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Count Peter Alexandrovich ( 1761 – 1844 ) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.
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This difficult task was accomplished by Count Peter Tolstoi, the most subtle and unscrupulous of Peter's servants.
Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.
However, other European nobles took up the cause, including Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre, Peter of Dreux, and Amaury VI of Montfort, who arrived in Acre in September 1239.
By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.
Skirmishes and raids continued to occur: in January 1283, Aragonese guerillas attacked Catona and killed Count Peter I of Alençon in his hostel.
Carte chose the name in honour of the Savoy Palace, which had been built on the site in the thirteenth century by Peter, Count of Savoy.
In 1817 the Count of Blacas, who was ambassador of France to the Holy See, provided Ingres with his first official commission since 1814, for a painting of Christ Giving the Keys to Peter.
She was the only daughter and heir of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice of Courtenay, who was sister of Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King Louis VI of France.
Among the slain crusaders were: Bishop Peter of Bethlehem, Stephen of Perche, brother to Count Geoffry, Renaud of Montmirail, brother of the Count of Nevers, Matthew of Wallincourt, Robert of Ronsoi, John of Friaise, Walter of Neuilli, Ferri of Yerres, John's brother, Eustace of Heumont and John's other brother, Baldwin of Neuville.
Peter II the Catholic ( Huesca, 1178 – Murèth 12 September 1213 ) was the King of Aragon ( as Pedro II ) and Count of Barcelona ( as Pere I ) from 1196 to 1213.
Peter returned from Las Navas in autumn 1212 to find that Simon de Montfort had conquered Toulouse, exiling Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, who was Peter's brother-in-law and vassal.
Peter the Great (, ; 1239, Valencia – 2 November 1285 ) was the King of Aragon ( as Peter III ) of Valencia ( as Peter I ), and Count of Barcelona ( as Peter II ) from 1276 to his death.
Count and Alexandrovich
Two years later, Kutuzov, now a major, joined the soon-to-be-famous Count Petr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky ’ s army in the south to fight against the Turks.
Their relationship carried on for many years and produced an illegitimate child, but Catherine eventually forsook Count Orlov for Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin.
; Count Vassili Alexandrovich Obolensky & Tatiana Obolensky: Tsar's cousin and a former Russian ambassador, Count Obolensky takes her young granddaughter Tatiana, who spent several years in Paris back to Russia.
Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov () ( June 7, 1774 – June 10, 1817 ) was Russian military commander and statesman, Lieutenant General, Adjutant General to Alexander I of Russia.
* Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley ( 1903 – 1990 ), married her cousin Prince Feodor Alexandrovich and later Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison.
Count and 1761
The failure of the campaign of 1760, wielded by the inept Count Buturlin, induced the court of Versailles, on the evening of 22 January 1761, to present to the court of Saint Petersburg a dispatch to the effect that the king of France by reason of the condition of his dominions absolutely desired peace.
* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family.
Velázquez, through his daughter Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco ( 1619 – 1658 ), is an ancestor of the Marquesses of Monteleone, including Enriquetta ( Henrietta ) Casado de Monteleone ( 1725 – 1761 ) who in 1746 married Heinrich VI, Count Reuss zu Köstritz ( 1707 – 1783 ).
* Marie Étiennette Perrine d ' Auvilliers, ( 7 July 1761 -), who married François-Constantin, Count of Brossard, a dragon regiment officer.
* Charles O ' Brien de Thomond, Count of Thomond and of Clare ( 1699 – 1761 ), Marshal of France in 1757
Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d ' Angély ( 3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris ) was a French politician.
Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki (; March 8, 1761 – December 1815 ) was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (; ; also known in English as also known in English as The Saragossa Manuscript ), is a frame-tale novel by the Polish Enlightenment author, Count Jan Potocki ( 1761 – 1815 ).
* Count Jan Potocki ( 1761 – 1815 ), capitan, engineer of the Crown Army, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, and author.
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg ( also: Caspar Maria, Count Sternberg,, ), 1761, Prague – 1838, Březina Castle, was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost, entomologist and botanist.
Count Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Ferdinand of Württemberg, 1st Duke of Urach ( Stuttgart, 6 July 1810 – Schloss Lichtenstein, 17 July 1869 ), was the son of Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg ( 1761 – 1830 ), younger brother of King Frederick I of Württemberg, by his morganatic wife, Baroness Wilhelmine von Tunderfeldt-Rhodis ( 1777 – 1822 ), who had married in 1800.
Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev () ( 1761 – 1836 ) was a Russian statesman and a close aide to Alexander I of Russia.
The direct descendant of the Livonian Barclays was Russian Field Marshal Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, born in 1761.
In 1761, he was appointed an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 1764 created an Imperial Count ( title recognized in Bavaria in 1766 ).
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* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
* 1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, bandleader, and composer ( Count Basie Orchestra ) ( d. 1984 )
Afonso married in 1146 Mafalda or Maud of Savoy ( 1125 – 1158 ), daughter of Amadeo III, Count of Savoy, and Mahaut of Albon.
* Alfonso II of Aragon, aka Alfons I, Count of Barcelona, ( 1162 – 1196 ) known as el Cast ( the Chaste ) or el Trobador ( the Troubadour )
* Infante Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio of Spain, Prince of Asturias ( 1907 – 1938 ), a hemophiliac, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 to marry a commoner, Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, and became Count of Covadonga.
* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Alfonso III ( 1265, Valencia – 18 June 1291 AD ), called the Liberal ( el Liberal ) or the Free ( also " the Frank ," from el Franc ), was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfons II ) from 1285.
Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.
Alfonso the Magnanimous KG ( also Alphonso ; ; 1396 – 27 June 1458 ) was the King of Aragon ( as Alfonso V ), Valencia ( as Alfonso III ), Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica ( as Alfonso II ), and Sicily and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso IV ) from 1416 and King of Naples ( as Alfonso I ) from 1442 until his death.
* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
Amalric I of Jerusalem ( also Amaury or Aimery ) ( 1136 – 11 July 1174 ) was King of Jerusalem 1163 – 1174, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.
Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.
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