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People of the War of the League of Cognac

  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici was born on the 26th of May 1478, exactly one month after his father, Giuliano de Medici, was murdered in the Florence Cathedral during the…
  • 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…
  • James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of DesmondJames FitzGerald entered the world around 1490 in Munster, Ireland. He was the second son of Maurice FitzGerald and Ellen Roche.
  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici entered the world on the 26th of May 1478 in Florence. His birth followed a tragedy that occurred exactly one month earlier.