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 current interrim principal is Angela Ashburn. It is a part of...
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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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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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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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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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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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officer is the Grand Master. The position has been held by the following people: The order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross, 845 Knights and Dames...
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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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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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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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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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John Kelynge (category Members of the Inner Temple)
as one of the intended knights of the Royal Oak, and who afterwards was knighted and became king's Serjeant. The family name of the mother of that son...
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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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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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Humphrey Orme (category Place of birth missing)
recommended as a Knight of the Royal Oak. He was re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1671. Orme died at the age of 50. Orme...
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Edward Lloyd (MP for Montgomery) (category Year of birth missing)
Short Parliament. He was a staunch Royalist during the Civil War. and was nominated Knight of the Royal Oak in 1660. Sir Edward married Ursula Salusbury 31...
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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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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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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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Thomas Whitmore (1599–1677) (category Members of the Middle Temple)
Wenlock in April 1660 for the Convention Parliament. On the Restoration, he was one of those proposed as Knight of the Royal Oak, with an annual income estimated...
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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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Thomas Master (died 1680) (category Members of Lincoln's Inn)
address welcoming King Charles II and was one of those nominated for the title Knight of the Royal Oak when his income was assessed at £1,000 a year....
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George Gwynne (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
nominated for the Knight of the Royal Oak award in 1660. He was listed as one of the Justices of the Peace for Breconshire in 1666. W R Williams The Parliamentary...
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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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John Salusbury (MP) (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
After the Restoration in 1660 Salusbury was one of those nominated Knight of the Royal Oak. He was Colonel of Denbighshire Horse Militia in 1666. Salusbury...
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