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50 matches to Family Compact
Maccabees. -63BC Jewish family. Led revolt vs Seleucids 168BC. Reconsecrated Temple of Jerusalem.
Malatesta. 13-16C. Italian family. Ruled Rimini.
Mather. 17-18C. Family of influential American Puritan ministers.
Medici. Merchant family. Ruled Florence 1434~1737. Patron of Italian Renaissance arts. Catherine. Marie. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, Leo XI.
Monaco. 10C BC Phoenicia. 5C BC Phocean. Rome. 9C Saracen. 1191 Genoa. 1297 Grimaldi family. 1524 Spanish protectorate. 1641 French protectorate. 1792 French. 1815 Sardinia.1861 Grimaldi, French protectorate. Will revert to France when no male heir.
Mortimer. English royal family. Edmund’s royal marriage 14C led to 15C Yorkist claims vs Henry IV. Edward IV.
Muhlenberg. German/US family. Founded US Lutheranism 18-19C.
Nassau. German family which controlled the Rhine from 12C. One branch was House of Orange.
Orsini. 12C-. Influential Roman family. Popes Celestine III, Nicholas III, Benedict XIII.
Prakrit. Family of Indic languages from which Indo-Aryan springs.
Radziwill. 15-18C. Polish-Lithuanian royal family.
Rothschild, Meyer. 1744-1812. German banking family patriarch.
Scipio. 3-1C BC Family of Roman leaders, generals.
Stopes, Marie. 1880-1958. British Family Planning pioneer. First London birth control clinic 1921.
Stroganov. Wealthy Russian merchant family 16-17C. Helped colonise Siberia 1574. Aided czars.
Strozzi. Florentine noble family. Rivals of Medici.
Stuart. Family which ruled Scotland 1371-1714, England 1603-1714.
Stuart, Henry. 1725-1807. Last Stuart claimant to English throne. Left family jewels to George IV.
Vanderbilt. 19C US Railroad magnate family. Founded university.
Visconti. 1311-1450. Milanese noble family.
Windsor. 1917-. Surname of British royal family, replacing Wettin, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in WWI.
York. Branch of the Anjou-Plantegenet family, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. War of Roses.
Zaibatsu. 1868-1946. Japanese family owned-cartels. Mitsui. Mitsubishi. Sumitomo. Yasuda.
Mayflower Compact. 1620. Basis of Plymouth gov’t.
Social Contract. Hobbes political philosophy. Compact between ruler and ruled. Locke.