Word: dukedom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have it, they frightened the French too-right back across the Pyrenees, after one of the most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...
Married. The Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), 25, heir to the dukedom of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace and about $5,600,000, first beau of Princess Margaret; and Susan Hornby, 22, wealthy socialite; in London (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
Burgundy is just a good red wine nowadays, but 500 years ago it was Europe's richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
Legend has it that, in 1477, Memling fought under the banners of Charles the Bold against the Swiss at Nancy, and was wounded. Charles himself, the last of the great Burgundian dukes, died in the battle, and Burgundy's power was broken forever. A breath of the dukedom's glory survives...
...last remnants of William the Conqueror's Dukedom of Normandy still held by the British Crown are the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. There, in sentimental moments, Norman islanders still sometimes toast William's distinguished successor George VI as duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear...