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Æbbe of Coldingham, daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia. Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of Oswiu, king of Northumbria. Ælfthryth of Crowland, daughter of Offa, king of Mercia. Æthelberht, Prince of Kent, martyred in 669. Æthelburh of Barking, sister of the Bishop of London, who was reputedly of Royal blood.
Henry II the Pious (Polish: Henryk II Pobożny; 1196 – 9 April 1241) was Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. Between 1238 and 1239 he also served as regent of Sandomierz and Opole–Racibórz. He was the son of Henry the Bearded and a member of the Silesian Piast dynasty. In October 2015, the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...
Elisabetta Visconti. Albert III the Pious of Bavaria-Munich ( German: Albrecht III. der Fromme, Herzog von Bayern-München; 27 March 1401 – 29 February 1460), since 1438 Duke of Bavaria-Munich. He was the son of Ernest, Duke of Bavaria and Elisabetta Visconti, [1] daughter of Bernabò Visconti .
Henry II the Pious of Silesia was the third son of Henry I the Bearded of Silesia and of Hedwig of Andechs. Henry the Pious succeeded his father in 1238 and became the most powerful of the all Polish dukes. He united majority of Polish teritories - (Silesia, Great Poland and Little Poland). In 1239 supported the pope in his conflict with ...
Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Codex Reg. lat 124, f.4v. Louis the Pious, also called Louis I, (778 - 840) was the third Carolingian King of Franks and 2nd Holy Roman Emperor (814 - 840), King of Aquitaine 781 to 814.
Marriage and issue. He first married in 1297 to Beatrix da Camino, daughter of Gerard. With her, he had one son, Meinhard V . In 1322, Henry III married his second wife, Beatrix of Lower Bavaria, the daughter of Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271-1310). With her, he had another son, John Henry IV (1322-1338)
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating ...
