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Mauclerc, Pierre

(Encyclopedia)Mauclerc, Pierre: see Peter I, duke of Brittany. ...

Lotan

(Encyclopedia)Lotan lōˈtăn [key], in the Bible, duke of Edom. ...

Robert Curthose

(Encyclopedia)Robert Curthose: see Robert II, duke of Normandy. ...

Beaufort, Edmund

(Encyclopedia)Beaufort, Edmund: see Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of. ...

Philip, Prince

(Encyclopedia)Philip, Prince: see Edinburgh, Prince Philip Mountbatten, duke of. ...

Franklin, John Hope

(Encyclopedia)Franklin, John Hope, 1915–2009, the dean of 20th-century African-American historians, b. Rentiesville, Okla., grad. Fisk Univ. (A.B., 1935), Harvard (M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1941). Franklin served on the...

William IV, king of Great Britain and Ireland

(Encyclopedia)William IV, 1765–1837, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1830–37), third son of George III. He went to sea in 1779, served under Admiral George Rodney in action off Cape St. Vincent (1780), and b...

Churchill, John

(Encyclopedia)Churchill, John: see Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st duke of. ...

Monk, George

(Encyclopedia)Monk, George: see Monck, George, 1st duke of Albemarle. ...

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