Erasmus dedicated his work to Pope Leo X as a patron of learning and regarded this work as his chief service to the cause of Christianity.

Clement VI died in December 1352, leaving the reputation of " a fine gentleman, a prince munificent to profusion, a patron of the arts and learning, but no saint " ( Gregorovius ; see also Gibbon, chap.

Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways: an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years ' War ; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerist art ; and a devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed the scientific revolution.

He was more intrigued by occult learning such as astrology and alchemy, which was mainstream in the Renaissance period, and had a wide variety of personal hobbies such as horses, clocks, collecting rarities, and being a patron of the arts.

As a patron of learning Leo X deserves a prominent place among the popes.

* March 13 – Theodore Metochites, Byzantine statesman, author, man of learning, and patron of the arts ( b. 1270 )

In the late 13th century Guiraut Riquier bemoaned the inexactness of his contemporaries and wrote a letter to Alfonso X of Castile, a noted patron of literature and learning of all kinds, for clarification on the proper reference of the terms trobador and joglar.

She was a patron of the new learning, like many Renaissance nobles: Gentian Hervet translated Erasmus ' de immensa misericordia Dei ( The Great Mercy of God ) into English for her.

Wodelarke may have chosen the name in homage to the mother of King Henry VI who was called Catharine, although it is more likely that it was named as part of the Renaissance cult of St Catharine, who was a patron saint of learning.

His ambitions were boundless and his morals lax ; however, like many prelates of his age, he was a patron of learning and the arts.

The college was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, renowned patron of scholarship and learning.

Séguier was a man of great learning, and throughout his life a patron of literature.

* Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, courtier and patron of learning ( 16th century )

In 1856, on the recommendation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King Maximilian II of Bavaria, a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history.

Charles V was a patron of learning and encouraged the making and collection of books.

Roe was an accomplished scholar and a patron of learning.

He also had a widespread reputation as a patron of learning and the arts.

William VI, who came of age in 1650, was an enlightened patron of learning and the arts.

He was a patron of learning, a celebrated poet and a musician.

There he remained for four years, learning something of the art of poetry from his patron ; some of the poems he contributed later ( 1555 ) to Nicholas Grimald's and Richard Tottel's collection, Songes and Sonettes ( known more often as Tottel's Miscellany ), may well date from this early period.

* Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy ( 1516 – 1544 ), English courtier and patron of learning

Wodelarke may have chosen the name in homage to the mother of King Henry VI who was called Catharine, although it is more likely that it was named as part of the Renaissance cult of St Catharine, who was a patron saint of learning.

He was a patron of learning, and one of the first English collectors of books.

Saint Brigid is also the patron saint of studies and learning, just as the older Celtic goddess Brigid succoured the creative arts and poetry.

David did manage to get a private sitting with the Empress Josephine and Napoleon's sister, Caroline Murat, through the intervention of erstwhile art patron, Marshal Joachim Murat, the Emperor's brother-in-law.

In each case an older and more experienced father figure ( Nestor ’ s own father, David ’ s patron Saul ) tells the boy that he is too young and inexperienced, but in each case the young hero receives divine aid and the giant is left sprawling on the ground.

Together with the books of his patron Ambrosius, Origen's library ( including the original manuscripts of his works ) formed the core of the collection that Pamphilus established.

* The President is the patron of Gaisce – The President's Award, established by trust deed in 1985.

Until about 1350, Edmund the Martyr, Gregory the Great and Edward the Confessor were regarded as English national saints, but Edward III preferred the more war-like figure of St George, and in 1348 he established the Order of the Garter with St George as its patron.

The town of St. Florian was established in 1872 on the Jackson Highway and named by its German Catholic founders for their patron saint.

He is an honorary member of the World Commission on Water for the 21st century and patron of the Global Water Partnership, a body established by the World Bank, the UN, and the Swedish Ministry of Development.

She became a member of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Women ’ s Participation, has a seat on the board of governors of the Chair on the Management of Diversity and Integration at the Free University of Amsterdam, she ( along with her husband ) is a patron of the Orange Fund ( established to promote social welfare and cohesion in the Netherlands ), and she also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Prince Claus Chair of the University of Utrecht.

While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant-garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists who have become household names today had their well established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field painters like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann.

The San Agustín parish church dates from the 18th century, established to honor the patron saint of the city, Augustine.

The museum was established in 1903 by Isabella Stewart Gardner ( 1840 – 1924 ), an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.

St. Louis IX, whom some tried to represent as a patron of the Gallican system, is still ignorant of it — for the fact is now established that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1269, long attributed to him, was a wholesale fabrication put together ( about 1445 ) in the purlieus of the Royal Chancellery of Charles VII to lend countenance to the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.

The Maharaja became Krisnamacharya's patron and established a Yoga shala for him on the palace grounds.

The Order was established in 1698 by Tsar Peter the Great, in honour of Saint Andrew, the first apostle of Jesus and patron saint of Russia.

The Division of Theatre and Drama, established in 1953, was headed by George C. Brian ( 1919 – 2007 ), Ph. D., a Baton Rouge native who was an actor, director, filmmaker, singer, dancer, and patron of the arts.

3150 BC ) the legitimacy of the dominion of a Pharaoh ( god – king ) was theologically established by doctrine that posited the pharaoh as the Egyptian patron god Horus, son of Osiris.

Saint Teilo, who was a contemporary of Saint David the patron Saint of Wales, established a small monastic settlement or ' clas ' on the site of the present-day church.

Patronage served as a model when conquerors or governors abroad established personal ties as patron to whole communities, ties which then might be perpetuated as a family obligation.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan Mahmud is celebrated as a hero and a great patron of the arts, architecture, literature, and Persian revivalism as well as a vanguard of Islam and a paragon of virtue and piety who established the standard of Islam in India.

It was established in 1974 as the Lone Star Foundation by Philippa de Menil, the daughter of Houston arts patron Dominique de Menil and an heiress to the Schlumberger oil exploration fortune ; art dealer Heiner Friedrich, Philippa's husband ; and Helen Winkler, a Houston art historian.

The Church venerates thee as protector and patron ; in thee holy Church glories as her defense against the malicious powers of this world and of hell ; to thee has God entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude.

The Church venerates thee as protector and patron ; to thee has God entrusted the souls of men to be established in heavenly beatitude.

Since then Viktor of Xanten has been declared a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church, and the patron saint of the cathedral established over his assumed burial place.

Its parent institution, the Teachers Training College was established by educator and patron Dr. Zakir Hussain in 1938.

Augustinian missionaries established the Roman Catholic Church in the area in 1580 and designated Saint William, the Hermit as its patron saint.

There, he established a kennel which he named Macody Lunds Minde-Vildmark, in honour of his late patron.