Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Crown Princess Louise with her eldest child, early 1870s. Christian was born on 26 September 1870 at his parents' country residence, the Charlottenlund Palace, located on the shores of the Øresund Strait 10 kilometers north of Copenhagen on the island of Zealand in Denmark, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King Christian IX. [1]
Sovereign's Bodyguard is the name given to three ceremonial units in the United Kingdom who are tasked with guarding the Sovereign. These units are: His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms – formed 1509; King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard – formed 1485
Tiridates III of Armenia: Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, Armenian Church King of Armenia [24] [25]Vladimir I of Kiev: Eastern Orthodox Grand Prince of Kiev: First Christian ruler of Kiev, in the Russian Orthodox Church his title denotes "equal to the Apostles", in Russian "Владимир Святой", in Ukrainian "Володимир Святий" and "Святий ...
Royal Foreign Units Guards, King's Royal Guards such as the Scottish Guard, Swiss Guards such as the Hundred Swiss, Guards of the French Royal Army, which served the European monarchies such as the Kingdom of France (the Ancien Régime), part of the Maison militaire du roi de France. Monaspa, in the Kingdom of Georgia; Tobang, in the Goryeo ...
It was first published in English in 1533 in a translation by William Tyndale; in 1545 Miles Coverdale published an abridged translation. [2] During a stay in Tournehem, a castle near Saint-Omer in the north of modern-day France, Erasmus encountered an uncivilized, yet friendly soldier who was an acquaintance of Jacob Batt, Erasmus' close ...
The term somatophylakes is also used to refer to a member of the Royal Hypaspists, the agema, who acted as the King's bodyguard in battle.The Royal Pages would expect to begin their military service in this unit: thus Pausanias, Philip II's assassin was a member of this corps, not one of the Seven Bodyguards.
British Empire portal; United Kingdom portal; This category is meant for both individual appointments and collective bodies, such as guard corps, that are part of the civilian, military or ecclesiastical household of the British monarchy, including those specific to either England or Scotland, both professional and occasional.
King Sigurd returned home with fewer than a hundred of his personal Guard. Most of the Old Norse narratives which deals with Norwegians or Icelanders in the Varangian Guard are from the 13th century, and bear witness to a continued interest and generally positive views towards Byzantium within the West Norse cultural area.