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4 giorni fa · Religion. Roman Catholicism. Signature. Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold, [a] was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal.
5 giorni fa · Burgundian Netherlands. Mary of Burgundy (reigned 1477–1482) – according to E. William Monter 's book, Mary of Burgundy and Isabella Clara Eugenia are included in the list of thirty women sovereigns over European states between 1300 and 1800; Spanish Netherlands
4 giorni fa · Duchess of Brittany c. 1370 –1437 Queen of England: Catherine of Lancaster 1373–1418 Queen of Castile: Henry III 1379–1406 King of Castile: Henry of Cambridge: Louis III 1378–1436 Elector Palatine: Blanche of England & of Lancaster 1392–1409: Anne of Burgundy Duchess of Bedford 1404–1432: John of Lancaster 1389–1435 ...
4 giorni fa · Edward VIII, prince of Wales (1911–36) and king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emperor of India from January 20 to December 10, 1936, when he abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward VIII was the only British sovereign to voluntarily resign the crown.
2 giorni fa · Dukes came and dukes went. Clever marriage strategies made the Low Countries part of the ever-growing Habsburg family, as Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482) – born at the Coudenberg Palace – wed Maximilian of Habsburg (1459-1519) in 1477.
2 giorni fa · A formidable character who became the matriarch of the Royal Family, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 26 May 1867 in the same room where Queen Victoria (who was a distant cousin) had been born 40 years prior. In 1891, aged 24, Mary was betrothed to her second cousin once removed, Prince Albert, eldest son of the ...
3 giorni fa · Dame Mary lived on without regaining her faculties until 1730. In 1708 Sir Richard Grosvenor married Jane Wyndham, daughter of Sir Edward Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset. In return for a marriage portion of £12,000 he agreed to make a new settlement of the estates in his possession and of those in which his mother had a life interest, in part to secure a jointure for his wife.
