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| 1 |  | _Ada de Warenne | ||
| 2 |  | _Adalbert Vermandois Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, was the son of Herbert II of Vermandois and Adela of France. Born about 915, he succeeded his father as Count of Vermandois in 946. |
Date: 915-987 |
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| 3 |  | _Adela de Vexin Adele of Valois was a daughter of Ralph IV of Valois and Adele of Bar-sur-Aube. She married firstly Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and they had: Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois Odo I, Count of Vermandois She was also the second wife of Theobald III, Count of Blois |
Date: 1032-1080 |
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| 4 |  | _Adela of France Saint Adelia Capet | ||
| 5 |  | _Adelaide de Meaux de Vermandois Adelaide de Meaux de Vermandois |
Date: 940 - 980 AD |
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| 6 |  | _Adelaide de Vermandois Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1080 to 1120. Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois. By 1080, Adelaide married Hugh, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France. Hugh became Count of Vermandois,… |
Date: 1062-1120 |
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| 7 |  | _Adelaide di Susa Adelaide of Turin (also Adelheid, Adelais, or Adeline; c. 1014/1020 – 19 December 1091) was the countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in Northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death. She was the last of the Arduinici. She is sometimes compared to her second cousin, and close contemporary, Matilda of Tuscany |
Date: 1014-1091 |
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| 8 |  | _Adelaide of Aquitaine Adbelahide, Adele, Adela or Adelaide of Aquitaine (also known as Adelaide of Poitiers; c. 945 or 952 – 1004),[1] was Queen of France by marriage to Hugh Capet, King of the Franks (c. 939 – 14 October 996). Adelaide and Hugh were the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France, which would rule France until the 18th and 19th centuries. As queen… |
Date: 945-1004 |
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| 9 |  | _Adelaide of France |
Date: 1092-1154 |
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| 10 |  | _Adelaide Paris (Louis II) |
Date: 850-901 AD |
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| 11 |  | _Adele Capet De Champagne Adela of Champagne (French: Adèle; c. 1140 – 4 June 1206), also known as Adelaide, Alix and Adela of Blois, was Queen of France as the third wife of Louis VII. She was regent of France from 1190 to 1191 while her son Philip II participated in the Third Crusade. |
Date: 1140-1206 |
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| 12 |  | _Adeline de Meulan Roger de Beaumont married c. 1048, Adeline of Meulan (c. 1014-1020 - 8 Apr 1081), the daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan by Oda de Conteville. Their surviving children were: Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (c.1049-1118), Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick (c.1050-1119) |
Date: 1014-1081 |
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| 13 |  | _Adeliza of Louvain Adeliza of Louvain (also Adelicia, Adela, Adelais, and Aleidis; c. 1103 – March/April 1151) was Queen of England from 1121 to 1135 as the second wife of King Henry I. Adeliza was the eldest child of Godfrey I, Count of Louvain, and Ida of Chiny. In 1121, Adeliza, aged about 18, married Henry, who was some 35 years older. |
Date: 1103-1151 |
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| 14 |  | _Aegir Ægir (anglicised as Aegir; Old Norse 'sea'), Hlér (Old Norse 'sea'), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology. In the Old Norse record, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls and is associated with brewing ale. Ægir is attested as married to a goddess, Rán, who also… | ||
| 15 |  | _Aelfthryth Ælfthryth of Wessex (c. 877 – 7 June 929), also known as Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida), was an English princess and a countess consort of Flanders to Baldwin II. She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd. Between 893 and 899,… |
Date: 877-929 |
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| 16 |  | _Aemila Lepida Aemilia Lepida from "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " |
Date: 5 BC- 43 AD |
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| 17 |  | _Agnes de Beaumont Louis married an heiress, Agnes of Beaumont. Through his marriage Louis became the viscount of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe in Maine and a vassal of Louis IX's brother, Charles of Anjou. Being closely related to King Alfonso X of Castile, Louis and his brothers often visited the Castilian royal court where they witnessed a series of royal charters between… |
Date: 1230-1301 |
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| 18 |  | _Agnes Tilney Agnes Howard (née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Catherine Howard was placed in the Dowager Duchess's care after her mother's death. |
Date: 1477-1545 |
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| 19 |  | _Alan I Alain I, "Le Grand" King of Brittany, was the Count of Vannes and Duke of Brittany (dux Brittonium) from 876 until his death. He was probably also the only King of Brittany (rex Brittaniæ) to hold that title by a grant of the Emperor. |
Date: 907 |
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| 20 |  | _Albrecht Achilles Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, (9 November 1414 – 11 March 1486) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 until his death, the third from the House of Hohenzollern. A member of the Order of the Swan, he received the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities and virtues. He also ruled in the Franconian principalities of… |
Date: 1414-1486 |
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| 21 |  | _Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (alt. Ælfred; 848/849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned… |
Date: 848-899 |
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| 22 |  | _Alice De Audley Ralph de Neville married Alice de Audley (d. 1358), daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley and Isolde le Rous (and widow of Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke (died 1323)), on 14 Jan 1326 with whom he had thirteen children. |
Date: 1300-1374 |
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| 23 |  | _Alice de Courtenay Alice of Courtenay (French: Alix; 1160 – 12 February 1218) was a French noblewoman. Her father was Peter I of Courtenay and her brother was Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople. Alice married twice; by her second husband, Count Aymer of Angoulême, she was the mother of the English queen Isabella of Angoulême. |
Date: 1160-1218 |
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| 24 |  | _Alice Wellyfed |
Date: 1501-1601 |
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| 25 |  | _Alix de Vermandois |
Date: 910-960 AD |
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| 26 |  | _Alpaida Alpaida (c. 654 – c. 714) was a Frankish noblewoman who hailed from the Liège area. She became the wife of Pippin of Herstal (635 or 640 – 16 December 714) and mother to two sons by him, Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) (688 – 22 October 741) and Childebrand I (678–751) |
Date: 654-714 |
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| 27 |  | _Amadeus II Amadeus II, Count of Savoy (c. 1050 – 26 January 1080) was the count of Savoy from 1078 to 1080. His life is obscure and few documents mention him. During his rule, he was overshadowed by his mother, but he had good relations with the papacy and, for a time, the Holy Roman emperor. |
Date: 1050-1080 |
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| 28 |  | _Andrew Judde - Lord Mayor of London Sir Andrew Judde, or Judd (5 September 1492 – 1558) was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted on 15 February 1551. |
Date: 1492-1558 |
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| 29 |  | _Ann Thornton Wright ANN THORNTON-WRIGHT BRASS PLAQUE Welwick, St Mary's Church + http://www.britainexpress.com/photo.htm?photo=3291 |
Date: 1530-1618 |
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| 30 |  | _Anna Queen of France Anna Agnesa Yaroslavna (c. 1030 – 1075) was a Rus' princess who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I. She ruled the kingdom as regent during the minority of their son Philip I from Henry's death in 1060 until her controversial marriage to Count Ralph IV of Valois. Anne founded the Abbey of St. Vincent at Senlis. |
Date: 1036-1075 |
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| 31 |  | _Anna von Saxony "Albrecht Achilles Gripsholm" by Anonymous - Preußen - Versuch einer Bilanz. Ausstellungskatalog in 5 Bänden hrsg. von Gottfried Korff (Berlin 1981), Bd. 1, S. 84.. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Achilles_Gripsholm.JPG#/media/File:Albrecht_Achilles_Gripsholm.JPG |
Date: 1437-1512 |
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| 32 |  | _Anne Arundell Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (c. 1615/1616 – 23 July 1649) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Lord Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland colony. Anne Arundel County in the US state of Maryland was named for her. |
Date: 1615-1649 |
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| 33 |  | _Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. |
Date: 1507-1536 |
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| 34 |  | _Anne Boleyn in the Tower final hours The accused were found guilty and condemned to death. George Boleyn and the other accused men were executed on 17 May 1536. William Kingston, the Constable of the Tower, reported Anne seemed very happy and ready to be done with life. Henry commuted Anne's sentence from burning to beheading, and rather than have a queen beheaded with the common… |
Date: 17 May 1536 |
