The Knights of the Royal Oak was an intended order of chivalry in England. It was proposed in 1660 at the time of the restoration of Charles II of England...
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The Royal Oak was the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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Edmund Poley (1619–1671) (category Knights Bachelor)
the Stuart Restoration in 1660. He was on the list of proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, with an income estimated at £1,000 per year in 1660. That year...
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Sir George Blundell, 2nd Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for King's County constituencies)
represented Philipstown in the Irish Commons. Blundell was identified to be one of the Knights of the Royal Oak, however, the order was never established...
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Royal Oak High School (ROHS) is a public high school located in Royal Oak, Michigan. The interim principal is Angela Ashburn. It is a part of Royal Oak...
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William Thomas (MP for Ludgershall) (category Members of Gray's Inn)
committees, of which he took the chair in three. He expressed strong Anglican and Royalist views. He was proposed as one of the Knights of the Royal Oak, with...
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Fire, Knight was nominated to be a Knight of the Royal Oak. Morris, A.E.J. (2013). History of the Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution. Routledge...
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Sir Robert Carr, 3rd Baronet (category Knights Bachelor)
At the Restoration in 1660, Carr was identified as one of the potential Knights of the Royal Oak with an estate valued at £4,000. In 1662 he married his...
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William Price (Royalist) (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
retained the family estate under Oliver Cromwell's protectorate. On the Restoration, Price was nominated as Knight of the Royal Oak having an estate of £1500...
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Thomas Whitgrave (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
recipient Knight of the Royal Oak, a reward to those Englishmen who faithfully and actively supported Charles II during his exile in France. (The knighthoods...
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members of all classes also feature on the order of precedence, as do sons, daughters and daughters-in-law of Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commander;...
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located in Royal Oak, Michigan, in Greater Detroit and had 1,10 students at the time of its consolidation with Dondero High School following the 2005-06...
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Sir Thomas Willys, 1st Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
proposed as one of the Knights of the Royal Oak, an intended order of knighthood to be bestowed as a reward to supporters of Charles II of England; it was...
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Richard Raynsford (category Knights Bachelor)
of the Royal Oak. He was re-elected MP for Northampton in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament, and sat until 16 November 1663 when he was raised to the bench...
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the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons. John Pettiward (born 1652) of Putney married...
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Henry Noel (MP for Stamford) (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
the Royal Oak at the Restoration, his income being estimated at £1,000 per year. Around this time, he made a gift of a fire engine to the town of Stamford...
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the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons. John Pettiward (born 1652) of Putney - married...
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Walter Rumsey (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
Rumsey was proposed for the intended order of Knights of the Royal Oak. He died in 1660 at the age of 76. "The diary of Walter Powell of Llantilio Crossenny"...
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Günther Prien (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
HMS Royal Oak at anchor in the Home Fleet's anchorage in Scapa Flow. Prien was one of three children of a judge and completed his basic education. At the...
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Sir Henry Tichborne, 3rd Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
included in a list of possible recipients of a proposed order of Knights of the Royal Oak, he had restored his income to about £1,000 a year. However, as...
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an oak tree, a shield with the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom hanging from one branch, and, on the left, a mounted knight in armour. The insignia's...
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Richard Chiverton (category 17th-century lord mayors of London)
Mayor of London and did not fall out of favour at the Restoration as he was considered for membership of the Knights of the Royal Oak. and was knighted by...
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Francis Ingoldsby (category Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford)
projected title of Knight of the Royal Oak. Ingoldsby died a pensioner of the Charterhouse, London in 1681. Ingoldsby was the brother of Richard Ingoldsby...
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John Norden (MP) (category Members of the Middle Temple)
and Devizes in the Convention Parliament and chose to sit for Old Sarum. He was proposed as a Knight of the Royal Oak with an income of £800. In 1662,...
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Sir Abel Barker, 1st Baronet (category Year of birth uncertain)
was a signatory of the loyal address to Charles II of England. He was proposed as a Knight of the Royal Oak in 1660 with an estate of £1,000 per year. In...
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returned as a Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire to the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659. He was proposed as a Knight of the Royal Oak for Monmouthshire...
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Look up oak leaf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oak leaf or Oakleaf may refer to: the leaf of an oak oak leaf lettuce, from the Lactuca sativa group...
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the death of his father in 1656. He was knighted on 7 July 1660 and was one of those recommended as Knight of the Royal Oak with an estate of £1,800 per...
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The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Jerusalem, or Templars, was a military order founded in c. 1120. The Knights Templar were an elite...
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