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3 days ago · House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and ...
- 11th century
- Ludwig III
4 days ago · The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 was an attempt by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to circumvent longstanding law in order to have his daughter succeed him on the imperial throne. It worked but only after a long period of strife. Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel had married in 1708. At that time, Charles's elder brother ...
1 day ago · Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg , which had ruled Spain since 1516, neither of his marriages produced children, and he died without a direct heir.
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4 days ago · The castle acted as a monastery until the mid-16th century, then in 1588 it began serving as a state prison and the following year Christian I, the Elector of Saxony, converted the grounds into a ...
3 days ago · Price: £49.95. Early Stuart foreign policy remains a relatively neglected topic, despite mounting evidence for the importance of international religious conflicts in British political culture and the strains imposed by the demands of war on the British state. Jonathan Scott has recently called for a systematic rethinking of the period based on ...
1 day ago · The sign asks people to vote for Fe, Infancia, Educación, y Libertad (Faith, Childhood, Education, and Liberty) or FIEL, a new, explicitly evangelical Christian party. The party’s candidate for ...
5 days ago · The term 'Elector' refers to a prince who had the right to vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor. The Duke of Saxony was one of the original seven rulers formally granted this title and role by the Golden Bull of 1356.
