Antoine Busnois was one of the most prominent composers in the Burgundian ducal court in the second half of the 15th century. |
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Nevertheless, the visual evidence and written documentation suggest ducal involvement. |
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These ducal states originated in the supreme command of large bodies of troops, and then in the administration of large territories by dukes. |
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In Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti's ducal tombs in the Medici church of San Lorenzo particularly impressed him. |
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After the capture of Harfleur, he defended it against French attacks and was rewarded by promotion in 1416 to ducal rank. |
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In this production, the grave duke seems an ill match for the mercurial Lucio, and he must rouse all his ducal authority to muzzle the fool. |
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The viceroy's house, now the governor's, is a titanic white imitation of an English-county ducal palace. |
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It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders. |
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The same criticism can be made of ducal palaces like Chatsworth, Stowe, Woburn, Blenheim, sequestered in their parks. |
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The work was commissioned for the ducal theater in Milan, to open the 1772-73 season. |
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He wants grandchildren, legitimate ones, to carry on the illustrious ducal line. |
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Oh, I'm sure it's nothing like that fancy ducal estate you have, but we'll make do. |
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From the late 13th century the ducal council began restricting political and economic rights, banning the commenda and nationalising trade. |
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The central focus of the current exhibition in Cleveland is the foundation of the Carthusian monastery of Champmol and the ducal tombs that once occupied its choir. |
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Posing as an injured painter of noble birth, Castagno infiltrates the ducal palace and courts Marguerite, who secretly shelters him in her chambers and restores him to health. |
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Every transmission of the ducal power is, in principle at least, subject to the approval of the sovereign lord to which it owes homage. |
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Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class. |
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The public funeral, began a few days later with the display of an effigy of the deceased doge in the ducal palace. |
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Pincus's volume deals with the earliest examples of any of the four books, ducal tombs produced in Venice from the mid-duecento to the later quattrocento. |
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The title of duke was relatively new in England, with only Cornwall being a previous ducal title. |
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Many have emphasized the role played by the Medici, a banking family and later ducal ruling house, in patronizing and stimulating the arts. |
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Charles also inherited the tradition of political and dynastic enmity between the royal and the Burgundian ducal lines of the Valois dynasty. |
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Two senior branches of the ruling house, those of Kashin and Kholmsky, asserted their claims to the grand ducal throne. |
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The income from the salt trade was lost in 1594 because of the establishment of the ducal salt monopoly. |
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The battle turned in favour of the ducal forces and Henry took Conan prisoner. |
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Chilperic fled with his ducal ally to the land south of the Loire and Ragenfrid fled to Angers. |
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Here is the ducal palace, a plainish structure seven storeys high with dungeons below, and this now serves as the Museum of Popular Art. |
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Clepsydra, Gaullist, ducal, oxylophyte, bidet. |
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Not the doge's effigy: the golden spurs on the boots were reversed, the short ducal sword pointed downwards, and the ducal escutcheon of the Doge's arms turned upside down. |
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In Saxony the archbishop of Cologne was enfeoffed with Henry the Lion's ducal office and with all his rights in Westphalia, while an Ascanian prince, Bernard of Anhalt, received the eastern half of Henry's duchy. |
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And it also had housing facing directly on to it – some distinctly ducal, such as Northumberland House, but others that were a recognisable part of the old bricky weave of London. |
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By following closely the details of Lorraine funerals from 1598 to 1608, one can see how deliberately successive ducal ones mimicked the last preceding French royal one. |
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It is occupied at this time by the Town Hall. Although the basic structure is from the sixteenth century its stone façade is baroque, as are the ducal coats of arms that flank it. |
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The summit host, and Italy's new prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could find it just as difficult to make sure the proceedings inside Genoa's ducal palace go smoothly. |
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It was they who built the world's first picture gallery, indeed its first museum, to show off their family treasures at the ducal palace in Mantua. |
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Two giants each holding a club reminiscent of Hercules, stand on Renaissance style pedestals and support the coat of arms of the Duke bearing the ducal crown. |
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It was prohibited in Wuerttemberg by ducal building regulations in 1568 but continued to be used for some time afterwards, particularly for roof constructions. |
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She was possibly a member of the ducal household, but did not marry Robert. |
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It is unclear if William would have been supplanted in the ducal succession if Robert had had a legitimate son. |
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Most of the income came from the ducal lands, as well as from tolls and a few taxes. |
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This proved enough and Richard finally handed over the ducal castles in Aquitaine to Henry. |
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Many German castles after the middle ages were mainly built as royal or ducal palaces rather than as a fortified building. |
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Apart from the ducal title in the song and the events of their lives there is no external evidence to link the rhyme to any of these candidates. |
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Norman ducal patronage financed the spectacular Norman architecture of the abbey in subsequent centuries. |
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Meanwhile, Philip was joined by Count Baldwin of Flanders, and together they laid siege to Rouen, the ducal capital of Normandy. |
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The Duchy Originals company was set up in 1992 to use produce from farms on the ducal estate, with some proceeds going to his charities. |
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He began at once to enforce order in the duchy, where ducal power had long been fading. |
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The Duke's party returned to Edmondson's elaborate ducal carriage, still on the southern track. |
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By the time Confucius was 50 years old, the Ji family had consolidated their power in the Lu state over the ruling ducal house. |
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Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, commemorated by the ducal crowns around the supporters' necks. |
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Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir. |
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In 709 he launched a war against Willehari, duke of the Ortenau, probably in an effort to force the succession of the young sons of the deceased Gotfrid on the ducal throne. |
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Revolts characterised the region until well into the twelfth century and minor lords sought to resist ducal or royal power from within their own castles. |
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The House of Guise was a cadet branch of the ducal House of Lorraine. |
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In Confucius's time, the state of Lu was headed by a ruling ducal house. |
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In 1956, Brittany was legally reconstituted as the Region of Brittany, although the region excluded the ducal capital of Nantes and the surrounding area. |
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The Duchy of Burgundy, forming a large part of eastern France and the Low Countries, was inherited by the House of Habsburg on the extinction of the Valois ducal line. |
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The centre was held by the Normans, under the direct command of the duke and with many of his relatives and kinsmen grouped around the ducal party. |
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Earls held a status similar to that of the continental counts, but there were no dukes at this time, only ducal titles that the kings of England held. |
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It was a fairly simple administrative system, built around the ducal household, which consisted of a group of officers including stewards, butlers, and marshalls. |
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In 1988, West Dorset District Council allocated land in the ducal estate, west of Dorchester, for housing development, which became known as Poundbury. |
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