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- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques ... Afonso I left his mark on the map of Europe. The impetus created by ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen ... in 1476, and the challenge to the crown of Castile was rejected. In a series ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of ... Lollardy also emphasized the authority of the Scriptures over the authority ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over ... Granada contains the beautiful Alhambra palace, a gem of Islamic architecture ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère the Lionheart. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- Many Jews converted to Christianity after the reconquest of Spain ... The conversion of these Jews to Christianity soon became suspect, ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ... his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- (1170 – August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly ... Witnessing the success of the Cathar movement in southern France, ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- , also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under ... a single (rather than two co-rulers) king of legitimate birth succeeded ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 ... an older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which ...38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
- Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád ... his descendants' claim to the Kingdom of Naples, but he could achieve ...26 KB (3,949 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy. It was ... baptized Christians. During a large part of its history, however, freedom ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
