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  • According to Abbo of Fleury, followed by Florence of Worcester, he came "ex antiquorum Saxonum prosapia," which apparently means that he was of foreign origin and that he belonged to the Old Saxons of the continent.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • His seal, which has been preserved, is the oldest feudal seal known, and the story of his life, the _Sancta prosapia domini Arnulfi comitis gloriosissimi_, was the origin of the collection of annals and chronicles in Latin, French and Flemish which formed, in the sixteenth century, the well-known _Excellente Cronijke van Vlaenderen_.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • (Turin, 1880-84); Antonio Rosmini e la sua prosapia (Rovereto, 1880);

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • I meant to say, Colonel Talbot, is, that yours is an ancient prosapia, or descent, and since you have lawfully and justly acquired the estate for you and yours, which I have lost for me and mine, I wish it may remain in your name as many centuries as it has done in that of the late proprietor's. ''

    The Waverley 1877

  • Nobilium Procerum Regni, quos secum habuit Domisellos, instruxerat, cum non de nobili prosapia, sed de simplicibus traxisset Originem, fertur intrepide respondisse, In Domo seu

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Hic ossa conduntur TOBIAE SMOLLETT, Scoti; Qui prosapia generosa et antiqua natus, Priscae virtutis exemplar emicuit; Aspectu ingenue,

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

  • 'But what I meant to say, Colonel Talbot, is, that yours is an ancient prosapia, or descent, and since you have lawfully and justly acquired the estate for you and yours which I have lost for me and mine, I wish it may remain in your name as many centuries as it has done in that of the late proprietor's.'

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 'But what I meant to say, Colonel Talbot, is, that yours is an ancient prosapia, or descent, and since you have lawfully and justly acquired the estate for you and yours which I have lost for me and mine, I wish it may remain in your name as many centuries as it has done in that of the late proprietor's.'

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • 'But what I meant to say, Colonel Talbot, is, that yours is an ancient prosapia, or descent, and since you have lawfully and justly acquired the estate for you and yours which I have lost for me and mine, I wish it may remain in your name as many centuries as it has done in that of the late proprietor's.'

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • Antiqua, eaque regia Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi, prosapia oriundus,

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

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