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| 35 |  | _Anne Calvert by Strozzi Lady Anne Mynne Calvert |
Date: 1579-1622 |
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| 36 |  | _Anne Cecil Anne was the daughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mildred Cooke. She married Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford on Dec. 19, 1571. The marriage was an unhappy one, producing three surviving daughters; Susan, Elizabeth, and Bridget. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15116603 |
Date: 1556-1588 |
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| 37 |  | _Anne de Beauchamp Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (13 Jul 1426 – 20 Sep 1492) was an important late medieval English noblewoman. She was the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, and his second wife, Isabel le Despenser. Anne Beauchamp was the mother of two famous daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville |
Date: 1426-1492 |
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| 38 |  | _Anne Hastings Anne Hastings, daughter of Edward and wife of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby. |
Date: 1485-1550 |
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| 39 |  | _Anne Hoo Lady Anne Boleyn (née Hoo; c. 1424 – 6 June 1485) was an English noblewoman, noted for being the great grandmother of Anne Boleyn and therefore the maternal great-great grandmother of Elizabeth I of England. She was the only child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings, and his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham, she married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn in… |
Date: 1410-1484 |
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| 40 |  | _Anne Neville Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker"). Before her marriage to Richard, she had been Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, the only son… |
Date: 1456-1485 |
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| 41 |  | _Anne of Cleves Anne of Cleves (1515–57), a daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves, was the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Holbein was sent to paint her at Düren in summer 1539, so that Henry could appraise her as a possible wife. Holbein posed Anne square-on and in elaborate finery. Henry was disappointed with her in the flesh, and he divorced her after a brief,… |
Date: 1515-1557 |
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| 42 |  | _Anne Stafford Neville Anne Stafford Neville |
Date: 1470-1522 |
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| 43 |  | _Ansegisal de Metz Ansegisel (c. 602 – murdered before 679 or 662) was the younger son of Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz. He served King Sigebert III of Austrasia as domesticus. He was killed sometime before 679, slain in a feud by his enemy Gundewin. Through his son Pepin, Ansegisel's descendants would eventually become Frankish kings and rule over the Carolingian… |
Date: 602-679 |
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| 44 |  | _Aoife At the age of thirty-eight and still unmarried due to a lack of royal favor, Richard was ready for the arrival and proposal of Dermot MacMurchada Lord of Leinster in 1168/69. Dermot arrived in Bristol, along with his daughter Aoife, and went to the home of Robert fitz Harding, a wealthy merchant, money-lender, and favorite of King Henry's. Dermot… |
Date: 1145-1188 |
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| 45 |  | _Archbishop Edwin Sandys Edwin Sandys (1519 – 10 July 1588) was an English prelate. He was Anglican Bishop of Worcester (1559–1570), London (1570–1576) and Archbishop of York (1576–1588) during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of the translators of the Bishops' Bible. |
Date: 1519-1588 |
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| 46 |  | _Arthur Pendragon King Arthur is a legendary king of Britain, and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. In Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a leader of the post-Roman Britons in battles against Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. |
Date: 479-538 |
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| 47 |  | _Arthur Tudor Arthur, Prince of Wales (19/20 September 1486 – 2 April 1502), was the eldest son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and an older brother to the future King Henry VIII. He was Duke of Cornwall from birth, and he was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1489. Soon after his marriage to Catherine, Arthur died from the… |
Date: 1486-1502 |
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| 48 |  | _Atia Balba Caesonia Atia Balba 85 BC – 43 BC) was the niece of Julius Caesar (through his sister Julia Minor), and mother of Gaius Octavius, who became the Emperor Augustus. Through her daughter Octavia, she was also the great-grandmother of Germanicus and his brother, emperor Claudius. |
Date: 85 BC – 43 BC |
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| 49 |  | _Aurelia Cotta Aurelia (c. 120 BC – July 31, 54 BC) was the mother of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar. Aurelia was a daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta or his brother, Marcus Aurelius Cotta. Her father was consul in 119 BC and her paternal grandfather of the same name was consul in 144 BC. The family of the Aurelii Cottae was… |
Date: 120BC-54BC |
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| 50 |  | _Balder the Good Baldr is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, Baldr is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in Old English as Bældæġ, and in Old High German as Balder, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Balðraz ('hero' or… | ||
| 51 |  | _Balduin V Baldwin V (1177 or 1178 – August 1186) was King of Jerusalem who reigned together with his uncle Baldwin IV from 1183 to 1185 and, after his uncle's death, as the sole king from 1185 to his death. In late August 1186, Baldwin V died of unknown causes in Acre. |
Date: 1177-1186 |
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| 52 |  | _Baldwin II Baldwin II (c. 865 – 10 September 918) was the second margrave (or count) of Flanders, ruling from 879 to 918. He was nicknamed the Bald (Calvus) after his maternal grandfather, Emperor Charles the Bald. |
Date: 865-918 |
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| 53 |  | _Baldwin IV of Flanders Baldwin IV (980 – 30 May 1035), called the Bearded, was the count of Flanders from 987 until his death. Baldwin IV was the son of Count Arnulf II of Flanders and Rozala of Italy, of the House of Ivrea. He succeeded his father as Count of Flanders in 987, but with his mother Rozala as the regent until his majority. |
Date: 980-1035 |
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| 54 |  | _Barbara Gamage with her six children Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1563 – 24 May 1621)[was a Welsh heiress, and the first wife of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester. Her family connections tied her to prominent contemporary figures such as Sir Walter Raleigh. |
Date: 1564-1621 |
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| 55 |  | _Baron Richard Rich Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (Jul 1496 – 12 Jun 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until Jan 1552. He was a beneficiary of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and persecuted perceived opponents of the king and their policies. He played a role in the trials of Catholic martyrs Thomas More and John… |
Date: 1496-1567 |
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| 56 |  | _Bartholomew de Badlesmere Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (18 Aug 1275 – 14 Apr 1322) was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBernard. He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland. He was executed after participating in an unsuccessful… |
Date: 1275-1322 |
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| 57 |  | _Bathsheba at Bath Depiction of David and Bathsheba in Bathsheba at Bath by Paolo Veronese, 1575, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon | ||
| 58 |  | _Béatrice de France Beatrice of Vermandois (c. 880 – after 26 Mar 931) was queen of Western Francia by marriage to Robert I, and mother of Hugh the Great. Beatrice was the daughter of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois. She was also the sister of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, and was a descendant in the male line of Charlemagne through King Bernard of Italy. |
Date: 880-931 AD |
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| 59 |  | _Beli Mawr Beli Mawr ("Beli the Great") was an ancestor figure in Middle Welsh literature and genealogies. He is the father of Cassivellaunus, Arianrhod, Lludd Llaw Eraint, Llefelys, and Afallach. In certain medieval genealogies he is listed as the son or husband of Anna, cousin of Mary, mother of Jesus. According to the Welsh Triads, Beli and Dôn were the… |
Date: 99-72 BC |
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| 60 |  | _Beltsa | ||
| 61 |  | _Berenger Raymond IV Ramon Berenguer IV (1198 – 19 Aug 1245) was a member of the House of Barcelona who ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier. He was the first count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years. During the minority of a previous count, the regency was exercised by Ramon Berenguer IV de Barcelona, who is sometimes counted… |
Date: 1198-1245 |
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| 62 |  | _Berenguela wife of King of Jersulam |
Date: 1199-1237 |
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| 63 |  | _Bertha de Toulouse Bertha de Toulouse de Gellone |
Date: 777-870 AD |
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| 64 |  | _Bertrade and Philip Bertrade de Montfort (c. 1070 – 14 February 1117) was Queen of France by her marriage to Philip I of France. Initially married to Fulk IV, Count of Anjou, she left him and married Philip. Later she founded a daughter house of Fontevraud Abbey at Haute-Bruyeres. Philip was so enamoured of Bertrade that he refused to leave her even when threatened… |
