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Anglesia Visconti
Anglesia Visconti (1377–1439), was a queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to King Janus. She was daughter of Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan and Beatrice Regina della Scala, daughter of Mastino II lord of Verona. Life Anglesia was daughter of Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan and Beatrice Regina della Scala, daughter of Mastino II lord of Verona. Anglesias father utilized his many children to make politically advantageous marriages and gain allies and as a young child, a betrothal between Anglesia and Frederick the youngest son of Frederick V. of Nuremberg was negotatied Three of Anglesias sisters Antonia, Elisabetta and Maddalena were married to Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg, Albert III, Duke of Bavaria and Frederick, Duke of Bavaria respectively. This marriage for reasons unknown however never materialized.Friedrich would later go on to marry Anglesias niece Elisabeth of Bavaria. In 1383 Anglesias mother Beatrice died and in 1385 her father Bernabo after being im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cypriot Royal Consorts
Empress and Despoina ''in'' Cyprus :''Byzantine titles did not have any territorial qualification, so there were no Emperors or Despots'' of ''Cyprus''. Consort of Cyprus See also *List of Latin Empresses *Princess of Antioch Notes Sources {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Cypriot Consorts Lists of queens, Cyprus Queens consort of Cyprus, House of Lusignan Lists of royal consorts, Cyprus Lists of Cypriot people, Royal consorts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti (16 October 1351 – 3 September 1402), was the first duke of Duchy of Milan, Milan (1395) and ruled that late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He also ruled Lombardy jointly with his uncle Bernabò Visconti, Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle (Pavia), Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his Galeazzo II Visconti, father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. He captured a large territory of northern Italy and the Po valley. He threatened war with France in relation to the transfer of Genoa to French control as well as issues with his beloved daughter Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, Valentina. When he died of fever in the Castello of Melegnano, his children fought with each other and fragmented the territories that he had ruled. Biography During his patronage of the Visconti Castle, he contributed to the growth of the collection of scientific treatises and richly ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1377 Births
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Queens Consort Of Cyprus
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Charlotte De Bourbon, Queen Of Cyprus
Charlotte of Bourbon (1388 – 15 January 1422) was the queen consort of Cyprus and titular queen consort of Armenia and Jerusalem through her marriage to King Janus. She was his second wife and the mother of his six legitimate children, which included King John II and Anne de Lusignan. It was Charlotte's influence which was instrumental in the revival of French culture at the royal court in Nicosia. Life Charlotte was born in France in 1388, one of the seven children of John I, Count of La Marche and Catherine de Vendôme. She had three brothers and three sisters. These were: James II, Count of La Marche, Louis, Count of Vendôme, Jean de Bourbon, Seigneur de Carency and de Duisant, Anne, Countess of Montpensier, Marie de Bourbon, Dame de Bréhencourt, and Isabelle de Bourbon. She also had an illegitimate half-brother by her father's relationship with a mistress. Charlotte's paternal grandparents were James I, Count of La Marche and Jeanne de Châtillon, and her maternal gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Consort Of Cyprus ...
Empress and Despoina ''in'' Cyprus :''Byzantine titles did not have any territorial qualification, so there were no Emperors or Despots'' of ''Cyprus''. Consort of Cyprus See also *List of Latin Empresses *Princess of Antioch Notes Sources {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Cypriot Consorts Cyprus House of Lusignan Cyprus Royal consorts A royal consort is a person of either sex who has an official status through an intimate relationship, often through marriage or concubinage, with a monarch. The term ''consort'' was thereafter extended to encompass similar relationships with othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helvis Of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1353 – 15 January 1421) was the queen consort of Cyprus and titular queen consort of Armenia as the wife of King James I of Cyprus. She was styled Queen of Cyprus from 1382 to 1398; although at the time of his ascension to the Cypriot throne, she and James were imprisoned in Genoa after they had been captured by the Genoese on the island of Rhodes. Almost all of Helvis 11 children were born to her while she was held prisoner. In 1385, after negotiations and many ruinous concessions to the Genoese, they were released and James was crowned king. In 1393, she became Queen of Armenia. Family Helvis was born in 1353, the eldest child and only daughter of Philip of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, Constable of Jerusalem (son of Henry II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen), and Helvis de Dampierre, daughter