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Baldouin and Courland
In the same year the papal vice-legat Baldouin of Alnea annulled this agreement and concluded an agreement with the ruler of Bandava in the central Courland Lamekins ( Lammechinus rex ), delivering his kingdom into the hands of the papacy.

became and delegate
As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, Madison served in the Virginia state legislature ( 1776 – 79 ), where he became known as a protégé of the delegate Thomas Jefferson.
He became active in the Akron Democratic Party, and was a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
James Madison, present in New York as a Virginia delegate to the Confederation Congress, was recruited by Hamilton and Jay, and became Hamilton's major collaborator.
Debs joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ( BLF ) in February 1875 and became active in this fraternal benefit organization, being sent as a delegate by the Terre Haute lodge to the organization's national convention in 1877.
Mulroney became a youth delegate and attended the 1956 leadership convention in Ottawa.
It was named for Shadrach Bond, who was then the delegate from the Illinois Territory to the United States Congress, and who thereupon became the first governor of Illinois, serving from 1818 to 1822.
Clark Sr. went to the college and became its second black graduate five years later, despite being 58 years old, saying that he wanted to serve “ as an example to young men of his own race .” Clark rose to prominence in the Republican Party, serving as a delegate to state and national conventions.
Edmund Barton was an early supporter of federation, which became a serious political agenda after Henry Parkes ' Tenterfield Oration, and was a delegate to the March 1891 National Australasian Convention.
Philipp Melanchthon, the main delegate from Wittenberg, quickly prepared the draft that eventually became the Augsburg Confession.
He did not take the Eleven plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School ( now called the Elmhirst School ), leaving at 15 to become a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from 1953, where he became the pit delegate ten years later.
Bourgeois also became delegate to Paris Peace Conference and strongly support Japanese Racial Equality Proposal as " an indisputable principle of justice ".
He became law-lecturer and tutor of Christ Church, fellow of Oriel College, delegate of the Clarendon Press, and in 1894 he was made Regius Professor of Modern History in succession to J.
In 1903 he became active in the Amalgamated Union of Clothing Operatives, and joined the Glasgow Trades Council in 1906 as a delegate of that union.
After serving as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention ( which he was the youngest member of, at the age of 26 ), he became a prominent Federalist legislator.
Born into a political family, Elias Nelson Conway was the younger brother of Henry Wharton Conway, who served as territorial delegate to several Congresses, and James Sevier Conway, who became the first governor of Arkansas when it was admitted as a state in 1836.
He became active in the national Republican Party and served as a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924.
In the mid-1940s, Noel-Baker served on the British delegation to what became the United Nations, helping to draft its charter and other rules for operation as a British delegate.
Scheidemann became a Reichstag delegate from Solingen for the Social Democrats in 1903, and soon rose to be one of the principal leaders of the party.
He served as delegate until Iowa became a state in December 1846, and his role was replaced by two voting Representatives.
He then became the first Congressional delegate from the Territory of Wisconsin, which was formed from a portion of the Michigan Territory.
He became a university professor, then a member of the Connecticut state senate, 1920-24 ; United States Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1933-35 ; delegate to the Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1936.
Local Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) Gordon Graydon was a frequent guest at his parents ' house, and Davis himself became the first delegate younger than seventeen years to attend a national Progressive Conservative convention in Canada.
In April 1884 Quelch became an international delegate of the British socialist movement for the first time when he and Hyndman were sent to Paris to attend a congress of the French Workers ' Party.

became and Courland
Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.
Upon the death of Anna ( 17 October of the Julian Calendar / 28 October of the Gregorian Calendar, 1740 ) Ivan was proclaimed Emperor, and on the following day Ernst Johann von Biron, duke of Courland, became regent.
It changed hands 33 times between Courland ( vassal of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ), Spain, England, France, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic until in 1814 it became part of the British Empire.
Under Duke Jacob Kettler ( 1642 – 1681 ), Liepāja became one of the main ports of Courland as it reached the height of its prosperity.
Courland passed to the control of the Russian Empire in 1795 during the third Partition of Poland and became the Courland Governorate of Russia.
After World War I, Courland became a part of the newly-formed nation of Latvia.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Courland became part of independent Latvia once more and it remains so to this day.
they were trapped in what became known as the Courland Pocket, blockaded by the Red Army and the Red Baltic Fleet.
In 1670 this settlement gradually growing around the Salas tavern became known as Jēkabpils ( Jakobstadt in German ) in honor of the Duke of Courland, Jacob Kettler, who granted it its city charter.
In July he became commander of Army Group North, which was later renamed Army Group Courland, where he stayed until January 1945 when he was made commander of Army Group Centre, defending Czechoslovakia and the upper reaches of the River Oder.
Army Group North became Army Group Courland ; Army Group Centre became Army Group North and Army Group A became Army Group Centre.
The area became a part of Latvia at the end of World War I ; see Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( 1918 ).
The part of Latvia between the west bank of the Daugava River and the Baltic Sea became the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, nominally a vassal state of the King of Poland.
Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Order of Livonia, became the first duke of Courland.
Other members of the Order became the Courland nobility, with the fiefdoms they had hitherto held becoming their estates.
When Gotthard Kettler died in 1587, his sons, Friedrich and Wilhelm, became the dukes of Courland.
Thus, Friedrich became the only duke of Courland after 1616.
In Courland, Russia also had such a strong influence that its ambassador, Peter Bestuzhev, became the most powerful man in the duchy.
In 1230 the Curonians in the northern part of Courland, under their chief Lamekins ( Lammechinus Rex ), signed a peace treaty with the Germans, and the lands they inhabited thus became to be known as Vredecuronia or Peace Courland.
Later his forces recaptured the Baltic states, and in autumn 1944 his forces blocked Army Group North in what became known as Courland Pocket.

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