Date: 15 May 1092 |
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| 65 |  | _Bertrade de Laon Bertrada of Laon (born between 710 and 727 – 12 July 783), also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot (cf. Latin: Regina pede aucae i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), was a Frankish queen. She was the wife of Pepin the Short and the mother of Charlemagne, Carloman and Gisela, plus five other children. |
Date: 710-783 |
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| 66 |  | _Bertrade de Montfort Bertrade de Montfort was the daughter of Simon I de Montfort and Agnes of Evreux. Her brother was Amaury de Montfort. In 1089, Bertrade and Fulk, Count of Anjou were married, and they became the parents of a son, Fulk. In 1092 she left her husband to live with King Philip I of France. Philip married her on 15 May 1092, despite the fact that they… |
Date: 1070-1117 |
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| 67 |  | _Bess Throckmorton Elizabeth 'Bess' Throckmorton Raleigh (16 April 1565 – c. 1647) was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Her secret marriage to Sir Walter Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for both her and her husband. |
Date: 1565-1647 |
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| 68 |  | _Bivin de Gorze Bivin de Gorze |
Date: 810-863 AD |
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| 69 |  | _Blanche and John Gaunt The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359, today located in The Museum of Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_of_blanche_of_lancster_and_john_of_gaunt_1359.jpg |
Date: 19 May 1359 |
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| 70 |  | _Blanche of Castile Blanca Alphonsa |
Date: 1188-1252 |
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| 71 |  | _Blanche Plantagent http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=8043645&PIpi=1737091 |
Date: 1345-1369 |
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| 72 |  | _Bonne deLuxembourg Bonne of Luxemburg or Jutta of Luxemburg (20 May 1315 – 11 September 1349), was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of King John of Bohemia, and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia. She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, as she died a year prior to his accession, she was never a French queen. Jutta was referred to in… |
Date: 1315-1349 |
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| 73 |  | _Boudica Boudica was queen of the British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. The Roman army was heavily outnumbered — according to Dio the rebels numbered 230,000 — but Boudica's army was crushed, and according to Tacitus, neither the women nor the animals were spared. Tacitus states that… |
Date: 61 AD |
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| 74 |  | _Bridget of York Bridget of York (10 November 1480 – before December 1507), was the seventh daughter of King Edward IV and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridget.JPG |
Date: 1480-1517 |
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| 75 |  | _Brunhild Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr, Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who appears as… |
Date: 738-775 AD |
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| 76 |  | _BRUNHILDA (Valkyrie Shieldmaiden) Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or… | ||
| 77 |  | _CALVERT-Sir George (Lord Baltimore) Sir George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580 – 15 Apr 1632), was an English politician and colonial administrator. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I. Calvert took an interest in the British colonisation of the Americas, at first for commercial reasons and later to… |
Date: 1579-1632 |
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| 78 |  | _Caribert Charibert (also spelled Caribert and Heribert), Count of Laon, was the maternal grandfather of Charlemagne. He was the father of Charles's mother, Bertrada of Laon. Only his mother, Bertrada of Prüm, is known from contemporary records as the two signed the foundation act of the Abbey of Prüm in 721. The same year, also with his mother, he made… |
Date: 690-747 |
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| 79 |  | _Carloman Carloman II (c. 866 – 12 December 884), King of Western Francia, was the youngest son of King Louis the Stammerer and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother Louis III of France, on his father's death in 879. |
Date: 712-754 |
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| 80 |  | _Catalina-de-Lancaster Catherine of Lancaster (Castilian: Catalina; 31 March 1373 – 2 June 1418) was Queen of Castile by marriage to King Henry III of Castile. She governed Castile as regent from 1406 until 1418 during the minority of her son. Queen Catherine was the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his second wife, Constance of Castile |
Date: 1373-1418 |
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| 81 |  | _Catherine de St Clair Lady Catherine Elizabeth de Clair de Chappes - It has recently been claimed that the wife of Hugues de Payens was Catherine St. Clair within the context of the alternative history of Rosslyn |
Date: 1109-1171 |
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| 82 |  | _Catherine Howard Portrait miniature by Hans Holbein the Younger. The portrait, believed to be Catherine Howard, has been persuasively identified through the jewels on her dress, which match those in her inventory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HowardCatherine02.jpeg |
Date: 1523-1542 |
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| 83 |  | _Catherine Howard Moleyns Catherine de Moleyns |
Date: 1424-1465 |
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| 84 |  | _Catherine of Aragon Catherine d'Aragon (6 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. Born in Spain, she was Princess of Wales while married to Henry's elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales, for a short period before his death. |
Date: 1485-1536 |
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| 85 |  | _Catherine of Valois Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of Charles VI of France, she was married to Henry V of England and gave birth to his heir Henry VI of England. Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and perhaps… |
Date: 1401-1437 |
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| 86 |  | _Catherine Parr Catherine Parr (1512 – 5 Sep 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547. Catherine was the final queen consort of the House of Tudor, and outlived Henry by a year and eight months. Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with… |
Date: 1512-1548 |
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| 87 |  | _Catherine Vaux Painting of Lady Anna Catherine de Vaux, wife of Sir George Throckmorton |
Date: 1488-1571 |
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| 88 |  | _Ceawlin Ceawlin (also spelled Ceaulin, Caelin and Celin, died ca. 593) was a King of Wessex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leader of the first group of Saxons to come to the land which later became Wessex. Ceawlin was active during the last years of the… |
Date: 560-592 |
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| 89 |  | _Ceawlin: the Man who Created England CEAWLIN: The man who created England by Rupert Matthews | ||
| 90 |  | _Cerdic Wessex Cerdic is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were each claimed by the Chronicle to descend in some manner from Cerdic. |
Date: 534 |
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| 91 |  | _Charlemagne and Pope Hadrian I The Frankish king Charlemagne was a devout Christian and maintained a close relationship with the papacy throughout his life. In 772, when Pope Adrian I was threatened by invaders, the king rushed to Rome to provide assistance. Shown here, the pope asks Charlemagne for help at a meeting near Rome. |
Date: 772 AD |
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| 92 |  | _Charlemagne The Great Charles of the Franks - The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was the Carolingian Empire, which is considered the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. He was canonized by Antipope Paschal III—an act later treated as invalid—and he is now regarded by some as beatified (which is a step on the path to sainthood) in… |
Date: 742-814 |
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| 93 |  | _Charles de Valois Charles of Valois (12 Mar 1270 – 16 Dec 1325), the fourth son of King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon, was a member of the House of Capet and founder of the House of Valois, whose rule over France would start in 1328. |
Date: 1270-1325 |
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| 94 |  | _Charles III of France A 921 meeting between Charles and Henry I of Germany resulted in a treaty. In 923 Henry supported Robert against Charles and promptly attempted to annex Lotharingia. |
Date: 879-929 |
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| 95 |  | _Charles Martel Frankish ruler, a natural son of Pippin II, mayor of the palace, and Chalpaïda. Charles was baptized by St. Rigobert, bishop of Reims. At the death of his father in 714, Pippin's widow Plectrude claimed the government in Austrasia and Neustria in the name of her grandchildren, and had Charles thrown into prison. But the Neustrians threw off the… |
Date: 676-741 |
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| 96 |  | _Charles the Bald Charles the Bald (13 Jun 823 – 6 Oct 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty of Verdun (843), in acquiring the… |
Date: 823-877 |
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| 97 |  | _Charles Valois V Charles V (21 Jan 1338 – 16 Sep 1380), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380. His reign marked an early high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory held by the English, and successfully reversed the military losses of his predecessors. |
Date: 1337-1380 |
