He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed, and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.

During the reformation Bishop Barlow ( 1536 – 48 ), a staunch Protestant, stripped the shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of David and Justinian.

He was a staunch Protestant, somewhat more tolerant of Jacobites than his father but definitely pro-Hanoverian.

Dublin working class playwright Brendan Behan, a staunch Irish Republican, famously defined an Anglo-Irishman as " a Protestant with a horse ".

However, as in the case of Adrian Fortescue, as late as 1532, hand-copying of Piers manuscripts was still going on, and a staunch Roman Catholic like Fortescue could appreciate it as a critical, reformist but not a revolutionary, Protestant text.

The wife of Augustus I, the Electress Christiane Eberhardine, refused to follow her husband's example and remained a staunch Protestant.

Witherspoon was a staunch Protestant, nationalist, and supporter of republicanism.

Knox, a staunch Protestant Reformer, opposed the Catholic queens on religious grounds, and used them as examples to argue against female rule over men generally.

Despite her misgivings, her landlord, a staunch Protestant, was infuriated and instantly turned her out of the house.

A staunch Catholic, Sullivan became leader of the opposition in 1877 to the Protestant coalition government of Louis Henry Davies which had been formed to implement a public, secular school system that denied funding to Roman Catholic separate schools.

Although a Protestant himself, Salis-Soglio was a staunch Conservative and an opponent of the liberal Radicals who now controlled the " rump Confederation ".

Sproule was a staunch Protestant from an Irish Unionist background.

A staunch Protestant, he first came to high attention when in 1927 he joined with the Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks in attacking the proposed new version of the Book of Common Prayer.

In America, Marianne met both Jane Addams and Florence Kelley, both staunch feminists and active political reformers Also during that year, Max re-entered the public sphere, publishing, among other things, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

He was a staunch Protestant, and could not resist the temptation of turning his wit against the Roman Catholic Church, which resulted in Epigrammata being placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1654, and led a rich old uncle of the Roman Catholic communion to cut him out of his will.

John Hall an staunch Protestant and supporter of the ICM bought Letterfrack from the quaker Ellis family for use by the ICM.

A staunch Protestant, Stoecker was a believer in German cultural Protestantism.

The senior branch of the family had been staunch Catholics and Royalists ( notably in the 17th and 18th centuries ) through the worst times until Charles Molyneux, 8th Viscount Molyneux, was rewarded for converting to the Protestant faith.

However, at least some of the influences that Cromwell had hoped to exert appeared to have been successful, as Henry had become a staunch Protestant, and quarrelled bitterly with his mother over matters of religion and politics.

He was a controversial figure in Irish history, being described variously as a Protestant hardliner, a staunch anti-Catholic, and an early supporter of Union with England ( which finally happened shortly before his death ).

The Property was sold to John Hall in 1857, a staunch Protestant and supporter of the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics, the ICM used the building with the aim of converting Catholics to Protestantism, after 25 years without much success he sold it in 1882 under the impression he was selling it was a Protestant buyer for £ 3000 for 1000 acres.

The first, in October 1483, was led by staunch allies of Edward IV and most notably by Richard's former ally, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

Many have speculated that either Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset or James Butler, Earl of Wiltshire, both staunch allies of Margaret, were the young prince's actual father.

Margaret consequently was a staunch supporter of anyone willing to challenge Tudor, and backed both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, even going so far as to acknowledge Warbeck as her nephew, the younger son of Edward IV, the Duke of York.

He named it after Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, a staunch advocate of colonial independence.

The Duke and Duchess had risen to greatness not least because of their intimacy with Anne, but the Duchess's relentless campaign against the Tories ( Sarah was a firm Whig ), isolated her from the Queen whose natural inclinations lay with the Tories, the staunch supporters of the Church of England.

The Whigs considered themselves the heirs of the staunch anti-French policies of William III and the Duke of Marlborough.

" Later in the same year, she unsuccessfully interceded with James II for the life of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Charles's illegitimate son and leader of the Monmouth Rebellion – even though Monmouth in rebellion had called upon the support represented by the staunch Protestants opposed to the Catholic Church.

Maria Theresa's uncle, Duke Francis V of Modena, was a staunch Roman Catholic.

