Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, 1997.

Monmouth is a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Illinois, United States.

Monmouth is located in Western Illinois where US Route 34, US Route 67, Illinois Route 164, and now the new Chicago to Kansas City Expressway ( Illinois Route 110 ) intersect.

ca: Monmouth ( Illinois )

de: Monmouth ( Illinois )

es: Monmouth ( Illinois )

fr: Monmouth ( Illinois )

io: Monmouth, Illinois

nl: Monmouth ( Illinois )

pt: Monmouth ( Illinois )

simple: Monmouth, Illinois

sl: Monmouth, Illinois

sv: Monmouth, Illinois

vo: Monmouth ( Illinois )

It was named for Monmouth, Illinois, the origin of its earliest settlers.

Originally a member of the Christian Church of Cameron ( Monmouth, Illinois ), Davidson was a devout advocate of prohibition.

Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.

Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Monmouth College was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1921-1937.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

Immediately prior to his appointment to Canterbury he was the Bishop of Monmouth in Wales.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

Feeling against Catholics, and especially against James, Duke of York, was running strongly ; the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the House of Commons, and the popularity of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, was very great.

Severin concludes his investigations by stating that the real Robinson Crusoe figure was Henry Pitman, a castaway who had been surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth.

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

The English Civil War ( also known as the Great Rebellion ) was still within living memory for most of the major English participants in the events of 1688, and for them, in comparison to that war ( or even the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 ) the deaths in the conflict of 1688 were mercifully few.

Following basic training at Fort Monmouth, he was assigned to the old Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens ( where he had directed three films in the early 1930s ), although he was permitted to lodge at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

Geoffrey of Monmouth greatly expanded the story in his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, which was adapted into several other languages.

Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.

The creator of the familiar literary persona of Arthur was Geoffrey of Monmouth, with his pseudo-historical Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ), written in the 1130s.

From May 1684, the King's illegitimate son, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, lived in the Netherlands, where he was fêted by William and Mary.

Monmouth was viewed as a rival to the Duke of York, and as a potential Protestant heir who could supplant James in the line of succession.

To William's relief, Monmouth was defeated, captured and executed, but both he and Mary were dismayed by James's subsequent actions.

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

St David's Metropolitan Status as an archbishopric was later supported by Bernard, Bishop of St David's, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

People associated with Monmouth include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Oxford-based cleric, born in about 1100 and believed to be originally from the area, who wrote Historia Regum Britanniae, the " History of British Kings ".

Route 38 was originally planned to be a freeway crossing the state of New Jersey, running from Camden to Wall Township, Monmouth County.

Freehold was originally named Monmouth Courthouse.

* HMS Monmouth was a 64-gun third-rate, originally the Indiaman Belmont.

Monmouth Park also now showcases the Jersey Derby originally run at Garden State Park until its closure in 2001.

Leoni completely redesigned the house, originally built for the Duke of Monmouth in 1680, giving it a massive Corinthian portico which leads into a vast hall with a painted and gilded ceiling, with a trompe-l ' œil dome, painted by Thornhill.

It was originally established in 1856 by Oregon pioneers as Monmouth University.

Geoffrey Ashe theorizes that he was originally Glycerius, whose name was known to have been misspelled as " Lucerius " in texts prior to the writing of the Historia Regum Britanniae, and was further misspelled by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Titus was originally owned by John Corlies, a Quaker in Monmouth County.

It takes its name from Moor Park, a country house which was originally built in 1678 – 9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni.