text:
preservationist
arts
Seattle, Washington
Carkeek Park
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Cav.
consul
London
Tallinn
Estonia
Bertrand Collins
imperial courtier
Paul Stroganov
Sam Hill House
Bainbridge Island
Paris
Associated Press
Easter
Seattle Art Museum
Museum of History and Industry

categories: People from Seattle,Women centenarians,American philanthropists,American centenarians,1994 deaths,1892 births,20th-century American women

paragraph: Guendolen Plestcheeff

paragraph: Guendolen Plestcheeff (née Carkeek, December 19, 1892 – August 30, 1994) was a preservationist and arts advocate from Seattle, Washington, known variously as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle". She was the wife of the Count Theodore Plestcheeff.

paragraph: Born Guendolen Carkeek to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is named, she started schooling in Seattle before being sent abroad to boarding and finishing schools in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Upon her return to Seattle, she met Cav. Paulo Brenna, the Italian consul in Seattle. The pair wed in London and eventually moved to Tallinn, Cav. Paulo having been appointed Italian ambassador to Estonia.

paragraph: By the late 1920s Guendolen Brenna had become one of the most fashionable women in the world and, in 1928, author Bertrand Collins penned a novel, "Rome Express", based on her life.

paragraph: While in Estonia, Guendolen met Count Theodore Plestcheeff, a Russian exile, former imperial courtier, and grandson of Count Paul Stroganov. Plestcheeff shared her interest in arts and antiques. Her marriage with Cav. Paulo ended in 1928 and she wed Count Plestcheeff the following year. Theodore and Guendolen Plestcheeff set-up residence in Seattle at the Sam Hill House in 1937 and spent the rest of their lives together alternating between that property, a summer house on Bainbridge Island, and a home in Paris. In Seattle, Guendolen Plestcheeff continued to be a style icon; in 1948, she was one of two-dozen women surveyed by the Associated Press about what she would be wearing that Easter as part of a poll of "America's best-dressed women" (she answered, "a slim black suit with white blouse and hat").

paragraph: Guendolen was widowed from Count Plestcheeff in the 1960s.

paragraph: During her life, Plestcheeff was deeply immersed in the preservation of Seattle historic spaces, serving from 1938 to 1965 as president of the Seattle Historical Society, which had been founded by her mother in 1911. She also was a founding member of the Decorative Arts Council of the Seattle Art Museum, endowed the nonprofit Plestcheeff Institute for the Decorative Arts in 1987, and helped raise the funds used to establish the Museum of History and Industry.

paragraph: Plestcheeff died in 1994 at the age of 101. The Seattle Art Museum's Plestcheeff Auditorium is named in her honor.

description: US  preservationist and arts advocate f

wikidata_label: Guendolen Plestcheeff

wikipedia_title: Guendolen Plestcheeff


text:
Bitlis
Western Armenia
Armenian Revolutionary Federation

categories: Date of birth unknown,1915 deaths,Armenian nationalists

paragraph: Balabekh Karapet

paragraph: Balabekh Karapet (;18?? - 1915 in Bitlis) was an Armenian fedayi in Western Armenia and Armenian Revolutionary Federation member.

wikidata_label: Balabekh Karapet

wikipedia_title: Balabekh Karapet


text: San Donato

text: San Donato

text: Marseille

text: Demidov

text: Trubetskaya

text: Saint Petersburg

text: Nice

text: Montreal

text: Nyons

text: Cazouls-lès-Béziers

text: Sevastopol

text: Geneva

text: Wiesbaden

text: Princely House Demidov de San Donato

categories: 1943 deaths,1874 births,Demidov family,Princes of San Donato,Russian princes

paragraph: Anatoly Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato

paragraph: Count Anatoly (called Anatole) Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato (; San Donato, 31 November OS: 12 November 1874 – Marseille, 27 October 1943) of the Demidov industrial family, was the last Prince and member of his house. He succeeded his elder half-brother Elim Pavlovich Demidov, 3rd Prince of San Donato in 1943 but died in exile in the same year without male issue.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Anatoly Demidov was the son of Princess Elena Petrovna Trubetskaya and Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato. His father died when young Anatoly was just 11 years old.

paragraph: In Saint Petersburg on 1 February 1894 he married Evgenia Klimentievna Podmener (Saint Petersburg, 12 December 1871 - Nice, 13 October 1958), by whom he had three daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess and Countess Elena Anatolyevna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 28 August OS: 15 August 1901 - Montreal, 26 June 1970), married in Nice on 29 July 1926 Paul René Geoffroy (Nyons, 2 May 1903 - Montreal, 27 October 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess and Countess Evgenia Anatolyevna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 25 September OS: 12 September 1902 - Cazouls-lès-Béziers, 25 April 1955), married in Nice on 29 September 1927 Jean Gerber (Sevastopol, 2 February 1905 - Geneva, 9 September 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess and Countess Aurora Anatolyevna Demidova (Wiesbaden, 11 December 1909 - Marseille, 17 March 1944), married in Marseille on 29 July 1933 Jean Giraud (Marseille, 26 October 1912 - Nice, 5 February 1962)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princely House Demidov de San Donato


text: naval surgeon

text: Cork

text: County Cork

text: Ireland

text: King's College, London

text: HMS "Herald"

text: Makdougall-Brisbane prize

text: Royal Society of Edinburgh

text: Royal Society

text: Joseph Toynbee

text: Edwin Lankester

text: Francis Sibson

text: Richard Owen

text: Richard Partridge

text: Royal Hospital Haslar

text: HMS "Lord Warden"

text: Army Medical School

text: Netley

text: Edward VII

text: 1902 Coronation Honours

text: "Victoria and Albert"

text: Cowes

text: fleet review

text: coronation

text: zoology

text: natural history

categories: 1908 deaths,1826 births,Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath,Fellows of the Royal Society,Royal Navy Medical Service officers,Royal Navy admirals,Irish surgeons,People from Cork (city)

paragraph: John Denis Macdonald

paragraph: Sir John Denis Macdonald (26 October 1826 – 7 February 1908) was a naval surgeon.

paragraph: Section::::Navy career.

paragraph: He was born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, the son of James Macdonald, an artist and art critic. He was educated at Cork school of medicine and King's College, London, where he was awarded M.R.C.S.Eng in 1849.

paragraph: Macdonald joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon and initially served at the Royal Hospital, Plymouth. In 1852 he was appointed to the survey ship HMS "Herald". As a result of his studies, principally with the microscope, on the seabed deposits brought up by the dredger he was awarded in 1862 the Makdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and elected a member of the Royal Society in 1859 (his membership was proposed by Joseph Toynbee, Edwin Lankester, Francis Sibson, Richard Owen and Richard Partridge among others).

paragraph: In 1864, by now promoted to surgeon, he was appointed to the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire and in June 1870 was made staff surgeon to HMS "Lord Warden", flagship in the Mediterranean. In March 1872 he was appointed to the flagship at Portsmouth for service as professor of naval hygiene at the Army Medical School at Netley, a post he continued to hold after his promotion to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets in February 1875. In July 1880 he was promoted Inspector-General, and put in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth from 1883 to 1886. He retired in 1886.

paragraph: Following the succession of King Edward VII, he was among several retired navy officers appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, the investiture was on board the royal yacht "Victoria and Albert" outside Cowes on 15 August 1902, the day before the fleet review held there to mark the coronation.

paragraph: In later life he researched in the fields of zoology and natural history.

paragraph: He died in Southall, Middlesex in 1908.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Macdonald was married twice; firstly in 1863 to Sarah Phoebe (d. 1875), daughter of Ely Walker of Stainland, Yorkshire, by whom he had two sons and two daughters and secondly to Erina, daughter of William Archer, prebendary of Limerick.

description: Irish surgeon and zoologist

wikidata_label: John Denis Macdonald

wikipedia_title: John Denis Macdonald


text:
bog body
Damendorf
Schleswig-Holstein
P.V. Glob
BCE
believed to be a woman

categories: Archaeology of Schleswig-Holstein,Iron Age Germany,Bog bodies,Archaeological discoveries in Germany

paragraph: Damendorf Man

paragraph: Damendorf Man is a German squashed bog body discovered in 1900 in the See Moor at the village Damendorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Display and Examination.

paragraph: The remains are currently on display at the Archäologisches Landesmuseum. Professor P.V. Glob wrote that the man died in 300 BCE. What is unique about this bog body is the fact that the weight of the peat in the bog had flattened his body. Only his hair, skin, nails and his few clothes were preserved, along with traces of some bones. He was found with a leather belt, shoes, and a pair of breeches.

paragraph: Section::::Other finds.

paragraph: Prior to the Damendorf Man's discovery, the remains of what are believed to be a woman were found in 1884 in the same bog. The clothing of the corpse is all that remains. A girl was discovered in 1934, dating to 810 BCE.

description: Iron age bog body from germany

wikidata_label: Damendorf Man

wikipedia_title: Damendorf Man


text:
Liberal
House of Commons
Rugby School
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
J.P.
Parliament
Preston
Stoke-upon-Trent
1865 general election
Member of Parliament
resignation
Conservative
Alexander Beresford Hope
general election in November 1868
1874
George Melly

wikipedia_title: Stoke-upon-Trent (UK Parliament constituency)

wikipedia_title: Resignation from the British House of Commons

categories: People educated at Rugby School,1894 deaths,British businesspeople in shipping,Volunteer Force officers,UK MPs 1865–1868,1830 births,Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,UK MPs 1868–1874,UK MPs 1874–1880

paragraph: George Melly (MP)

paragraph: George Melly (20 August 1830 – 27 February 1894) was an English merchant and shipowner and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1875.

paragraph: Melly was the son of Andrew Melly and his wife Ellen Greg, daughter of Samuel Greg of Manchester. He was educated at Rugby School and became a merchant and shipowner. He was a member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, and a director of the Union Marine Insurance Co. He was a J.P. for Liverpool and was major of the 4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers from 1859 to March 1866. He authored a number of books and pamphlets.

paragraph: Melly stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at a by-election in April 1862 in Preston, and in Stoke-upon-Trent at the 1865 general election. Melly was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-upon-Trent at a by-election in February 1868 following the resignation of the Conservative MP Alexander Beresford Hope. He was re-elected at the general election in November 1868, and in 1874, and held the seat until his resignation on 5 February 1875 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

paragraph: Melly died at the age of 63.

