Holy Roman Emperors
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The Emperor Charles V was the grandson of Maximilian I (Richard III’s friend and step-nephew-in-law), a nephew of Catherine of Aragon (and thus by marriage to Henry VIII) and father-in-law of Mary I. In February 1547, he feared death at the hands of a Italian mercenary (Pierre Strozzi) and wrote a fiendishly coded letter to…
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Rumi, the Persian Poet
Afghanistan, Angevin Empire, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Brad Gooch, Cambridge University, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Genghis Khan, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperors, Innocent III, Iran, Islam, John, Layamon, Muhammed Ali Musofer, Persian Empire, Philip of Swabia, poets, Shamsoddin, Siberia, stephen langton, Tajikstan, Turkey, Vakhsh, William MarshallI grew up under the tutelage of an amateur historian father, one who both dissected past events and also generously passed along a wide range of historical snippets. Perhaps he had a limited knowledge of this event, or I forgot most details about that one. Whatever the reason for the more modest lessons, or memories,…
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