Schwendiner ) who were seeking an opportunity to weaken the abbot.

According to them, the Rus ' princes concluded a defensive alliance with the Horde in order to repel attacks of the fanatical Teutonic Knights, which posed a much greater threat to Rus ' religion and culture.

Jacques Mallah has released an eprint proposing to debunk quantum suicide and immortality in which he further cautions: " The QS / QI fallacies can threaten to lead to nothing less than a sort of postmodern fanatical religious cult, complete with promises of immortality, suicides ( perhaps by willing suicide bombers ), and murder.

Raeder went on to call for indifference to National Socialism in the Kriegsmarine to be destroyed " root and branch " and stated: " We cannot win the war against a fanatical enemy with the old principle of ' live and let live '".

On 1 August 1589, Henry III lodged with his army at Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris, when a young fanatical Dominican friar, Jacques Clément, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.

The Church senior legate, Pierre de Castelnau, responsible for these actions was murdered by fanatical supporters of Count Raymond of Toulouse, which brought down more penalties on him, and he soon reconciled with the Church.

While the bulk of humanity's military power is found in the Imperial Guard, the Space Marines ( Adeptus Astartes ) – giant 10-foot-tall, genetically enhanced super-soldiers with world-destroying firepower and unswerving, fanatical loyalty to the Emperor of Mankind – are the most famous.

The Danish fans endeared themselves to the local population with their fanatical support and exemplary behaviour, and were particularly popular amongst local landlords — a number of Sheffield public houses had to order emergency supplies of beer and cigarettes.

Hitler ignored all their demands, requiring " fanatical " defence and a counter-attack with whatever was available.

Jack Gurney is now a violent psychopath with a fanatical hatred of women and an ability to pretend to be sane as needed.

He hated lecturing, and was bored with the importunities of the fanatical preachers ; and in 1574 he returned to France and made his home for the next twenty years with Chastaigner.

The practice was, of course, capable of abuse, and so arose in the thirteenth century the fanatical sect of the Flagellants, though in the same period we meet with the private use of the " discipline " by such saintly persons as King Louis IX of France and Elisabeth of Hungary.

For instance, introductory chapters dwell extensively on bad writers and critics, quite unrelated to the plot but apologetic to the author and the novel itself ; and authorial commentary on several characters show strong opposition to Methodism, calling it fanatical, heretical, and implying association of hypocrites, such as the younger Blifil, with it.

Schreck has been promised Greta as a prize for completeing his role in the film, but he remains difficult and uncooperative with the fanatical Murnau, until the entire production is at his mercy, and in danger of ruin.

This, combined with Gurdjieff's almost fanatical dedication to the completion of this text ( Beelzebub's Tales ), suggest that Gurdjieff himself intended his ideas to continue to be practiced and taught long after his death.

He was fanatical about the navy, but would come up with wild ideas for improvements, which Tirpitz had to deflect to maintain his objectives.

This deed, although seen as a fanatical, brutal assassination by supporters of Henry III, was viewed with far different feelings in Paris and by the partisans of the League.

The Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey complained in his campaign that the Germans had been terrified by the plan into fanatical resistance, " Now they are fighting with the frenzy of despair.

The isolation was represented by Franco's regime as a modern version of the Black Legend, with the most fanatical partisans claiming it was a machination of Jews and Freemasons against Catholic Spain.

The plot is hatched by a Japanese veteran of the Russo-Japanese War: coming out of the war with a fanatical hatred of Westerners, he organizes a world-spanning secret society named the Devouring Dragon in order to destroy Western civilization.

His tenure was a brief one, as he quickly became bored with slaughter simply for its own sake and did not share the original Dark Judge's fanatical zeal for their " sacred mission " of purging all life.

Despite fighting with fanatical courage in the engagements at Phu Sa on 14 December and Son Tay on 16 December, the Black Flags were unable to prevent the French from storming Son Tay.

The character was named for the fanatical fans of the team.

He led an ascetic existence, and his activities had a fanatical character.

In Rock, the player takes on the persona of the title character Willford Rockwell, an archeology student, who is faced with the aftermath of a fanatical group called the Olympian Restoration Army ( ORA ), who somehow have managed to bring back to life a host of mythological creatures from Ancient Greece, including Zeus, king of the Gods, who has abducted Will's girlfriend Emma.

The prophet Patara Raukatauri. On April 29, 1865 Governor George Grey issued a proclamation condemning the " revolting acts ... repugnant to all humanity " carried out by Pai Mārire followers and warned the government would " resist and suppress by force of arms if necessary, and by every means in my power, fanatical doctrines, rites, and practices of the aforesaid character ".

... a prophet, a strange character, with long flowing beard and wild fanatical eyes, who dreamed dreams and pretended to possess occult powers.

Besides, beyond being reactionary on definite matters ( see the status of women in Islam ) and responsible for fanatical excesses against non-Muslim citizen ( such as the Copts in Egypt ), political Islam even defends the sacred character of property and legimitises inequality and all the prerequisites of capitalist reproduction.

The character is portrayed as a fanatical Nazi who obeys orders without questions.

Kirby, like his character in This Is Spinal Tap, was a fanatical fan of Frank Sinatra.

The novel concludes that Alexander was indeed murdered " by a fanatical servant " of Edward I of England.

Gregory was martyred by a fanatical mob, while preaching in Albania.

Radio Birdman, cofounded by Detroit expatriate Deniz Tek in 1974, was playing gigs to a small but fanatical following in Sydney.

From early on, the public's reaction to Spock was strongly positive, even fanatical.

She was much celebrated by the fanatical balletomanes of Tsarist Saint Petersburg, her legions of fans calling themselves the Pavlovatzi.

The conflict was one of principles ; the Culture went to war because the Idirans ' fanatical imperial expansion, justified on religious grounds, threatened the Culture's " moral right to exist ".

One of the first leaders inexorably to gain fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's Adolf Hitler.

The lead Federation starship, USS Odyssey, was destroyed by a kamikaze attack, as the Dominion demonstrated not only an alarming ability to penetrate shielding, but a fanatical devotion to their cause as the suicide attack was made on a retreating ship, solely to drive the point home to the Federation.

Sharaf writes that Reich was regularly viewed as paranoid, remote, belligerent, and fanatical, and there were rumors starting in the late 1920s that he was mentally ill and had been hospitalized, though Sharaf writes that he had not.

A form of Fraticelli was also represented by Philip of Berbegni, a fanatical and eccentric Observant of Spain ( 1433 ), who attempted to establish a strict society de la Capuciola, but met vigorous opposition from John Capistran, who issued a dissertation against him.

In the end no amendment to the Army Act was offered, though ; many backbenchers and party loyalists became agitated by the scheme and wrote to him that it was unacceptable – Ian Malcolm, a fanatical Ulster supporter, told Law that amending the Army Act would drive him out of the Party.

His fanatical preaching was frequently directed against witches, homosexuals, and Jews.

Both while he was alive and after his death ( the first edition of his works, for the most part elaborate sermons, was printed at Lyon in 1501 ), Bernardino's legacy was far from benign: of fanatical moralizing temperament, he preached fiery, intransigent sermons against many classes of people.

Organization was made necessary because Irwin's more fanatical teachings were influencing the movement, and there was a need for authority to discipline erring members.