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| 98 |  | _Charles VI " le Fou" Charles VI (3 Dec 1368 – 21 Oct 1422), nicknamed the Beloved and later the Mad, was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422. He is known for his mental illness and psychotic episodes that plagued him throughout his life. He ascended the throne at the young age of eleven, his father leaving behind a favorable military situation, marked… |
Date: 1368-1422 |
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| 99 |  | _Childebert Childebert III (or IV), called the Just (c.678/679 – 23 April 711), was the son of Theuderic III and Clotilda (or Doda) and sole king of the Franks (694–711). He was seemingly but a puppet of the mayor of the palace, Pepin of Heristal, though his placita show him making judicial decisions of his own will, even against the Arnulfing clan. |
Date: 670-711 AD |
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| 100 |  | _Childeric I Childeric I ( c. 437 – 481 AD) was a Frankish leader in the northern part of imperial Roman Gaul and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, described as a king, both on his Roman-style seal ring, which was buried with him, and in fragmentary later records of his life. He was father of Clovis I, who acquired effective control over all or most… |
Date: 436-481 |
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| 101 |  | _Chilperic I & Fredegunde Chilperic de Soissons I (523-584) and Fredegonde Earlin (543-597) | ||
| 102 |  | _Cicely Wilford wife of Arch Bishop Edwin Sandys |
Date: 1516-1611 |
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| 103 |  | _Clodius Franks Chlodio (probably died after 450), also Clodio, Clodius, Clodion, Cloio or Chlogio, was a Frankish king who attacked and then apparently ruled Roman-inhabited lands around Cambrai and Tournai, near the modern border of Belgium and France. |
Date: 395-449 |
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| 104 |  | _Clothaire II Chlothar II, sometime called "the Young" (May/Jun 584 – 18 Oct 629), was king of Neustria and king of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. He started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Chlothar's uncle King Guntram of Burgundy, who died in 592. Chlothar took… |
Date: 584-630 |
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| 105 |  | _Clothilde Clothilde de Heristal |
Date: 585-640 |
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| 106 |  | _Clovis Clovis II (633 – 657) was King of Neustria and Burgundy, having succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639. His brother Sigebert III had been King of Austrasia since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanthild until her death in her early thirties in 642. Nanthild's death allowed Clovis to fall under the influence of the secular… |
Date: 633-657 |
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| 107 |  | _Conan Meriadoc Conan Meriadoc Welsh: Cynan Meriadog; Breton: Konan Meriadeg) is a legendary Celtic leader credited with founding Brittany. Versions of his story circulated in both Brittany and Great Britain from at least the early 12th century, and supplanted earlier legends of Brittany's foundation. His story is known in two major versions, which appear in the… |
Date: 305-367 |
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| 108 |  | _Constance De Provence Constance True d'Arles de Provence |
Date: 985-1032 |
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| 109 |  | _Constantine Causantín mac Cináeda (died 877) was a king of the Picts. He is often known as Constantine I in reference to his place in modern lists of kings of Scots, but contemporary sources described Causantín only as a Pictish king. A son of Cináed mac Ailpín ("Kenneth MacAlpin"), he succeeded his uncle Domnall mac Ailpín as Pictish king following… |
Date: 836-87 |
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| 110 |  | _Constantine and Helena Orthodox Bulgarian icon of Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus "Constantine the Great" (272-337) and his mother, St. Helena (246-330) | ||
| 111 |  | _Constantine's Conversion to Christianity Constantine was over 40 when he finally declared himself a Christian, making it clear that he owed his successes to the protection of the Christian High God alone. Despite these declarations of being a Christian, he waited to be baptized on his deathbed, believing that the baptism would release him of any sins he committed in the course of… | ||
| 112 |  | _Constanze de Castilla Constanza de Castilla, Reina de Castilla was born in 1354 at Castro Kerez, Castile, Spain.2 She was the daughter of Pedro I, Rey de Castilla y León and Maria de Padilla. She married John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III, King of England and Philippe de Hainaut, on 21 September 1371 at Roquefort, Gascogne, France.2 She died on 24… |
Date: 1354-1394 |
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| 113 |  | _Cynric Cynric was King of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There, he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, who is considered the founder of the kingdom of Wessex. However, the 'Genealogical Regnal List', a copy of which prefaces some manuscripts of the Chronicle instead says that Cynric was the… |
Date: 495-560 |
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| 114 |  | _Cyrid Olofsdottir Cyrid Olofsdottir, Princess of Sweden |
Date: 920-1002 |
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| 115 |  | _Dagobert Dagobert Franks |
Date: 300-379 AD |
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| 116 |  | _Dagobert Dagobert Franks |
Date: 230-317 |
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| 117 |  | _Dagobert III Dagobert III (c.699–715) was Merovingian king of the Franks (711–715). He was a son of Childebert III. He succeeded his father as the head of the three Frankish kingdoms—Neustria and Austrasia, unified since Pippin's victory at Tertry in 687, and the Kingdom of Burgundy—in 711. Real power, however, still remained with the Mayor of the… |
Date: 687-715 |
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| 118 |  | _Dagobert of Austrasia Dagobert I (c. 605/603 – 19 January 639) was the king of Austrasia (623–634), king of all the Franks (629–634), and king of Neustria and Burgundy (629–639). He has been described as the last king of the Merovingian dynasty to wield any real royal power. Dagobert was the first of the Frankish kings to be buried in the royal tombs at Saint… |
Date: 605-639 AD |
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| 119 |  | _Dame Alicia Judde Dame Alicia Judde, who married Thomas Smythe (1522–1591), collector of customs for London. |
Date: 1535-1593 |
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| 120 |  | _David de Huntingdon David of Scotland(1152 – 17 Jun 1219) was a Scottish prince and 8th Earl of Huntingdon. He was, until 1198, heir to the Scottish throne. |
Date: 1144-1219 |
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| 121 |  | _David II Bruce Sir David Bruce |
Date: 1470-1550 |
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| 122 |  | _Diana de Poitiers | ||
| 123 |  | _Donald Dasachtach Domnall mac Causantín, anglicised as Donald II (died 900), was King of the Picts or King of Alba in the late 9th century.[1] He was the son of Constantine I (Causantín mac Cináeda).[1] Donald is given the epithet Dásachtach, "the Madman", by the Prophecy of Berchán. |
Date: 826-900 |
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| 124 |  | _Duchess of York Cecily Neville Cecily Neville (3 May 1415 – 31 May 1495) was an English noblewoman, the wife of Richard, Duke of York, and the mother of two kings of England—Edward IV and Richard III. Cecily Neville was known as "the Rose of Raby", because she was born at Raby Castle in Durham, and "Proud Cis", because of her pride and a temper that went with it, although… |
Date: 1415-1495 |
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| 125 |  | _Duncan Donnchad mac Crinain, anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick"; c. 1001 – 14 August 1040) was king of Scotland (Alba) from 1034 to 1040. He is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. |
Date: 1005-1040 |
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| 126 |  | _Eadgifu of England Eadgifu of Wessex, with her son Louis IV -- Eadgifu or Edgifu (d. in or after 951) also known as Edgiva or Ogive was Queen of the West Franks as the wife of King Charles the Simple. She was a daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and England, and his second wife Ælfflæd. |
Date: 896-968 |
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| 127 |  | _Ealhswith Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great. Her father was a Mercian nobleman, Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of the Gaini, which is thought to be an old Mercian tribal group. Her mother was Eadburh, a member of the Mercian royal family. Ealhswith is commemorated as a saint in the Christian East and the West on… |
Date: 842-902 |
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| 128 |  | _Earl Thomas Howard Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk KG PC (1443 – 21 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman, soldier and statesman who served four monarchs. He was the eldest son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Catharina de Moleyns. The Duke was the grandfather of both Queen… |
Date: 1443-1524 |
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| 129 |  | _Edgar King of England Edgar (or Eadgar; 943/944 – 8 Jul 975) was King of England from 959 until his death in 975. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu. Edmund was killed in 946 trying to protect his seneschal from attack by an outlaw, and because his children were infants he was succeeded by his younger brother Eadred |
Date: 943-975 |
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| 130 |  | _Edmund I Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great. |
Date: 921-946 |
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| 131 |  | _Edward de Vere-1575 By Unknown - Searching for Shakespeare, Tarnya Cooper, Yale University Press, 2006, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1331427 | ||
