The arrival of Conrad, the exiled duke of Lotharingia ( Lorraine ) and Otto's son-in-law, was particularly heartening because he had recently thrown in his lot with the Magyars, but now returned to fight under Otto ; in the ensuing battle he lost his life.

At various times there have been concerns about concentration of newspaper ownership, notably in 1970 and 1980 with two commissions, the Davey Committee on combines and the Kent Royal Commission on Newspapers respectively, and most recently when Conrad Black's Hollinger acquired the Southam newspapers in the late 1990s.

The Petersen Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair with Conrad Muck.

Until recently, he did not gain the victory margins scored by North Dakota's two Democratic Senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan.

Taylor recently completed a three month entertainment contract with the Conrad Hilton in Bangkok.

Joseph Conrad, during his 1914 visit to Poland just as World War I was breaking out, " delighted in his beloved Prus " and read Pharaoh and everything else by the ten-years-older, recently deceased author that he could get his hands on.

After leaving Conrad, Gilborn had no destination.

Mainly of what Conrad had tried to make him believe.

The enormity of what Conrad had told him made it impossible for Gilborn to accept, with any degree of realism, the actuality of it.

He knew Conrad had told him the truth.

Busch and Conrad had visited another town, only south of Pilsen, also known for its breweries: Budweis ( or Böhmisch Budweis, today's České Budějovice ).

The letters to Conrad made it clear that he had set aside any religious ideas.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

Conrad had granted Franconia to his brother Eberhard on his succession, but when Eberhard rebelled against Otto I in 938, he was deposed from his duchy.

By contrast, Otto's son-in-law, Conrad the Red, whom he had installed as Duke of Lorraine in 944, extended his power base in Franconia.

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

Although they had been at odds with each other from 912 – 15 over the title to lands in Thuringia, before he died Conrad recommended Henry as his successor.

Only the port of Tyre remained in Frankish hands, defended by Conrad of Montferrat, the paternal uncle of Baldwin V, who had coincidentally arrived just in time from Constantinople.

Guy of Lusignan, who had been refused entry to Tyre by Conrad, began to besiege Acre in 1189.

Isabella's mother Maria and the Ibelins ( now closely allied to Conrad ) argued that Isabella and Humphrey's marriage was illegal, as she had been underage at the time ; underlying this was the fact that Humphrey had betrayed his wife's cause in 1186.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

Frederick had reneged on his promise to lead the Fifth Crusade, but was now eager to cement his claim to the throne through Conrad.

Conrad proclaimed that he had come of age in 1242, eliminating both Frederick's claim to the regency and the need for an imperial guardian to govern in his place, although he had not yet turned 15, the age of majority according to the customs of Jerusalem.

Bezprym had, however, always been disliked by his father, as indicated by his name ( the Piasts tended to give names such as Bolesław, Mieszko and later Kazimierz, Władysław and emperors ' names, such as Otto, Konrad ( Conrad ), and Henryk ( Heinrich ).

Liutgarde, a daughter of Emperor Otto I had married the Salian Duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine.

When Rudolph III, King of Burgundy died on 2 February 1032, Conrad II successfully claimed also this Kingship on the basis of an inheritance Emperor Henry II had extorted from the former in 1006, after having invaded Burgundy to enforce his claim after Rudolph attempted to renounce it in 1016.

Ancestry prior to Conrad the Great is taken from and may be inaccurate.

Upon arriving at Wheeling, ( West ) Virginia, the wife of Conrad Neff was taken sick and died.

Conrad of Montferrat, brother of Sibylla's first husband William, had taken charge of the city's defences.

The marriage was glossed romantically by some of the chroniclers: that Isabella was so taken with Henry's physical attractions ( he was 20 years younger than Conrad ) that she asked him to marry her.

Surrounded by adversity and even taken prisoner ( for a short time in 1270 ) Mestwin II gave the possession of Gdansk to the Brandenburg duke Conrad who was holding the city of Gdansk until Mestwin II forced them to resign from their possession of the city by use of force in 1273, having been strengthened by new alliance with his maternal cousin Bolesław Pobożny, the duke of Great Poland.

But in 1209 Władysław lost Lubusz, taken by Conrad II of Landsberg, Margrave of Lusatia ( his brother-in-law ), who defeated the Duke in the Battle of Lubusz.

The vent that Conrad is standing on falls, and the undisguised alien has him thrown in the dungeons and his gun taken from him.

The commander tells Conrad that Sarah can give him the code to disable the detonation device, but she has been taken hostage by a Morph.

The remark was reported to have taken place during a conversation with Conrad Black of the Daily Telegraph at a private dinner party Black was hosting.

Welf was probably a son of Conrad I of Auxerre, and seems to have taken over his father's offices in Swabia, namely: count of Alpgau, count of Linzgau, and possibly count of Argengau.

Descent before Conrad the Great is taken from fabpedigree. com and may not be entirely accurate.

His eldest surviving son, Conrad, was taken prisoner by Barbarossa's Chancellor, Archbishop Christian of Mainz, but then captured the chancellor in battle at Camerino.

Descent before Conrad the Great is taken from fabpedigree. com and may be inaccurate.

Sergeyev included a new variation for the characters Conrad and Birbanto in Act I fashioned from themes taken from Adam's original score.

Heinrich I ( d. 1183 ) was the first to take the title of Count of Hohenlohe, and in 1230 his grandsons, Gottfried and Conrad, supporters of Emperor Frederick II, founded the lines of Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe-Brauneck, names taken from their respective castles.

On 27 February 1999, Pellow collapsed at the Conrad Hotel in London and was taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for tests.

Adrian Michael Berry, who later became 4th Viscount Camrose, thereby linking two newspaper dynasties-the Camrose family which had once owned The Daily Telegraph retained an interest in that paper until it was taken over by Conrad Black in 1986.