MARQUISE DE JACQUELINE DE See also:ROHAN See also:ROTHELIN (c. 1520-1587)
, daughter of See also:Charles de See also:Rohan and Jeanne de See also:Saint-Severin
.
Her See also:husband, See also:Francois of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans-See also:Longueville, See also:marquis de See also:Rothelin, died in 1548, and in watching her son's interests in See also:Neuchatel she was brought into contact with the reformers in See also:Switzerland
.
She then embraced Protestantism and turned her See also:chateau at Blandy, in See also:Brie, into a See also:refuge for See also:Huguenots
.
In 1567 she underwent a See also:term of imprisonment at the Louvre for harbouring Protestants
.
ROTHENBURG-OB•DER-TAUBER, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, 49 M. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Nuremberg
.
Pop
.
(1905) 8436
.
It is beautifully situated on an See also:eminence 200 ft. above the Tauber
.
It is flanked by See also:medieval walls, towers and See also:gates, and its See also:antique See also:appearance has been care-fully preserved
.
Perhaps the most interesting See also:building is the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, one See also:part of which See also:dates from 1240 and the other from 1572
.
The latter is a beautiful See also:Renaissance structure, with a magnificent See also:facade and a delicate See also:spire, and contains a See also:grand hall, the Kaisersaal, in which every Whit See also:Monday a See also:play, Der Meisterlrunk, which commemorates the See also:capture of the town by See also:Tilly in 1631, is performed
.
Other buildings are the See also:Gothic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, with curiously carved altars and beautiful stained-See also:glass windows, and containing in the Toppler See also:chapel the See also:tomb of the burgomaster, Heinrich Toppler; the 15th-See also:century church of St Wolfgang; the Franciscan church; and five other churches
.
The town has many picturesque houses, and possesses a library with some interesting archives
.
It has manufactures of toys and agricultural machinery, See also:electrical See also:works and breweries
.
Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, mentioned in the See also:chronicles in 804 as Rotinbure, was probably a See also:residence of the See also:dukes of See also:Franconia
.
It first appears as a town in 942 and until 11o8 was the seat of the See also:counts of Rothenburg-Komburg; when this See also:line became See also:extinct it passed to the See also:family of See also:Hohenstaufen, one member of which took the See also:title of See also:duke of Rothenburg
.
In 1172 it became a See also:free imperial See also:city and it attained the See also:zenith of its prosperity under the famous burgomaster Heinrich Toppler (1350-,408)
.
It took part in the movements in See also:South Germany during the 15th and 16th centuries
.
In 1631 Rothenburg was stormed by Tilly, and the See also:cup of See also:wine presented by the burgomaster, which, according to tradition, saved the town from destruction, is annually commemorated in the play mentioned above
.
See Bensen, Beschreibung and Geschichte der Stadt Rothenburg (See also:Erlangen, 1856); Merz
.
Rothenburg in alter and newer Zeit (2nd ed., See also:Ansbach, 1881); Schultheiss, Rothenburg, ein Stddtebild (See also:Zurich, 1892) ; and Das Festspiel zu Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber (See also:Munich, 1892) ; and W
.
See also:Klein, Fiihrer durch See also:die Stadt Rothenburg (Rothenburg, 1888)
.
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