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The title of a Duke of Franconia was claimed by the Würzburg bishops until 1803 and by the kings of Bavaria until 1918.
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For example, No. 56 printed the patent giving the Electoral Prince the title of Duke of Cambridge.
* Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, claimant to the title of the head of House of Bourbon Two Sicilies.
The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.
The title was awarded to The Duke of Edinburgh by the Queen on his 90th birthday.
* Duke of Bourbon, a title in the peerage of France
Under the Carolingians, sometimes the Counts of Bordeaux held the title concomitantly with that of Duke of Vasconia.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang first bestowed the title of " Duke Wenxuan " on Kong Suizhi of the 35th generation.
In 1055, Emperor Renzong of Song first bestowed the title of " Duke Yansheng " on Kong Zongyuan of the 46th generation.
Despite repeated dynastic change in China, the title of Duke Yansheng was bestowed upon successive generations of descendants until it was abolished by the Nationalist Government in 1935.
Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.
On the same day the French King Louis XII named Cesare Duke of Valentinois, and this title, along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia, explains the nickname " Valentino ".
Duke of Marlborough ( ), referring to Marlborough in Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of England.
The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.
Station to Station ( 1976 ) introduced a new Bowie persona, the " Thin White Duke " of its title track.
In 1115, Henry V awarded the territory of Eastern Franconia ( Ostfranken ) to his nephew Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who used the title " Duke of Franconia.
* 1478 30 September – The Catholic Monarchs granted the title of Marquis of Gibraltar to the Duke of Medina Sidonia.
The town received the title of " Most Loyal City " ( Tenth Siege of Gibraltar ). The Duke died in 1507.
From 919 to 936, the Germanic peoples – Franks, Saxons, Swabians, and Bavarians – were united under Henry the Fowler, Duke of Saxony, who took the title of king.
From 1701 the title of Duke of Prussia was attached to the title of King in and of Prussia.
From 1701 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King in Prussia.
From 1772 onwards the titles of Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of King of Prussia.
With the accession of Wilhelm I to the newly-established imperial German throne, the titles of King of Prussia, Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg were always attached to the title of German Emperor.
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The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, and a similar fate befell Albert's efforts to revive in his own favour the disused title of duke of Franconia.
In 807 the district of today's Cheb was included in the new margraviate of East Franconia, which belonged at first to the Babenbergs, but from 906 to the counts of Vohburg, who took the title of margraves.
In this year he was granted the former Bishoprics of Würzburg and Bamberg, being granted the title of Duke of Franconia.
His full title was His Royal Highness Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine.
King Conrad I of Germany, duke of Franconia, had died in December 918 without a son and urged his brother, margrave Eberhard, who was to succeed him as Duke of Franconia, to nominate Henry as king, although they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia.
In 1115, Henry V awarded the territory of Eastern Franconia ( Ostfranken ) to his nephew Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who used the title " Duke of Franconia.
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He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.
In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.
In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.
In substance, said the Court, there was no transfer of equitable title.
Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.
Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.
Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.
For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.
The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.
Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
Aplu, meaning the son of, was a title given to the god Nergal, who was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun Shamash.
A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.
The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.
( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.
The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", could not survive translation to the theatre.
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