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Hace 3 días · Until the age of six, Charles was brought up by his cousins, John and Agnes of Cleves, who both were the children of Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of John the Fearless, with Adolph I, Duke of Cleves. From the two, the presence of Agnes was more prominent in Charles' early education.
Hace 1 día · In the grand drama of King Henry VIII‘s six wives, Anne of Cleves is often relegated to a footnote as the bride he rejected. However, the real story of the German princess who became Queen of England for just six months is far more nuanced and fascinating. Through her unwavering resilience, clever political maneuvering, and steadfast spirit ...
Hace 2 días · Indeed, only yesterday he said that the young duke of Cleves would soon be one of the most highly-connected princes in the world, and that this King's reconciliation with his sister Anne would promote other very important alliances, meaning the Princess's marriage.
Hace 4 días · Never believed what Francis said about the duke of Cleves when the Emperor passed through this kingdom. Francis' discontent with the Emperor. Spoke to the Constable about the familiarity between the Venetian and English ambassadors, which, taken with the reports from England and Rome, gave suspicion of some intrigue against the Emperor.
Hace 4 días · Anne of Cleves to the Duke of Cleves. R. O. St. P. i. 645. Perceives by his letter of the 13th to the king of England, her “most dear and most kind brother,” that he takes the matter lately determined between them somewhat to heart.
Hace 2 días · Thomas Cromwell is a good subject for fact and fiction. He was and remains somewhat of an enigma both as a visionary for government efficiency and as an ambitious ‘new man’ rising from the obscurity of a blacksmith’s son to perhaps the most powerful man in England save his king, Henry VIII.
Hace 3 días · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. Thursday, 27 July 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.
