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    Robert Gibb or Gib (1490-1558) was a Scottish landowner and courtier. His home and lands were at Carribber Castle near Linlithgow in West Lothian. The...
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  • Robert Gibb may refer to: Robert Gibb (courtier) (1490-1558), Scottish courtier Robert Gibb (poet) (born 1946), American poet Robert Gibb (painter) (1845–1932)...
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    John Gibb of Knock and Carribber (c.1550–1628) was a Scottish landowner and courtier. He was a son of Robert Gibb and Elizabeth Schaw. His mother is sometimes...
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  • Sir Henry Gibb, 1st Baronet (died 8 April 1650) was a Scottish courtier. Gibb was the son of John Gibb (or Gib) of Knock and Isobel Lyndsay. His grandfather...
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  • Elizabeth or Elspeth Gibb (died 1595) was a Scottish courtier. She was a daughter of Robert Gibb of Carriber and Elizabeth Schaw. On 4 February 1577 she...
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    and a distinguished English courtier. His public career was impeded by remaining a Roman Catholic. Born around 1513, Robert Throckmorton was the eldest...
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    and paintings were put in the custody of his friend, the Scottish courtier Henry Gibb. Somerset may have begun collecting paintings to cement his position...
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  • died in 1612, Fullerton briefly held another courtier, Sir Robert Kerr, under arrest when Kerr and Henry Gibb were suspected of disposing of the Prince's...
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  • Scottish courtier. In 1591 William Stewart was described as a valet in the chamber of James VI. The other valets in 1591 were William Murray, John Gibb, and...
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    Baron Hunsdon (category Gibbs family)
    was first created in 1559 in the Peerage of England for the soldier and courtier Henry Carey. His grandson, the fourth Baron, was created by Viscount Rochford...
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    politician and courtier Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke (1607–1643), English Baron, military commander and Roundhead general Robert Harley (1579–1656)...
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  • identified as a woman of the same name who married a minor courtier of James V, Robert Gibb. James V had children with a number of mistresses before his...
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    Great Chamberlain KG PC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540) was an English peer and courtier. John de Vere, born about 1482, was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington...
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    dynasty and state with the demands of Islam". In the assessment of H. A. R. Gibb, Umar acted to prevent the collapse of the caliphate by "maintaining the...
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    Councillors before the entire court. Skypp's diatribe was intended to persuade courtiers and Privy Councillors to change the advice they had been giving the King...
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    the King's Close Stool") was the most intimate of an English monarch's courtiers, initially responsible for assisting the king in excretion and hygiene...
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    office of state that was significant nationally rather than just being a courtier in the royal household. He died in 1282, and was succeeded by his son James...
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  • of Kingsbury, Warwickshire (ca. 1542 – 21 December 1582) was an English courtier, privateer and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of Sir...
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    Ditchley Park (category James Gibbs buildings)
    Ditchley. The 2nd Earl of Lichfield built the present house, designed by James Gibbs, in 1722. In 1933, the house was bought by an MP, Ronald Tree, whose wife...
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    arrow. In the final decade of his life, Norfolk continued his career as a courtier, diplomat and soldier. In 1514 he joined Wolsey and Foxe in negotiating...
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  • January 1797 – 26 September 1837) was a British soldier, politician and courtier. Chichester was born in Westminster, London, the eldest, and only surviving...
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    Francis Knollys (the elder) (category English courtiers)
    Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire (c. 1511/c. 1514 – 19 July 1596) was an English courtier in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, and was a Member...
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  • (London, 1740), p. 169. McKeen 1986, pp. 675–676. Boyer 2004. Milward 2004. Gibbs 1908, pp. 59–67. "LADY ELIZABETH HATTON - Charity 205289-2". register-of-charities...
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  • John Villiers (c. 1591 – 18 February 1658) was an English courtier from the Villiers family. The eldest son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, later...
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    Maurice Berkeley, de jure 4th Baron Berkeley (1467–1523), Maurice the Courtier, son. Died without legitimate progeny. Thomas Berkeley, de jure 5th Baron...
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    language as a "tymber stule with rynand quheillis to gang in". An English courtier, Robert Carey, came to Dunfermline and stayed with Alexander Seton, and wrote...
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  • Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (1561). The latter translation of The Courtier, entitled The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio, had great popularity...
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    Wentworth, KB, of Nettlestead, Suffolk. He was the only son and heir of the courtier Sir Philip Wentworth (d. 18 May 1464) of Nettlestead, Suffolk, beheaded...
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    been brought up as a Catholic and would become a high-living Catholic courtier, in danger, infuriating to hard-line Parliamentarians. He was educated...
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  • Sir Anthony Lee (c. 1510 – 24 November 1549) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament, and the father of Elizabeth I's champion, Sir Henry Lee...
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