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1. Dukes was elected leader of Fine Gael in 1987 following the resignation of Garret FitzGerald due to poor results in the general election.
2. Dukes was again called into the cabinet becoming Minister for Finance less than two years into his Dáil career.
3. Dukes are The Most Noble or His Grace and peers under the rank of marquess are The Right Honourable.
4. Al Dukes is a radio producer who formerly worked for the Ron and Fez Show on WNEW-FM in New York City.
5. Al Dukes is a former radio producer who is best known for working on the Ron and Fez Show on WNEW-FM in New York City.

Duces

1. These concessions saw the very considerable power of the king parcelled out and retained by leading comites and duces (counts and dukes).

Mindaugas

1. Mindaugas, despite his youth, and his brother Dausprungas are listed among the elder dukes.

Daisy Duke

1. Beat out Britney Spears, for the role of Daisy Duke, in the upcoming movie, The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). (Web site)

Habsburg Dukes

1. One of the third generation of Habsburg dukes in Austria, he was the first to be born in Austria. (Web site)

German Princes

1. Queen Victoria did however create those German princes and dukes who married her daughters Royal Highnesses.

Courland

1. Thus, the Duchy of Courland had two dukes simultaneously thereafter. (Web site)

Agilolfing Dukes

1. In 725 and 728 Charles went into Bavaria, where the Agilolfing dukes had gradually rendered themselves independent, and re-established Frankish suzerainty. (Web site)

Spoleto

1. The pope has sought support from the Lombard dukes of Spoleto and Benevento.

Duchesses

1. It consists of a royal court with king and queen, dukes and duchesses and the like, who are presented in lavish costumes to an audience of invited guests. (Web site)
2. Reigning Dukes and Duchesses bore the style of Highness (HH), as did other members of ducal families.

Habsburg Dynasty

1. The entire area passed in 1384 to the dukes of Burgundy, in 1477 to the Habsburg dynasty, and in 1556 to the kings of Spain.

Bavarian Dukes

1. Tassilo III, who reigned from 748-794, was perhaps the greatest of the later Bavarian dukes, and would be remembered as the last of the Agilolfing dukes. (Web site)
2. On the death of the Frankish king Dagobert I (639), the Bavarian dukes from the house of Agilolfing became virtually independent. (Web site)

Local Dukes

1. After the extinction of the local dukes in 1294, the province fell to Przemysł II of Poland.
2. In the 12th century the political influence of local dukes was extended to large parts of Masovia.
3. Belarus and Ukraine and local dukes (princes) in these regions were firmly Orthodox. (Web site)

German Dukes

1. But he failed to establish the principle of hereditary succession, and the German dukes continued to elect one of their number as king. (Web site)

Lower Lorraine

1. In 1155 the Lords of Limburg severed themselves from Lower Lorraine and became independent dukes. (Web site)

Swabia

1. Meanwhile, the German dukes had elected a second king, Rudolf of Swabia, whom Henry IV could only defeat after a three-year war in 1080.

Polish Dukes

1. In 10th century Poznań and Gniezno were the main sites of Polish dukes, and centres of the Polish state. (Web site)
2. Polish dukes, at times rivals, vassals or allies of the empire, expanded their realm into these areas as well as the Germans and the Danes.

Epirus

1. Michael considered Epirus a vassal state, although Michael II and Nikephoros continued to ally with the Princes of Achaea and the Dukes of Athens.

Reichstag

1. For the first time, the assembly of the electors and other dukes was now called Reichstag (to be joined by the Imperial Free Cities later). (Web site)

Württemberg

1. Also stemming from Swabia are the local dynasties of the Dukes of Württemberg and the Margraves of Baden.
2. Queen Mary, although British like her mother, was the daughter of the Duke of Teck, a descendant of the German Dukes of Württemberg. (Web site)
3. The Tecks descended from the royal house of Württemberg, and the Battenbergs descended from the Grand Dukes of Hesse and by Rhine.

Beginning

1. At the beginning of the 9th century, the Franks removed the Carantanian princes because of rebellions, replacing them with their own border dukes. (Web site)
2. This was the beginning of a series of Agilolfing dukes that was to last until 788.

Luxembourg

1. Parts of Lower Lorraine, assembled by the Dukes of Burgundy, have come down as the Low Countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Rhine

1. The dukes of Upper Bavaria served also as Counts Palatinate of the Rhine.
2. Russian troops occupy Hamburg in late March, and the dukes of Mecklenburg withdraw from the Confederation of the Rhine.
3. The Habsburg dukes gradually lost their homelands south of the Rhine and Lake Constance to the expanding Old Swiss Confederacy.

United Kingdom

1. The prefix The Most Noble is a title of quality attached to the names of dukes and duchesses in the United Kingdom.
2. Dukes in the United Kingdom are addressed as "Your Grace" and referred to as "His Grace". (Web site)

Peerage

1. This is a list of Dukes in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. (Web site)
2. The following is a list of the Dukes of Burgundy (French: Duc de Bourgogne), a title in the peerage of France. (Web site)

Lausanne

1. The city which grew from the camp was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy and the Bishop of Lausanne.

