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Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.
Lord Aberdeen served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between January and June 1828 and subsequently as Foreign Secretary until 1830 under the Duke of Wellington. He resigned with Wellington over the Reform Bill of 1832.
However, Jovellanos had been imprisoned by Manuel de Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, who had served as Prime Minister of Spain and virtually ran the country as a dictator from 1792 until 1798 and from 1801 until 1808.
His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.
She served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the minority of her son, Federico, Duke of Mantua.
He also served as a Duke of Prussia.
He officially became Duke of Prussia in 1618, although he had served as regent on behalf of the mentally-disturbed Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, for several years prior.
Between 1511 and 1523, Schwenckfeld served the Duchy of Liegnitz as an adviser to Duke Charles I ( 1511 – 1515 ), Duke George I ( 1515 – 1518 ), and Duke Frederick II ( 1518 – 1523 ).
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406.
Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 / 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323 and as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, became also Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340 and Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1345.
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, served as Otto III's regent from 983 to 984.
* Niccolò Jommelli ( 1714 – 1774 ) served Duke Karl-Eugen of Württemberg in Stuttgart from 1753 to 1768.
Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu and went on to rise in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago.
He left his post in Breslau in a fit of frustration and from 1807 to 1810, Weber served as private secretary to Duke Ludwig, brother of King Frederick I of Württemberg.
Composers came to Ferrara from many parts of Europe, especially France and Flanders ; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole for a time ( producing the Missa Hercules dux Ferrariæ, which he wrote for him ); Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice ( and died during an outbreak of plague there in 1505 ); and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505.
" The Duke also served as godfather to one of van Eyck's children, supported his widow upon the painter's death, and years later helped one of his daughters with the funds required to enter a convent.
As a young man destined to serve in the navy, Prince George served for many years under the command of his uncle, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who was stationed in Malta.
He served as Privy Councilor to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach for an extended period.

Duke and Lunar
The second of the so-called J-missions, the mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.
Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.
During the second half of the day, John Young and Charlie Duke again entered the Lunar Module to power it up and check its systems, as well as perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for lunar landing.
Young, Mattingly and Duke continued preparing for Lunar Module ( LM ) activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five.
The Lunar Module Orion, with Young and Duke inside, landed north and west of the planned landing site at 104 hours, 29 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, at 2: 23: 35 UTC on 21 April.
In " Episode Two: Lunar Apocalypse ", Duke journeys to space, where he finds many of the captured women held in various incubators throughout space stations that had been conquered by the aliens.
* Duke Nukem 3D-The second episode of the game, Lunar Apocalypse, takes place on a series of space stations that lead to the moon's surface.

Duke and Module
On the surface, Young and Duke collected of lunar samples for return to Earth, while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited in the Command / Service Module above to perform observations.
After Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly in lunar orbit, the crew released a sub-satellite from the Service Module.
With the preparations finished, Young and Duke undocked in the LM Orion from Mattingly in the Command / Service Module Casper 96 hours, 13 minutes, 13 seconds into the mission.
Young and Duke, in the LM, successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Ken Mattingly, who had remained in orbit to perform observations while his fellow crewmembers explored the surface, in the Command / Service Module.
On the surface, he took three moonwalks in the Descartes Highlands with Charles Duke on April 21, 22 and 23, 1972 ( making Young the ninth person to walk on the surface of the Moon ), while Ken Mattingly flew the Command Module in lunar orbit.

Duke and pilot
Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.
* Duke Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, former U. S. Congressman ( R ) from California.
The Duke of York served as flight commander and pilot of the Lynx HAS3 on HMS Campbeltown from 1989 to 1991, during which he also acted as Force Aviation Officer to Standing NRF Maritime Group 1 while the Campbeltown was flagship of the NATO force in the North Atlantic from 1990 to 1991.
* Consuelo Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt family heiress, wife of, firstly, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and, secondly, record-breaking pilot Jacques Balsan
* Prince Edmund, Duke of York " The Black Adder "-400 years ago ( The Black Adder pilot )
* Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 16 moon landing mission.
A former test pilot, Duke has logged 4, 147 hours flying time, which includes 3, 632 hours in jet aircraft ; and 265 hours in space, plus 21 hours and 28 minutes of extra-vehicular activity.
After completion of this training, Duke served three years as a fighter interceptor pilot with the 526th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Ramstein Air Base in West Germany.
Duke was backup lunar module pilot on Apollo 13, however shortly before the mission he caught German measles from a friend's child and inadvertently exposed the prime crew to the disease.
The crew consisted of John W. Young as commander, Ken Mattingly as command module pilot, and Duke as lunar module pilot.
* Duke Cunningham, an American fighter pilot and disgraced politician
* January 19 – Flying a United States Navy F-4J Phantom II fighter of Fighter Squadron 96 ( VF-96 ) off of, Lieutenants Randy " Duke " Cunningham ( pilot ) and William " Irish " Driscoll ( radar intercept officer ) shoot down a North Vietnamese MiG fighter.
Flying a U. S. Navy F-4J Phantom II of Fighter Squadron 96 ( VF-96 ) off of, Lieutenants Randy " Duke " Cunningham ( pilot ) and William " Irish " Driscoll ( radar intercept officer ) shoot down three MiG-17 fighters, becoming the U. S. Navys only aces of the Vietnam War.
The crew included John W. Young ( commander ), Mattingly ( command module pilot ), and Charles M. Duke, Jr. ( lunar module pilot ).
Former pupils notable for their military careers are Neville Duke, a World War Two fighter pilot ; Donald Hodge, one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, and Terence Lewin, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Admiral of the Fleet.
His pupils in 1909 included Marie Marvingt, who became the first woman to fly combat missions as a bomber pilot and established air ambulance services throughout the world, and Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the first Spanish military pilot.
* Charlie Pettikin-helicopter pilot based at Tehran, Vietnam vet with Duke Starke.
*۞ Conroe " Duke " Starke-American senior helicopter pilot based at Kowiss, Vietnam vet with Charlie Pettikin.
He served with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry and as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I.
Captain Jean Leroux, a helicopter pilot in the Canadian Air Force, was the Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge during his visit to Canada in June and July 2011.

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