paragraph: Melly married Sarah E M Bright daughter of Samuel Bright of Liverpool in 1852.

paragraph: He was the great-grandfather of George Melly, the jazz singer and writer, and Andree Melly, the actress.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "School Experiences of a Fag"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Compulsory Education"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reformatory System"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Italy"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Future of the Working Classes"

description: British politician

wikidata_label: George Melly

wikipedia_title: George Melly (MP)


text:
Polish
Die Brücke
Brody
Jew
Hamburg
University of Bern
PhD
Heidelberg University
Leipzig University
Balzac
Zola
Die Brücke
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Walter Gramatté
Nazi
Architectural Review
Connoisseur
Nikolaus Pevsner
The Buildings of England
Tate Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Victoria and Albert Museum
Leicester Museum
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

wikipedia_title:
Poland
Die Brücke
Brody
Jews
Hamburg
University of Bern
Doctor of Philosophy
Heidelberg University
Leipzig University
Honoré de Balzac
Émile Zola
Die Brücke
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Walter Gramatté
Nazism
Architectural Review
The Connoisseur (magazine)
Nikolaus Pevsner
Pevsner Architectural Guides
Tate
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Victoria and Albert Museum
New Walk Museum
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

categories: 19th-century German historians,German art historians,Women art historians,University of Bern alumni,German translators,20th-century German historians,Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom,1874 births,Heidelberg University alumni,People from Brody,20th-century German women writers,Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom,German women historians,French–German translators,19th-century women writers,20th-century translators,People from Hamburg,1954 deaths,Translators from Polish

paragraph: Rosa Schapire

paragraph: Rosa Schapire (September 9, 1874 – February 1, 1954) was a Polish-born art historian who lived in Germany and England. She was a model and art owner who gave early recognition to the Die Brücke group of artists.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Rosa Schapire was born in Brody in 1874. The daughter of wealthy Jewish parents, she was educated by private tutor. In 1893, she moved to Hamburg. In 1897, she published "Ein Wort zur Frauenemanzipation" (A word on women’s emancipation). She studied art history, receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Bern in 1902 and going on to earn a PhD from Heidelberg University in 1904. Schapire pursued post-graduate studies at Leipzig University.

paragraph: After her return to Hamburg in 1908, she worked at translation and publishing criticism. She translated Balzac, Zola and the Polish art historian into German. She gave early recognition to the Die Brücke group of artists. She helped found the Frauenbund zur Förderung deutscher bildenden Kunst (Women’s Society for the Advancement of German Art) in 1916.

paragraph: Schapire was herself a model for different painters. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff of the Brücke group made several portraits of her including one in 1919. Walter Gramatté painted her in 1920. In 1924, she published a catalogue of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's graphic works.

paragraph: In 1939, she was able to escape Nazi-dominated Germany for England. There, she contributed to various art journals, such as "Architectural Review", "Eidos", "Connoisseur" and "". She also assisted Nikolaus Pevsner with collection of material for his series "The Buildings of England".

paragraph: She died in the Tate Gallery in 1954.

paragraph: Her attempt to donate part of her collection to British museums while she was alive was not well-received and she donated the bulk of her art collection to museums in Germany: Mannheim, Berlin, Altona, Hamburg and Cologne. Other works were sent to museums in Holland, Belgium, New Zealand (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), Chicago and Tel Aviv with the only British examples available at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Leicester Museum. However, there is one portrait of her by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in The Tate.

description: German art historian, author and translator

wikidata_label: Rosa Schapire

wikipedia_title: Rosa Schapire


text:
Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
Limerick
Ireland
New Orleans
St. Louis
New York City
Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Theatre
assassination
Congressional Cemetery
Chester Arthur
Smithsonian American Art Museum
John A. Logan
Capitol
Franklin Simmons
Major General John A. Logan

categories: 20th-century American sculptors,1836 births,1922 deaths,Artists from Washington, D.C.,People from Limerick (city),19th-century American sculptors,Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)

paragraph: Lot Flannery

paragraph: Lot Flannery (1836–December 19, 1922) was an Irish-American sculptor from Washington, D.C., best known for his work on the "Abraham Lincoln" statue, the nation's oldest extant memorial to the assassinated president.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Flannery was born in Limerick, Ireland, but moved to the United States as a child. He displayed a talent for art and began studying the field in Washington, D.C. He focused his work on sculpture and traveled to Europe to further his studies. Flannery also spent time living in New Orleans, St. Louis, and New York City, but spent most of his life in Washington. He owned one of the largest stone carving businesses in Washington and specialized in carving tombstones.

paragraph: Flannery knew President Abraham Lincoln and was at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Shortly after Lincoln's death, Washingtonians chose to erect a memorial honoring the slain president. Many designs were submitted to the monument planning committee, but Flannery's model was unanimously chosen. The committee called his design the "most spirited" and "an excellent likeness." The memorial was dedicated on April 15, 1868, the third anniversary of Lincoln's death. Flannery's statue is the only statue of Lincoln created by someone who knew him.

paragraph: In addition to the Lincoln sculpture, Flannery's notable works include the Arsenal Monument at Congressional Cemetery and a sculpture of President Chester Arthur on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Flannery sculpted a marble bust of General John A. Logan that was previously exhibited in the Capitol. A copy of that bust made by artist Franklin Simmons was used in producing the equestrian sculpture "Major General John A. Logan". Flannery never married and lived alone until his death at his residence on December 19, 1922.

description: American sculptor

wikidata_label: Lot Flannery

wikipedia_title: Lot Flannery


text:
courtesy name
disciples of Confucius
Confucius
Yan Hui
Min Sun
State of Lu
Ran Yong
Ran Qiu
leprosy
Confucian temple
spirit tablet
Twelve Wise Ones
五經博士

categories: 544 BC births,Philosophers from Lu (state),6th-century BC philosophers,Year of death unknown,Disciples of Confucius

paragraph: Ran Geng

paragraph: Ran Geng (born 544BC), also known by his courtesy name Boniu, was one of the most prominent disciples of Confucius. Confucius considered him his third best disciple, after Yan Hui and Min Sun, in terms of moral conduct.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Ran Geng was a native of the State of Lu, and was only seven years younger than Confucius. He was from the same clan as Ran Yong and Ran Qiu, two other prominent disciples of Confucius. When Confucius served as the Minister of Justice of Lu, Ran became the magistrate of Zhongdu. He contracted a vile disease, possibly leprosy, and died young. Confucius lamented his early death with great pain.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In Confucian temples, Ran Geng's spirit tablet is placed the fourth among the Twelve Wise Ones, on the west.

paragraph: Ran Geng's offspring held the title of Wujing Boshi (五经博士; 五經博士; Wǔjīng Bóshì).

alias:
Boniu
Ran Boniu

wikidata_label: Ran Geng

wikipedia_title: Ran Geng


text:
American
talent agent
author
New York City area
country music
Hank Williams
blues
Bessie Smith
banjoist
Samantha Bumgarner
Johnson City Sessions
Charlie Bowman
Clarence Ashley
A&R
Columbia Records
RCA Victor
Cambridge, New York
consumption
Albany
Wall Street
World War I
Columbia Phonograph Company
Columbia Records
Clarence Williams
Bessie Smith
New York City
Down Hearted Blues
Blind Willie Johnson
Joe Falcon
Breaux Family
Johnson City Sessions
Tennessee
Clarence Ashley
RCA Victor Records
Big Band Musicians
Glenn Miller
Duke Ellington
Coleman Hawkins
MGM Records
Hank Williams
Mississippi
disc jockey
Jimmy Swan
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States
Philmont, New York
Maryland
Crofton, Maryland
Glen Burnie, Maryland
heart attack
Little Neck, New York
Billboard Magazine
Hank Williams
Saint Charles Cemetery
Farmingdale, New York
Conway Twitty
It's Only Make Believe
HBO
Bessie
biographical film
Bessie Smith
Hank Williams
I Saw the Light
documentary
American Epic
Bernard MacMahon
Cajun

categories: American military personnel of World War I,1889 births,American talent agents,Record producers from New York (state),1963 deaths,People from Cambridge, New York

paragraph: Frank Buckley Walker

paragraph: Francis "Frank" Buckley Walker (October 24, 1889 - October 15, 1963) was an American talent agent and author from the New York City area. Some of his talent discoveries included country music singer Hank Williams, blues singer Bessie Smith and banjoist Samantha Bumgarner.

paragraph: He is known for running the Johnson City Sessions from 1928 to 1929, which launched the careers of various artists including Charlie Bowman and Clarence Ashley. In 1923, Walker became the head of A&R for Columbia Records and RCA Victor. His career as a talent agent lasted for over 40 years until his death in 1963.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Frank Walker was born on a farm in rural Fly Summit, an area in Cambridge, New York, on October 24, 1889. He was the youngest of seven children born to Mary Ann Buckley (August 13, 1851 - April 25, 1922) and Solomon Walker (June 14, 1852 - November 6, 1895). Frank and his brothers, Lester, George, Mack, and Ed worked on the farm as children and helped with income for the family. They especially helped when their father died of consumption when Frank was only six. He disliked working on the farm as a child apparently because of the long hours of work and the hard labor. He left home when he was 18 and took up a job in a bank in Albany. Eventually he became assistant manager and stayed in Albany for five years.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1913, Frank Walker was offered a Wall Street job in New York City for a politician, this job he held until 1916 when he was drafted during World War I into the Navy. After his military service, he went back out looking for a new job in 1919. A chance encounter with a man named Francis Whiten who had connections with the owners of the Columbia Phonograph Company. This was a job in which he discovered his enthusiasm for country music and for his newfound career. He was eventually promoted to a talent agent and first went to the South in 1923 looking for talent meeting the Columbia A&R Atlanta Georgia's Dan Hornsby, after his promotion to head of the race division at Columbia Records. His first priority on mind was to find a talented blues singer he heard back in 1917 at a gin mill in Selma, Alabama. With promoter Clarence Williams's help, he found the woman, Bessie Smith, and brought her up to New York City to record the soon-to-be smash hit Down Hearted Blues. This would be the first of many hit discoveries for Frank Walker as he continued to succeed in his profession. Walker was responsible for discovering and recording Blind Willie Johnson, Joe Falcon and the Breaux Family. In the late 1920s, the Johnson City Sessions in Tennessee led to many more successful country music artists. They included Bill and Belle Reed, Clarence Ashley, the Bently Boys, Ira and Eugene Yates and several others. In the years following this successful venture, he became the head of RCA Victor Records and continued signing artists there in the 1930s and 1940s. There, he supervised recordings from legendaryBig Band Musicians like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and Coleman Hawkins.

paragraph: Section::::Later years.

paragraph: In the mid-1940s, he went into retirement as he was well off having a high paying job most his life. However, it was short lasting, as he decided to come out of retirement in 1946 to help found MGM Records with others who were seeking his help and experience. Through this company, he signed and became close friends with country singer Hank Williams, one of his greatest musical discoveries for which he is known. Hank once mentioned to him that their names sounded alike, so they would probably get along "just fine". As a result of his close relationship with him, Frank was crushed when he heard about his death in 1953. On that day, he wrote a letter as a tribute to him later known as "The Last Letter", which was later read over the radio by Mississippi disc jockey Jimmy Swan. He and Hank would usually exchange charismatic letters between each other so this was Frank's way of paying tribute. In 1956, he got to meet Richard Nixon, the vice president to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the future 37th President of the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: On September 9, 1919, Walker married Laura Margaret Boyne (May 23, 1894 - April 3, 1990) in New York City. She was originally from Philmont, New York. They had three children named John Robert Walker (born January 31, 1922), Joan Marie Walker (born September 12, 1926), and Jean Mary Walker (born August 3, 1928). After her husband's death in 1963, Laura Walker moved to Maryland, where she was near her son John and his family. She died at a nursing home in Crofton, Maryland, in 1990 at the age of 95. She was buried in Glen Haven Cemetery in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: On October 15, 1963, nine days before turning 74, Walker died of a heart attack at his home, 4301 Westmoreland Avenue, in Little Neck, New York. On November 2, 1963, "Billboard Magazine" printed an article including his tribute to Hank Williams in his memory. He was buried in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Upon his death, Walker was survived by his three children and ten grandchildren. Jim Vienneau, the son of his sister-in-law, is also a music producer and his uncle Frank was his mentor. He is best known for producing the Conway Twitty song, "It's Only Make Believe".

paragraph: In 2015, Walker was portrayed by actor Joe Knezevich in the HBO film "Bessie", a biographical film about blues singer Bessie Smith. Later in 2015, he was portrayed by Rob Boltin in another biographic film about Hank Williams called "I Saw the Light".

paragraph: In 2017 Walker was featured in the award-winning documentary series "American Epic." Directed by Bernard MacMahon, the films featured restored audio recordings of Frank Walker explaining how he found and recorded some of the first country, blues and Cajun musicians in the 1920s.

description: talent agent

wikidata_label: Frank Buckley Walker

wikipedia_title: Frank Buckley Walker


text:
Latin
de jure
de facto
Western Roman Emperor
de jure
Roman Dalmatia
ended
Romulus Augustulus
Eastern Roman Empire
its line of emperors
Western Roman Emperor
Leo I
Glycerius
Orestes
Magister Militum
Ravenna
Dalmatia
Odoacer
Dalmatia
Eastern Roman Emperor
Constantinople
Zeno
Leo I
Western Roman Emperor
Roman Dalmatia
Marcellinus
agnomen
Glycerius
usurper
Burgundian
Magister Militum
Gundobad
Ravenna
de iure
Eastern Roman Emperor
Marcellinus
Sicily
Province of Dalmatia
Western Roman Empire
Ravenna
Glycerius
Glycerius
Bishop
Salona
Western Roman Empire
Italy
Roman Gaul
Italy
Orestes
Magister Militum
Ravenna
Roman Dalmatia
Western Roman Emperor
regnal name
Romulus Augustus
de facto
de facto
Eastern Roman Emperor
de iure
Western Roman Emperor
Odoacer
Foederati
Italy
Ravenna
Campania
Italy
Roman Dalmatia
Constantinople
Odoacer
Roman Senate
Eastern Roman Emperor
Zeno
Patrician
Western Roman Emperor
de iure
King of Italy
suzerainty
Eastern Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire
Odoacer
Italy
Glycerius
Bishop
Salona
Roman Dalmatia
Salona
Diocletian
residence
comes
Ovida
Malchus
Glycerius
Bishop of Salona
Bishop
Milan
Roman Dalmatia
Western Roman Empire
Charlemagne
Western Roman Empire
comes
Nepotianus
Western Roman Empire
Majorian
Gaul
Hispania
Marcellinus
Magister Militum
Roman Dalmatia
Romana
Visigoths
Marcellinus Comes
Jordanes
Getica
Valentinian III
Flavius Aetius
Majorian
Anthemius
Ricimer
kingmaker
Sicily
Salona
Leonid dynasty
kinship
List of Roman usurpers
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones

categories: House of Leo,Deaths by stabbing in Croatia,5th-century Christians,5th-century Roman emperors,5th-century murdered monarchs,430 births,480 deaths,Murdered Roman emperors

paragraph: Julius Nepos

paragraph: Julius Nepos (Latin: "Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus"; AD 430480) was "de jure" and "de facto" Western Roman Emperor from AD 474 to 475 and then only "de jure" until his death in AD 480. He was also the ruler of Roman Dalmatia from 468 to 480. Some historians consider Nepos to be the final Western Roman Emperor, while others consider the western line to have ended with Romulus Augustulus in 476. In contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire and its line of emperors survived this period.

paragraph: Nepos was elevated as Western Roman Emperor in AD 474 by the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I to replace the Western Emperor Glycerius, which he had refused to recognize. Orestes, the Magister Militum, subsequently took the government in Ravenna on August 28, 475 and deposed Nepos, forcing him to flee by ship to Dalmatia. Orestes crowned his son, Romulus Augustus, as Emperor, but neither Nepos nor the Eastern Roman court acknowledged him. A few months later the mutinous general Odoacer defeated and killed Orestes and deposed Romulus.

paragraph: Nepos continued to reign in Dalmatia claiming himself as Emperor of the West and the Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople recognized him as such, but his power was limited to Dalmatia. Nepos was assassinated in 480, and the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno formally abolished the Western division of the Empire.

paragraph: Section::::Rise to office.

paragraph: Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I appointed Julius Nepos as Western Roman Emperor in early AD 474. Nepos was married to Leo's niece, but also himself was the nephew of the sovereign governor of Roman Dalmatia, Marcellinus, hence his agnomen of "Nepos" ("nephew"). Leo intended to replace the Western Emperor Glycerius, whom he regarded as a usurper. The Burgundian "Magister Militum" Gundobad had enthroned Glycerius in the Western capital of Ravenna. However, under Roman law, Leo was the sole, legitimate and "de iure" Eastern Roman Emperor and had the right to appoint a new Western counterpart.

paragraph: Julius Nepos succeeded his uncle, Marcellinus, after the latter's murder in Sicily, as the Governor of the Province of Dalmatia, which was legally part of the Western Roman Empire but practically an autonomous region since at least Marcellinus' term of office. In June 474 Nepos entered Ravenna, forced Glycerius to abdicate, and secured the Western throne for himself. Nepos spared Glycerius' life and appointed him Bishop of Salona. Nepos reigned briefly over the whole of the remaining Western Roman Empire, centered in Italy and including his native Dalmatia and the remnant of Roman Gaul.

paragraph: Section::::Deposition and reign in Dalmatia.

paragraph: The reign of Nepos in Italy ended in AD 475, when Orestes, his Magister Militum, deposed him and usurped the government at Ravenna on August 28, forcing Nepos to flee by ship to Roman Dalmatia. In the same year, Orestes enthroned his teenage son as the new Western Roman Emperor with the regnal name "Romulus Augustus". The boy was probably circa 15 years old when he became "de facto" Emperor and is known to history derisively as "Romulus "Augustulus"", which is to use the diminutive of the second name, denoting "little Augustus".

paragraph: The reasons for Orestes' decision to crown his son as his puppet, rather than enthrone himself, are ambiguous. However, Romulus' "de facto" reign was not legal because the Eastern Roman Emperor had not recognized his accession, and therefore Nepos remained the sole and "de iure" Western Roman Emperor. Romulus' short reign ended on September 4, AD 476, when Odoacer, head of the Germanic Foederati in Italy, captured Ravenna, executed Orestes, and deposed Romulus. Odoacer sent Romulus to exile or retirement in Campania, after which he disappears from the historical record.

paragraph: Although his successor had been deposed, Nepos never returned to Italy. He continued to reign from Roman Dalmatia as "Emperor of the West", and he still enjoyed some support from Constantinople. Odoacer, attempting to bypass Nepos, used the Roman Senate to petition the newly restored Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno to grant him the title of "Patrician" and to terminate the office of Western Roman Emperor. Patrician rank was granted, but at Zeno's insistence Odoacer also grudgingly acknowledged Nepos' "de iure" Imperial status, and even issued coinage in Nepos' name. Practically, Odoacer reigned as an increasingly independent King of Italy, nominally recognizing the suzerainty of the Eastern Roman Empire; Nepos retained his Imperial title but practically exercised no power outside of Dalmatia. The Western Roman Empire nominally continued after 476 as a sop to Imperial tradition.

paragraph: Section::::Assassination.

paragraph: This political solution lasted approximately four years. In circa AD 479, Nepos began to plot against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy for himself. Another possibility according to some sources is that Glycerius, who continued as Bishop of Salona, was plotting revenge. What is certain is that Odoacer perceived Nepos as a threat, and was determined to remove him.

paragraph: Nepos, still residing in Roman Dalmatia, was murdered by one of his own soldiers in AD 480, on either April 25, May 9, or June 22; April 25 is most probable. He was reportedly stabbed in his villa near Salona. Since Diocletian also had a residence in the area, it might have been in the same building. Marcellinus Comes blames "the treachery of his comes Viator and Ovida" for the murder. Malchus also implicates the former Emperor Glycerius in the conspiracy because, as Nepos had appointed Glycerius as Bishop of Salona, he was in the vicinity of the murder. Adding to the suspicions of Glycerius is a report that Odoacer later made him Bishop of Milan.

