7 sentences with “nobleman”

In 1562 a Guise nobleman sponsored a massacre of Huguenots that triggered decades of war.

The leading figure in codifying and popularising the new empirical and inductive process was Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), an English nobleman.

In 1632, King Adolf was killed in battle and the military leader of the Catholics, a nobleman named Wallenstein, was assassinated, leaving the war in a continuing bloody stalemate.

In 1497, Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese nobleman, was sponsored by the Portuguese crown and sailed around Africa and as far as India, claiming several territories for Portugal in the process.

The King of England, Edward III, was next in line, but powerful members of the French nobility rejected his claim and instead pledged to give the crown to a French nobleman from the royal line named Philip VI.

A nobleman from Milan, Cesare Bonesana, wrote a short work entitled Dei delitti e delle pene (Crimes and Punishments) in 1764 arguing that the essential duty of the state was the protection of the life and dignity of its citizens, which for him included those accused of crimes.

In turn, each Roman legion was led by a legionary legate, usually a powerful nobleman appointed by the imperial government or by the emperor himself. These legates were often politicians rather than soldiers, meaning that the key figures in the actual battle were the centurions, each of whom had earned his position through exemplary service.