And, Offa is not known to have issued a law code, leading historian Patrick Wormald to speculate that Alfred had in mind the legatine capitulary of 786 that was presented to Offa by two papal legates.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

In 1815, Patrick was appointed curate of the chapel in Thornton, near Bradford ; a second daughter, Elizabeth ( 1815 – 1825 ), was born shortly after.

Karen Ralls has cited Freemason Patrick Byrne, who believes the Ark was moved from Rennes-le-Château at the outbreak of World War I to America.

Patrick Henry ( May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799 ) was an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

bell hooks argues that black nationalism was largely a patriarchical and misogynist movement, seeking to overcome racial divisions by strengthening sexist ones, and that it readily latched onto the idea of the emasculating black matriarch proposed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose theories bell hooks often criticizes.

George Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if " systematically and pertinaciously pursued ", they would " dissolve the union or produce coercion ".

Patrick J. Purcell, who was the publisher of the Boston Herald and a former News Corporation executive, purchased the Herald and established it as an independent newspaper.

Mumy was reportedly the first choice to portray the role of Eddie Munster in the 1964 situation comedy The Munsters, but his parents objected because of the extensive make-up, and the role instead went to Butch Patrick.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

LeBlanc retired in 1974 and was replaced by Patrick John who became the islands ' first Prime Minister.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

Patrick Guerriero, executive director of Log Cabin, thought the repeal movement was gaining " new traction " but " Ultimately ," said, " we think it's going to take a Republican with strong military credentials to make a shift in the policy.

It starred Patrick McGoohan of Danger Man / Secret Agent and The Prisoner fame in the title role and was directed by James Neilson.

It was started in the 1970s in the United States by Ted Patrick.

" Patrick was determined to take action.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Patrick was charged for kidnapping, but he was acquitted with the reasoning: :" here parents are, as here, of the reasonable and intelligent belief that they were not physically capable of recapturing their daughter from existing, imminent danger, then the defense of necessity transfers or transposes to the constituted agent, the person who acts upon their belief under such conditions.

Patrick was paid $ 27, 000 to carry out the deprogramming, which involved handcuffing her to a bed for two weeks and denying her food.

In 1980, Patrick was convicted of conspiracy, kidnapping, and false imprisonment.

Patrick was sentenced to one year in prison and fined five thousand dollars.

Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë.

* 1975 – 9th Wonder ( born Patrick Douthit ), American producer

Stuart was born at Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina.

Patrick Macnee ( born 6 February 1922 ) is an English

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

They have four children: Nora, Patrick, Elizabeth and Kevin, all born at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago.

Her second marriage was to Ryan O ' Neal's son, Patrick O ' Neal, from 1995 to 2002 ; the union produced two daughters: Sophia ( born 1997 ) and Veronica ( b. 2001 ).

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld ( by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976 ), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild ( one son, Nicholas, born in 1995 ).

* Patrick Hamill ( 1817 – 1895 ), born in Allegany County, United States Congressman from Maryland.

* Patrick Poivre d ' Arvor ( born 1947 ), television journalist and writer

* Patrick Juvet – ( born 1950 ), Swiss singer-songwriter

Calhoun was born in 1782, the fourth child of Patrick Calhoun and his wife Martha Caldwell in Abbeville District, SC.

Louis Henry Sullivan was born to an Irish-born father, Patrick Sullivan, and a Swiss-born mother, née Andrienne List, both of whom had immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s.

Connelly was born to actor and hotelier Patrick Joseph Connelly and actress Mabel Louise Cook in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

Kevin Patrick Smith ( born August 2, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian / raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob.

Anna Edwards's father died before she was born, and her mother married an Irish soldier, Corporal Patrick Donohoe of the Engineers, who was later awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Bombay during the Indian Mutiny.

O ' Toole and his girlfriend, model Karen Brown, had a son, Lorcan Patrick O ' Toole ( born 14 March 1983, when O ' Toole was fifty years old ).

* Patrick Roscoe ( born 1962 ), Canadian writer

* Ben Patrick Johnson ( born 1969 ), American voice-over actor, author, and commentator / activist

Patrick Henry was once thought to have been of humble origins, but he was born into the middle ranks of the Virginia landed gentry.

Mansfield was born in the Brooklyn section of New York City to Patrick J. Mansfield and Josephine ( née O ' Brien ) Mansfield, who were both Irish Catholic immigrants.

A more recent example is Bret Easton Ellis's ( born 1964 ) seminal novel American Psycho ( 1991 ) about the double life of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer in the New York of the 1980s.