Charles was Count of Provence by right of his wife, maintaining a rich base for projecting what would be an expensive Italian war.

Castiglione declined to imitate Boccaccio and write in Tuscan Italian, as was customary at the time ; instead he wrote in the Italian used in his native Lombardy ( he was born near Mantua ): as the Count says, “ certainly it would require a great deal of effort on my part if in these discussions of ours I wished to use those old Tuscan words which the Tuscans of today have discarded ; and what ’ s more I ’ m sure you would all laugh at me ” ( Courtier 70 ).

The Count explains, " it is right that greater pains would be taken to make what is written more polished and correct … they should be chosen from the most beautiful of those employed in speech " ( Courtier 71 ).

These words must be factual yet entertaining as the Count states, “ then, it is necessary to arrange what is to be said or written in its logical order, and after that to express it well in words that, if I am not mistaken, should be appropriate, carefully chosen, clear and well formed, but above all that are still in popular use " ( Courtier 77 ).

He was captured by Count Guy I of Ponthieu, and was then taken as a hostage to the count's castle at Beaurain, 24. 5 km up the River Canche from its mouth at what is now Le Touquet.

The grapefruit was brought to Florida by Count Odet Philippe in 1823 in what is now known as Safety Harbor.

In his mind's eye, the Count sees a vision of what would happen if he sent a torpedo crashing into the liner, and he recoils.

Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers ( or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine ) are:

The impresario Count Francesco Zambeccari wrote of his performance in Naples in 1715: " Senesino continues to comport himself badly enough ; he stands like a statue, and when occasionally he does make a gesture, he makes one directly the opposite of what is wanted ".

When the Count sings, the background music resembles Romani music, no matter what the song.

In 1950, Hefti started arranging for Count Basie and what became known as " The New Testament " band.

:: Just as no one ever knows what Count D's true name is, D's father's name is never revealed.

Thereafter, the books were stored temporarily in various noble palaces in Stockholm, first in Count Lillie ’ s house on what was then Norrmalm Square ( 1697 – 1702 ), and later in the Bonde Palace ( 1702 – 1730 ), and Count Per Brahe ’ s house on Helgeandsholmen ( 1730 – 1768 ).

Later she moved to Paris and enrolled at the prestigious Académie Julian where she met her future husband, Count Casimir Markievicz (), an artist from a wealthy Polish family that owned land in what is now Ukraine.

* Adelolf, Count of Boulogne ( before 890 – 933 ), Saxon nobleman who held extensive lands and many offices in what is now north of modern France and west of Belgium ; great-grandson of King Æthelwulf of Wessex

Bazile admits to Bartholo what happened earlier in the day, and speculates that the man in the house may have been the Count.

It is after he returns to work for the Count that he marries Suzanne, though at what point he met her is unclear.

Many Maya Long Count inscriptions are supplemented by what is known as the Lunar Series, another calendar form which provides information on the lunar phase and position of the Moon in a half-yearly cycle of lunations.

The Count displays a certain aspect of what might be called clairvoyance as he claims that those who were evacuated to the sleeping cars will never reach Constantinople.

" Gronk's segments usually had the Count reading a book ; the Count would then start explaining what the book was about, with Gronk interrupting him, usually mid-sentence, with a completely incorrect conclusion to what the Count had been reading.

The company got its start in 1823 when Count Christian Danneskjold-Samsøe petitioned the Danish king for permission to build a glassworks at Holmegaard Mose (" Holmegaard Bog ").

However, the death of Count Lara facilitated the intervention of Berengaria, who got father and son to sign the Pact of Toro on 26 August 1218, putting an end to confrontations between Castile and León.

He got his big break in 1954, when he was hired as the male vocalist for with Count Basie Orchestra.

In Season 33, the Count got a daily segment on Sesame Street, simply called The Number of the Day.

Charles did not, however, enter the Anglo-French conflict then raging — the Hundred Years ' War — but his brother, Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont, got involved and died in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

That year he got his first break when he became steward and tutor to the son of Count Brühl in Dresden.

After the king and Count Geoffrey had crossed over, the remainder of their army got stuck on the opposite bank by the incoming tide.

When Nassau-Saarbrücken lands were being divided up on 31 March 1659, Count Walrad got the Usinger Land.

Their first pay-per-view match was at Superbrawl X, where Smiley, due to his injured ribs, was beaten in a handicap match and 3 Count got the win.

That same day, Wilhelm wrote on the margin of a dispatch from Count Tschirschky, calling Austria-Hungary “ weak ” for not being aggressive enough in the Balkans, and writing that alteration in the power in the Balkans “ has got to come.

There he got to know other opponents of the regime and won the confidence of Count Stauffenberg, who was an intimate friend of Hans Jürgen ’ s cousin Albrecht von Blumenthal.

Dr. Orwell was killed just before she got the chance to slash Sunny's throat, when she accidentally backed into a saw that had been turned on for use in her and Count Olaf's conspiracy to steal the Baudelaire fortune.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade ( there is evidence Urban II had conferred with Adhemar before the council ) and having been named apostolic legate and appointed to lead the crusade by Pope Urban II, he accompanied Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, to the east.

The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.

* The center under the command of Otto and of Thiebaud, Duke of Lorraine, and Henry, Duke of Brabant and Count Philip Courtenay-Namur: there are also many of the Saxon soldiers, knights and infantry of Brabant and Germany.

* In the Tales of Old Dartmoor episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goons radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for the prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If in France as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hid there.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

For example, in Il Barbiere there is an aria for the Count ( often omitted ) " Cessa di più resistere ", which Rossini used ( with minor changes ) in the cantata Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo and in La Cenerentola ( the cabaletta for Angelina's rondo is almost unchanged ).

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

At least from the 13th century, there were seven electors: three spiritual ( the Archbishop of Mainz, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Archbishop of Cologne ) and four lay: ( the King of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg ; these last three were also known as the Elector Palatine, the Elector of Saxony, and the Elector of Brandenburg, respectively ).

The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa Maria de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.

In 967, Borrell II of Barcelona ( 947 – 992 ), visited the monastery, and the abbot asked the Count to take Gerbert with him so that the lad could study mathematics in Spain and acquire there some knowledge of Arabic learning.

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

Agrigento was captured by the Normans under Count Roger I in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there.

First, there was the return of the handsome Swede, Count Axel von Fersen – whom she had met previously on New Year's Day, 1774, while she was still Dauphine – to Versailles for two years.

Besides Peter, there was another possible claimant, the fifteen-year-old Thomas III of Piedmont ( 1248 – 82 ), the eldest son of Peter's elder brother Thomas, Count of Flanders.

While there, Oswald entered into a fray between the Domkapitel of Brixen and the new Prince-Bishop of Brixen, Ulrich Putsch, who was a friend of Martin Jäger, a confidante of Count Friedrich, and soon-to-be bishop chancellor of the County of Tyrol.

The valley was first mentioned in 1091, when it was granted by the Count of the Genevois to the great Benedictine house of St. Michel de la Cluse, near Turin, which by the early 13th century had established a priory there.

In 1530, the inhabitants obtained from the Count of the Genevois the privilege of holding two fairs a year, while the valley was often visited by the civil officials and by the bishops of Geneva ( first recorded visit in 1411, while St. Francis de Sales came there in 1606 ).

At the end of the 13th century there was a feud between the citizens of Freiburg and their lord, Count Egino II of Freiburg.

The main plot is a rewriting of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo, but there are references to many classic novels.

He later moved to Bavaria and entered government service there, being appointed Bavarian Army Minister and re-organizing the army, and, in 1791, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.

On June 8, 1321, Count Engelbert II of the Mark granted Bochum its town charter there.

In 1569, Count Gabriel de Montgomery attacked the nearby town of Tarbes when Queen Jeanne d ’ Albret of Navarre established Protestantism there.

Beside the granary there is the oldest brewery in Latvia — Cēsu Alus, which was built in 1878 during the latter years of Count Sievers ' residency, but its origins date back to the period of the Livonian Order.