paragraph: Ovida served as the next ruler of Roman Dalmatia for a few months, but Odoacer used Nepos' assassination as a pretext to invade. Odoacer defeated Ovida's forces on December 9, and added the province to his kingdom. After Nepos' death, Zeno formally abolished the Western division of the Empire, ending the last serious legal claim of a separate Western Roman Empire until the reign of Charlemagne.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: As is the case with many Roman Emperors who reigned for only a short period of time, especially those from the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, only limited information of Nepos is extant in surviving records. Historians claim that Julius Nepos was son of the "comes" Nepotianus, a general ("Magister Utriusque Militiae") who served the Western Roman Empire between AD 458 and 461 during the reign of Majorian. Nepotianus is mentioned as having been active in southern Gaul and Hispania, eventually dying in 465. His unnamed mother was a sister of Marcellinus, the "Magister Militum" of Roman Dalmatia.

paragraph: Historian R. W. Burgess denies this identification. Burgess observes that the claim is premised on one passage from Jordanes' "Romana". He proceeds to argue that, while Nepos came from an important family, the general Nepotianus was a mercenary commander working for the Visigoths, from which came his title of "Magister Militiae". Thus, Burgess concludes that Nepotianus, father of Nepos, and the military commander Nepotianus, should be considered as different persons.

paragraph: The AD 6th Century chronicler Marcellinus Comes mentions Nepos as "son of the sister of Marcellinus, once patrician". This identification of Nepos is confirmed by a passage in Jordanes' "Getica". Since Jordanes often uses Marcellinus Comes as a source, the passage might have been copied verbatim.

paragraph: Marcellinus was a powerful figure in the Western Roman Empire, rebelling in 454 against the Emperor Valentinian III after the latter's assassination of Flavius Aetius. He established himself as an autonomous ruler in Dalmatia, despite accepting the authority of the emperors Majorian and Anthemius. Under Anthemius he was raised to the rank of patrician, becoming a possible threat to Ricimer, the powerful kingmaker behind the western throne. In 468, Marcellinus died in Sicily, probably at the hands of Ricimer. Nepos inherited control of Dalmatia from his uncle with the title "magister militum Dalmatiae", and which was the basis for his future in exile.

paragraph: Nepos may have been a member of an enduringly prominent Dalmatian family. Four memorial inscriptions commemorating similarly named individuals, from the same region and falling within an appropriate time-frame, have been identified: Aelia Nepotes, Aelia Nepos, Julius Nepos, and Nepotes. The name also seems to be preserved in a church inscription of Salona, dating to the early 5th century. Although the association of the agnomen ""Nepos"" with his connection to the Leonid dynasty seems to be fairly clear, the origins of and relationships between all these similar-sounding names, including his father's, are less clear. Also unclear is what role Nepos' ties of kinship with Marcellinus might have played in the acquisition of his agnomen.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Roman usurpers

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- [http://www.roman-emperors.org/nepos.htm Ralph W. Mathisen, "Julius Nepos (19/24 June 474 – [28 August 475 – 25 April/9 May/22 June 480)"]

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arnold Hugh Martin Jones: "The Later Roman Empire 284–602. A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey." 3 Volumes, Oxford 1964, S. 244 f. (Reprinted in 2 Volumes, Baltimore 1986).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martindale, John R. (ed.), "Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II A.D. 395–527", 1980

paragraph: BULLET::::- R. W. Burgess, "From Gallia Romana to Gallia Gothica: the view from Spain" in Drinkwater, J.F. & Elton, Hugh (eds.), "Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?", 2002, pp. 19–27

paragraph: BULLET::::- A. Kazhdan (ed.), "The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium", Oxford University Press, 1991

paragraph: BULLET::::- O'Flynn, John Michael. "Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=52935

description: Roman emperor

wikidata_label: Julius Nepos

wikipedia_title: Julius Nepos


text:
Vandals
Alans
Genseric
Gento
Gunthamund
Theoderic the Great
Amalafrida
Lilybaeum
Sicily
Herwig Wolfram
Byzantine Navy
Alaric
Visigoths
Battle of Vouillé
Procopius
Berbers
Tripoli
Cabaon
Leptis Magna
Catholic Church
Huneric
Byzantine Empire
Procopius
Anastasius
Hilderic

categories: Kings of the Vandals,450 births,5th-century monarchs in Africa,523 deaths

paragraph: Thrasamund

paragraph: Thrasamund (450–523), King of the Vandals and Alans (496–523), was the fourth king of the north African Kingdom of the Vandals. He reigned longer than any other Vandal king in Africa other than his grandfather Genseric.

paragraph: Thrasamund was the third son born to Genseric's fourth son, Gento, and became king in 496 after all of Genseric's sons and his own brother, King Gunthamund, had died. Upon Gunthamund's death, he was one of only two living grandsons of Genseric, and inherited the throne in accordance with a law enacted by his grandfather, which bestowed the kingship on the eldest male member of a deceased king's family.

paragraph: Theoderic the Great married his widowed sister Amalafrida to Thrasamund, providing a dowry consisting of the promontory of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and a retinue of a thousand elite troops and five thousand armed retainers. Herwig Wolfram believes this happened in 500, "immediately after his [Theoderic] Roman tricennial". Despite this alliance, Thrasamund failed to aid Theoderic when the Byzantine Navy ravaged the coast of southern Italy, preventing him from coming to the assistance of King Alaric of the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouillé, which contributed to Alaric's defeat.

paragraph: Procopius describes a battle between the Berbers of Tripoli under Cabaon and the Vandals, in which the Berbers used unusual tactics to defeat the Vandal cavalry. In the final year of his reign, the important port city of Leptis Magna was sacked by the Berbers.

paragraph: Thrasamund also ended many years of persecution of the Catholic Church which had begun under his uncle Huneric, a move which improved the Vandals' relations with the Byzantine Empire. Procopius states that he was "a very special friend of the Emperor Anastasius."

paragraph: Thrasamund died in 523 and was succeeded by his cousin Hilderic, the firstborn son of Huneric.

description: King of the Vandals

wikidata_label: Thrasamund

wikipedia_title: Thrasamund


text:
Daytona Beach, Florida
Jim Crow laws
racial segregation
poll taxes
Great Depression
St. Louis, Missouri
Daytona Beach
David Sholtz
Daytona Beach News-Journal
New Deal
coquina
Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower
Daytona Beach Bandshell
Great Depression
Fred P. Cone
Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower
Daytona Beach Bandshell
Works Progress Administration

categories: New Deal in Florida,1920s in Florida,Works Progress Administration in Florida,1880 births,1930s in Florida,Mayors of Daytona Beach, Florida

paragraph: Edward H. Armstrong

paragraph: Edward H. Armstrong (July 23, 1880 – January 2, 1938) won the Daytona Beach, Florida mayor's office five times during the 1920s and 1930s where Jim Crow laws, racial segregation, poll taxes and the Great Depression complicated social, political and economic conditions. He controversially gained the support of black voters in exchange for community aid and infrastructure improvements. Today, he is remembered as the legendary political boss of Daytona Beach who indisputably found a way to gets things done and was one of the most colorful and headstrong figures in the city's history.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Edward H. Armstrong was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Daytona, Florida in 1900 to work as a salesman for the Ralston Purina Company Flour Mill. He later opened up a grocery store called the Armstrong Grocery Company. By 1927, he owned several grocery stores throughout the east central Florida area.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: On October 6, 1925, the soon to be consolidated city of Daytona Beach held its first municipal election and H. F. Brass was elected mayor. In 1926, the city of Daytona Beach was officially created from the merger of the city of Daytona and the towns of Daytona Beach and Seabreeze. Armstrong entered the Daytona Beach municipal election in 1927 as a candidate for mayor and had competition from three other candidates. With a local reputation as a successful businessman, and a well organized campaign, where he was able to gain the support of black voters via a biracial political coalition, he won the election. He was sworn into office in 1928 for his first term which lasted until 1929. He was defeated for re-election in 1929. In 1930, he made a political comeback by winning the mayor's office with 43% of the white vote and 82% of the black vote. During the 1933 election black voters were being purposely delayed at polls, preventing them from voting. Armstrong managed to convince Florida's Governor David Sholtz to mobilize the National Guard and keep the polls open until 9:30pm. This enabled about 550 black voters to vote later than the original poll closing time of 6:00pm, which assisted Armstrong in winning the 1933 "military election". In 1935, Daytona Beach created polling places in black neighborhoods which reduced the obstruction of black voters that had occurred during the previous election. Armstrong obtained a landslide victory with 91% of the black vote and 54% of the white vote, securing the mayor's office once again. In 1937, he was as politically strong as ever during his career as he won the election by a five-to-one margin with 91% of the black vote and 54% of the white vote.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.:Political opposition and legacy.

paragraph: During Armstrong's political career as Mayor his political opponents, critics and the area's largest newspaper the "Daytona Beach News-Journal", often accused him of corruption that included buying votes, squandering and misappropriating funds, political favoritism and tampering with elections. His administration required city employees to kick back 10% of their pay and as a result he was sometimes referred to as "10-cent Ed". However, his administration (called "The Armstrong Machine") was able to accomplish many positive changes, including the award of New Deal funding for municipal projects that included upgrading city waterworks, public docks, the bus system, the municipal airport, and the building of the Oceanfront Park complex (which originally included a large beachfront park that had several small rectangular pavilions, octagonal kiosks, a bathhouse, coquina rock veneered shops and stores, concessions and game rooms, and two coquina rock veneered pedestrian underpasses). The surviving parts of the original park are the Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower, Daytona Beach Bandshell and the Edward H. Armstrong Monument. He maintained the almost unanimous support of black voters throughout his career and was able to gain the support of white voters in increasing numbers, as he was credited for improving the local economy and public services during the hard times of the Great Depression.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.:Battle of Daytona Beach.

paragraph: In 1936, the Florida Legislature, led by Governor Sholtz (who was a local political opponent of Armstrong), launched a state investigation into what was believed to be fiscal mismanagement of city, state and federal funds. The Daytona Beach city charter called for the dismissal, by the governor, of all officials responsible for the exceeding the budget. Assuming that they were going to be removed from office Daytona Beach Mayor Armstrong and two commissioners, George T. Robinson and R.W. Carswell resigned from their offices on December 10, 1936. Both Armstrong and Robinson appointed their wives to fill their office vacancies.