| 132 |  | _Edward George de Neville George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer or (Latymer) (died 30 December 1469) was an English nobleman. |
Date: 1407-1469 |
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| 133 |  | _Edward I Edward I (17/18 Jun 1239 – 7 Jul 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306, he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. |
Date: 1239-1307 |
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| 134 |  | _Edward II King Edward Plantagenet II |
Date: 284-1327 |
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| 135 |  | _Edward II & Gaveston Edward had a close and controversial relationship with Piers Gaveston, who had joined his household in 1300. The precise nature of Edward and Gaveston's relationship is uncertain; they may have been friends, lovers or sworn brothers. Gaveston's arrogance and power as Edward's favourite provoked discontent both among the barons and the French royal… |
Date: 1300 |
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| 136 |  | _Edward III Edward III as he was portrayed in the late 16th century.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England |
Date: 1312-1377 |
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| 137 |  | _Edward IV Edward IV (28 Apr 1442 – 9 Apr 1483) was King of England from 4 Mar 1461 to 3 Oct 1470, then again from 11 Apr 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487. Edward inherited the Yorkist claim when his… |
Date: 1442-1483 |
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| 138 |  | _Edward Stafford Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham KG (3 Feb 1478 – 17 May 1521) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine Woodville, and nephew of Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward IV. Thus, Edward Stafford was a first cousin once removed of King Henry VIII. He was convicted of treason and executed… |
Date: 1478-1521 |
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| 139 |  | _Edward the Elder Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control. |
Date: 874-924 AD |
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| 140 |  | _Edward the Exile Edward the Exile (1016–19 Apr 1057) also called Edward Ætheling, was the son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. He spent most of his life in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary following the defeat of his father by Cnut the Great. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016, Canute had Edward, said to be only a few months old, and his… |
Date: 1016-1057 |
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| 141 |  | _Edward V Edward V (2 Nov 1470 – c.1483) was de jure King of England from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death. Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was… |
Date: 1470-1483 |
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| 142 |  | _Edward VI Edward VI (12 Oct 1537 – 6 Jul 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 Jan 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 Feb 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because he… |
Date: 1537-1553 |
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| 143 |  | _Edward, Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster (13 Oct 1453 – 4 May 1471), also known as Edward of Lancaster, was the only son of Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou. He was killed aged seventeen at the Battle of Tewkesbury. |
Date: 1453-1471 |
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| 144 |  | _Egbert Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. |
Date: 770-839 |
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| 145 |  | _Eleanor of Alburquerque Eleanor of Alburquerque (1374 – 16 Dec 1435) was a Castilian noblewoman, Countess of Alburquerque, became who Queen of Aragon by her marriage to Ferdinand I of Aragon. She was the regent of Aragon during the absence of her son the king in 1420. |
Date: 1374-1435 |
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| 146 |  | _Eleanor of Bar Eleanor of England (18 Jun 1269 – 29 Aug 1298) was the eldest surviving daughter of King Edward I of England and his first wife, Queen Eleanor of Castile. What evidence exists for Eleanor's early years suggests that while her parents were absent on Crusade between 1270 and 1274, she became very close to her paternal grandmother, Eleanor of… |
Date: 1280-1340 |
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| 147 |  | _Eleanor of Provence Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 Jun 1291) was a Provençal noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry III from 1236 until his death in 1272. She served as regent of England during the absence of her spouse in 1253. Although she was completely devoted to her husband and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de… |
Date: 1217-1291 |
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| 148 |  | _Eleonora Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 Nov 1290) was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I, whom she married as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony. The marriage was known to be particularly close, and Eleanor travelled extensively with her husband. She was with him on the Ninth Crusade, when he was wounded at… |
Date: 1241-1290 |
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| 149 |  | _Elfrida of Wessex Ælfthryth of Wessex (c. 877 – 7 June 929), also known as Elftrudis (Elftrude, Elfrida), was an English princess and a countess consort of Flanders to Baldwin II. She was the youngest daughter of Alfred the Great, the Saxon King of England and his wife Ealhswith. Her siblings included King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd. |
Date: 877-929 |
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| 150 |  | _Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say Elizabeth Cheney (Apr 1422 – 25 Sep 1473) was a member of the English gentry, who, by her two marriages, was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth… |
Date: 1424-1473 |
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| 151 |  | _Elizabeth Cromwell Elizabeth Cromwell née Bourchier, wife of Oliver Cromwell and Lady Proctetoress of England, Scotland and Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Cromwell.jpg |
Date: 1598-1672 |
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| 152 |  | _Elizabeth de Burgh Lady Elizabeth de Burgh ( c. 1289 – 27 Oct 1327) was the second wife and the only queen consort of King Robert the Bruce. Elizabeth was born sometime around 1289, probably in what is now County Down or County Antrim in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. She was the daughter of one of the most powerful Norman nobles in the Lordship of… |
Date: 1284-1327 |
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| 153 |  | _Elizabeth de Clare Elizabeth de Clare, 11th Lady of Clare (16 Sep 1295 – 4 Nov 1360) was the heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk, in England and Usk in Wales. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre, and sister of Gilbert de Clare, who later succeeded as the 7th Earl. |
Date: 1295-1360 |
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| 154 |  | _Elizabeth de Courtenay Peter I of Courtenay was born in France and died in Palestine. In about 1150, he married Elizabeth de Courtenay (1127 – Sep 1205), the daughter of Renaud de Courtenay and Hawise du Donjon, thus starting the Capetian line of the House of Courtenay |
Date: 1127-1205 |
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| 155 |  | _Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD (1476-April 3, 1538) Elizabeth Howard was the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk (1443-May 21, 1524) and Elizabeth Tylney (d. April 4, 1497). "To My Lady Elizabeth Howard" in "The Garland of Laurell" was probably composed by John Skelton in May 1495 during a visit to her father at Sheriff Hutton Castle, although it… |
Date: 1476-1538 |
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| 156 |  | _Elizabeth Mure Stewart Elizabeth Mure ( 2 Mar 1320 - May 1355), a member of Clan Muir, was the first wife of Robert, High Steward of Scotland, and Guardian of Scotland (1338–1341 and from October 1346), who later became King Robert II of Scotland. Because their marriage was originally not sanctioned in a church, but what today would be called a common-law marriage,… |
Date: 1320-1354 |
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| 157 |  | _Elizabeth Nevers Elizabeth of Nevers (born: after 24 August 1439 in Nevers; died: 21 June 1483) was Duchess of Cleves from 1455 until her death, due to her marriage with John I of Cleves-Mark. She was the matriarch of the house of Cleves-Nevers, and thus the Cleves line of the Counts and dukes of Nevers. Because the territory was part of her inheritance, it fell… |
Date: 1439-1483 |
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| 158 |  | _Elizabeth of York Elizabeth of York (11 Feb 1466 – 11 Feb 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until her death in 1503. A daughter of King Edward IV, Elizabeth married Henry after his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which marked the end of the Wars of the Roses. They had seven children together. |
Date: 1466-1503 |
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| 159 |  | _Elizabeth Stafford Elizabeth Stafford, also known as Dame Elizabeth Drury and – in the years prior to her death in 1599 – Dame (Lady) Elizabeth Scott, was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I. She and her first husband, Sir William Drury, entertained Queen Elizabeth I at Hawstead in 1578. |
Date: 1556-1599 |
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| 160 |  | _Elizabeth Steward Cromwell |
Date: 1565-1654 |
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| 161 |  | _Elizabeth Woodville Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; c. 1437 – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from her marriage to King Edward IV on 1 May 1464 until Edward was deposed on 3 October 1470, and again from Edward's resumption of the throne on 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. |
