Philip II (1527 – 1598) – Spanish King. The son and heir of Charles V, with the FA in 1554 was considered the king of Naples and Sicily, and from 1555, after the rejection of his father from the throne – the King of Spain, the Netherlands and the owner of all overseas possessions of Spain. (more…)

Tomasso Campanella (1568 – 1639) – Italian philosopher and communist, was born in Calabria, in early youth entered the Dominican order, but soon discovered a great free-thinking in religious matters, has incurred the hatred of theologians and had to leave their homeland.

In 1598, he returned to Naples, he was captured along with (more…)

Alfred the Great (Alfred the Great) (849 – 900) – King of Wessex from 871. When Alfred the Great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms the consolidation around Wessex. It was reorganized army, created a considerable fleet, built a number of castles.

As a result of persistent struggle with (more…)

Alaric I (376) – first king of the Visigoths, was born about 376 in which lies at the mouth of the Danube island Pake, and belonged to the genus Balto. Upon the death of Theodosius the Great in 395 BC, settled in the Roman Empire, the Visigoths elected as their king 19-year old Alaric, who was still alive Theodosius was their leader. (more…)

Carlos (dong) (1545 – 07/24/1568) – Infanta of Spain, son of Philip II and his first wife Maria of Portugal, born in 1545

4 days after the birth of Carlos, his mother died and his father, who was largely in the absence of Spain, during the following 14 years and then rarely saw his son and had little interest in his fate.

Concerns (more…)

Marquise de Pompadour (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson) (1721 – 1764) – mistress of King Louis XV. Her father, Poisson, was at one time a lackey, then the supplier of the commissariat, incompetent and dishonest. In Antoinette's fate took a large part Syndic Lenormand de Turnem; perhaps he was her real father. Thanks Lenormand, P. received an excellent (more…)

Theodore A. (5/30/1661 – 4/27/1682) – King, son of Tsar Alexis and his wife, Queen Mary Ilinishna Miloslavskaya. The christening took place exactly one month later, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was present that day at Mass in the Church of Our Saviour not made with hands, (more…)

The Romanovs – the old Russian noble family. It is considered the forefather of Andrei Ivanovich mare, whose father (the most accepted view), Gland Divonovich Kambia, in baptism, Ivan, came to Russia the last quarter of the XIII century. from (more…)

Hugo Grotius (1538 – 1645) – famous Dutch jurist, statesman and writer, was born in 1583

Year old boy he already wrote Latin verses, in 11 years, he became a student at Leiden University. Here, he surprised his teachers (Scaliger, Junius, and others) his extensive (more…)

Jagiello Jagiello, or – Grand Duke of Lithuania and the Polish king. The son of Orthodox Princess Juliana, confessing he had in his youth, according to some scholars, Orthodox, while other historians argue that he remained a pagan till the adoption of the Catholic faith. (more…)