Maximilien de Béthune, first Duke of Sully ( 13 December 1560 – 22 December 1641 ) was the doughty soldier, French minister, staunch Huguenot and faithful right-hand man who assisted Henry IV of France in the rule of France.

However, when the news was brought that Gregory's Norman ally, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, was hastening to his aid, Henry fled Rome with Guibert and, in revenge for Matilda's staunch support for Gregory and the reform party, ravaged her possessions in Tuscany.

Respone a M. le duc D ’ Hartcourt was written as a response to Duke Hartcourt ’ s staunch criticism of Egyptian life and women.

Fitzwilliam was unrepentant, writing to Thomas Grenville on 3 April that the Duke of Portland " has been bewildered, and in his confusion has been led into irretrievable error ; but that error is of a nature never, I fear, to be got over: he has been induced to abandon his principles, and give up his friend, his firm, his steady his staunch supporter.

Isabella's father, the Duke of Bourbon, was a staunch Armagnac and had distinguished himself in the Battle of Agincourt, which nevertheless ended with France suffering a humiliating defeat.

His father Charles was a staunch royalist and accomplished artist whose paintings were displayed and given prizes at the Parisian salon, at least in those years when he was not absent in protest of the rise to power of Louis Napoleon.

Surprisingly, this leniency worked to good effect ; hereafter, the Provençals proved staunch supporters of Charles, providing money and troops for his further conquests.

John then returned to Barcelona and the pope promptly died, to be replaced by Simon de Brie, a Frenchman and a staunch ally of Charles.

Villèle's plans were assisted by the death of Louis XVIII and the accession of his brother, Charles X, a staunch believer in absolute monarchy.

He was educated at the court of the Netherlands with the future emperor Charles V of Germany, who remained to the last his staunch friend.

Even up until the last minute, Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) loyal to Charles Wilson Cross — the province's Attorney-General and a staunch Rutherford ally — threatened to scuttle the arrangement unless Cross was kept on as attorney-general, to which Sifton refused to agree.

Amice Andros, his father, was Bailiff of Guernsey and a staunch supporter of Charles I.

Along with his elder brother, Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus, Prince Charles was educated to be a staunch Lutheran under the tutelage of Johan Skytte.

Although Henry, who attended the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, was at first not averse to Martin Luther and his teachings, he later followed Charles ' example and remained a staunch Catholic.

Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 10 March 1607 – 16 May 1667 ), styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was a 17th century English statesman, a staunch supporter of Charles II who would rise to the position of Lord High Treasurer after the English Restoration.

This Sir James Steuart was descended from another Sir James Stewart, knight, an Edinburgh merchant, a staunch Presbyterian, who supported Charles II in the British Civil Wars of 1642-1660.

Arnulf, for his part, remained a staunch partisan of Berengar and it has even been suggested that he was creating a Carolingian alliance between himself and Louis of Provence, Charles III of France, and Berengar against Guy and Rudolph I of Upper Burgundy.

As a staunch internationalist and antimilitarist, Hillquit represented the ideological center of the Socialist Party during the years of World War I, which controlled the organization in coalition with the more pragmatist right wing exemplified by such locally-oriented leaders, politicians, and journalists as Victor Berger, Daniel Hoan, John Spargo, and Charles Edward Russell.

He was a staunch Royalist and one of his poems was to celebrate the return of Charles II in 1660 after the collapse of the Cromwellian Commonwealth.

A staunch Presbyterian and Whig, he volunteered to defend the city against the Jacobites led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1745.

In 1639, 1644, and 1645, and remaining staunch to the royal cause not withstanding the penalty imposed on him by Charles I, he served in the Parliaments, and in 1639 he was reappointed as a Privy Councillor, likely because of his refusal to take the covenants.

During the reign of Charles II ( 1660-1680 ), the Manor was held by Sir Thomas Stanley, a knight of Henry Cromwell and a staunch supporter of the Restoration.

Having trained as an evangelical Anglican, Stebbing expected to be a staunch opponent of Charles Darwin's recently published theory of evolution by natural selection.

Lord Aston was a staunch Royalist during the English Civil War: he was present at the Siege of Lichfield in 1643 and the surrender of Oxford ; King Charles I expressed his regret at not being able to reward him as he deserved. After the failure of the Royalist cause he was required to compound for his estates and live in private.