Rectal

1. Stage I rectal cancer is sometimes called Dukes A rectal cancer. (Web site)

Monarchs

1. Dukes of Swabia family tree List of monarchs of Sicily. (Web site)

Brabant

1. After Henry V (1186-1235) the dukes of Lower Lorraine were known as dukes of Brabant. (Web site)

Middle Ages

1. In the Middle Ages, The dukes of Bavaria enjoyed Einbeck beer so much they hired away the best Einbeck brewmaster. (Web site)
2. In the Middle Ages, the area was ruled by the Pomeranian dukes as part of the Duchy of Pomerania. (Web site)

Lands

1. The Dukes of Halych and Volhynia managed to get control over Black Ruthenia, lands which were ruled by Vaišvilkas. (Web site)
2. As the Holy Roman Empire was until its dissolution a feudal structure, most of its Dukes were actually reigning in their lands. (Web site)
3. The 1232 document marked the first time that the German dukes were called domini terrae, owners of their lands, a remarkable change in terminology as well. (Web site)

Hanover

1. George I, George II, and George III also served as electors and dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg, informally, Electors of Hanover (cf.

Seat

1. On the summit of Hohentwiel are the ruins of an ancient castle that was the seat of the dukes of Swabia in the 10th cent.
2. It was also a seat of several of the Dukes of Masovia and one of the capitals of that state. (Web site)
3. Entrance to the Rundale Palace, the seat of the Dukes of Courland. (Web site)

Provence

1. Provence was ruled by a poorly-known series of dukes during the period of general Carolingian unity until the Treaty of Verdun (843).

Territory

1. It is not surprising, then, that when the Duchy of Poland was established, the Polish dukes attempted to increase their territory.

Territories

1. From this point until the beginning of the 16th century, the territories were frequently divided between brothers, making the Dukes difficult to list.
2. In the late middle ages, when the Habsburgs expanded their territories in the east, they often ruled as dukes. (Web site)
3. The Dukes of Mecklenburg had been placed under the ban of the empire, and expelled from their territories.

Greater Poland

1. Until 1250 Zantoch burgh was the main Warthe crossing, disputed between the dukes of Pomerania and Greater Poland.
2. Poznań and its surrounding region (though without Gniezno and Kalisz) became the domain of Mieszko III the Old, the first of the Dukes of Greater Poland.

Lion

1. Civil war erupted again, this time between the charming but weak Conrad III and the Welf dukes Henry the Proud and his son, Henry the Lion.
2. Finally in 1543 Charles V combined the lion of Gelderland with the lion of Zutphen (the dukes were also counts of Zutphen). (Web site)
3. After the acquisition of Flanders by the Burgundian dukes the lion was only used in escutcheons.

Sons

1. When Gotthard Kettler died in 1587, his sons, Friedrich and Wilhelm, became the dukes of Courland. (Web site)

Heirs

1. The Duchy of Cornwall was created in 1337 and held successively by the dukes of Cornwall who were also heirs to the throne. (Web site)
2. Gonzaga dukes seldom lived long, and they produced few heirs. (Web site)

Brandenburg

1. After the extinction of Pomeranian dukes, and as a result of Thirty-Years War Pomerania was divided between Sweden, Brandenburg, and Poland.
2. Treaties of 1236 and 1250 between Pomeranian dukes and margraves of Brandenburg verify the Brandenburg lordship.

Novgorod

1. Novgorod was governed by a popular assembly or veche that elected—and often exiled—the dukes. (Web site)
2. After the Mongol invasion of Russia, the town was divided into two parts, one of them assigned to Novgorod and another one - to the Grand Dukes of Vladimir.
3. This latter right had been already guaranteed to Novgorod by a general assembly of Russian dukes held in 1196. (Web site)

Muscovy

1. Able dukes and commanders enlargened the territories of Muscovy and it's sphere of influence during many years. (Web site)

Brunswick

1. In 1870s at latest it became obvious that the then senior branch of the House of Welf (dukes of Brunswick) would go extinct.
2. They were made lord of Brunswick and Lüneburg in 1181 and dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg on 12 August 1235. (Web site)

Tuscany

1. The Grand Dukes of Tuscany used the style Royal Highness for themselves but it is not clear what title other members of the family would have used. (Web site)

Grand Duchy

1. Moscow became (c.1271) the seat of the grand dukes of Vladimir-Suzdal, who later assumed the title of grand dukes of Moscow (see Moscow, grand duchy of). (Web site)
2. Additionally in the Saxon kingdom, grand duchy, and duchies, all the children of the ruler were also styled dukes or duchesses.

Piast Dukes

1. Territory of Poland during the rule of Piast dukes.
2. Many Piast dukes tried to reunite Silesia with Poland and even reunite Poland itself during the time of divisions. (Web site)
3. Afterwards it was divided between Piast dukes, descendants of Władysław II the Exile - High Duke of Poland.

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