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5 days ago · Napoleon II grew up in the Austrian court as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt. He was never really trusted and conveniently died relatively young (tuberculosis). In 1940, his remains were transferred from Vienna to Paris on the orders of Hitler for some ill-conceived plan to encourage French collaboration.
4 days ago · Otto Gessler. Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918.
5 days ago · Josephine de Beauharnais: Marie-Josephe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife and the only woman that he claimed to love was Joséphine de Beauharnais. Her real name was Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, and she was called Rose by her family. Joséphine was Napoleon's name for her, and she adopted it as he reached ...
1 day ago · Mother. Cecily Neville. Signature. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England .
1 day ago · Germany - Hohenstaufen, Empire, Reunification: The nearest kinsmen of Henry V were his Hohenstaufen nephews—Frederick, duke of Swabia, and his younger brother Conrad—the sons of Henry’s sister Agnes and Frederick, the first Hohenstaufen duke of Swabia.
3 days ago · In southern Germany the dissolution of the Hohenstaufen duchy of Swabia gave territorial predominance to the Habsburgs, whose original possessions were scattered across Alsace, Breisgau, the Vorarlberg, and Tirol.
3 days ago · The Duke of Reichstadt, 1811-1832. Illustration for Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks, by Ernst Benkard (WW Norton, 1929). Book originally appeared in Germany in 1927.
