Rafael del Riego y Flórez was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of the Liberal Triennium.
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Ferdinand I (Spanish: Fernando I) 1503-1564 Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, king of Bohemia and Royal Hungary from 1526, … He was Archduke of Austria from 1521 to 1564.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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Margaret Theresa of Spain 1651-1673
Margaret Theresa of Spain was, by marriage to Leopold I, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and the elder full-sister of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, and the subject of many of his later paintings.
Size 6 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
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Girolamo Caraffa 1564-1633
Girolamo Carafa (or Caraffa), Marquis of Montenegro (Abruzzo, 1564 – Genoa, 1633) was a general in Spanish and Imperial service from Italian descent. Girolamo was born in the noble Neapolitan Carafa family. His parents were Rainaldo Carafa and Portia Carracciola, daughter of the Duke of Sicignano.
Size 11 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Alfonso II 1157-1196
Alfonso II called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death.:
Size 4 x 7 cms
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Ferdinand Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua 1587-1626
Born in Mantua, he was the son of Vincenzo I and Eleonora de’ Medici.
Succeeded his brother in both the Duchy of Mantua and the Duchy of Montferrat. In 1616 he secretly married Camilla Faà di Bruno, whom he divorced in the same year. Their son Francesco Giacinto Teodoro Giovanni Gonzaga, although accepted at court, was not made Ferdinando’s heir. He died of the plague at the age of 14, during the 1630 siege of Mantua. On 16 February 1617 Ferdinando married Caterina de’ Medici (1593–1629), the daughter of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Size 16 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria 1609–1641
Spanish and Portuguese prince, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo, and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 10.5 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Pelagius of Asturias 685-737
Pelagius was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias, ruling it from 718 until his death. Through his victory at the Battle of Covadonga, he is credited with beginning the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors.
Size 6.5 x 10.5 cms
Price £14.00
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