Date: 1437-1492 |
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| 162 |  | _Empress Matilda Empress Matilda (c. 7 Feb 1102 – 10 Sep 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. She travelled with her husband to Italy in 1116,… |
Date: 1102-1167 |
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| 163 |  | _Engeltrude d'Orléans Engeltrude de Fézensac (c. 799 – 853) was the Countess of Orléans via her marriage in 825 to Odo I, Count of Orléans. Their eldest daughter, Ermentrude, married Charles the Bald of West Francia. They also had a son, William, who was executed by his own brother-in-law in 866. Engeltrude was the only daughter of Leuthard I of Paris and his… |
Date: 799-853 AD |
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| 164 |  | _Eoppa |
Date: 706-732 AD |
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| 165 |  | _Ermengarde D'Anjou Duchess of Bretagne Ermengarde of Anjou, (c. 956 - c. 1024), was the Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992–994) and also Countess of Angoulême. |
Date: 952-1040 |
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| 166 |  | _Ermengarde De Anjou Ermengarde of Anjou (c. 1018 – 18 March 1076), known as Blanche, was a Duchess consort of Burgundy. She was the daughter of Count Fulk III of Anjou and Hildegarde of Sundgau. She was sometimes known as Ermengarde-Blanche. She married Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais c. 1035 |
Date: 1046-1076 |
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| 167 |  | _Ermengarde de Hesbaye Ermengarde (or Irmingard) of Hesbaye (c. 778 – 3 October 818), probably a member of the Robertian dynasty, was Carolingian empress from 813 and Queen of the Franks from 814 until her death as the wife of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious. Ermengarde was the daughter of Count Ingerman of Hesbaye and Rotrude. About 794 Ermengarde married… |
Date: 778-818 AD |
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| 168 |  | _Ermengarde du Maine Countess of Anjou Ermengarde of Anjou (c. 1068 – 1 June 1146), also known as Ermengarde of Brittany, was a member of the comital House of Anjou and by her two marriages was successively Duchess of Aquitaine and Brittany. She was also a patron of Fontevraud Abbey. Ermengarde was the regent of Brittany during the absence of her spouse, Duke Alan IV of Brittany,… |
Date: 1092-1126 |
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| 169 |  | _Ermengarde of Bar sur Seine Hermengarde (Ermengarde) of Bar sur Seine, wife of Herbert III, Count of Vermandois. In 990 Herbert and his wife Hermengarde, founded the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Florent in Roye, under the title of St. George for 25 canons. |
Date: 970-1035 |
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| 170 |  | _Ethelred Æthelred II (c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.[1] His epithet does not derive from the modern word "unready", but rather from the Old English unræd meaning "poorly advised"; it is a pun on his name, which means "well advised". |
Date: 966-1016 |
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| 171 |  | _Eudes Eudes of Penthièvre -- Odo of Rennes (c. 999–1079), Count of Penthièvre, was the youngest of the three sons of Duke Geoffrey I of Brittany and Hawise of Normandy, daughter of Richard I of Normandy. Eudon married Agnes of Cornouaille (Orguen Kernev), the daughter of Alan Canhiart, Count of Cornouaille and sister of Hoel II, Duke of Brittany… |
Date: 999-1038 |
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| 172 |  | _Ferdinand de Aragon I Ferdinand I (27 Nov 1380 – 2 Apr 1416) named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just (or the Honest) was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominal) Corsica and king of Sicily, duke (nominal) of Athens and Neopatria, and count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdanya (1412–1416). He was also regent of Castile (1406–1416) |
Date: 1380-1416 |
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| 173 |  | _Ferdinand II King of Aragon Ferdinand II (10 Mar 1452 – 23 Jan 1516) was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504 (as Ferdinand V). He reigned jointly with Isabella over a dynastically unified Spain; together they are known as the Catholic Monarchs. Ferdinand is considered… |
Date: 1452-1516 |
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| 174 |  | _Finn Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian king. He is mentioned in Widsith, in Beowulf, and in the Finnesburg Fragment. He is named in the Historia Brittonum, while a Finn, given a different father but perhaps intending the same hero, appears in Anglo-Saxon royal pedigrees. He was married to Hildeburh, a sister of the Danish lord Hnæf, and… |
Date: 130-220 |
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| 175 |  | _Floris I, Count of Holland Floris I (born c. 1017 – 28 June 1061) was count of Holland from 1049 to 1061. Floris was born in Vlaardingen. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis of Nordmark. Floris succeeded his brother Dirk IV, who was murdered in 1049. Floris was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On a retreat from… |
Date: 1017-1061 |
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| 176 |  | _Francis Buller Francis Buller |
Date: 1545-1615 |
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| 177 |  | _Francis Tresham Sir Francis Tresham (Gunpowder Plot) |
Date: 1567-1605 |
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| 178 |  | _Frealaf |
Date: 160-245 AD |
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| 179 |  | _Frigg Frigg is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. Nearly all sources portray her as the wife of the god Odin. |
Date: 210-310 AD |
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| 180 |  | _Frithuwald Bor of Asgard | ||
| 181 |  | _Fulk de Anjou V (Death) While the king and queen were in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle, "and his brains gushed forth from both ears and nostrils", as William of Tyre describes. He was carried back to Acre, where he lay unconscious for three days before he died. He was buried in the Church… |
Date: 10 Nov 1143 |
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| 182 |  | _Fulk of Anjou Fulk IV (1043 – 14 April 1109), called le Réchin, was the Count of Anjou from 1068 until his death. The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic". He was noted to be "a man with many reprehensible,… |
Date: 1043-1109 |
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| 183 |  | _Fulk V of Jerusalem (Coronation) Fulk (c. 1089/1092 – 13 Nov 1143), also known as Fulk the Younger, was the count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129 and the king of Jerusalem with his wife from 1131 to his death. During their reign, the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its largest territorial extent. In 1143, while the king and queen were in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting… |
Date: 1092-1143 |
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| 184 |  | _Fulke Greville Fulke Greville |
Date: 1491-1559 |
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| 185 |  | _Funeral of Ruthenian noble | ||
| 186 |  | _Funeral of Sigurd and Brynhild | ||
| 187 |  | _General John Talbot General John Talbot -- Detail of the illuminated miniature on the presentation page of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, showing the donor, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, with his characteristic dog presenting the book as a gift to Margaret of Anjou and Henry VI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Talbot,_1st_Earl_of_Shrewsbury … |
Date: 1384-1453 |
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| 188 |  | _Geoffrey I Geoffrey I of Anjou (c. 938/940 – 21 July 987), was the eldest son of Fulk II, Count of Anjou and his first wife Gerberga. He succeeded his father as Count of Anjou about 960, at the age of 20.[3] He married Adele of Meaux (934–982), daughter of Robert of Vermandois. Her father was a patrilineal descendant of Charlemagne, while her paternal… |
Date: 938-987 AD |
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| 189 |  | _Geoffrey V Geoffrey V (24 Aug 1113 – 7 Sep 1151), called the Handsome, the Fair or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. His marriage to Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England, led to the centuries-long reign of the Plantagenet dynasty in England. The… |
Date: 1113-1151 |
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| 190 |  | _George Barnes grandfather of anne barnes lovelace |
Date: 1500-1558 |
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| 191 |  | _George Plantagenet - Duke of Clarence George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (21 Oct 1449 – 18 Feb 1478) was the 6th son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III. He played an important role in the dynastic struggle between rival factions of the Plantagenets now known as the Wars of the Roses. He was… |
Date: 1449-1478 |
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| 192 |  | _Gerberga of Saxony Gerberga of Saxony (c. 913 – 5 May 968/9 or 984?) was a French queen who ruled as regent of France during the minority of her son Lothair in 954–959. She was a member of the Ottonian dynasty. Her first husband was Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. Her second husband was Louis IV of France. |
Date: 913-984 AD |
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| 193 |  | _Gerberge de Maine Fulk II's father had arranged his marriage to Gerberga, daughter of Geoffrey of Nevers and Aba. Among other things, this alliance enabled Fulk to open the doors towards Aquitaine for his daughter, Adelaide-Blanche, to marry a future king of France (Aba was likely a daughter of William I, Duke of Aquitaine, and Engelberga, thus of royal blood) and… | ||
