FALKES DE See also:BREAUTE (d. 1226)
, one of the See also:foreign mercenaries of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John of See also:England, from whom he received in See also:marriage the heiress of the earldom of See also:Devon
.
On the outbreak of the Barons' See also:War (1213) the king gave him the sheriffdoms of six midland shires and the custody of many castles
.
He fulfilled his military duties with as much skill as See also:cruelty
.
The royalists owed to his daring the decisive victory of See also:Lincoln (1217)
.
But after the See also:death of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Marshal, See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, Falkes joined the feudal opposition in conspiring against See also:Hubert de See also:Burgh
.
Deprived in 1223 of most of his honours, he was See also:drawn into a See also:rebellion by the imprudence of his See also:brother, who captured a royal See also:justice and threw him into See also:prison (1224)
.
Falkes was allowed to go into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile after his submission, and endeavoured to obtain a See also:pardon through the See also:mediation of See also:Pope See also:Honorius III
.
But this was refused, and Falkes died at St Cyriac in 1226
.
See See also:Shirley, Royal Letters, vol. i.; the Patent and See also:Close Rolls; See also:Pauli, Geschichte von England, vol. i. pp
.
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