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Knights of the Golden Fleece
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII was born on the 28th of June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent. He entered the world as the third child and second son of King…
- Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorThe year 1500 marked the arrival of Charles in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city within the Habsburg Netherlands. A poet at the court reported that…
- Henry VII of EnglandHenry Tudor was born on the 28th of January 1457 inside Pembroke Castle. This stone fortress stood in Little England beyond Wales, an English-speaking…
- Sigismund I the OldSigismund I the Old was born in Kozienice on the 1st of January 1467. He entered the world as the fifth son of King Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria.
- Francis I of FranceFrancis I of France was born on the 12th of September 1494 at the Château de Cognac, a man whose physical features would become as legendary as his political…
- Francis II of FranceOn the 10th of July 1559, a fifteen-year-old boy named Francis II became king of France after his father Henry II died in a jousting accident.
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 22nd of March 1459, a child named Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt. His father Frederick III held the title Holy Roman Emperor, yet their family…
- Napoleon IINapoleon II entered the world on the 20th of March 1811 inside the Tuileries Palace in Paris. His father was Emperor Napoleon I and his mother was Empress…
- Manuel I of PortugalManuel I was born in Alcochete on the 31st of May 1469. He entered a world already fractured by blood and suspicion among Portuguese noble families.