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101Richard Filangieri — Richard (Riccardo) Filangieri ( c .1195 ndash;1254/63) was an Italian nobleman who played an important part in the Sixth Crusade in 1228 ndash;9 and in the War of the Lombards from 1229 ndash;43. During the first half of his career he was a… …
102Blackshirts — Italian Camicie Nere Armed squads of Italian Fascists under Benito Mussolini who wore black shirts as part of their uniform. The squads, first organized in 1919, targeted socialists, communists, republicans, and others. Hundreds of people were… …
103Stigand — died Feb. 22, 1072 Archbishop of Canterbury (1052–70). He mediated the peace between Edward the Confessor and Earl Godwine (1052) and was made archbishop of Canterbury when the Norman archbishop fled. He was not accepted until 1058, and then only …
104Becher, Johann Joachim — ▪ German scientist born May 6, 1635, Speyer, Bishopric of Speyer died October 1682/85, England chemist, physician, and adventurer whose theories of combustion influenced Georg Stahl s phlogiston theory. Becher believed substances to be composed… …
105Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, Baron Cromwell of Okeham — ▪ English statesman Introduction born c. 1485, , Putney, near London died July 28, 1540, probably London principal adviser (1532–40) to England s Henry VIII, chiefly responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, for the dissolution of …
106Épernon, Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duke d' — ▪ French duke born May 1554, Caumont, Fr. died Jan. 13, 1642, Loches one of the most powerful new magnates in French politics at the turn of the 17th century. Of obscure nobility, La Valette rose to prominence as a favourite of Henry III,… …
107Golitsyn, Dmitry Mikhaylovich, Knyaz — ▪ Russian statesman (Prince) born June 13 [June 3, old style], 1665, Russia died April 25 [April 14, O.S.], 1737, St. Petersburg Russian statesman who unsuccessfully tried to transform the Russian autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.… …
108Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich, Prince — ▪ Russian military commander original name Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev Kutuzov born Sept. 5 [Sept. 16, New Style], 1745, St. Petersburg, Russia died April 16 [April 28], 1813, Bunzlau, Silesia [now Bolesławiec, Pol.] Russian army… …
109Benedetto Da Rovezzano — Benedetto da Rovezzano † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Benedetto da Rovezzano Sculptor and architect, b. in 1490, either at Rovezzano, near Florence, or, according to some authorities, at Canapale, near Pistoia; d. at Florence, 1530. His… …
110The Duke of Alva — The Duke of Alva † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Duke of Alva (FERNANDO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO) Born 1508, of one of the most distinguished Castilian families, which boasted descent from the Byzantine emperors; died at Thomar, 12 January …
