We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, Herbert A. Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability to anticipate moves, plays an essential role in chess-playing.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne.

* The central battle was conducted by Philip Augustus and his chief knights-William des Barres, Bartholomew of Roye, Girard Girard said the Scophe Truie, William of Garland, Enguerrand III de Coucy and Gautier de Nemours.

* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.

* The right flank, under the command of Renaud de Dammartin, also includes the Brabant infantry and English knights-under the command of Count William of Salisbury Longespée.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

de: William Kidd

A justification had to be given for the rejection of King John in whose name William Wallace and Andrew de Moray had rebelled in 1297.

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

de: Fort William ( Highland )

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.

* William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln ( 1096 – 1155 ) ( reverted to Crown )

The Earldom was created for a second time by King Stephen sometime after 1143 for William de Roumare.

He and his half-brother William de Roumare sent their wives to visit the constable ’ s wife there and then arrived ( dressed in ordinary clothes and escorted by three knights ), apparently to fetch the ladies.

Stephen eventually made a pact with the Ranulf and his half-brother and left Lincolnshire, returning to London before Christmas 1140, after bestowing making William de Roumare Earl of Lincoln and awarding Ranulf with administrative and military powers over Lincolnshire and the town and castle of Derby.

In 1149 or 1150 the king created him Earl of Lincoln as a rival to William de Roumare, who had gone over to the side of Empress Matilda.

William de Romare ( born c. 1096 ) ( also Roumare or Romayre or Romay ), 1st Earl of Lincoln, 2nd Baron of Kendall, Lord of Bolingbroke.

# William ( Helie ) de Roumare, married Agnes de Aumale.

They had a son William de Roumare who married twice and died without issue.

Other genealogies have reference to a second daughter, Hawise de Roumare, but again there is no reference to any children other than William in the historical records.

References exist as late as 1161 to " Hadewysia comitissa de Rumara " ( Hawise Countess of Rumara ) but these are referring to Hawise de Reviers the widow of William de Roumare.

de: William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln

On Roger's death, his son – William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln – inherited the manor.

William Cluck, Deloris Carrel Carty, and Edna Earl Eaton of North Dallas ; ;

In March 1067, William took Ealdred with him when William returned to Normandy, along with the other English leaders Earl Edwin of Mercia, Earl Morcar, Edgar the Ætheling, and Archbishop Stigand.

* 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( b. 1710 )

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

* William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1924 – 1931

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, the leader of this corps, was unhorsed and taken prisoner by Philip of Dreux, the fighting bishop of Beauvais.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In 1695, William III of England replaced the corrupt governor Benjamin Fletcher, known for accepting bribes of one hundred dollars to allow illegal trading of pirate loot, with Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

The head of the trust was a Methodist named William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth.

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by William Segar, 1588

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

In January Elizabeth married William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

William Gordon ( d. 1816 ), eldest son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a General in the Army.

William Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire.

* William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1679 – 1745 )