L'ascesa da pecoraio a re concessa da dio a Davide, permise a questo nobile personaggio, che per concedere sua figlia in sposa pretese in cambio 100 prepuzi filistei, la grazia di avere una, due, mezza dozzina, dieci e anche più mogli, suo figlio Absalon di queste mogli del padre se ne trombò una decina. Non parliamo poi di Salomone che di mogli primarie ne aveva 700 ma anche 300 di secondarie

George Lucki wrote: While we are focus on the titular Patriarch of Alexandria which was a niminal title (much like the titular reference to lost sees in the titles of curial or auxillary bishops) we are setting aside the question of the grant of arms. I think it important to note that the law of arms was not quite the same in the early 16th century as we might see it today and an

Sergei Oudman wrote: Derek Howard wrote: Does anyone here have access to an institution having a subscription to the Acta sanctorum which can be found on-line at <http://acta.chadwyck.com/> ? It would be useful to know if Riario's name crops up under the listing of purely titular (and non-resident) Latin Patriarchs of Alexandria and, if so, for what dates. I have

pierre aronax@hotmail.fr wrote: Sergei Oudman a écrit : pierre aronax@hotmail.fr wrote: WILLIAM BALDWIN JR a écrit : WILLIAM BALDWIN JR a écrit : <pierre aronax@hotmail.fr> wrote in message news:1165259208.850052.101000@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com... [You are of course completely mistaken: Latin Patriarchs

snelson@slis.sjsu.edu wrote: Hi all, I hope you find this piece of information as interesting as I did: A painted roll of arms now belonging to the Society of Antiquaries (Soc. Ant. MS. 664, Vol. VI, ff. 1-11b) was described by Mill Stephenson and Ralph Griffin in 1918 in Archaeologia (A Roll of Arms Belonging to the Society of Antiquaries by Mill Stephenson in Archaeologia