Curated category
Medieval child monarchs
- Charles VIII of FranceCharles VIII of France was born on the 30th of June 1470 at the Château d'Amboise, and he died in that same place under circumstances that still puzzle…
- Edward IIIEdward III was born at Windsor Castle on the 13th of November 1312, and a contemporary prophecy described him as "the boar that would come out of Windsor".
- Frederick II, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick II was born in Jesi, near Ancona, on the 26th of December 1194, and the circumstances surrounding that birth were so extraordinary that rumors…
- Henry IV, Holy Roman EmperorHenry IV stood barefoot in the snow outside Canossa Castle for three days in January 1077, dressed in sackcloth, waiting for a pope to forgive him.
- Edward VIEdward VI was born on the 12th of October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace, and the entire realm erupted in celebration. Bonfires blazed across England.
- Basil IIBasil II died on the 15th of December 1025, and when his soldiers found him in a corner of a church in 1260, two and a half centuries later, there was a…
- Mehmed IIMehmed II was twenty-one years old when he stepped into the ruins of a palace the Ottomans called the Palace of the Caesars, built more than a thousand years…
- Matthias CorvinusMatthias Corvinus was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, and he died in the city he had conquered - Vienna - under circumstances his doctors…
- Louis IX of FranceLouis IX of France was crowned at Reims Cathedral on the 29th of November 1226, when he was just 12 years old. His father, Louis VIII, had died three weeks…
- Dmitry DonskoyDmitry Ivanovich Donskoy was born in Moscow on the 12th of October 1350, and he died there on the 19th of May 1389 having changed the shape of Russian…