| 194 |  | _Gereint Geraint and Enid, a romance concerns the love of Geraint, one of King Arthur's men, and the beautiful Enid. Geraint, son of King Erbin of Dumnonia, courts Enid. The couple marry and settle down together, but rumors spread that Geraint has gone soft. Upset about this, Enid cries to herself that she is not a true wife for keeping her husband from… | ||
| 195 |  | _Gerold Vinzgau (Imma) Gerold of Vinzgau ( 725 - 799) was a count in Kraichgau and Anglachgau. His daughter, Hildegard, married King Charlemagne in 771. As Margrave of Avaria, Gerold, his son, Eric of Friuli, and Pepin of Italy campaigned against the Avars. Gerold died on the eve of battle in 799. |
Date: 710-799 |
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| 196 |  | _Gertrude of Saxony Gertrude of Saxony (c. 1030 – August 4, 1113), also known as Gertrude Billung, was a countess of Holland by marriage to Floris I, Count of Holland, and countess of Flanders by marriage to Robert I, Count of Flanders. She was regent of Holland in 1061-1067 during the minority of her son Dirk V, and regent of Flanders during the absence of her… |
Date: 1028-1113 |
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| 197 |  | _Gilbert de Clare Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, 5th Earl of Gloucester, 1st Lord of Glamorgan, 7th Lord of Clare (1180 – 25 October 1230) was the son of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (c. 1153–1217), from whom he inherited the Clare estates. He also inherited from his mother, Amice Fitz William, the estates of Gloucester (adapted from… |
Date: 1180-1230 |
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| 198 |  | _Gilbert de Clare Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester (2 Sep 1243 – 7 Dec 1295) was a powerful English noble. He was also known as "Red" Gilbert de Clare or "The Red Earl", probably because of his hair colour or fiery temper in battle. He held the Lordship of Glamorgan which was one of the most powerful and wealthy of the Welsh Marcher… |
Date: 1243-1298 |
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| 199 |  | _Gilbert de Neville Gilbert de Neville - Admiral of the Fleet of William the Conqueror |
Date: 1042-1118 |
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| 200 |  | _Gonnor de Crepon Gunnor or Gunnora (c. 950 – c. 1031) was Duchess of Normandy by marriage to Richard I of Normandy, having previously been his long-time mistress. She functioned as regent of Normandy during the absence of her spouse, as well as the adviser to him and later to his successor, their son Richard II. |
Date: 936-1002 |
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| 201 |  | _Gorm the old King Gorm the Old receives the news of the death of his son Canute |
Date: 885-959 |
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| 202 |  | _Granlon ap Conan Gradlon the Great (Gradlon Meur) was a semi-legendary 5th century "king" of Cornouaille who became the hero of many Breton folk stories. The most famous of these legends is the story of the sunken city of Ys. He is supposed to have been the son of Conan Meriadoc. |
Date: 330-434 AD |
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| 203 |  | _Gruffydd ap Cynan Gruffudd ap Cynan (c. 1055 –1137), sometimes written as Gruffydd ap Cynan, was King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137. In the course of a long and eventful life, he became a key figure in Welsh resistance to Norman rule, and was remembered as King of all the Welsh and Prince of all the Welsh |
Date: 1055-1137 |
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| 204 |  | _Guillaume de Provence William I (c. 950 – after 29 Aug 993) called the Liberator, was Count of Provence from 968 to his abdication. In 975 or 979, he took the title of marchio or margrave. He is often considered the founder of the county of Provence. He and his elder brother Rotbold I were sons of Boson II of Arles and his wife Constance, who, based on her name, has… |
Date: 950-993 AD |
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| 205 |  | _Gwenllian verch Gruffydd Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (c. 1100 – 1136) was Princess consort of Deheubarth in Wales, and married to Gruffydd ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth. Gwenllian was the daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan (1055–1137), Prince of Gwynedd and Angharad ferch Owain, and a member of the princely Aberffraw family of Gwynedd. Gwenllian's "patriotic revolt" and… |
Date: 1090-1136 |
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| 206 |  | _Harold Bluetooth Gormson, King of Denmark Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from 958 – 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand. Harald's rule as king of Norway following the… |
Date: 910-986 AD |
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| 207 |  | _Hastein Hastein was a notable Viking chieftain of the late 9th century who made several raiding voyages. Hastein is credited with being involved with various raids on the Frankish Empire. He also led a great raid into the Mediterranean in 859. |
Date: -896 AD |
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| 208 |  | _Hatwigate Hatwigate de Saxony | ||
| 209 |  | _Hawise and Geoffrey (Marriage) In 996, at the age of sixteen, Geoffrey entered into a dynastic alliance with Richard II, Duke of Normandy, with a diplomatic double marriage between the two houses. The church-sanctioned marriage ceremonies were held, and while Geoffrey married Hawise of Normandy, daughter of Richard I of Normandy and sister of Richard II, Richard married Hawise… |
Date: 996 |
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| 210 |  | _Hedwig von Sachen Hedwige of Saxony (c. 910 – after 958), a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess consort of the Franks by her marriage to the Robertian duke Hugh the Great. Upon her husband's death in 956, she acted as a regent during the minority of their son Hugh Capet, the founder of the Elder House of Capet. |
Date: 922-965-AD |
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| 211 |  | _Helias du Maine Elias du Maine (d 11 July 1110) was the Count of Maine, succeeding his cousin Hugh V, Count of Maine. He was the son of Jean de la Flèche and Paula, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine. |
Date: 1062-1110 |
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| 212 |  | _Hengest Hengist and Horsa are Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century. Tradition lists Hengist as the first of the Jutish kings of Kent. |
Date: 414-488 AD |
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| 213 |  | _Henri Lorraine Henry I (c. 1059 – c. 1119) was the count of Limburg and Arlon from 1082 to his death and duke of Lower Lorraine between 1101 and 1106. He opposed Egilbert, Archbishop of Trier, and took back some property which the former Countess Adela had given to the church. Egilbert summoned him to return them, but he refused and was excommunicated.… |
Date: 1055-1119 |
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| 214 |  | _Henry and Matilda Saint Matilda von Ringelheim and Heinrich von Saschen | ||
| 215 |  | _Henry de Beaumont Henri de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick or Henry de Newburgh (d 20 Jun 1119) was a Norman nobleman who rose to great prominence in the Kingdom of England. Henry was a younger son of Roger de Beaumont by Adeline of Meulan. Henry was said to have been with William the Conqueror on his 1068 campaign in the Midlands when he was supposedly given… |
Date: 1045-1119 |
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| 216 |  | _Henry FitzRoy Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, (15 Jun 1519 – 23 Jul 1536), was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his mistress, Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry VIII acknowledged. He was named FitzRoy, which is derived from the Norman French term for "son of the king". |
Date: 1519-1536 |
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| 217 |  | _Henry Huntingdon Henry of Scotland (1114 – 12 June 1152) was heir apparent to the Kingdom of Alba. He was also the 3rd Earl of Northumbria and the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. He was the son of King David I of Scotland and Queen Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. |
Date: 1114-1152 |
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| 218 |  | _Henry I Capet, King of France Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 Aug 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. |
Date: 1008-1060 |
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| 219 |  | _Henry II of England Henry II (5 Mar 1133 – 6 Jul 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle, Henry FitzEmpress, and Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. At various points in his life, he controlled England; substantial parts of Wales and Ireland; and a large part of France (including Normandy, Aquitaine and Anjou), an area that was… |
Date: 1132-1189 |
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| 220 |  | _Henry IV Henry IV (c. Apr 1367 – 20 Mar 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. His grandfather King Edward III had claimed the French throne as a grandson of Philip IV of France, and Henry continued this claim. He was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest, over three hundred years prior, whose mother… |
Date: 1367-1413 |
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| 221 |  | _Henry Plantagenet Henry III (1 Oct 1207 – 16 Nov 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War. Cardinal Guala Bicchieri declared the war… |
Date: 1207-1272 |
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| 222 |  | _Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney KG (20 Jul 1529 – 5 May 1586), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he received extensive grants of land, including the manor of Penshurst in Kent, which became the principal residence of… |
Date: 1529-1586 |
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| 223 |  | _Henry Stafford Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, KG (4 Sep 1455 – 2 Nov 1483) namesake of Buckingham's rebellion, a failed but significant collection of uprisings in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England in Oct 1483. He was executed without trial for his role in the uprisings. Stafford is also one of the primary suspects in the… |
