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1 day ago · Overview of Henry VIII's reign. An 18-year-old prince inherited his father’s throne, but the son of an Ipswich butcher carried on the first Tudor’s administrative policies. While the young sovereign enjoyed his inheritance, Thomas Wolsey collected titles—archbishop of York in 1514, lord chancellor and cardinal legate in 1515, and papal ...
4 days ago · Covers the whole period 1202 to 1509. Calendar of State Papers, Venice. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved .
5 days ago · Sigismund II Augustus, King and Grand Duke (1530–1572) Henry of Valois, King and Grand Duke (1573–1575) Anna Jagiellon, Queen and Grand Duchess (1575–1586) Stephen Báthory, King and Grand Duke (1576–1586) Sigismund III Vasa, King and Grand Duke (1587–1632) State of the Teutonic Order ( complete list) –.
4 days ago · If the King of England proposes of his own free will measures which will be effectual to stop the encroachments of the French, he is to do nothing but to praise the King and to encourage him.
2 days ago · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
5 days ago · Chapter acts: 1509-10. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1914. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
2 days ago · Much of Venice's hinterland (but not the city itself) was devastated by the Turks in 1499 and plundered by the League of Cambrai in 1509. Worst of all was the 6 May 1527 Sack of Rome by mutinous German mercenaries that all but ended the role of the Papacy as the largest patron of Renaissance art.