paragraph: On December 30, 1936, Governor Sholtz ordered Mayor Irene Armstrong (Edward H. Armstrong’s wife), three city commissioners, the city clerk and the city manager from their offices, holding them responsible for budget issues and poor judgement related to city affairs (misfeasance and incompetence). Sholtz appointed former city commissioner, Harry Wilcox, as mayor. But, Wilcox could not assume office because the Daytona Beach City Hall building was locked and barricaded. Two hundred National Guardsmen were ordered to Daytona Beach to install new officials appointed by Sholtz, and to confiscate the city’s financial records. Approximately one hundred local policeman armed with riot guns and heavily armed city employees and supporters barricaded themselves inside the city hall building to protect Mayor Irene Armstrong and other city officials. Many city records were hauled away in garbage trucks and destroyed by city employees during this time.

paragraph: A crowd of more than two thousand people gathered outside the building. It seemed an armed confrontation was about to occur. However, a temporary restraining order was issued by Circuit Court Judge Herbert Frederick that prevented the newly appointed officials from entering the building. On January 4, 1937, the Florida Supreme Court ruled to uphold the restraining order, and, on a technicality, vacated Governor Sholtz’s orders to remove Daytona Beach city officials.

paragraph: After a 5-day ordeal, the National Guardsmen and the crowds left the area. This incident, which made national headlines, is now known in local lore as the “Battle of Daytona Beach”. The ruling, in addition to Governor Sholtz’s term ending and new Governor Fred P. Cone taking office and having no interest in challenging the court’s decision allowed for Edward H. Armstrong, and the other city officials, to be reinstated into their former offices on March 4, 1937.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: In late December 1937, following many months of failing health Armstrong was admitted into the Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, FL. On January 2, 1938, one day before the scheduled inauguration for his fifth term as Mayor, he died at the age of 57 of liver and heart complications following an operation he underwent the previous week. On the day of Armstrong's death the editor of the Daytona Beach "Sunday News Journal", Herbert Davidson (who considered Armstrong the embodiment of crooked politics), had staff put together an extra edition with the headline "Mayor Armstrong Dead; End Comes at 9:38 A.M." The entire front page of this edition was dedicated to Armstrong's legacy. On January 5, 1938, a funeral service was held in Daytona Beach, FL for Edward H. Armstrong that was attended by an estimated seven thousand people.

paragraph: Section::::Edward H. Armstrong Monument.

paragraph: Located between the Daytona Beach Coquina Clock Tower and the Daytona Beach Bandshell in Oceanfront Park is a rather inconspicuous rectangular shaped concrete monument encased with a coquina rock veneer and three large roughly cut coquina rocks (one resting on the top and one on each of its sides) that is sitting on a concrete slab with no marker, sign or plaque to identify it. This is the Edward H. Armstong Monument that was built by Works Progress Administration workers in 1938 to honor the man that was most responsible for the building of the Oceanfront Park complex. Since Armstrong was so controversial during his political career local contemporaries and officials never agreed on the wording to recognize his achievements and as a result no marker, sign or plaque was ever placed on this monument.

wikidata_label: Edward H. Armstrong

wikipedia_title: Edward H. Armstrong


text: Amiens

text: Conservatoire de Paris

text: André Gedalge

text: Schola Cantorum de Paris

text: Vincent d'Indy

text: music composition

text: Tchaïkovsky

text: Liszt

text: Saint-Saëns

text: Debussy

text: Bulle

text: Montreux

text: Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum

text: fête des vignerons

text: Albert Roussel

text: maître de chapelle

text: Villeneuve

text: religious music

text: motet

text: The Imitation of Christ

text: organ

text: mystery play

text: piano

text: chamber music

text: sonata

text: violin

text: Victor Hugo

text: Jean Richepin

text: Auguste Sérieyx (1865-1949)

text: Auguste Sérieyx

text: Auguste Sérieyx

text: Lettres à Auguste Sérieyx

text: Sérieyx, Auguste

categories: French music educators,People from Amiens,19th-century French musicologists,1949 deaths,Conservatoire de Paris alumni,French classical composers,French Romantic composers,1865 births,20th-century French musicologists,Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni

paragraph: Auguste Sérieyx

paragraph: Auguste Sérieyx (14 June 1865 – 19 February 1949) was a French music pedagogue, musicographer and composer.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Amiens, Auguste Sérieyx, musicographer and composer studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge and subsequently at the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Charles Bordes, Paul Dukas and Vincent d'Indy where he latter taught music composition (1900–1914). As early as 1883, he wrote in his diary: "Music holds an increasingly important place in my preoccupations". In particular, he discovered Tchaïkovsky, Liszt and Saint-Saëns. In 1905, he married pianist Jeanne Taravant, a sought-after performer of the musicians of his time, in particular the piano music of Debussy. It was she who contributed to the introduction of Sérieyx into the Parisian musical life of the time. In the same year, Sérieyx undertook a trip to Switzerland. He visited Bulle, Montreux, the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum and he attended the fête des vignerons in the company of Albert Roussel.

paragraph: Installed in Montreux since 1914, Auguste Sérieyx taught at the Institut Ribaupierre. Several local musicians followed his teaching at this time, such as , , Philippe Jules Godard and Fernand Maudon. Sérieyx also held the position of maître de chapelle at the Villeneuve church. He collaborated with Vincent d'Indy on his monumental "Cours de composition". On 11 June 1920, his wife passed away, and he dedicated his "Cours de grammaire musicale" to her, which was published five years later. In 1931, on 26 July , Auguste Sérieyx married Marie-Louise Bouët. Like her husband, Marie-Louise has devoted her entire life to teaching musical language.

paragraph: Very attached to the Catholic faith, Sérieyx devoted the deepest of his inspiration to religious music. He signed a collection of 24 motets on texts from "The Imitation of Christ", masses, organ pieces and a mystery play for soli, choir and orchestra. Sereyx left music of piano and some pages of chamber music including a sonata for violin and piano. Author of several melodies for vocals and piano, he paid great attention to the choice of his lyrics. Among the writers and poets he put to music were Alexandre Duman, Victor Hugo, Édouard Guinand, and Jean Richepin, not to mention personal translations of Latin texts. In November 1972, the Music Department of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne enriched its collections of music archives with the work of composer, professor and theorist Auguste Sérieyx.

paragraph: Auguste Sérieyx died in Lausanne on 19 February 1949.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1910: "Les Trois états de la tonalité", Paris

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1925: "Cours de grammaire musical", Paris

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1946: "Monteverdi et Franck", Geneva

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Auguste Sérieyx (1865-1949)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Auguste Sérieyx on IdRef

paragraph: BULLET::::- Auguste Sérieyx on Musicalics

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lettres à Auguste Sérieyx on WorldCat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inventaire du fonds musical, Auguste Sérieyx on WorldCat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sérieyx, Auguste on IMSLP

description: French composer

wikidata_label: Auguste Sérieyx

wikipedia_title: Auguste Sérieyx


text: Count

text: Nassau

text: Third Crusade

text: Rupert II, Count of Laurenburg

text: Beatrix of Limburg

text: Walram II

text: Count of Limburg

text: Lower Lorraine

text: Guelders

text: Gerard I, Count of Guelders

text: Laurenburg

text: Rupert III

text: Herman

text: Herborner Mark

text: Mengerskirchen

text: Beilstein

text: Greifenstein

text: Driedorf

text: Löhnberg

text: fief

text: Landgraviate

text: Thüringen

text: Weilburg

text: Westerwald

text: Dill River

text: Lahn

text: Siegen

text: Marienberg

text: Neukirch

text: Rennerod

text: Koblenz

text: Ems

text: Marienfels

text: Arnstein Abbey

text: Obernhof

text: Katzenelnbogen

text: Dudo of Laurenburg

text: Holy Roman Emperor

text: Frederick I

text: Hohenstaufen

text: Wiesbaden

text: Rheingau

text: Archbishopric of Mainz

text: Taunus

text: Middle Rhine

text: Eppstein

text: Solms

text: Third Crusade

text: Bishop

text: Münster

text: Byzantine Emperor

text: Isaac II Angelos

text: Constantinople

text: Philippopel

text: Teutonic Order

text: Acre

text: Cologne

text: Archbishop

text: Philip I

text: Cologne

text: Henry VI

text: Worms

text: House of Nassau

text: "Reichstag"

text: Henry II

text: Rupert IV

text: Sponheim

text: Ziegenhain

text: Henry II 'the Rich'

text: Rupert IV

text: Nastätten

text: Die territoriale Entwicklung Nassaus

text: Family tree of the House of Nassau

text: Genealogies of the Middle Ages

text: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

text: Leipzig

paragraph: Walram I, Count of Nassau

paragraph: Walram I of Nassau (c. 1146 – 1 February 1198) also known as Walram I of Laurenburg, was Count of Nassau and is the oldest Nassau whose ancestorship is absolutely certain. He managed to expand his territory considerably during his reign. He took part in the Third Crusade.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Walram was probably a son of Rupert II, Count of Laurenburg and an unknown woman. Possibly his mother was called Beatrix, it is uncertain whether that mention should not have been 'grandmother' (namely Beatrix of Limburg, daughter of Walram II the Pagan, Count of Limburg and Duke of Lower Lorraine and Jutta of Guelders (daughter of Gerard I, Count of Guelders).

paragraph: Walram is mentioned between 1176 and 1191 as Count of Laurenburg and then, from 1193, as Count of Nassau. He seems to have had his residence at the Castle of Laurenburg first, which is why he used the title Count of Laurenburg, even when the name Nassau was already in use for a while in his house. In 1198, his widow still used the seal of Walram van Laurenburg. Walram ruled with his cousin Rupert III, and later with his son Herman, whom he eventually succeeded.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Territorial expansion.