Date: 1455-1483 |
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| 224 |  | _Henry the Fowler Heinrich I (c. 876 – 2 July 936) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ottonian dynasty of kings and emperors, and he is generally considered to be the founder of the medieval German state, known until then as East Francia.… |
Date: 873-936 AD |
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| 225 |  | _Henry VI Count of Luxembourg Henry VI (c. 1240 – 5 Jun 1288) was Count of Luxembourg and Arlon from the death of his father, Henry V the Blond, in 1281 until his own death at the battle of Worringen,[1] seven years later, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry VII. Henry was the son of Henry V the Blond and Margaret of Bar. His father took part in Saint Louis's crusade… |
Date: 1241-1288 |
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| 226 |  | _Henry VI of England Lancaster Henry VI (6 Dec 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne at the age of nine months upon his father's death, and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles… |
Date: 1421-1471 |
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| 227 |  | _Henry VII Henry VII (28 Jan1457 – 21 Apr 1509) was King of England from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of the Lancastrian branch of the House of Plantagenet. Henry's father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, a… |
Date: 1457-1509 |
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| 228 |  | _Henry VII Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII (c. 1273 – 24 Aug 1313), also known as Henry of Luxembourg, was Count of Luxembourg, King of Germany from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. His premature death threatened to undo his life's work. |
Date: 1274-1313 |
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| 229 |  | _Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 Jun 1491 – 28 Jan 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating… |
Date: 1491-1547 |
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| 230 |  | _Herbert I Vermandois Herbert I (c. 848/850 – 907) or Heribertus I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Meaux, Count of Soissons, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin. He was a Carolingian aristocrat who played a significant role in Francia. Herbert was the son of Pepin of Vermandois and one great-grandson of Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne. |
Date: 857-912 AD |
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| 231 |  | _Herbert II of Vermandois Herbert was the son of Herbert I of Vermandois. He was apparently well aware of his descent from Charlemagne. Herbert inherited the domain of his father and in 907, added to it the Abbey of St. Medard, Soissons. He took the position of Lay abbot entitling him to the income of those estates. His marriage with a daughter of king Robert I of France… |
Date: 884-943 AD |
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| 232 |  | _Herbert III Vermandois (Ermeng) Herbert III of Vermandois (953–1015), Count of Vermandois, was the son of Adalbert I of Vermandois and Gerberge of Lorraine. In 990 he founded with his wife Hermengarde, the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Florent in Roye, under the title of St. George for 25 canons. |
Date: 953-1015 |
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| 233 |  | _Herleva de Falaise Herleva (c. 1003 – c. 1050) was an 11th-century Norman woman known for having been mother of William the Conqueror, born to an extramarital relationship with Robert I, Duke of Normandy, and also of William's prominent half-brothers Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, born to Herleva's marriage to Herluin de Conteville. |
Date: 1003-1078 |
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| 234 |  | _Hildebrante Liegarde Robertien Capet Princess Adela Capet |
Date: 895-958 AD |
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| 235 |  | _Hildegarde of Swabia Hildegard (c. 754 – 30 April 783), was a Frankish queen consort who was the second wife of Charlemagne and mother of Louis the Pious. |
Date: 758-783 AD |
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| 236 |  | _Hrothgar Hrothgar was a semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century. Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition, Hrothgar is a Scylding, the son of Halfdan, the brother of Halga, and the uncle of Hrólfr… |
Date: 526-620 |
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| 237 |  | _Hugh Capet Hugh Capet (c. 939 – 14 Oct 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and his wife Hedwige of Saxony, he was elected as the successor of the last Carolingian king, Louis V. Hugh was descended from Charlemagne's sons Louis the Pious and… |
Date: 936-996 AD |
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| 238 |  | _Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 30 Jun 1181), was an Anglo-French magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England. In 1173 he joined the revolt of the king's sons and led the rebels in Brittany. After sending an army of Brabantines, who forced the rebels to retreat, Henry… |
Date: 1147-1181 |
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| 239 |  | _Hugh de Paynes Hugues de Payens or Payns (9 Feb 1070 – 24 May 1136) was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. In association with Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order. As Grand Master, Hugues de Payens led the Order for almost twenty years until his death, helping to establish the Order's… |
Date: 1070-1136 |
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| 240 |  | _Hugh Magnus Hugh and his Crusader army left France and travelled via the Alps and Rome to Bari, where he would cross the Adriatic Sea into territory of the Byzantine Empire, unlike most crusaders who travelled over land. He joined the subsequent Crusade of 1101, but was wounded in battle with the Turks led by Kilij Arslan at the second battle of Heraclea in… |
Date: 1057-1101 |
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| 241 |  | _Hugh Vermandois Hugh the Great (c. 898 – 16 Jun 956) was the duke of the Franks and count of Paris. He was the most powerful magnate in France. Son of King Robert I of France, Hugh was Margrave of Neustria. He played an active role in bringing King Louis d'Outremer back from England in 936. Seeking an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto the Great, he… |
Date: 898-956 AD |
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| 242 |  | _Hvaiza Hawise of Normandy (died 21 Feb 1034) was Countess of Rennes, Duchess of Brittany and Regent to her son Alan III, Duke of Brittany from 1008 until 1026. Hawise acted as regent of Brittany during the minority of her son Alan III. In 1010 her regency and the reign of her young son Alan III was seriously challenged by the peasant revolts that had… |
Date: 978-1034 |
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| 243 |  | _Ida de Tosny Ida de Tosny, Countess of Norfolk (died after 1181), was a Norman royal mistress. Named after her grandmother Ida de Hainaut, she was the daughter of Ralph IV de Tosny and his wife Margaret. Ida de Tosny was a royal ward and mistress of Henry II, King of England, by whom she was mother of one of his illegitimate sons, William Longespée, 3rd… |
Date: 1156-1226 |
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| 244 |  | _Igor Igor Rurikovich (died 945) was a Rurikid ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945. Igor twice besieged Constantinople in 941 and 944, and although Greek fire destroyed part of his fleet, he concluded with the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII a favourable treaty, the text of which the chronicle has preserved. In 913 and 944 the Rus' plundered the… |
Date: 879-945 AD |
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| 245 |  | _Imma Swabia (Gerold) Emma von Bayern |
Date: 736-798 AD |
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| 246 |  | _Isa Neville Lady Isabel Neville (5 Sep 1451 – 22 Dec 1476) was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker of the Wars of the Roses), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. She was the wife of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence. She was also the elder sister of Anne Neville, who was… |
Date: 1451-1476 |
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| 247 |  | _Isabel de Barcelos Isabel of Barcelos (October 1402 – 26 October 1466), also known as Isabel of Braganza (her father was originally the Count of Barcelos before becoming Duke of Braganza). She was the daughter of Afonso I, Duke of Braganza and Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, she married Infante John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, her half-uncle, son of John I of… |
Date: 1402-1465 |
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| 248 |  | _Isabel de Beaumont Isabel Vermandois was also known as Elizabeth of Vermandois. She was born circa 1081. She was the daughter of Hugh I "Magnus" Capet Count of Vermandois and Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois. As of 1096,her married name was de Beaumont. Isabel Vermandois married Robert de Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan, son of Roger de Beaumont and… |
Date: 1085-1131 |
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| 249 |  | _Isabel de Clare Isabel Marshal (9 Oct 1200 – 17 Jan 1240) was a medieval English countess. She was the wife of both Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (son of King John of England). With the former, she was a great grandmother of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland. |
Date: 1200-1240 |
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| 250 |  | _Isabel Grey FitzPayn Elizabeth Bryan (died before 1393), who married Robert Grey, 1st Baron FitzPayn (died 21 May 1393),[1] and had a daughter Isabel FitzPayn (died April 1394) |
Date: 1355-1394 |
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