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Hace 2 días · The Nine Years' War, [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
Hace 1 día · Signature. Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, neither of his marriages produced children, and he died without a direct heir. He is now best remembered for his physical disabilities, and the War of the ...
Hace 5 días · The next night the king gave a supper to the forty masquers; Prince Charles and his courtiers, who had lost a wager to the king at running at the ring, paying for the banquet £30 a man. The masquers, who dined with forty of the chief nobles, kissed his majesty's hand.
Hace 5 días · Rupert (right) with his elder brother, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (left), in a 1637 portrait by Anthony van Dyck. Rupert was born in Prague, Bohemia, in 1619, and was declared a prince by the principality of Lusatia. [6] His father had just been elected king by the largely Protestant estates of Bohemia.
Hace 2 días · There are here, Ferdinand, as the Emperor's deputy, Louis Elector Palatine, Henry duke of Brunswick, Eric, his uncle, and commissaries of such other princes as the Marquis Elector of Brandenburg, the dukes of Bavaria, the duke of Cleves, duke of Lorraine, the dukes Otto Henry and Philip Palatine, duke Rupert a Gemino Ponte, and the marquis of Baden; also counts and ecclesiastics.
Hace 3 días · Malcolm IV of Scotland. "~ Martel " ( Old French, "The Hammer"): Charles Martel of the Franks. Geoffrey II of Anjou. Geoffrey IV of Anjou. "~ the Man": John II of Portugal ( Spanish: Juan el Hombre, a nickname given to him by Isabella of Castile) "~ the Martyr": Edward the Martyr of England. King Charles I of England.
Hace 2 días · THE EARLY STUARTS AND CIVIL WAR. Relations between town and gown, though still troubled, were, on the whole, better in this period than during the 16th century. The position of the University was strengthened by the grant in 1604 of the right to return members to Parliament, (fn. 1) and in 1605 by a new royal charter.
