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The History of the Kings of Britain (Classics) by Geoffrey of Monmouth
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Geoffrey of Monmouth

Part Five * * * THE PROPHECIES OF MERLIN [vii.1] I had not yet reached this point in my story when Merlin began to be talked about very much, and ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Illustrated Kings and Queens of England by Ridgway Claire
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Ridgway, Claire [Ridgway, Claire]

Edward V 1470-1483 Rule: 9 April 1483 – 26 June 1483 Marriages: Did not marry. Issue: None * * * Edward V was born on 2 November 1470, while his ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by Norwich John Julius
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Norwich, John Julius [Norwich, John Julius]

‘The personification of the French Renaissance’: Francis I of France in 1530 when he was thirty-six, painted by Jean Clouet. The Emperor Charles V aged about thirty – the Habsburg ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Parker Geoffrey
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Parker, Geoffrey [Parker, Geoffrey]

For ‘Lombardy’ – not for the Netherlands! Pérez advised this dramatic departure from the king’s plan because if, when Don John reached Lombardy, ‘the Low Countries are lost, or if ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth by Freed John
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Freed, John [Freed, John]

Frederick’s Promotion of Economic Development Frederick was not very interested, seemingly, in economic matters north of the Alps prior to his visit in 1165 to the lower Rhine valley, the ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Lal Ruby
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Lal, Ruby [Lal, Ruby]

Jahangir’s father had built a sturdy stone palace-fort in Srinagar on a hill called the Hari Parbat, overlooking the lovely Dal Lake, approximately four miles long and three miles wide, ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
Napoleon: A Life by Zamoyski Adam
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Zamoyski, Adam [Zamoyski, Adam]

28 Austerlitz ON 1 JANUARY 1805 Napoleon wrote to George III using the address ‘Monsieur mon frère’, customary between monarchs, proposing a new peace settlement based on a division of ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor by Stephenson Paul
azw3 |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Stephenson, Paul [Stephenson, Paul]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:John Guy

19 Assassination Two The day before Darnley’s assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember. It was the feast of Quinquagesima: the Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning ...
( Category: Royalty May 21,2019 )
Emperor by Geoffrey Parker;
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Parker;

THE EMPEROR STRIKES BACK ‘The arrival of the duke of Alba, with his Spaniards and the money has greatly raised our spirits,’ wrote a member of Charles’s entourage. ‘Now the ...
( Category: Royalty May 17,2019 )
Kings & Queens of Great Britain by David Soud
epub |eng | | Author:David Soud

Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and inflammatory opponent of the House of Hanover. His Jacobite intrigues eventually let to his being arrested and exiled for life. Walpole was a large ...
( Category: Royalty May 11,2019 )
History's Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emperor Caligula to Kim Jong Il by Michael Rank
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Michael Rank [Rank, Michael]

Mao demanded that all public and private resources of the nation were to be used for transforming and modernizing the nation. His decision extracted a terrible price from his people ...
( Category: History & Theory May 11,2019 )
The Shadow King by Lauren Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Johnson

28 ‘Rejoice, England, in concord and unity’1 Sandwich 28 August 1457 Early morning broke over the small Kentish port of Sandwich in a welter of clanging alarm bells, screams and ...
( Category: Royalty May 10,2019 )
Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman by Robert Hardman
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Robert Hardman [Robert Hardman]

* * * Princess Elizabeth (centre) with Princess Margaret, sounding the whistle of the royal train, South Africa, 1947. * * * Princess Elizabeth, aged 20, during that 1947 tour ...
( Category: Women May 6,2019 )
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
epub |eng | 2006-05-06 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XIV REBELLION, DISASTER AND VENGEANCE ‘And then, since he had not anticipated anything, Sabinus panicked, and rushed here and there deploying the cohorts, but even this he did timidly and ...
( Category: Rome May 6,2019 )

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