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• The Duke of Alva —     The Duke of Alva     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Duke of Alva     (FERNANDO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO)     Born 1508, of one of the most distinguished Castilian families, which boasted descent from the Byzantine emperors; died at Thomar, 12 January …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Netherlands —     The Netherlands     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Netherlands     (Germ. Niederlande; Fr. Pays Bas).     The Netherlands, or Low Countries, as organized by Charles V, under whom the Burgundian era ended, comprised practically the territory… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Alva Belmont — Alva Erskine Belmont Alva E. Belmont, photo dated 1911. Born Alva Erskine Smith January 17, 1853(1853 01 17) Mobile, Alabama …   Wikipedia

• Alva — can refer to:;Places *Alva, Clackmannanshire, a burgh in Scotland *Alva, Florida, a town in the United States *Alva, Oklahoma, a city in the United States *Alva, Wyoming, a community in the United States *Halva or alva , a sweet made of flour… …   Wikipedia

• Alva —    ALVA, a parish, in the county of Stirling, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Stirling; containing 2216 inhabitants, of whom 2092 are in the village. The name of this place, the orthography of which has successively passed through the different forms… …   A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

• The Count of Egmont —     Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gâvre     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gâvre     Born at the Château de La Hamaide, in Hainault, 18 Nov., 1522; beheaded at Brussels, 5 June, 1568. He was a descendant of… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Great Favourite — The Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lerma is a stage play written By Sir Robert Howard, a historical drama based on the life of Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, the favorite of King Philip III of Spain. [David Womersley, ed.,… …   Wikipedia

• The Reformation —     The Reformation     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Reformation     The usual term for the religious movement which made its appearance in Western Europe in the sixteenth century, and which, while ostensibly aiming at an internal renewal of the …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Spanish Armada —     The Spanish Armada     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Spanish Armada     The Spanish Armada, also called the Invincible Armada (infra), and more correctly La Armada Grande, was a fleet (I) intended to invade England and to put an end to the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Eternal Quest — (U.S. title Tilting at Windmills ; subtitle A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight ) is a novel published in 2003. It is the first novel by the writer Julian Branston and concerns the writing of the novel Don Quixote . The U.S. title refers… …   Wikipedia