Sundry Great Gentlemen: Some Essays in Historical Biography

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Bowen Marjorie. Sundry Great Gentlemen: Some Essays in Historical Biography

Sundry Great Gentlemen: Some Essays in Historical Biography

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PREFACE

FREDERIC II OF HOHENSTAUFEN (1194-1250)

EMPEROR OF THE WEST, KING OF SICILY AND JERUSALEM

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

LOUIS II D'ORLÉANS (1462-1515)

KING OF FRANCE (LOUIS XII)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

DOM SEBASTIÃO(1554-1578)

KING OF PORTUGAL AND ALGARVE

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS II (1594-1632)

ELECTED KING OF SWEDEN, OF THE GOTHS AND VANDALS

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CARLOS II OF SPAIN. 1661-1700

KING OF SPAIN, OF JERUSALEM, NAPLES, SICILY AND SARDINIA, THE NEW WORLD (EAST AND WEST INDIES AND OCEANIA), ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA, DUKE OF LUXEMBURG, OF MILAN, COUNT OF HAPSBURG, OF FLANDERS, TYROL AND BARCELONA, MARQUESS OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, OVER-LORD OF ASIA AND AFRICA

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MAURICE DE SAXE. 1696-1750

MARÉSHAL GÉNÉRAL DE FRANCE. GOVERNOR OF ALSACE, DUKE ELECT OF COURLAND AND SEMIGALLIA, KNIGHT OF THE ORDERS OF POLAND AND SAXONY

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Marjorie Bowen

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Never again was the throne of Carolus Magnus to be occupied by one who filled it with such spacious dignity, never again was the confused heritage of the Caesars to be held together by a man of such superb genius and such grandeur of character.

Frederic remains not an Emperor, but the Emperor, the only Prince of a long succession of Princes who was able even slightly to justify the supreme arrogance of the claim of universal dominion.

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