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Robert Fitz-Stephen ( c. 1120 – 1183 ) was a Cambro-Norman soldier, one of the leaders of the Norman invasion of Ireland, for which he was granted extensive lands in Ireland.
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He allowed the garrison to depart, but held the castellan, Robert Fitz-Stephen, as a prisoner.
In 1167 the King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada, who had been driven out of his kingdom, had asked Rhys to release Robert Fitz-Stephen from captivity to take part in an expedition to Ireland.
Gerald was proud to be related to some of the Norman invaders of Ireland, such as his maternal uncle Robert Fitz-Stephen and Raymond FitzGerald, and his influential account, which portrays the Irish as barbaric savages, gives important insight into Anglo-Norman views of Ireland and the history of the invasion.
However, in May 1169 Wexford was besieged by Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster and his Norman ally, Robert Fitz-Stephen.
On returning to Wales, Robert Fitz-Stephen helped him organise a mercenary army of Norman and Welsh soldiers, including Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, alias Strongbow.
After Gerald's death, Nest's sons married her to Stephen, her husband's constable of Cardigan, by whom she had another son, possibly two ; the eldest was Robert Fitz-Stephen ( d. 1182 ), one of the Norman conquerors of Ireland ; the second son, if such there were, may have been named Hywel.
Having no living male heirs, Fitz-Stephen eventually ceded these territories to Philip de Barry, his half-nephew around 1180 :" Robert FitzStephen to all his lords, friends, and dependents, French, English, Welsh, and Irish, greeting.
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* Robert of Arbrissel ( c 1045 – 1116 )
Elizabeth and her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, c. 1575.
Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).
# Agnes of France ( c. 1260 – 19 December 1327 ), married Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
The last stage of French lute music is exemplified by Robert de Visée ( c. 1655 – 1732 / 3 ), whose suites exploit the instrument's possibilities to the fullest.
Fulcher of Chartres was present at the Council, but his version of the speech was written c. 1100 – 1106 ; Robert the Monk may have been present, but his version dates from about 1106.
* Robert Rochester ( c. 1494 – 1557 ), English Roman Catholic and employee of Queen Mary I
: c. Robert M. Price points to the accounts of Adonis, Appollonius of Tyana, Asclepius, Attis, Empedocles, Hercules, Osiris, Oedipus, Romulus, Tammuz, and others.
File: Gainsborough-Andrews. jpg | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, ( c. 1748 – 1750 )
Robert Whitehead ( right ) with a battered test torpedo, Rijeka c. 1875
* October 3 – Robert Barclay, Scottish writer ( b. c. 1648 )
* July 9 – Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman ( b. c. 1493 )
** Robert Peake the Elder, English painter ( b. c. 1551 )
* July 13 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer ( b. c. 1581 )
* October 31 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician ( b. c. 1090 )
* October 11 – Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France ( b. c. 1123 )
* February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, an itinerant preacher, and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault ( b. c. 1045 )
* April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford ( b. c. 1257 )
** Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler ( b. c. 1532 )
* July 17 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician ( b. c. 1590 )
* March 18 – Robert Charnock, English conspirator ( b. c. 1663 )
** Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician ( b. c. 1512 )
* February – Robert Lauder of The Bass, governor of Berwick-on-Tweed ( b. c. 1440 )
The six hole, diatonic system is also used on baroque flutes, and was of course well known before Robert Clarke began producing his tin whistles c. 1843.
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He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.
He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.
But Robert Rauschenberg, the neo-dadaist artist, has collaborated with several of them.
Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.
Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.
the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.
and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.
If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.
He was interested in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner must, as his opponents demand, assume responsibility for his performance in office.
But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton Janssen, Mrs. Robert Jarvis, Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calorie seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961.
Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.
-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, Mo., says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best suited to defeat the Red onslaught.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought of Peter Robert, Nerien, Nicholas Cop, Martin Bucer, and even the compromising Louis Du Tillet.
An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.
Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.
Indeed, if pressed, we would say what the late Robert Henri, American painter, said to a pupil, `` Anything will do for a subject: it's what you do with it that counts ''.
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