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1. Speaker Frederick I: Frederick was the third son of Derrick of York and forced into the church in order to avoid any troubles with the succession (England had a tradition that anyone who served in the Holy Thing could not inherit land or title from their fathers). Frederick, who was a great deal like his father in many ways, put his energies into gaining power within the Holy Thing. In 424 he entered into the ranks of the Holy Thing, by 432 he was its most powerful member and by 436 he had been elected as Speaker.

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