Re: Henry Grady Quinn
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Henry Grady Quinn
baughman smith 2/13/06
There was a Graf von Quinn in the Austrian nobility:
"Graf" is simply the German word for the title "Count".
He was a Field-Marshall who went to Austria from Ireland and was created a count of the Holy Roman Empire which, as you Catholic historians out there are aware, was one with the empire of Austria for several centuries.
To speak of the "Holy Roman empire" was to speak of the "Germanic" empire until the early 1800s...as opposed to the later Germanic empire, in the 1870s period, under the Prussian Hohenzollerns, which lasted until the revolution of 1919.
The counts v. Quinn--or von Quinn--belonged to the Hapsburg or Habsburg monarchy, in Austria, but were originally from Ireland.
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Re: Henry Grady Quinn
Anthony Quinn 2/24/06