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   Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

   On 12 December 1936, at his Accession Privy Council, George VI announced he was to make his brother Duke of Windsor, and also re-admit him to the highest degrees of the various British Orders of Knighthood. ... Edward VIII · George VI · Henry, Duke of Gloucester · George, Duke of Kent · The Prince John · John Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover · Alastair, Duke of Connaught · George of Hanover
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   Cuéllar

   In 1184, king Alfonso VIII of Castile assembled the parliament in Cuéllar; there, he granted knighthood to several noblemen and among of them was the Count of Tolosa. ... In 1464, King Henry IV of Castile gave the town as a Lordship to his favorite nobleman Beltrán de La Cueva, first Duke of Alburquerque.
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   Arthur Sullivan

   Sullivan composed only four major serious works during this period: Incidental music for productions of Shakespeare's Henry VIII (1877) and Macbeth (1888), and two compositions for the Leeds Festival, of which he was appointed music director in 1880. ... Knighthood and maturity
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   Livery collar

   Until the reign of Henry VIII, the Order of the Garter, most ancient of the great knightly orders, had no collar. ... Orders of Knighthood
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   Charles I of England

   Ship money, fines in destraint of knighthood and forced loans were declared unlawful, and the hated Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission were abolished. ... Charles was buried in private on the night of 7 February 1649, inside the Henry VIII vault in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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   Ernle

   Robert TIDERLEIGH, of that place, temp. Henry VIII, m. ELIZABETH, dau. and co-heir of ANTHONY ERNLEY. ... They never achieved the ranks of the greater nobility which, in England, was confined to members of the peerage, but at least one branch of the family did accede to the ranks of hereditary knighthood created by King James I of England and known as the baronetage.
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   History of Christianity

   Sanctification of knighthood ... Henry VIII considered himself a thoroughly Catholic King, and in 1521 he defended the papacy against Luther in a book he commissioned entitled, The Defense of the Seven Sacraments, for which Pope Leo X awarded him the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith).
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   History of the Knights Templar

   The people of Anagni rose up and rescued the aged Boniface VIII, but he died only a month later from shock due to the ill treatment. ... ↑ The Knights Templar | In Praise Of The New Knighthood | www.templarhistory.com
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   Newington Green

   Henry VIII. ... Instead of the death penalty he was sent to the Tower of London, stripped of his knighthood and his estates, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
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    Gilbert Dethick

    On 14 April 1549 Dethick was granted a knighthood. ... He was sent on several missions to the Danish court to reclaim ships and was also sent to the Duke Cleves to negotiate the marriage of his daughter, Ann, with Henry VIII.

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• Livery collar,
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• History of Christianity,
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• Newington Green,
• Gilbert Dethick