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3 days ago · The two became friends but King Philip II disapproved of the man and sent him away from the Madrid court, installing him as a viceroy in Valencia in 1595. Denia returned two years later, when the king was ailing. When Philip II died, in 1598 and his son succeeded him as King Philip III, the new monarch named his former friend as his chief advisor.
3 days ago · Answer: Mazarin. Coligny, an important leader of the French protestants, was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Night (1572). He had been involved in politics already during the reigns of Henry II (1547-1559), Francis II (1559-1560) and Charles IX (became King in 1560). The Duke of Guise was his main opponent.
1 day ago · The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres.A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the ...
4 days ago · Philip II died in September 1598 and Philip III duly took Denia as his valido. Within months, the new king had dismissed most of the leading servants of his father (including García de Loaysa), and effectively abandoned many of the prerogatives of kingship to Denia.
1 day ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
4 days ago · This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
5 days ago · 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. Appointed as the Count of Charolais upon his birth, Charles vied for power and ...
