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4 days ago · After being taken captive at the Battle of Ponza in 1435, the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, divided since the Sicilian Vespers, were reunited under Alfonso's dominion. The First Battle of Olmedo between Aragon and Castile took place on 19 May 1445, prompted by the decrees of John II of Castile and his aide Álvaro de Luna.
21 hours ago · Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the ...
1 day ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
4 days ago · Brief Life History of Louis VIII 'le Lion'. When Louis VIII 'le Lion' roi de France was born on 5 September 1187, in Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, his father, Philippe II Auguste roi de France, was 22 and his mother, Isabelle De Hainaut, was 17. He married Blanca de Castilla reina de Francia on 23 May 1200, in Pont-Audemer, Eure ...
3 days ago · With him, all the legitimate issue of Alfonso II of Naples died out. His heir in Ferdinand I of Naples and in the Brienne succession was his distant cousin, Henry de La Tremoille, Prince of Talmond and Taranto, the heir-general of Frederick IV of Naples (second son of Ferdinand I of Naples and Isabella of Taranto), who also was the heir-general ...
5 days ago · Louis (born 1320, Naples—died May 26, 1362, Naples) was the count of Provence (1347–62), as well as prince of Taranto and Achaia, who by his marriage to Queen Joan I of Naples (1343–82) became king of Naples after a struggle with King Louis I of Hungary.
May 2, 2024 · Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Comprehensive original essays that target key individuals and “often overlooked secondary figures” of the American Enlightenment such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, and Jonathan Edwards. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1896.