paragraph: Walram acquired the Herborner Mark, the "Kalenberger Zent" (including Mengerskirchen, Beilstein and Nenderoth, the second two now being parts of Greifenstein), and the "Gericht Heimau" (including Driedorf and Löhnberg) as a fief from the Landgraviate of Thüringen. In this way, Walram was able to make a connection between the family possessions the Vogtship of Weilburg (with its numerous property and lordship rights in the Westerwald and Dill River region), the castles of Laurenburg and Nassau on the River Lahn, and the Vogtship in the Siegerland (the region around the city of Siegen). The same period may also have brought the Lordship of the Westerwald (including Marienberg, Neukirch, and Emmerichenhain, now part of Rennerod). Walram also bought the Vogtships of Koblenz and Ems.

paragraph: To the south of his possessions, Walram took over partial rule of the "Einrichgau", later-named the "Vierherrengericht" (Four Lords’ Jurisdiction), with its main town of Marienfels. This had been part of the former Countship of Arnstein. The last Count of Arnstein, Ludwig III, had no heir and had converted his castle of Arnstein into a monastery, Arnstein Abbey, near present-day Obernhof, about east of Nassau. On entering the monastery himself in 1139/1140, he had transferred control of Marienfels to his cousin Reginbold of Isenburg. In 1160, Reginbold sold it jointly to his cousins, the Counts of Nassau and Katzenelnbogen. The Nassau Counts were able to claim part of the inheritance through the marriage of their ancestor Dudo of Laurenburg with one of the seven daughters of Count Ludwig I of Arnstein.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Ties to Emperor Frederick I.

paragraph: Walram became affiliated with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarrossa in the Peace of the Rhine Country in 1179. He placed his lands under the immediate suzerainty of the German king, rather than remaining a vassal of the archbishop of Trier. He would remain a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen Emperors. Walram's close ties with the imperial house were rewarded with "Königshof" Wiesbaden. At about the same time, he also received possession of the game rights in the forests of the Rheingau (a fief of the Archbishopric of Mainz), so that his rule extended over the Taunus, south to the Middle Rhine.

paragraph: Walram had ongoing feuds with the neighboring houses of Eppstein, Solms, and Katzenelnbogen.

paragraph: With his cousin Rupert III, Walram went to the Third Crusade (1189–1190). Walram probably took up the cross with the emperor on the court day at Mainz on March 27, 1188. He was assigned an important task at the start of the journey. Together with his cousin Rupert and Count Henry of Diez, he formed the accompaniment of Bishop Herman II of Münster, who was envoy to Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos in the fall of 1188. The delegation did arrive in Constantinople, but initially snubbed and then actually held as hostages by the Byzantine Emperor. They were set free as the crusade army approached. On October 28, 1189, Rupert and his companions rejoined the crusade army at Philippopel. From that day, he disappears from the crusade army. The assumption that he was present at the formation of the Teutonic Order in Acre is, as far is known about its course, untenable. Nor is there sufficient evidence that at that time, contrary to his crusade vow, he left the crusade army. It is certain that in 1190, before the news of the death of the emperor arrived in Germany, Walram was a witness in a charter drawn up in Cologne by Archbishop Philip I of Cologne.

paragraph: Little is known about the subsequent years of Walram. He is sometimes mentioned as a witness, also in imperial charters, but in general he seems to be far from the emperor and not to have participated in his military activities. On 6 November 1195, after the mediation and approval of Emperor Henry VI, Walram concluded with Bishop Henry I of Worms the important treaty for his house in which the mutual rights - the lordship rights of the bishop and the vogtship rights of the count - to the castle, the city and the lordship Weilburg were established. Castle and lordship Weilburg appear here for the first time as the property of the House of Nassau. In the years following the treaty of November 6, 1195, Walram appears to have stayed at the imperial court, where he participated in the "Reichstag" of Worms, at which the emperor negotiated a new crusade. It is certain that Walram did not participate in the German army in 1197, several mentionings as witness in charters prove that he did not leave the country.

paragraph: Walram I died on February 1, 1198. He is buried in Arnstein Abbey. He was succeeded by his sons Henry II and Rupert IV.

paragraph: Section::::Descendants.

paragraph: Walram married a certain Kunigunde († November 8 in or after 1198, last mentioned on March 20, 1198), possibly a daughter of a count of Sponheim or a daughter of count Poppo II of Ziegenhain. From this union came three children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Henry II 'the Rich' (c. 1180 - April 26, 1247/48/49/50), Count of Nassau (1198–1247).

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Rupert IV († after January 1, 1239), Count of Nassau (1198–1230) and Teutonic Knight (since 1230).

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Beatrix, mentioned in 1222 as a nun in Affolderbach Abbey near Nastätten.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Die territoriale Entwicklung Nassaus by Ulrich Reuling. Retrieved on 2009-01-26.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Family tree of the House of Nassau

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogies of the Middle Ages

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Marienfels and the Counts of Arnstein. Retrieved 2009-01-27.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Nassau, compiled by Charles Cawley.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding article, as of 2009-01-24 and the article, as of 2019-06-19."

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hesselfelt, H.F.J., "De oudste generaties van het Huis Nassau" in: "De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde" 1965, nr. 11.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sauer, Wilhelm. (1896). "Graf Walram I. von Nassau" in: "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" Band 40, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 776-778.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Table 60.

description: Count of Nassau (1176-1198)

wikidata_label: Walram I of Nassau

wikipedia_title: Walram I, Count of Nassau


text: White House Counsel

text: Ford Administration

text: Sheboygan, Wisconsin

text: Gustave Buchen

text: polio

text: J.D.

text: University of Michigan

text: Gerald Ford

text: Grand Rapids, Michigan

text: Cabinet rank

text: Dewey Ballantine

text: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

categories: University of Michigan Law School alumni,People from Sheboygan, Wisconsin,20th-century American lawyers,2001 deaths,Michigan Republicans,Washington, D.C. Republicans,1916 births,White House Counsels,Ford administration personnel,Michigan lawyers

paragraph: Philip W. Buchen

paragraph: Philip William Buchen (February 27, 1916 – May 21, 2001) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Ford Administration.

paragraph: Buchen was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the son of State Senator Gustave Buchen. In his youth he contracted polio and thereafter walked with a cane. He graduated from Sheboygan High School in 1935 and received his J.D. degree in 1941 from the University of Michigan, where he met Gerald Ford. At Michigan, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He opened a law practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan with Ford in May 1941.

paragraph: Buchen continued to practice law in Grand Rapids until 1974, when he came to Washington to serve on Vice President Ford's staff. He served as chief White House Counsel with Cabinet rank for the duration of Ford's presidency. When Ford left office, Buchen remained in Washington, practicing law with the firm of Dewey Ballantine until 1995. Buchen served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1977 to 1981.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The National Security Archive "Wiretap Debate Déjà Vu"

description: American attorney

wikidata_label: Philip W. Buchen

wikipedia_title: Philip W. Buchen


text: American

text: prelate

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: Bishop of Charleston

text: South Carolina

text: New York City

text: Long Island

text: St. John's University

text: Queens

text: Bachelor's degree in Education

text: Patchogue-Medford High School

text: graduate work

text: New York University

text: call to the priesthood

text: Immaculate Conception Seminary

text: Huntington

text: Master's in Divinity

text: ordained

text: assistant pastor

text: St. Martin of Tours Church

text: Amityville

text: St. James Church

text: Setauket

text: dean

text: seminarians

text: pastor

text: St. Frances de Chantal Church

text: Wantagh

text: Monsignor

text: grand jury

text: sexual abuse cases

text: Diocese of Rockville Centre

text: Bishop William Murphy

text: diocesan

text: Clergy

text: rector

text: St. Agnes Cathedral

text: Scouting

text: chaplain

text: Livingston Manor

text: Holy See

text: Silver Beaver Award

text: Order of the Arrow

text: Unami language

text: Silver Antelope Award

text: Boy Scouts of America

text: Silver Buffalo Award

text: Bishop of Charleston

text: South Carolina

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: episcopal consecration

text: Edward Egan

text: Robert Joseph Baker

text: co-consecrators

text: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

text: Bishop Robert Baker

text: diocese of Birmingham

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

categories: Religious leaders from New York (state),Recipients of the Silver Beaver Award,St. John's University (New York City) alumni,Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre,Roman Catholic bishops of Charleston,American Roman Catholic bishops,1945 births,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,New York University alumni,Living people

paragraph: Robert E. Guglielmone

paragraph: Robert Eric Guglielmone (born December 30, 1945) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as the thirteenth and current Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life and education.

paragraph: Robert Guglielmone was born in New York City to Frank and Caroline Guglielmone. One of three children, he has two brothers, Nicholas and Tito. He was raised on Long Island and attended St. John's University in Queens, from where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Education. He then taught at Patchogue-Medford High School for five years while also doing his graduate work at New York University.

paragraph: Guglielmone, feeling a call to the priesthood, entered Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington and earned a Master's in Divinity before being ordained on April 8, 1978. He then served as assistant pastor at St. Martin of Tours Church in Amityville and at St. James Church in Setauket.

paragraph: In 1986, he was named director of pastoral formation and dean of seminarians at Immaculate Conception Seminary. He became pastor of St. Frances de Chantal Church in Wantagh in 1993, and was raised to the rank of Monsignor in 1996.

paragraph: In 2003, after a grand jury report on the handling of sexual abuse cases in the Diocese of Rockville Centre sparked public outrage, Bishop William Murphy named Guglielmone to be the diocesan Director of Clergy Personnel. He was later made rector of St. Agnes Cathedral in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Ordination and ministry.:Scouting involvement.

paragraph: Guglielmone is known for his substantial involvement in Scouting. He started his Scouting career as camp chaplain at Onteora Scout Reservation in Livingston Manor, during his time as a seminarian. As a priest, he served as Scout chaplain for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, then for New York State and then as chaplain for the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. Guglielmone served an eight-year term as chaplain of the International Catholic Conference on Scouting and the Holy See's global liaison to scouting programs. He received the Silver Beaver Award from Suffolk County Council. Guglielmone is member the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scouts of America's honor society. There, he was inducted as a "Vigil Honor" member, the third and final degree of membership, in 1985. "Vigil Honor" members traditionally receive a name in the Unami language, referred to in the Order as "Lenni Lenape." Guglielmone's "Vigil Name" is "Nekama Auwen Allohumasin Lilenowag An Unt," which was interpreted as "He Who Exemplifies God's Law." He received the Silver Antelope Award from the Boy Scouts of America in 2004. The National Catholic Committee on Scouting recognized Guglielmone with its "Brother Barnabas Founders Award" and in its first class of "Silver Saint George Emblem" recipients in 1998. In 2012, he received the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest award given by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America for distinguished service to youth.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina.

