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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
- the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to the Indies ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie) (1028 – September ... William invaded England with his band of Normans, defeated the English ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... and Muslim society. During his period of exile in Andalusia, 1364–1365 ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... administrator, who enjoyed the respect of his men. Most of those whom ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the first successful ... which would bring the ships of the Crown of Castile a full access to the ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de ... the hierarchical Church was in dire need of reform, and some of their greatest ...26 KB (4,095 words) - 19:47, 22 December 2022
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Catholic Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit ... and land was confiscated by the crown of Castile. Francis' father ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Catholic Church to eliminate the heresy of the Cathars of Languedoc. violence led to France's acquisition of lands with closer cultural ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- | occupation = Maritime explorer for the Crown of Castile ... principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265 ... Henry agreed to reforms, including a council of fifteen to which governance ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It is the second ... it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods ...75 KB (11,270 words) - 17:52, 8 February 2024
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general ... In the thirteenth century, the Christian Crown of Castile had already ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- , an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic ... sending the movement underground. The seeds of reform that Wycliffe planted ...43 KB (7,057 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
