ARTHUR DE MONTAUBAN (d. 1479)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 760
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ARTHUR DE MONTAUBAN (d. 1479)
, French magistrate and prelate, belonged to one of the great families of Brittany
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To satisfy a private grudge against Gilles, brother of Duke Francis II. of Brittany, he intrigued to such good purpose that Gilles was arraigned for treason, and finally assassinated in prison in 1450
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When Montauban's duplicity was discovered he was deprived of his See also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
of bailli of Cotentin and banished
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He then turned See also: - MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
, and through the support of his brother, John de Montauban (1412-1466), See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
XI.'s favourite, obtained the archbishopric of Bordeaux in 1468
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He died in Paris on the 9th of March 1479
.
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