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  2. List of rulers of Saxony - Wikipedia

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    The old Saxon coats of arms today lives on in the coats of arms of Lower Saxony and Westphalia.. The original Duchy of Saxony comprised the lands of the Saxons in the north-western part of present-day Germany, namely, the contemporary German state of Lower Saxony as well as Westphalia and Western Saxony-Anhalt, not corresponding to the modern German state of Saxony.

  3. Albion (Saxon) - Wikipedia

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    Albion (or Abbion shortened to Abbio or Abbi, also Alboin [1]) was a Germanic leader of the Saxons in the time of Charlemagne. (exact dates remain unknown) Albbi is considered one of the two principal Saxon chiefs along with Widukind. [2] He was the leader of the Eastphalians while the latter ruled the Westphalian Saxons. [3]

  4. List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The oldest six titles – created between 1337 and 1386 – were Duke of Cornwall (1337), Duke of Lancaster (1351), Duke of Clarence (1362), Duke of York (1385), Duke of Gloucester (1385), and Duke of Ireland (1386). The Duke of Ireland was a title used for only two years and is somewhat confusing since only a small portion of Ireland was ...

  5. Category:Dukes of Saxony - Wikipedia

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  6. Duchy of Saxony - Wikipedia

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    Upon the 843 Treaty of Verdun, Saxony was one of the five German stem duchies of East Francia; Duke Henry the Fowler was elected German king in 919. Upon the deposition of the Welf duke Henry the Lion in 1180, the ducal title fell to the House of Ascania , while numerous territories split from Saxony, such as the Principality of Anhalt in 1218 ...

  7. Peerage of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...

  8. Duke of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Ireland is a title that was created in 1386 for Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford (1362–1392), the favourite of King Richard II of England, who had previously been created Marquess of Dublin. Both were peerages for one life only. At this time, only the Pale of Ireland (the Lordship of Ireland) was under English

  9. Henry the Lion - Wikipedia

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    Born in Ravensburg, in 1129 or 1131, [1] he was the son of Henry the Proud, [1] duke of Bavaria and Saxony, who was the heir of the Billungs, former dukes of Saxony.Henry's mother was Gertrude, [1] only daughter of Emperor Lothair II and Empress Richenza, heiress of the Saxon territories of Northeim and the properties of the Brunones, counts of Brunswick.