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- Rosso FiorentinoGiovanni Battista di Jacopo was born on the 8th of March 1495 in Florence. His red hair gave him the nickname Rosso Fiorentino, which means Florentine…
- Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…
- Elizabeth BlountThe Blount family held lands at Kinlet in Shropshire, a quiet corner of England far from the noise of London. Sir John Blount served as a loyal servant to…
- William KingstonWilliam Kingston appeared as a yeoman of the guard before June 1509. He served under Sir Richard Wingfield at the French court early in 1520.
- Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.