PHILIPPE DE See also:MORNAY (1549-1623)
, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-See also:Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, See also:French See also:Protestant, was See also:born at Buhy in See also:Normandy on the 5th of See also:November 1549
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His See also:mother had leanings toward Protestantism, but his See also:father sought to counteract her See also:influence by sending him to the See also:College de See also:Lisieux at See also:Paris
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On his father's See also:death in 1559, however, the See also:family formally adopted the reformed faith
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Mornay studied See also:law and See also:jurisprudence at See also:Heidelberg in 1565 and the following See also:year See also:Hebrew and See also:German at See also:Padua
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On the outbreak of the second religious See also:war in 1567, he joined the See also:army of See also:Conde, but a fall from his See also:horse prevented him from taking an active See also:part in the See also:campaign
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His career as Huguenot apologist began in 1571 with the See also:work Dissertation sur l'eglise visible, and as diplomatist in 1572 when he under-took a confidential See also:mission for See also:Admiral de See also:Coligny to 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 the Silent, See also:prince of See also:Orange
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He escaped the St See also:Bartholomew See also:massacre by the aid of a See also:Catholic friend, and took See also:refuge in See also:England
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Returning to See also:France towards the end of 1573, he participated during the next two years with various success in the See also:campaigns of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry of See also:Navarre
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He was taken prisoner by the See also:duke of See also:Guise on the loth of See also:October 1575, but not being recognized was ransomed for a small sum
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Shortly afterwards he married See also:Charlotte Arbaleste at See also:Sedan
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Mornay was gradually recognized as the right-See also:hand See also:man of the 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 of Navarre, whom he represented in England from 1577 to 1578 and again in 158o, and in the See also:Low Countries 1581-1582
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With the death of the duke of Aleneon-See also:Anjou in 1584, by which Henry of Navarre was brought within sight of the See also:throne of France, the See also:period of Mornay's greatest See also:political activity began, and after the death of the prince of Conde in 1588 his influence became so See also:great that he was popularly styled the Huguenot See also:pope
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He was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Dieppe, fought at Ivry, and was at the siege of See also:Rouen in 1591-92, until sent on a mission to the See also:court of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth
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He was bitterly disappointed by Henry IV.'s See also:abjuration of Protestantism in 1593, and thenceforth
gradually withdrew from the court and devoted himself to
See also:writing
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He founded in 1593 the Protestant See also:academy or
university at See also:Saumur, which had a distinguished See also:history until its suppression by 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
Louis XIV. in 1683
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In 1598 he published a work on which he had See also:long been engaged, entitled De L'institution, usage et See also:doctrine du See also:saint sacrement de l'eucharistie en l'eglise ancienne, containing about 5000 citations from the scriptures, fathers and schoolmen
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Jacques See also:Davy Du See also:Perron,
See also:bishop of See also:Evreux, afterwards See also:cardinal and See also:archbishop of
See also:Sens, accused him of misquoting at least 500, and a public
disputation was held at See also:Fontainebleau on the 4th of May 1600
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Decision was awarded to Du Perron on nine points presented, when the disputation was interrupted by the illness of Mornay
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His last years were saddened by the loss of his only son in 1605 and of his devoted wife in 16o6, and were marked only by perfecting the Huguenot organization
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He was chosen a See also:deputy in 1618 to represent the French Protestants at the See also:synod of See also:Dort, and though prohibited from attending by Louis XIII., he contributed materially to its deliberations by written communications
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He was deprived of the governorship of Saumur at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Huguenot insurrection in 1621, and died in retirement on his See also:estate of La Foret-sur-Sevre on the 11th of November 1623
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His See also:principal See also:works, in addition to De L'institution, usage et doctrine du saint sacrement de l'eucharistie en l'eglise ancienne (La Rochelle, 1598), mentioned above, are Excellent discours de la See also:vie et de la mort (See also:London, 1577), a bridal present to Charlotte Arbaleste; Traite de l'eglise oil l'on traite See also:des principales questions qui ont See also:gig mues sur ce point en nostre temps (London, 1578) ; Traite de la verite de la See also:religion chretienne contre See also:les athees, epicuriens, payens, juifs, mahometans et autres infideles (See also:Antwerp, 1581); Le mystere d'iniquite, c'est a dire, l'histoire de la papaute (See also:Geneva, 1611)
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Two volumes of Memoires, from 1572 to 1589, appeared at La Foret (1624–1625), and a continuation in 2 vols. at See also:Amsterdam (1652); a more See also:complete but very inaccurate edition (Memoires, correspondances, et vie) in 12 vols. was published at Paris in 1624–1625
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See the See also:life of Mornay written by his wife for the instruction of their son, Memoires de Mme Duplessis-Mornay, vol. i. in the ed. of Memoires et correspondances de Duplessis-Mornay (Paris, 1824–1825) ; E. and E
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Haag, La France protestante, See also:article " Mornay "; J
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See also:Ambert, Du Plessis-Mornay (Paris, 1847) ; E
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Stahelin, Der Ubertritt K
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Heinrichs IV. von Frankreich zur katholischen Kirche (See also:Basel, 1856) ; See also:Weiss, Du Plessis Mornay comme theologien (See also:Strassburg, 1867)
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There is a See also:good article " Du Plessis-Mornay " by T
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Schott in Hauck's Realencyklopadie, and another by Grube in Kirchenlexikon
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