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(Encyclopedia) LusignanLusignanlüzēnyäNˈ [key], French noble family. The name is derived from a castle in Poitou, built, according to legend, by Mélusine. The family was powerful in the Middle Ages…Charles II, French king
(Encyclopedia) Charles II, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West.1 Kings: 22
1 Kings Chapter 22 1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to…Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of
(Encyclopedia) Halifax, George Savile, 1st marquess of, 1633–95, English statesman. A protégé of the 2d duke of Buckingham, he was made Viscount Halifax (1668) and sat (1672–76) in the privy council…William Shakespeare: King John, Act V, Scene V
Scene VThe French campEnter Lewis and his trainLewisThe sun of heaven methought was loath to set, But stay'd and made the western welkin blush, When English measure backward their own ground…William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act I, Scene V
Scene VCourt before the sameEnter King Lear, Kent, and FoolKing LearGo you before to Gloucester with these letters. Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her…William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act III, Scene V
Scene VGloucester's castleEnter Cornwall and EdmundCornwallI will have my revenge ere I depart his house.EdmundHow, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty,…William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act IV, Scene V
Scene VGloucester's castleEnter Regan and OswaldReganBut are my brother's powers set forth?OswaldAy, madam.ReganHimself in person there?OswaldMadam, with much ado: Your sister is the better…Matthias Corvinus
(Encyclopedia) Matthias CorvinusMatthias Corvinuskôrvīˈnəs [key], 1443?–1490, king of Hungary (1458–90) and Bohemia (1478–90), second son of John Hunyadi. He was elected king of Hungary on the death…Brewer's: Snow King
Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden. (1594, 1611-1632.) “At Vienna he was called in derision the Snow King, who was kept together by the cold, but would melt and disappear as he approached a…Trending
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