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Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria Prince 1573-1651

Maximilian I, occasionally called “the Great”, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years’ War during which he obtained the title of a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg
Artist: N.Le Cleve
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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983

Leopold I. Holy Roman Emperor 1640-1705

Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV
Date:
Size 20 x 31 cms
Price £28.00

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982

Stephen I of Hungary 975-1038

Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen, was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first King of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038. The year of his birth is uncertain, but many details of his life suggest that he was born in or after 975 in Esztergom.
Artist: Matthias van Sommern fl.1643-1672
Date:
Size 14 x 22 cms
Price £28.00

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976

Albert II, Duke of Austria 1298-1358

Albert II, known as the Wise (Sapiens) or the Lame, a member of the House of Habsburg, was duke of Austria and Styria from 1330, as well as duke of Carinthia and margrave of Carniola from 1335 until his death
Artist: Matthias van Sommern
Date:
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00

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974

Charles II King of Hungary 1345-1386

Charles the Short or Charles of Durazzo was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and King of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II. In 1381, Charles created the chivalric Order of the Ship. In 1383, he succeeded to the Principality of Achaea on the death of James of Baux.
Size 15 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

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George I, King of England 1660-1727

George I was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
Size 7.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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963

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792

British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. Former First Lord of the Admiralty
Artist: Schmidt
Date:1787
Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG 1586-1646

Prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician.
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00

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