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4 days ago · Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch in history, has died aged 96, according to Buckingham Palace on Thursday. Mao said that Chinese President Xi Jinping had sent condolences to British King Charles III over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sent condolences to British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
4 days ago · Count Guy was ransomed in 1256, when King Louis IX confirmed his 1246 decision regarding the Hainaut/Flanders split between the Avesnes/Dampierre families [633]. Guy bought the rights to Namur 20 Mar 1263 from Baudouin II titular Emperor of Constantinople [634]. He succeeded as sole Count of Flanders on the abdication of his mother 29 Dec 1278.
4 days ago · Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen (born 20 June 1997 [1]) is an Austrian motor racing driver and heir apparent to the headship of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He is driving in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Alpine Endurance Team and European Le Mans Series with Cool ...
6 days ago · Viscounts of Fézensaguet. Gerald V of Armagnac (1200-1219) Roger de Fézensaguet (1219-1245) Gerald VI, Count of Armagnac (1245-1285) Gaston d'Armagnac (1285-1320) The Count of Champagne had viscounts in his county (which was quite independent of France, but whose interests were generally the same in the 13th century).
3 days ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
5 days ago · Charlemagne (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə m eɪ n, ˌ ʃ ɑːr l ə ˈ m eɪ n / SHAR-lə-mayn, - MAYN; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of Western ...
3 days ago · Death or decline removed the most fervent advocates of ‘holy war’ from the political scene – emperor Ferdinand II, Lamormaini, and Contzen – and the ever more widespread and pronounced weariness of war supported a sustained ascendancy of the ‘moderates’ in Munich and Vienna – a party that included Lamormaini’s successor Johannes ...
