| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
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| battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland |
Battle of Fontenoy
,
Fontenoy
|
| decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest |
battle of Hastings
,
Hastings
|
| battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne |
battle of Ivry
,
Ivry
,
Ivry la Bataille
|
| battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon |
Battle of Waterloo
,
Waterloo
|
| First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession |
Blenheim
|
| duke, concerning a |
ducal
|
| wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right |
duchess
|
| domain controlled by a duke or duchess |
duchy
,
dukedom
|
| dignity or rank or position of a duke |
dukedom
|
| city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University |
Durham
|
| wife of a grand duke or a woman holding that rank in her own right |
grand duchess
|
| domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess |
grand duchy
|
| Norse chieftain who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931) |
Hrolf
,
Rolf
,
Rollo
|
| grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505) |
Ivan III
,
Ivan III Vasilievich
,
Ivan the Great
|
| second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl or viscount or baron |
lords temporal
,
second estate
|
| title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge |
Lordship
|
| British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl |
marquess
|
| nobleman below duke but above earl and count |
marquess
,
marquis
|
| nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage |
peer
|
| duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England; he defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087) |
William I
,
William the Conqueror
|
