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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pope Julius Ii, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Rodolphus Agricola, Albert Iii, Duke of Saxony, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Muhammad Jaunpuri, Beltrán de La Cueva, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Giovanni Ii Bentivoglio, Charlotte of Savoy, Magdalena of Valois, William Hussey, Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, Girolamo Riario, Giovanni Di Stefano, Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick, Marguerite of Brittany, Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle, Antonio Benivieni, Nijō Masatsugu, John Iv of Chalon-Arlay. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Matthias Corvinus (Hungarian: or , 23 February 1443 6 April 1490) also called the Just, was King of Hungary from 1458, at the age of 14 until his death. After conducting several military campaigns he became also King of Bohemia, (14691490) and Duke of Austria. Hungarian: Hunyadi Mátyás or Corvin Mátyás, Czech: , Croatian: Matija Korvin, German: Matthias Corvinus, Medieval Latin: Mattias Corvinus, Polish: Maciej Korwin, Romanian: Matia/Matei/Mateia Corvin, Serbian: /Matija Korvin, Slovak: Matej Korvín, Slovene: Matija Korvin, Russian: /Matyash Corvin The Hunyad Castle, where Matthias grew up Signature and the royal stampMatthias was born in Kolozsvár in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania) in a house now known as the Matthias Corvinus House. He was second son of John Hunyadi, a successful Hungarian General of Romanian descent who had risen through the ranks of the nobility to become regent of Hungary. Matthias' mother was Erzsébet Szilágyi, from a Hungarian noble family. His tutors were the learned János Vitéz, bishop of Nagyvárad, whom he subsequently raised to the primacy, and the Polish humanist Gregory of Sanok. The precocious Matthias quickly mastered German, Italian, Roma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=272105 ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Iii, Duke of Saxony, Ulrich Mühe, Georg Elias Müller, Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark, Olaf Beyer, Heinz-Fritz Müller, Dietrich I Von Wettin, Ines Müller, Ernst Otto Schlick. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (German pronunciation: ) (20 June 1953 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann. Gröllmann denied this, and after an acrimonious and highly-publicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television programmes and theatre productions. In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the long-r...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4806928 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bartolomeu Dias, John Morton, Albert Iii, Duke of Saxony, Thomas Rotherham, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado, John Alcock, Philip de Carteret, 8th of St Ouen, Gerhard Vi, Count of Oldenburg, Leonhard of Gorizia, Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Orsino Orsini, Miguel Da Paz, Prince of Asturias, Lodovico Lazzarelli, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, Antonio Del Rincón, Neroccio Di Bartolomeo De' Landi, Thomas Bryan, Roger Townshend, Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Janus Plousiadenos, Jean D'armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Thomas Jane, Tun Perpatih Putih, Bernardo Tesauro, Serafino Dell' Aquila, Bernardo Di Nicolo Machiavelli, Friedrich Herlin, Alfonso of Aragon, Qasim I of Astrakhan, John Warkworth, Sompou. Excerpt:Albert III Albert III (German : Albrecht ; 27 January 1443 12 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony . He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin . Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son (but fifth child in order of birth) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony , and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor . Later, he was a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece . After escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen , who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest , he spent some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III in Vienna . In Eger (Cheb) on 11 November 1464 Albert married Zdenka (Sidonie), daughter of George of Podebrady , King of Bohemia ; but failed to obtain the Bohemian Crown on the death of George in 1471. After the death of his father in 1464, Albert and Ernest ruled their lands together, but in 1485 a division was made by the Treaty of Leipzig , and Al... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Albert I (c. 1175 - 7 October 1260) was a Duke of Saxony, Angria, and Westphalia; Lord of Nordalbingia; Count of Anhalt; and Prince-elector and Archmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire. Even though his grandfather Albert the Bear had held the Saxon dukedom between 1138 and 1142, this Albert is counted as the first. A member of the House of Ascania, Albert was the oldest son of Bernard III, Duke of Saxony, and Brigitte of Denmark, daughter of Canute V of Denmark. Albert supported Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in his wars against the Hohenstaufen. In 1218 Albert's maternal uncle Prince-Archbishop Valdemar of Denmark, who had been deposed from his Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, found refuge in Saxony, before he joined the Loccum Abbey as monk. On 22 July 1227 Albert I asserted as fellow victor in the Battle of Bornhöved, commanding the Holy Roman left flank, his earlier disputed rank as liege lord of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, a privilege, however, lost by his successor John V in 1474. After Bornhöved Albert reinforced and extended his fortress and castle in Lauenburg upon Elbe, which his father Bernard had erected in 1182. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Iv Laskaris, Pietro D'abano, Fra Dolcino, Albert Ii, Duke of Saxony, Al-Hilli, Mordecai Ben Hillel, Theodoric of Freiberg, Jean de Meun, Robert Ii, Count of Artois, Pierre Dubois, Jean Lemoine, Nichiji, Godfrey of Fontaines, Pietro Cavallini, Konrad Ii of Masovia, Moses de León, Giovanni Pisano, Engelbert of Admont, Dmitry of Pereslavl, Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily, Jan Muskata, Anna of Glogau, Adolf Ii of Waldeck, Uguccione Della Faggiuola, Shams Al-Dīn Al-Samarqandī, Jacobus de Cessolis, William Rishanger, Yom Tov Asevilli. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fra Dolcino (c. 1250 1307) was an Italian preacher burnt at the stake in 1307, and often described as being a heretic inspired by the Franciscan theories. The origins of Fra Dolcino and his real name are a subject of constant debate among historians. One view is that he belonged to the wealthy Tornielli family of Novara, while another view is that he was the illegitimate son of a priest fled from Vercelli to escape punishment for some small burglaries. Recent researches of Orioli presents a plausible theory on the argument: the paper of the Anonymous Synchronous written shortly after the facts, identifies him as nomine Dulcinus, filius presbyteri Iulii de Tarecontano Vallis Ossole diocesis Novariensis (name Dulcinus, son of presbyter Julius from Tarecontano of the Ossola Valley in the diocese of Novara); a few years later the inquisitor Bernardo Gui in his work reports the same information changing the word presbyteri in sacerdotis (priest) thus concluding that he was the illegitimate son of a priest. The research of Orioli shows that De Julio Presbitero was the name of a wealthy family of Vercelli belonging to the Ghibellines often married with members of the Tornielli family of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=251327 ... Read more

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Chapters: Princess Anna of Saxony, Florian Fricke, Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, Clemens Kalischer, Albert Kuner, John Spilman, Verena Bentele, Prince Karl of Bavaria, Peter Lee Lawrence, Christoph Zenger, Johann Jacob Heber. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Princess Anna Monika Pia of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (Full German name: Prinzessin Anna Monika Pia von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen) (born 4 May 1903 in Lindau, Bavaria; died 8 February 1976 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) was the seventh and youngest child of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany and a younger sister of Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony and Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen. Through her marriage to Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria, Anna was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and an Archduchess and Princess of Austria and Princess of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. While pregnant with Anna, her mother Luise left Saxony on 9 December 1902 without her children. Anna was born during her parent's separation and after her birth, Luise sent the infant to the royal court in Dresden where she was raised with her five siblings by her father Frederick Augustus. It is said that Anna was the daughter of André Giron, her siblings' French tutor with whom her mother briefly lived. Anna married Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria, eldest son of Archduke Joseph August of Austria and his wife Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria, on 4 October 1926 at Schloss Sibyllenort in Sibyllenort, Silesia, Germany. Anna and Joseph Francis had eight children: Fifteen years after the death of Joseph Francis in Carcavelos, Portugal on 25 September 1957, Anna married Reginald Kazanjian (1905-1990) in a civil ceremony on 28 July 1...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20195069 ... Read more