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4 giorni fa · Artois was the first member of the royal family to emigrate to foreign lands. He sought to convince the crowned heads of Europe to restore Louis XVI’s authority. Intransigent and hotheaded, Artois joined his brother Provence at Coblentz and participated in various royalist conspiracies and military adventures. Upon his brother’s assumption ...
5 giorni fa · Liège’s eight-century ecclesial state. One of the oddest entities to control Belgian territory was the regime of the Prince-Bishops who governed the independent state of Liège for eight centuries. Friday, 26 May 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere. The Murder of the Bishop of Liège, painting by Delacroix (1828)
4 giorni fa · Duchess of Burgundy (titular), Duchess of Brabant, Limburg, Lothier, Luxemburg and Guelders; Margravine of Namur; Countess Palatine of Burgundy; Countess of Artois, Flanders, Charolais, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Zutphen 5 January 1477 – 27 March 1482 with Maximilian since 19 August 1477: Succeeded by
19 ore fa · e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
3 giorni fa · Matilda of Brittany 1185– before 1189: Arthur I 4th Earl of Richmond 1187–1203 Duke of Brittany: House of Burgundy: Bohemond Duke of Apulia: Counts of Rouergue: Eleanor of Provence c. 1223 –1291 Queen of England: King Henry III 1207–1272 r. 1216–1272 King of England: Isabel Marshal 1200–1240 Countess of Cornwall: Richard 1209–1272 ...
5 giorni fa · By Helen MacEwan. The streets of Brussels were decked out on September 5, 1599, for the Joyeuse Entrée, the ceremonial royal entry into the city of Archdukes Isabella and Albert, the new rulers of the Habsburg Netherlands. Crowds cheered them on their way to the Coudenberg Palace, for great expectations were placed on the newlywed couple.
4 giorni fa · Constance Markievicz (born February 4, 1868, London, England—died July 15, 1927, Dublin, Ireland) was an Anglo-Irish countess and political activist who was the first woman elected to the British Parliament (1918), though she refused to take her seat. She was also the only woman to serve in the first Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly), in which ...
