Johann Boemus was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Cathedral, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe. His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520.
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Maximilian II also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements.
He was born in Munich to Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d.1676). His maternal grandparents were Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and Christine of France, daughter of King Henry IV of France.
Artist: Priuilegio
Date:1662
Size 13.5 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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Paul von Rusdorf was the 29th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1422 to 1441. The Treaty of Melno was one of von Rusdorf’s first acts; it brought stability to the Order and its relations, but fighting resumed in 1431 with the Polish-Teutonic War. Johannes von Baysen was one of his ambassadors
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Date:1436
Size 15 x 25 cms
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Subject nationality: German
Subject gender: Male
Artist: J.A.Kappeller
Date:1800
Size 11 x 14 cms
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Eleonore was born in Düsseldorf, Holy Roman Empire, on the night of 6 January 1655. She was the oldest of 17 children born from Philip William, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich-Berg and his second wife, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. On her father’s side her grandparents were Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and his first wife, Magdalene of Bavaria. On her mother’s side, her grandparents were George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Sophia Eleonore of Saxony.
Size 9 x 15 cms
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Albert I of Habsburg, the eldest son of King Rudolf I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg, was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination.
Artist: J.Blaschke
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Size 8 x 14.5 cms
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Karl Philipp Josef, Prince von Wrede was a Bavarian field marshal. He was an ally of Napoleonic France until he negotiated the Treaty of Ried with Austria in 1813. Thereafter Bavaria joined the coalition.
Size 17 x 26 cms
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Wilhelm von Baden-Baden was born 30 July 1593 in Baden, Germany to Eduard Fortunat von Baden-Baden (1565-1600) and Marie van Eicken (c1570-1636) and died 22 May 1677 in Baden,
Size 10 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector (Kurfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire
Size 17.5 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
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Holy Roman empress, queen of Bohemia, and electress of Bavaria among many other titles as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII. By birth, she was an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Emperor Joseph I. One of her children was Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.
Size 14 x 8.5 cms
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