Word: mindelheim
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...Bavaria, the locals of Mindelheim hopefully awaited a visit from their greatest living hereditary "prince." His better-known name: Sir Winston Churchill. The Mindelheimers reckoned that Sir Winston, a sixth-generation grandson of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was a liege lord of theirs through his descent from that ancestor, who was paid off in 1705 with the principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established...
...Dick Russell has not forgotten that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, on his march through Georgia, burned Russell's grandfather's cotton mills and freed his 100-odd slaves. † For his cut-rate installation, after much haggling, Marlborough plunked down ?4,500, a bargain price for Mindelheim, which yielded a'Udy ?1,500 a year to its fief-holder...
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, 55, twice a baron, twice an earl, divorced husband of onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, owner of estates totaling 19,685 acres, exhibited last week toward the proposed reforms an attitude of flippancy...
...mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...
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