* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

French ambassador Marquis de Bonnac being received by Sultan Ahmed III.

* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.

The village of Oberglauheim was packed with 14 battalions commanded by the Marquis de Blainville ( including the effective Irish Brigade known as the ' Wild Geese ').

Nine battalions occupied the village itself, commanded by the Marquis de Clérambault.

The French commander in the village, the Marquis de Blainville, numbered amongst the heavy casualties.

The Marquis de Gruignan attempted a counter-attack, but he was easily brushed aside by the triumphant Allies.

However, it was not until 21: 00 that the Marquis de Blanzac, who had taken charge in Clérambault's absence, reluctantly accepted the inevitability of defeat, and some 10, 000 of France's best infantry had laid down their arms.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

The town was retaken by the Duke of Savoy in 1630 ; and in 1691 it was captured by the troops of the Marquis de Vins during the War of the League of Augsburg.

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

* The 120 Days of Sodom, a novel by the Marquis de Sade, is replete with detailed descriptions of erotic sadomasochistic coprophagia.

The earliest record of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race.

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

He was " one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age ," a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheïst Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

Paulhan admired the Marquis de Sade's writing and told Desclos that a woman could not write in a similar fashion.

Written as fictional social commentary and intended as a space-filler to allow Marquis to meet the challenge of writing a daily newspaper column six days a week, archy and mehitabel is Marquis ' most famous work.

Archy ( whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form ) was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left.

Both the Evening Echo and Evening Post won design awards during the late 1960s and early 1970s, but it was the Evening Echo that took the major writing honours, with John Marquis being voted Provincial Journalist of the Year in 1974 and Melanie Phillips being named Young Journalist of the Year in 1975.

The Marquis de Seignelay, who had succeeded his father Colbert as naval minister, had not planned for an invasion and had thought no further than Beachy Head, writing to Tourville before the engagement – " ...

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine ( March 18, 1790 – October 18, 1857 ) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia.

The film begins during the French Revolution with the aged Marquis d ' Apcher ( Jacques Perrin ) as the narrator, writing his memoirs in a castle, while the voices of a mob can be heard from outside.

Espejo was accused of writing El Retrato de Golilla, a satire against King Charles III and the Marquis de la Sonora, colonial minister of the Indies.

The video shows a scholar, possibly a reference to Marquis de Sade, who falls asleep at a desk in his room whilst writing ... and has a fantastic, seductive, and enlightening dream.

Dolan taught and studied at UC Berkeley, where he completed a Ph. D. thesis on the literary writing of the Marquis de Sade.

Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

* February 24 – Battle of Pavia: Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.

At the summit of her success, Becky's pecuniary relationship with the rich and powerful Marquis of Steyne is discovered after Rawdon is arrested for debt.

The French declaration of war against Tuscany led to his removal ( he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador ) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his arrival, on 29 August 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope ( except possibly St. Peter ).

In 1564, after a failed attempt in 1563, the Spaniards under command of García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca took the place from a garrison of 150 Ottoman soldiers, that were all killed.

The Marquis of Argyll was imprisoned here in 1661, during the mopping up of the King's enemies after the Restoration.

Neither location is still located in Virginia and despite naming a county after him twice, Virginia no longer has a county named for the Marquis de la Fayette.

It was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution.

Fayette County was created on September 26, 1783, from part of Westmoreland County and named after the Marquis de Lafayette.

It was named after Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, a French general and politician who took the side of the Colonials during the American Revolutionary War and who played an important role in the French Revolution.

LaGrange County was named after the home of Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de la Fayette, outside of Paris, France.

It is named after the country estate near Paris of the Marquis de La Fayette, who visited the area in 1825.

It was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War.

His guardian, Major Marquis Calmes, named the town after Versailles, France, in honor of General Lafayette, a family friend.

The Township was named after the Marquis de Lafayette ( 1757 – 1834 ), the French general and statesman who served in the Continental Army ( 1777 – 81 ) during the American Revolutionary War.

The town was named after the ancestral estate of the Marquis de Lafayette.

It was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, who visited the area in 1824.

The Town of LaFayette was formed in 1825 from parts of the Towns of Pompey and Onondaga after the Marquis de Lafayette famously toured the United States in 1824 / 1825

Rockingham is a city in Richmond County, North Carolina, United States named after the Marquis of Rockingham.

Medora was founded in 1883 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway by French nobleman Marquis de Mores, who named the city after his wife Medora von Hoffman.

Even though Fayette County was named after General Lafayette, a Revolutionary War hero ( initially Marquis de Lafayette until June 1790, when he permanently renounced both the nobility and aristocratic titles "), however, the community become Fayetteville in honor of someone else.

The town ’ s name was later ( prior to 1837 ) changed to Fayetteville after the Revolutionary War hero, Marquis de Lafayette who toured the US in 1824 / 25.

He named them after his patron, García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete ( Spanish: Marqués de Cañete ) who was Viceroy of Peru at the time.