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Sons of kings
- 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…
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman EmperorFerdinand entered the world on the 10th of March 1503 in Alcalá de Henares, a city in Castile. He was the second son of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of…
- Charles VIII of FranceCharles VIII was born at the Château d'Amboise on the 30th of June 1470. He became King of France on the 30th of August 1483 when he was only thirteen years…
- Maximilian III JosephMaximilian III Joseph was born on the 28th of March 1727 in Munich. He entered a world already burning with conflict when his father died in January 1745.
- Edward IIIOn the 25th of January 1327, a fourteen-year-old boy named Edward was proclaimed king in London. His father, King Edward II, had been forced to relinquish…
- Frederick William I of PrussiaBerlin, 1709. A plague outbreak swept through Prussia during the Great Northern War, exposing deep rot within King Frederick I's government.
- Frederick II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 26th of December 1194, a child named Frederick was born in the market square of Jesi. The location itself was unusual for a royal birth and…
- Emund the OldKing Emund the Old died in the summer of 1060 after ruling Sweden for roughly a decade. His father was Olof Skötkonung, the first Christian ruler of the…
- Napoleon IIICharles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Paris on the night of 19 to the 20th of April 1808. His father Louis ruled Holland from 1806 until 1810.
- 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…
- Edward the ConfessorEdward the Confessor was born between 1003 and 1005 in Islip, Oxfordshire. He spent a quarter of a century away from England during his childhood exile.
- Leopold II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 5th of May 1747, a boy named Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard entered the world in Vienna as the third son of Empress Maria Theresa and…
- Charles I of EnglandCharles Stuart entered the world at Dunfermline Palace on the 19th of November 1600 as the second son of King James VI of Scotland.
- Edward VIOn the 12th of October 1537, Prince Edward was born in the private apartments of his mother at Hampton Court Palace. The news spread through London with such…
- Olof SkötkonungOlof Skötkonung died in the winter of 1021 or 1022. He stands at the threshold of recorded history as the first Swedish ruler about whom there is substantial…
- 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…
- Arthur, Prince of WalesHenry VII became King of England upon defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He needed to secure his hold on the throne and…
- Charles LéonNapoleon Bonaparte stood at the center of European history, yet his first son was born in a Paris apartment on the 13th of December 1806.
- Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria-Hungary on the 20th of November 1912. His full baptismal name included Franz…
- Archduke Charles, Duke of TeschenFlorence, Tuscany, the 5th of September 1771 marked the birth of Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Lawrence. His father held the title Grand Duke of Tuscany…
- Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and SomersetHenry FitzRoy entered the world in June 1519, born to Henry VIII and his mistress Elizabeth Blount. The timing of this birth was calculated with precision to…
- Alexandre Colonna-WalewskiOn the 4th of May 1810, a boy named Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Walewski drew his first breath at Walewice near Warsaw.
- Christian IV of DenmarkChristian IV was born at Frederiksborg Castle on the 12th of April 1577. He became King of Denmark and Norway when his father died on the 4th of April 1588.
- Frederick II of DenmarkOn the 1st of July 1534, a boy named Frederick was born inside Haderslevhus Castle. His father Christian III had just become King of Denmark three days…