While Mazarin might have been tempted for a short time to marry his niece to the King of France, Queen Anne was absolutely against this; she wanted to marry her son to the daughter of her brother, Philip IV of Spain, for both dynastic and political reasons. Mazarin soon supported the ...
In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of Roundhay Garden, Leeds Bridge and his brother playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture ...
St. Louis, October 9-12, 2014 The Shroud and the iconography of Christ Emanuela Marinelli Abstract The similarity between the Shroud face and most of the depictions of Christ known in art, both Eastern and Western, is clear and cannot be attributed to pure chance; it must be the result ...
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II...
In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of Roundhay Garden, Leeds Bridge and his brother playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture ...
theinfantaMariana, daughter of KingPhilip Vof Spain. After the death of Orléans (December 1723), Louis appointed as his first minister Louis-Henri, duc de Bourbon-Condé, who cancelled the Spanish betrothal and married the King toMarie Leszczyńska, daughter of the dethroned kingStanisław I...
Philip was the second son of Philip IV, who made him count ofPoitiersin 1311. When his elder brother, KingLouis X, died in 1316, leaving an infant daughterJoan by his adulterous first wife, and a pregnant widow, Philip won recognition as regent for the unborn child and then, upon its ...
Louis, or The Life of St. Louis), may have been begun as early as the 1270s, but the final form was commissioned by Jeanne of Champagne and Navarre, wife of King Philip IV the Fair. It was not completed at the time of her death (1305) and so was presented in 1309 to her son ...
after his capture by the duke of Austria on Richard’s return from the east, collected hisransomand went in person to escort him to England. During Richard’s absence, she succeeded in keeping his kingdom intact and in thwarting the intrigues of his brother John Lackland andPhilip II Augustu...
John II had him arrested (April 1356), but Charles II’s brother Philip then assumed leadership of the Navarrese faction and managed to retain possession of the extensive lands in Normandy, which John had ceded to Charles. The Poitiers campaign (1355–56) Edward the Black PrinceEdward The ...