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Hace 5 días · Louis XIV had pretensions in the Palatinate in the name of his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte, and threatened further annexations of the Rhineland. Thus, Frederick-William, spurning his French subsidies, ended his alliance with France and reached agreements with William of Orange, the Emperor and King Charles XI of Sweden , the last of which by temporarily putting aside their differences ...
Hace 1 día · Eleanor of Aquitaine ( French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen...
Hace 2 días · From the early 1620s, moreover, the English political nation was deeply troubled by the events in Europe and particularly by the seizure of the Palatinate. Arguably, the greatest fault line in English political life – and political thinking – concerned the means by which the Palatinate could be recovered.
Hace 5 días · Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē[a]), also known as Helen of Troy,[2][3][b] in Latin as Helena,[4] beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of...
Hace 5 días · The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
Hace 1 día · Later in life, in her late 70’s, Helena travelled to Palestine on pilgrimage. Her archeological excavations led to the discovery of fragments of what was allegedly the True Cross, among other relics. Interestingly, Helen is the patron saint of new discoveries and also of difficult marriages, divorced people, converts and archeologists!
Hace 3 días · Johann Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern: d. 1593 1579 366 Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland: 1548–1587 1584 367 William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham: 1527–1597 1584 368 Henry le Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton: c. 1534–1591 1584 369 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex: 1567–1601 1588 Degraded 1601 370 Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of ...
