Counts ’ benefices came to be inherited as counties were broken up and as counts assimilated their offices and ex-officio lands to their family property.

In central Europe, kings and counts probably were willing to allow the inheritance of small parcels of land to the heirs of those who had offered military or other services in exchange for tenancy.

The survivors were later found to have very low white blood cell counts.

Similarly, CD4 counts dropped in the patients who were HIV-infected, but remained stable in the HIV-negative patients, in spite of similar rates of risk behavior.

On March 19, 1994 Echols and Baldwin were found guilty on three counts of murder.

These counts were sometimes referred to informally, on account of the great power in the region, as dukes of Franconia.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

They were charged with five counts of theft and malicious damage, admitted damaging more than 70 books, and were jailed for six months ( released September 1962 ) and fined £ 262.

Charles was elected king of Norway in the following year, but the counts of Holstein were more influential than the Swedes and the Norwegians together, and made the Danish Privy Council appoint Christian I of Oldenburg as king.

The counts in charge of the army, Hugh, count of Tours, and Matfrid, count of Orléans, were slow in acting and the expedition came to naught.

The outstanding handful of Frankish saints who were not of the Merovingian kinship nor the family alliances that provided Merovingian counts and dukes, deserve a closer inspection for that fact alone: like Gregory of Tours, they were almost without exception from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in regions south and west of Merovingian control.

Two other counts were related to tax evasion in transactions Milken carried out for a client of the firm, David Solomon, a fund manager.

Some of the counts were powerful magnates who also ruled many other territories, culminating in a period of rule by the House of Habsburg which was terminated by the Dutch Revolt.

Tours became the capital of the county of Tours or Touraine, territory bitterly disputed between the counts of Blois and Anjou – the latter were victorious in the 9th century.

At that time, the chief source of information on the demography was provided by parish registration of baptisms, marriages, and burials that had occurred in the parish churches, supplemented by information on mortality in the Bills of Mortality that were published for certain large towns and by inferences drawn from various counts of taxpayers.

More judgments on other counts were still pending as of that date.

Jamie Campbell argued against electric boating on four main counts, which were rebuffed by Kevin Desmond and Ian Rutter of the Electric Boat Association.

In the early 13th century, with the marriage of the Welf heiress Agnes, the territory fell to the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria, who were also dukes and counts palatine of Bavaria.

The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia.

The recent counts had governed with a light hand, and the nobilities and cities ( three of which, Marseille, Arles, and Avignon were Imperial cities technically separate from the county ) had enjoyed great liberties.

On July 5, 2006, Robert Sorich, Daley's patronage chief and director of the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Timothy McCarthy, Sorich's aide, were each convicted on two counts of mail fraud connected to rigging blue-collar city jobs and promotions.

In January 2011, Anthony Duffy, the president of Municipal Sewer Services, was charged with three counts of mail fraud in conjunction with minority-contracting ; Jesse Brunt and his company, Brunt Brothers Transfer Inc., was also indicted on three counts of mail fraud ; and Patrick and Vanecko were not charged with any crime.

Born as Rinaldo di Jenne in Jenne ( now in the Province of Rome ), he was, on his mother's side, a member of the family de ' Conti di Segni, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX.

He was of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum ( son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and brother of future Pope John XIX ), descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, just as was his predecessor Pope Benedict VI ( 973 – 974 ).

He was also the godfather of Pope Benedict IX, who was foisted on the papacy by his powerful family, the Theophylacti, counts of Tusculum, at the age of twenty.

Like Pope Innocent III ( 1198 – 1216 ), Pope Gregory IX ( 1227 – 1241 ) and Pope Alexander IV ( 1254 – 1261 ), he was a member of the family of the Conti, counts and dukes of Segni.

In 1468 the abbot, Ulrich Rösch, bought the county of Toggenburg from the representatives of its counts, after the family died out in 1436.

The well-being of strangers counts just as much as that of friends, family or self.

1230s – 1270s, member of a family of ministeriales of the counts of Toggenburg )

* The Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of the counts of Stolberg and Wernigerode is founded in Germany.

The present Gothic building contains monuments of the former counts of Zutphen, a fourteenth century candelabrum, an elaborate copper font ( 1527 ), and a monument to the Van Heeckeren family ( 1700 ).

After the ducal family of Apulia became extinct with William II in 1127, Mafalda's heirs ( then counts of Barcelona ) apparently became de jure heirs of Guiscard and Sigelgaita: thus Peter was dormantly a claimant to the Norman succession of southern Italy.

In Italy, a younger member of a conte ( count )' s family, assigned a fortified rocca on the outskirts of the territory, would be more likely to be " X, dei conti di Y " (" X, of the counts of Y ") than Viscount.

The first count of Carcassonne, Oliba, from the family of the counts of Barcelona, was established in 819.

After becoming a widow, Isabella subsequently married Hugh X of Lusignan in 1220, and the title was passed to the Lusignan family, counts of Marche.

The sovereign Carolingian counts of Orange had their origin in the eighth century, and passed into the family of the lords of Baux.

These chronicles are generally considered reliable, and in the 16th century there were still family ties between the lords of Staufen and the counts of Zimmern in nearby Donaueschingen.

In the following centuries, the Trencavel family allied in succession either with the counts of Barcelona or of Toulouse.

He was unfortunate enough to take up the history of the House of Auvergne just at the time when the cardinal de Bouillon, inheritor of the rights, was endeavouring to prove the descent of the La Tour family, in the direct line from the ancient hereditary counts of Auvergne of the 9th century.

In 1624 the family became counts ( Grafen ).

In any case he renounced his claim to the principality in 1924, passing it to other French cousins that were also descended from the Grimaldi family, the counts of Chabrillan.

There was also insanity in Charles's family ; his great-great-great (- great-great, depending along which lineage one counts ) grandmother, Queen Joanna of Castile, became insane early in life and became known as " Joanna the Mad "; however, the degree to which her " madness " was induced by circumstances of her confinement and political intrigues targeting her is debated.

Burg Neu-Ems is still intact today and in the private property of the Waldburg-Zeil family, descendants of the counts of Hohenems.

In fact Leonardo da Pistoia ( monk ) was the pseudonym of Leonardo Alberti de Candia, a noble of the Alberti ( family ) of the counts of Prato in Pistoia.

His family was of Scottish descent, tracing its origin to Walter Stutt, who in 1420 had accompanied the Earls of Buchan and Douglas to the court of France, and whose family afterwards rose to be counts of Tracy.