WebPhilippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723), was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred to in French as le Régent.He was the son of Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, and Madame Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans.Born at his …

WebEugenia Stanhope, the impoverished widow of Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, was the first to publish the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, …

WebEarly life. Philip Doddridge was born in London the last of the twenty children of Daniel Doddridge (d 1715), a dealer in oils and pickles. His father was a son of John Doddridge (1621–1689), rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, who was ejected from his living following the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and became a Nonconformist minister, and a great-nephew of …

WebFamilie. Philippus II werd in 382 v.Chr. geboren in Pella als jongste zoon van Amyntas III van Macedonië en diens tweede vrouw Eurydice, een Illyrische prinses.Zijn broers waren Perdiccas III en kroonprins Alexander II van Macedonië en hij was de oom van Amyntas IV.Hij was vader van Alexander III, later bekend als Alexander de Grote, die hij had …

WebPhilip of Cognac (early 1180s – after 1201) was an illegitimate son of King Richard I of England, by an unidentified mother.. Philip had reached adulthood by the end of the 1190s. His father married him to his ward, Amelia, the heiress of Cognac, France, in Charente.However, when she died without issue, Richard kept the castle, and handed it …

WebChlothar II, sometime called "the Young" (French: le Jeune), (May/June 584 – 18 October 629), was king of Neustria and king of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. He started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Chlothar's uncle King Guntram of Burgundy ...

WebLife. In 1685, with the death of his Protestant cousin, the Elector Palatine Charles II, Philip William inherited the Electorate of the Palatinate, which thus switched from a Protestant to a Catholic territory.Charles II's sister, now the Duchess of Orléans and Louis XIV's sister-in-law, also claimed the Palatinate. This was the pretext for the French invasion in 1688, …

WebPhilippe II (ou Felipe II en espagnol), né le 21 mai 1527 à Valladolid et mort le 13 septembre 1598 au palais de l'Escurial, fils aîné de Charles Quint et d'Isabelle de Portugal, est roi d'Espagne, de Naples et de Sicile, archiduc d'Autriche, duc de Milan et prince [N 1] souverain des Pays-Bas de l'abdication de son père en 1555 à sa mort. Il devient …

WebHeart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the Commerce Clause gave the U.S. Congress power to force private businesses to abide by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin …

WebIsabella was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1830, the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies.She was entrusted to the royal governess María del Carmen Machín y Ortiz de Zárate.Queen Maria Christina became regent on 29 September 1833, when her three …