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1 day ago · Signature. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; [1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
3 days ago · Germany - Saxons, Unification, Charlemagne: Conrad I was quite unequal to the situation in Germany. According to the beliefs of contemporaries, his failure meant that his house was luckless and lacked the prosperity-bringing virtues that belonged to true kingship. He also had no heir.
3 days ago · In it Gertrude describes her transformation as so real she was able to overcome all resistance within herself and surrender unconditionally to God’s love. Gertrude had a special devotion to the holy souls in purgatory. At every Communion she asked God for mercy upon them.
4 days ago · Daughter of Bernard II, duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt. Wife of Floris I, count of Masaland, Kinhem and Texla and Robert I, Count of Flanders. Mother of Adele van Holland, Countess of Holland; Dirk V Count of Holland and Count of Maasland, Kinhem & Texla; Pieter van Holland; Floris van Holland; Bertha of Holland and 7 others.
1 day ago · Instead of Frederick, they chose the duke of Saxony, Lothar of Supplinburg (reigned as King Lothar III in 1125–37 and as Emperor Lothar II in 1133–37). Like the Hohenstaufen, he had risen through a lucky marriage and continuous combat into the first rank of dynasts; but, unlike them, he had served the cause of the Saxon opposition to the ...
2 days ago · The Saxons came from what Bede called Old Saxony, and settled in Wessex, Sussex and Essex. Jutland, the peninsula containing part of Denmark, was the homeland of the Jutes who settled in Kent and the Isle of Wight.
4 days ago · Poland - Augustus II, Baroque, Enlightenment: A personal union with Saxony, where Augustus II was a strong ruler, seemed at first to offer some advantages to Poland. A king with a power base of his own might reform the Commonwealth, which was still a huge state and potentially a great power.
