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Isabella of Castile (1451–1504)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...from medieval to modern. She was three years old in 1454 when her father, King John II (ruled 1406 – 1454) of Castile, died and her older half-brother, Henry IV (ruled 1454 – 1474), succeeded him. That year too another...
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Margaret of Anjou
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...first attack of insanity, from August of 1453 to December of 1454, spanned the end of the Hundred Years War; the birth of Edward, Margaret's only child, on Oct. 13, 1453; and York's 1454 regency by act of Parliament. In 1455 York's ambition and...
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Gdańsk (German, Danzig)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...The order's rule ended definitively in Gda ń sk in 1454, and the Prussian estates again swore allegiance to the Polish...lak, Edmund, ed. Historia Gda ń ska. Vol. 2, 1454 – 1655. Vol. 3, pt. 1, 1655 – 1793...
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Venice
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...beginning with the conquests of nearby Padua and Verona in 1405. By 1454 Venetian conquests reached far west on the Lombard Plain of northern...considered a "military revolution." The Peace of Lodi (9 April 1454) put an end, for the moment, to the rivalries among the great...
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Kildare, Thomas FitzGerald, 7th earl of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...Kildare ascendancy. He was recognized as 7th earl probably in 1454 and, through his association with the Yorkists (see wars of...Altogether, he served as governor of Ireland for over eleven years (1454–9, 1460–2, 1464, 1470–...
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Alvise da Cadamosto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and Flanders between 1445 and 1452. On returning to Venice in 1454 he found his father banished and his family in distress. Because...include John W. Blake, European Beginnings in West Africa, 1454-1578 (1937); Boies Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the...
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Angelo Poliziano
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Angelo Poliziano The Italian poet Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), or Politian, wrote works in both Latin and Italian...antiquity. Angelo Poliziano was born Angelo Ambrogini on July 14, 1454, at Montepulciano, Tuscany, the son of a lawyer. When he...
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Yemen Dynasties
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...these are, in chronological sequence, the Ayyubids, from 1173/74 to 1228; the Rasulids, from 1228 to 1454; the Tahirids, from 1454 to 1517; and the Mamluks, from 1517 to 1538, when the Ottoman Empire took the Yemeni Tihama. During most...
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Henry VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to calm the parties and granted a general pardon in 1452. In August 1453 he suffered temporary mental illness, and in April 1454 the Duke of York was appointed protector. Henry's only son, Edward, was born in October 1453. While the King was insane...
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Isabella I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Castile by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal, and was the half sister of Henry IV, who succeeded to the Castilian throne in 1454. Henry had recognized Isabella as his heir over the claims of his daughter Juana, whose royal paternity was questioned by the...
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