paragraph: On January 24, 2009, Guglielmone was appointed the thirteenth Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following March 25 from Cardinal Edward Egan, with Bishops Murphy and Robert Joseph Baker serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

paragraph: As bishop of the diocese he has the role of shepherding the State's 195,000 Catholics. The appointment fills the vacancy left by Bishop Robert Baker, who was transferred to the diocese of Birmingham in August 2007. The state's registered Catholic population more than doubled since 1990, largely due to massive Hispanic immigration.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church in the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston Official Site

description: Catholic bishop Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Robert E. Guglielmone

wikipedia_title: Robert E. Guglielmone


text: Queen of Bosnia

text: Despoina of Serbia

text: Despot of Serbia

text: Lazar Branković

text: Stephen Tomašević

text: Serbia

text: Ottomans

text: Bosnia

text: Venetian Dalmatia

text: Ottoman Greece

text: Mara

text: Kantakouzene

text: Republic of Ragusa

text: Athonite monasteries

text: Lazar Branković

text: Despot of Serbia

text: Đurađ Branković

text: Helena Palaiologina

text: Stefan

text: Stephen Tomašević

text: King Thomas of Bosnia

text: Ottoman Empire

text: Despotate of Serbia

text: Smederevo Fortress

text: Holy Week

text: first Sunday following Easter

text: Catholic Church

text: Mehmed the Conqueror

text: Smederevo

text: Jajce

text: relics

text: Saint Luke the Evangelist

text: King of Bosnia

text: queen consort

text: Catherine

text: queen dowager

text: Kingdom of Bosnia

text: Ottoman invasion in May 1463

text: Croatia

text: Dalmatia

text: Republic of Ragusa

text: Mavro Orbini

text: Ban of Croatia

text: Pavao Špirančić

text: Bosnian Franciscan

text: Poljice

text: Ivaniš Vlatković

text: Republic of Venice

text: Matthias Corvinus

text: Spalato

text: Sebenico

text: Ottoman Greece

text: Mara

text: Kantakouzene

text: Serres

text: Constantinople

text: Bayezid II

text: Sublime Porte

text: Sharia law

text: icons

text: Great Lavra

text: Mount Athos

text: precluded

text: Xeropotamou Monastery

text: tribute of Ston

text: Stefan Dušan

text: Chilandar

text: Saint Paul's

text: Çorlu

text: Manuel Palaiologos

text: Theodore Spandounes

text: sipahi

categories: Bosnian queens,Kotromanić dynasty,Medieval Serbian royal consorts,Branković dynasty,1490s deaths,1447 births,Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy

paragraph: Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia

paragraph: Maria of Serbia (/Мара Бранковић; 1447 – 1500), christened Helena ("Jelena"/Јелена), was the last Queen of Bosnia and Despoina of Serbia. As the eldest daughter of the deceased Despot of Serbia Lazar Branković, the 12-year-old Helena was given in marriage to the Bosnian prince Stephen Tomašević in 1459. She then took the name Maria, while her husband obtained the title to Serbia through her. The country was lost to the Ottomans within a few months, and the couple fled to Bosnia. Maria's husband ascended the Bosnian throne in 1461, but two years later the kingdom too fell to the Ottomans and he was executed. The widowed queen avoided capture by fleeing to the coast. Having spent a few years in Venetian Dalmatia and possibly Hungary, Maria settled in Ottoman Greece at the court of her aunts Mara and Kantakouzene. Her string of conflicts and legal disputes with Kantakouzene, the Republic of Ragusa and Athonite monasteries earned her an ill reputation, with the monks describing her as an "evil woman".

paragraph: Section::::Youth.

paragraph: Maria was the eldest of three children born to Lazar Branković, son of the Despot of Serbia Đurađ Branković, and his wife, Helena Palaiologina. Born probably in 1447, she was christened Helena. Two sisters followed her: Milica and Irene.

paragraph: Lazar succeeded his father as despot on 24 December 1456, but his reign was cut short by his death on 28 January 1458. Despoina Helena and Lazar's brother Stefan seized power and began negotiating a marriage between her eldest daughter and Stephen Tomašević, the elder surviving son of King Thomas of Bosnia. The intent was to consolidate an alliance against the threat of the expanding Ottoman Empire, which had already reduced the Despotate of Serbia to a strip of land governed from the Smederevo Fortress. Stephen Tomašević arrived to Smederevo during the Holy Week of 1459, taking over the fortress and the government on 21 March. The marriage was celebrated on 1 April, the first Sunday following Easter. The bride soon afterwards joined the Catholic Church and adopted the name Maria.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: Stephen Tomašević's reign in Serbia was short-lived. The Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror regarded the arrangement as an offense to his rights as overlord of Serbia. On 20 June 1459, Ottoman forces captured Smederevo without a struggle and proceeded to annex the remnants of the Serbian state to their realm. Stephen and Maria fled to Bosnia, seeking refuge at the court of his father in Jajce. Maria carried with her the relics of Saint Luke the Evangelist, her precious family heirloom. Upon the death of King Thomas in the summer of 1461, Maria's husband ascended as King of Bosnia. Maria became the new queen consort, with her stepmother-in-law Catherine possibly retiring from the court as queen dowager.

paragraph: Maria's queenship did not last long either; in 1462, her husband made a fatal decision of refusing to pay tribute to the Ottomans, who started preparing an attack which ended the independent Kingdom of Bosnia. Following the Ottoman invasion in May 1463, the royal family appears to have decided to split and flee towards the neighbouring Croatia and Dalmatia in different directions to confuse and mislead the attackers. King Stephen, who had sent Maria to Dalmatia along with Saint Luke's relics, was captured and executed. The two queens, Maria and Catherine, were the only members of the royal family to escape the invaders and both eventually reached the territories of the Republic of Ragusa. The 16th century chronicler Mavro Orbini wrote that Queen Maria was captured by the Ban of Croatia, Pavao Špirančić, during her journey to the coast, but this is unlikely because Pavao himself was in Turkish captivity around that time.

paragraph: Section::::Years of wandering.

paragraph: Maria, in her haste to avoid falling into Ottoman hands, mislaid the relics of Saint Luke. Bosnian Franciscan friars retrieved them and headed towards Ragusa, but were intercepted in Poljice by Ivaniš Vlatković, a local nobleman and friend of the Queen, who refused to let them pass without her permission. This angered Ragusa, which demanded that Ivaniš surrender the relics to them. On 9 July, the republic's authorities issued a decree allowing the Queen to take refuge on one of their islands. The decree also made reference to an important issue the Ragusans wanted to discuss with her, most likely the sale of the relics. The Republic of Venice also expressed interest in Maria's heirloom, but she was gravely offended in August when Venetian authorities miserly tried to question the authenticity of the relics. The Venetians eventually succeeded in concluding a sale through her deputy, Ivaniš Vlatković. She regretted the transaction after the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus offered her three or four towns in exchange for the relics, but her attempt to have Ivaniš retrieve them in late August failed. Both Ivaniš and Maria were rewarded by Venice, with the Queen being allowed to settle in the Benedictine Monastery of St. Stephen under the Pines near Spalato.

paragraph: While residing in the monastery, Queen Maria received visits from Bosnians and Hungarians that made the Venetian authorities grow suspicious. They soon instructed the government of Spalato to recommend moving her to Sebenico or to an island on the grounds of poor living conditions in the monastery, with the intention of permanently removing her from their territory. Unlike her stepmother-in-law (and even the Hungarian king), the 16-year-old Queen Maria refrained from claiming the patrimony of Bosnian kings during her exile in Dalmatia and Ragusa.

paragraph: Possibly having spent some time in Hungary after leaving Dalmatia, Queen Maria settled in the Ottoman Greece. She probably joined her paternal aunts, Mara (Mehmed's esteemed and influential stepmother) and Kantakouzene, on their estate near Serres. A conflict which erupted in 1476 between Maria and Kantakouzene led to the latter's brief imprisonment after the Queen complained to Mehmed. The strife may have caused the Queen to move to Constantinople, the Ottoman capital, where she enjoyed protection of Mehmed and his successor, Bayezid II. She spent years "slandering and intriguing against her closest relatives", as well as suing everyone from whom she could profit.

paragraph: Section::::Lawsuits and frauds.

paragraph: In October 1484, Queen Maria approached the Sublime Porte to ask for the Sultan's help in reclaiming a third of her paternal grandfather's deposit in Ragusa, which she insisted had not been returned to her father. Bayezid wrote to Ragusa and sent an envoy to bring the gold, but the Ragusans responded with a letter proving that the deposit had been returned to Lazar. Maria, however, disputed the authenticity of her father's seal, and Bayezid sided with her. It is not known whether the Ragusans obeyed Bayezid's command to send the gold to the Queen, but there is plenty of evidence against her allegations in the letters of her father and uncle.

paragraph: Upon the deaths of her aunts Mara and Kantakouzene in 1487 and 1490 respectively, Maria inherited their possessions in accordance with the Sharia law. She immediately launched a claim to icons left by Mara to the monastery of Great Lavra on Mount Athos. Since her sex precluded her from accessing the holy mountain, it took Bayezid's intervention in 1492 for her to receive the icons. Shortly afterwards she called to Sharia court the monks of Xeropotamou Monastery, alleging that one of them stole money from her aunt Kantakouzene while in her service, but could not prove this.

paragraph: In 1495, Maria became involved in another legal dispute with Ragusa, this time concerning the tribute of Ston. The tribute had been paid by Ragusa to Serbian rulers since the reign of Stefan Dušan, but the income was ceded to the Monastery of Saint Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Jerusalem. Mara reclaimed the income after the monastery was closed, and after her death it was managed by Kantakouzene. Maria decided to claim it as her aunts' legal heir, but the Athonite monasteries of Chilandar and Saint Paul's cited her aunts' non-formalized bequest. Queen Maria, described straightforwardly by the monks as an "evil woman", died 1500, when Chilandar and Saint Paul's were recorded as having secured the income. She is believed to have died in Çorlu and to have been buried in a local church along with her maternal uncle, Manuel Palaiologos.

paragraph: It is not clear why Maria enjoyed such strong support of the sultans in her various conflicts and plain frauds. An explanation might be offered by the narrative of her relative Theodore Spandounes, who lived for some time with her aunts and whose family maintained close relations with the Branković dynasty. He wrote that Queen Maria married a "sipahi" with whom she had no children, but went so far as to claim that she was captured by the Turks in Bosnia and forced into the marriage, which is evidently untrue.

alias:
Helena Maria da Sérvia
Helena Maria da Servia

description: Queen of Bosnia

wikidata_label: Maria of Serbia

wikipedia_title: Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia


text:
editor-in-chief
Le Courrier graphique

categories: French editors,1972 deaths,1884 births,French male non-fiction writers

paragraph: Pierre Mornand

paragraph: Pierre Mornand (1884-1972) was a French writer and bibliophile. He was the editor-in-chief of "Le Courrier graphique".