of Eudes de Dampierre and Isabelle de Lusignan. Through both her parents, she was a remote descendant of the celebrated Crusader John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was the duke of Duchy of Milan, Milan from 1412 to 1447. Reports stated that he was "paranoid", but "shrewd as a ruler." He went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Republic of Florence, Florence, and Republic of Venice, Venice in the Wars in Lombardy but was eventually forced to surrender under Pope Martin V. He would return to war again, where another peace agreement was required to stop the war. He married twice and his second wife was Marie of Savoy, Duchess of Milan, Marie, whom he married in 1428. Marie was the daughter of his ally Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Amadeus VIII. When he died, Fillippo was the last of the Visconti male line and was succeeded by Francesco I Sforza, Francesco Sforza, husband to his natural daughter Bianca Maria Visconti, birth by his mistress Agnese del Maino. Biography In 1402, when Filippo Maria was ten years old, his father died from plague, and his brother, 14-year-old Gian Maria, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zone 5 Of Milan
Zone, Zones or The Zone may refer to: Places Military zones * Zone, any of the divisions of France during the World War II German occupation * Zone, any of the divisions of Germany during the post-World War II Allied occupation * Korean Demilitarized Zone Place names * Zone (colony) (Ζώνη), an ancient Greek city * Zone, Lombardy, a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia * Zones of Nepal, any of several administrative divisions * Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones * Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("The Zone") a June/July 2020 occupation protest site in Seattle, Washington * List of zones of Ethiopia, any of several administrative divisions * The Zone (''die Zone'' in German), a derogatory term for the former East Germany * Zone of alienation ("The Zone"), the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl disaster site Apparel * Zone (vestment), a belt worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church * Zone, a girdle worn by a woman around the waist Arts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Visconti, Queen Of Cyprus
''For the Duchess of Orleans, see Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans.'' Valentina Visconti (ca. 1357 – before September 1393) was Queen consort of Cyprus and titular Queen consort of Jerusalem by marriage to Peter II of Cyprus. She was the daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. Life Valentina was born in Milan and was the eleventh of seventeen children of Bernabo Visconti and Beatrice Regina della Scala. Queen of Cyprus In 1363, King Peter I of Cyprus was visiting Milan, Valentina's father Bernabò promised Peter that his daughter would marry Peter's son the future Peter II of Cyprus. The first choice of Peter's marriage would have been to a daughter of John V Palaiologos; this suggestion was rejected for political reasons, since the Latins did not encourage the marriage of Peter to a Greek princess. The justification that was given to the Palaiologos messengers was that the king was busy with the dangers that threatened Cyprus because of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter II Of Cyprus
Peter II (1354 or 1357 – 13 October 1382), called the Fat (), was the eleventh King of Cyprus of the House of Lusignan from 17 January 1369 until his death.Peter W. Edbury: The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades 1191–1374. Cambridge University Press, 1994, He was the son of Peter I of Cyprus and Eleanor of Aragon. He succeeded to the throne while he was still under age, following the assassination of his father in 1369. He was also titular Count of Tripoli and King of Jerusalem. Biography Family He was married by proxy in Milan on 2 April 1376, and in person at Santa Sophia, Nicosia, either in July or August 1378. His wife was Valenza or Valentina Visconti (Milan, 1360/1362 – in Italy, ca. 1393 before September, 1393), a daughter of Bernabò Visconti, co-lord of Milan, and his wife, Beatrice della Scala. Peter II had one daughter by Valentina in 1379 or 1380, but the child died as an infant in Nicosia sometime not long before 3 October 1382, and was buried at St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janus Of Cyprus
Janus (1375 – 29 June 1432) was King of Cyprus and titular King of Armenian Cilicia and King of Jerusalem, Jerusalem from 1398 to 1432. Early life Janus was born in Genoa, where his father, James I of Cyprus, was a captive. His mother, Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, named him in honor of the god Janus, the founder of Genoa according to mythological tradition. When his father was elected king, he negotiated an agreement with the Genoese to release him to go to Cyprus, which he signed on 2 February 1383. Under that agreement, the Genoese were given new commercial privileges. However, the Genoese demanded that his father leave his son Janus in their city as a hostage. James sent a noble to Genoa, John Babin, to act as stepfather to his son. As the Cypriot historian Leontios Makhairas writes, James ordered a special tax which required the Cypriots—both nobles and commoners—to purchase an amount of salt in order to collect the money needed to release his son from Genoese c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
