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Simone de Gieri Gondi 1351

The Florentine banking family of the Gondi were prominent financial partners of the Medici. Simone de Gieri Gondi held extensive lands around Valcava, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, where the church of S. Cresci, and a chapel which belonged to the Gondi (S. Margherita, formerly S. Martino) bore the Gondi arms. Simone de Gieri had seven children, one of whom was Silvestro Gondi whose son Simone de Silvestro Gondi was the first of the Gondi to be the Grand Prior of the Republic of Florence.
Date:1351
Size 15.5 x 24.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1175-1218

Otto IV was one of two rival kings of Germany from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until he was forced to abdicate in 1215. The only German king of the Welf dynasty, he incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent III and was excommunicated in 1210.
Size 16 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg 1638-1701

Military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city’s defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat.
Date:1683
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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Pope Alexander VIII 1610-1691

Pope Alexander VIII, born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 6 October 1689 to his death in 1691. He is to date the last pope to take the pontifical name of “Alexander” upon his election to the papacy.
Artist: Sysang
Date:1689
Size 12.5 x 17 cms
Price £14.00

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500-1558

Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519, King of Spain from 1516, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506.
Artist: F. Mehlsc
Date:
Size 10 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Jacob II van Wassenaer Obdam 1645–1714

Dutch general in the War of the Spanish Succession. He was born in Heusden, the son of the famous Dutch Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam. On May 19, 1676 at Delden he married Adriana Sophia van Raesfelt.
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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Henry de Lorraine Duc de Guise 1550-1588

Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré, was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France.
Size 12 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Matthias, Archduke of Austria. 1557-1619

Matthias of Austria was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 and King of Bohemia from 1611. He was a member of the House of Habsburg
Subject gender: Male
Artist: J. Sielbmar
Date:
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Charles, Duke of Mayenne 1554-1611

Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.
Size 12 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503-1564

Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, king of Bohemia and Royal Hungary from 1526, and king of Croatia from 1527 until his death in 1564. Before his accession, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Size 13 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1229