• Bedchamber Gentleman Usher Grand Almoner Grandmaster Grand Master of the Hunt Great officers Groom of the Stool Herald Intendant The Royal Fool Keeper of...
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  • Masraf-shehriyari (imperial steward), substitute for the intendant of kitchen. Mektubji, a private secretary of the grand vizier. Mihter (Mecter), a tent-pitcher; a...
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  • Master Forester Headman Intendant (and the related Superintendent) Lamido Marcher or Lady Marcher Matriarch or Patriarch Prior, Lord Prior Pursuivant Rangatira...
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  • The grand cordon of the Order of Leopold is the highest and oldest rank of chivalry and a formal diplomatic gift of the Kingdom of Belgium. This honour...
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    continued after the Nazi party came to power. In October 1934, he became the Intendant, or artistic director, of the Prussian State Theatre and, on 6 May 1936...
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    officer de plume who served as the naval intendant during the reign of Louis XIV. He was the son of naval intendant Nicolas Arnoul and a study companion and...
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    House of Bourbon (category Royal houses of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany)
    wanted to unify France under the monarchy. He established the role of intendants, non-noble men whose arbitrary powers of administration were granted (and...
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    approximately 800 young French women (King's Daughters) to the colony. In 1666, intendant Jean Talon organized the first census and counted 3,215 Habitants. Talon...
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    of America, from 26 June 1783 to 8 July 1784. From 1785 to 1787 he was intendant for the lands of Drenthe and member of the region's diet. He was also...
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    and of the Kings of the Belgians. There is also a group portrait of the intendants of the Willebroek Canal, with a view of Klein Willebroek. In the long...
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    unification, a role that would be taken over in the 17th century by royal intendants, who were recruited from among the ranks of the Masters of Requests. The...
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    power in the face of a simple animal. Meanwhile, the local bishop and the intendants had to deal with an influx of mail; people from all over France suggesting...
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    Bailiff (redirect from Grand Bailiff)
    the king's royal tax collectors and provincial governors, and later by intendants), and by the end of the 18th century, the bailiwicks, which numbered in...
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    the lord who was also the collateur profits. These payments were estimated in 1698 to 200 pounds in Memory of the General Alençon by the intendant, M....
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    as Knight Commander, 1885. Beniczky Ferenc, Hungarian aristocrat and Intendant of the Budapest Academy of Music and the Budapest Opera, from 1888; invested...
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    Gentleman Usher Grandmaster Great officers Groom of the Stool Herald Intendant The Royal Fool Keeper of the seal King of arms Knight/Earl Marshal Lady-in-waiting...
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    spoke out in favor of Vilafrancada, which earned him the appointment of Intendant-General of the Police of the Court and Kingdom and elevation to His Most...
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    November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015. "Peter Brook / Regisseur, Intendant". Academy of Arts, Berlin (in German). Archived from the original on 27...
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    promoted to colonel for his services to the independence, and finally named Intendant of Concepción. His friendship with O'Higgins started to crack by degrees...
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    earned him the nickname le Grand Colbert ([lə ɡʁɑ̃ kɔl.bɛʁ]; "the Great Colbert"). A native of Reims, he was appointed Intendant of Finances on 4 May 1661...
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    begin ascending the ladder of society: as early as 1704 he had been made Intendant General of the Army of Flanders. The grain trade was particularly profitable...
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    Intendant of Montauban, after proving their lineage since 1550 in the south of France. One of Julián's descendants, Jean de Médrano, knight, lord of...
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    applied by imposing constraints on the premises. In 1689, Desclouzeaux, intendant of the Brest stud farm, spoke of the "light fines" he imposed on owners...
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  • government, Zemindar, or renter. Aumildar: Agent, the holder of an office. An intendant and collector of the revenue, uniting civil, military, and financial powers...
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    Council of the Indies. The Bourbon Reforms introduced the new office of the intendant, which was appointed directly by the crown and had broad fiscal and administrative...
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    the Parlements refused to follow the decrees of the royal intendants. When the intendants attempted to assert their authority and collect taxes from...
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  • Geneviève de Morangias Johan Leysen as Antoine de Beauterne Bernard Farcy as Intendant Pièrre-Jean Laffont Hans Meyer as Marquis d'Apcher Philippe Nahon as Jean...
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    the famine of 1751-1752, he supplied large quantities of rice to the intendant of Etigny in Auch. In 1751, the two brothers inherited three tanners'...
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  • Parisian jurist, humanist and bibliophile Claude-Thomas Dupuy (1678–1738), Intendant of New France from 1726 to 1728 Dessi Dupuy (born 1993), Bulgarian footballer...
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    heirs. Comte d'Orsainville. Created in 1685, for Jean Talon, the first Intendant of New France. He died unmarried in 1694, and the title passed to his...
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