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trente Artistes du Livre". Éditions Marval, 1945.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vingt-Deux Artistes du Livre". Le Courrier graphique, 1948.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vingt Artistes du Livre". Le Courrier graphique, 1950.

description: French writer

wikidata_label: Pierre Mornand

wikipedia_title: Pierre Mornand


text:
Ulm
sculptures
mural
bronze
transparent
polymer
peripheral
State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
Basel
Radolfzell
Karlsruhe
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
University of Mainz
museums
collections
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Würth
Official Website

categories: German male sculptors,German sculptors,1952 births

paragraph: Karlheinz Bux

paragraph: Karlheinz Bux (born 1952 in Ulm, West Germany) is a German artist concentrating on drawing and sculpture works.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: The central pictorial theme of Karlheinz Bux's artistic practice is the line. Clarity, complexity and emblematic quality define his sculptures and mural reliefs which are made out of steel, bronze and wood.

paragraph: His drawings are executed on transparent materials such as glass and polymer foils, with photographic templates constituting the basis of his glass and foil works, that are altered by superimposition and linear treatment. Thereby, a multi-layered image reality is created, that allows numerous interpretations from the viewer, with the exploration of the peripheral areas of reality being central to his artistic practice.

paragraph: Karlheinz Bux started his artistic career at State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (1972–1977). Various scholarships brought him to Paris (1986/87 and 1992) and Basel (2004/05). He created art-in-architecture projects among others in the cities of Radolfzell (1995, mural relief, steel 780/110/5 cm) and in Karlsruhe (2005, Lineamento Verticale, steel sculpture, 18m height). At the invitation of Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, he and the artist Michaela Kölmel produced a room installation dedicated to the topic of light (Multimediale 2, 1991).

paragraph: As visiting professor, Karlheinz Bux taught drawing at the University of Pforzheim (1994–95) and principles of design at University of Mainz (2007–08). His works can be found in many notable European museums and private collections, among others at Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Würth Collection.

paragraph: Section::::Solo exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 - Museum für aktuelle Kunst - Sammlung Hurrle Durbach (mit R.Nepita)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016 - Tiefe Gründe, Galerie Rottloff Karlsruhe

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 - Schläfer, Galerie Rottloff Karlsruhe

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010 - Der Radar des Zeichners, Kunstverein Rastatt

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 - Ississippi, Fondation Bartels Basel

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992 - Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985 - studio f, Ulm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1984 - Institut Unzeit, Berlin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1978 - Ulmer Museum (Studio), Ulm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1977 - Werkstatt Galerie, Vienna

paragraph: Section::::Group exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 – Waldeslust, Kunsthalle Würth Schwäbisch Hall

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 — Modelle – Materialisierung von Konzepten, Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 — Kunst seit 1960, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 – Retour de Paris, Schloss Solitude Stuttgart

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996 – Zeichnen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1993 – Kunst der Neunziger Jahre, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1991 – MultiMediale 2, ZKM Karlsruhe

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987 – Divergences-Convergences, Goethe Institute Paris und Lyon

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg (ed.), Was bleibt, Freiburg, 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kei Müller-Jensen, Schläfer, Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, 2014

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fondation Bartels (ed.), Der Fluss unbekümmert, Basel, 2014

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunsthalle Würth (ed.), Waldeslust, Schwäbisch Hall, 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Hübl, Der Radar des Zeichners, Karlsruhe, 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- Karlheinz Bux (ed.), Lineamento Verticale, Karlsruhe, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fondation Bartels (ed.), Ississippi – Baselzeichnungen, Basel, 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Staatliche Kunsthalle (ed.), Kunst seit 1960, Karlsruhe, 2004

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dirk Teuber, Werke im öffentlichen Raum, Karlsruhe, 1996

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dirk Teuber, Skulptur-Zeichnung, Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, 1995

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nike Bätzner, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden, 1992

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Hübl, Rauminstallation/Waschstände, MultiMediale 2, Karlsruhe, 1992

paragraph: BULLET::::- ZKM (ed.), MultiMediale 2, Karlsruhe, 1991

paragraph: BULLET::::- Goethe Institut (ed.), Divergences-Convergences, Paris, 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas Wulffen, Kunstforum International, Band 77/78, 1985

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.kuenstlerbund-bawue.de/kuenstler/portrait/bux.html

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.kuenstlerbund.de/kab/index.php?viewid=269

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.discogs.com/artist/2607709-Karlheinz-Bux

description: German artist

wikidata_label: Karlheinz Bux

wikipedia_title: Karlheinz Bux


text:
Groningen
figurative art
Bedum
Academy Minerva
Matthijs Röling
Martin Tissing
Friesland
Drachten
Venice
Tuscany
Middle East
Israel
Palestine
Het Klokhuis
Michael Reynolds
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
London
Dame Emma Kirkby
Anthony Rooley
Museum de Buitenplaats
Eelde
Antwerp
Dordrechts Museum
Michelangelo
Raphael
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Toronto
Middelburg
British
Antwerp
Franeker
Gouda
Paul van Vliet
Princess Beatrix
Rheine
Germany
Nicolaas Matsier

categories: 21st-century Dutch painters,Dutch still life painters,1957 births,20th-century Dutch painters,Dutch male painters,Dutch landscape painters,Living people

paragraph: Jan van der Kooi

paragraph: Jan van der Kooi (born in Groningen, January 16, 1957) is a Dutch painter and drawer in the style of figurative arts. He is often regarded as the best contemporary Dutch drawer and painter.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Van der Kooi spent his childhood in Bedum. From 1980 to 1983 he studied at the art Academy Minerva in Groningen, where his teachers were Matthijs Röling and Martin Tissing.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: After his studies, he moved to the province of Friesland, where he started to work in the area of Drachten. Van der Kooi paints and draws landscapes, still lifes, portraits, nudes and animals. Van der Kooi particularly focuses on painting sunlight in different places and climates, such as Peru, Nepal and Israel. Every year he visits Italy, where he studies the sunlight and landscapes of Venice and Tuscany.

paragraph: Since 2007 he gives master classes at the Classical Academy for painters in Groningen, and since 2014 he gives master classes in the Middle East. An Israeli painter invited Van der Kooi to come and give seminars, because there are few classical painters in Israel and Palestine due to the region's relatively short history in classical art.

paragraph: In 2002 the life and works of Van der Kooi were featured on the national news and a documentary on the Dutch national television; in 2004 the educational children's television series "Het Klokhuis" had an episode about Van der Kooi’s drawings of tigers. In 2007 his British friend and colleague Michael Reynolds invited Van der Kooi to participate in an exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London and later that year Dame Emma Kirkby and Anthony Rooley performed at the opening of Van der Kooi's exhibition in Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde.

paragraph: In 2009 the four Dutch figurative painters Matthijs Röling, Pieter Pander, Pieter Knorr and Jan van der Kooi were invited by a gallery owner in Antwerp to exhibit their works on a joint exhibition entitled "The four greats from the north". In 2012 posters of Van der Kooi’s tiger drawings were displayed at Dutch national railway stations to promote the exhibition in the Dordrechts Museum.

paragraph: Van der Kooi makes drawings in a book that was also used by Michelangelo and Raphael and which has been in the possession of Christina, Queen of Sweden.

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985 An art fair in Toronto.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002 Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde. At this exhibition the book "Jan van der Kooi, painter, drawer" was presented.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 Exhibition at Laurentius in Middelburg. Presentation of the book compiled with animal drawings from sketch books "Bestiarium".

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 London: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, following an invitation by the British friend and colleague Michael Reynolds, and an exhibition in Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Antwerp: "The four greats from the north" exhibition of the four northern Dutch painters Matthijs Röling, Pieter Pander, Pieter Knorr and Jan van der Kooi.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 "Leonardo’s student" exhibition at Dordrechts Museum, visited by more than 35.000 people. During this exhibition the book "Jan van der Kooi, drawer, painter" was presented. To promote this exhibition tiger drawings by Van der Kooi were displayed at Dutch national railway stations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 "A Frisian painter in Italy" in Museum Martena in Franeker.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 Theme exhibition about sunlight in Museum Arti Legi in Gouda. This exhibition was opened by the Dutch comedian Paul van Vliet; Princess Beatrix later visited the exhibition.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 Double exhibition "Meisterzeichner - Weltentdecker" ("Master drawer - explorer") in Rheine, Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995 - "Recent works (Recent werk)". Jan van der Kooi & Jaap Bruintjes. Publisher Art Media, Amsterdam.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002 - "Jan van der Kooi painter, drawer (schilder, tekenaar)". Introductory written by Eric Bos & Diederik Kraaijpoel. Publisher Art Revisited, Marum.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 - "Bestiarium". Featuring an introduction written by Theo Laurentius. Publisher Art Revisited, Marum.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 - "Close at hand (Binnen handbereik)". Compiled by Peter de Jong & Jan van der Kooi, introduction written by Pauline Broekema. Publisher Art Revisited, Marum.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 - "Jan van der Kooi drawer, painter (tekenaar, schilder)". Frits Duparc & Nicolaas Matsier. Publisher Thoth, Bussum.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 - "Sunlight (Zonlicht)". In conjunction with the theme exhibition in Arti Legi.

description: Dutch painter

wikidata_label: Jan van der Kooi

wikipedia_title: Jan van der Kooi