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Catherine the Great. Undefined In the following story the reader will find, besides the personal opinions of the writer, direct quotations from the works of the esteemed authors listed as the sources.
One of the most interesting, industrious and powerful personages to grace the pages of history during the eighteenth century is Catherine II, Empress of all the Russias. Historians have not always been kind to her memory, and all too often one reads accounts of her private life, ignoring her many achievements. The stories of her love affairs have been vulgarized and can be traced to a handful of French writers in the years immediately after Catherine's death, when Republican France was fighting for its life against a coalition that included Russia.
Catherine was born Sophia Augusta Frederika of Anhalt-Zerbst on April 21, 1729 in Stettin, then Germany, now Poland. The house of Holstein could lay claim to the crown of Sweden. Ink cartridge hit. Catherine II - Alexander Palace Time Machine. She had been born Princess Sophia August Frederika on May 2, 1729 in the Baltic seaport town of Stettin, then a part of German Pomerania.
Her father was an obscure German military princeling named Christian August, and her mother was Princess Joanna Elizabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Her father was nominal ruler of the tiny principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, but the greater part of his life was spent as an officer in the service of Prussia. Little Sophia was nicknamed Feke or Figchen. British History. The internet's most comprehensive information resource for the times, places, events and people of British history.
New Where Are They Now? - Burial places of Britain's rulers New The Knights Templar - the mysterious ending of a strange organization. New St. George - Life and legend of England's patron saint. History of Britain - timeline and facts. Timeline of English Monarchs. Queen Mary I: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources. Biography The sad life of England's first female ruler is rendered even more tragic in comparison with her half-sister and successor's reign.
Poor Mary Tudor, destined - like her half-brother and predecessor - to languish between those two giants of English history, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet there is much to warrant even a brief examination of her life and reign. Though her hated half-sister would outshine her in virtually every sphere - physical, political, intellectual, artistic - Mary also had a formidable impact upon English history. Catherine of Aragon. Catherine of Aragon was the youngest surviving child of Ferdinand and Isabella, the joint rulers of Spain, and as was common for princesses of the day, her parents almost immediately began looking for a political match for her.
When she was three year old, she was betrothed to Arthur, the son of Henry VII of England. Arthur was not even quite two at the time. When she was almost 16, in 1501, Catherine made the journey to England. It took her three months, and her ships weathered several storms, but she safely made landfall at Plymouth on October 2, 1501.
Catherine and Arthur were married on 14 November 1501 in Old St. After the wedding and celebrations, the young couple moved to Ludlow Castle on the Welsh border. Catherine was now a widow, and still young enough to be married again. English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England. Boudica. (died 62 AD) Boudica (or Boadicea) was the wife of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, a British tribe, at a time when Britain was a Roman province.
When Prasutagus died he willed half of his kingdom to the Roman empire and half to Boudica and their two daughters, Camorra and Tasca1 or, according to legend, Voada and Voadicia2. British law allowed royal inheritance to be passed to daughters in the absence of male heir, but Roman law did not. The Roman administrator ignored the will and proceded to take over the entire kingdom. Roman historian Tacitus wrote, "Kingdom and household alike were plundered like prizes of war... for a start, his widow Boudica was flogged and their daughters raped. Enraged Boudica joined Iceni forces with another tribe, the Trinobantes, and together they fought back. However, this time the Romans were victorious, and slaughtered the rebel troops.
Contributed by Danuta Bois, 1997. Bibliography: 1. History - Boudicca. Boudica.