French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concentrate on ascertaining the correct text and social context of the original works of Roman law.
Size 10 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:917
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.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:914
Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, 1st Count of Mertola, KG PC was a Marshal of France and a General in the English and Portuguese Army. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:913
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675;
Size 6.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:912
Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf, was a French nobleman, the son of Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf, by his wife, Marguerite de Chabot. He succeeded his father in the Elbeuf dukedom in 1605.
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:911
Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:910
Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Emperor Leopold I from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg. Joseph was crowned King of Hungary at the age of nine in 1687 and King in Germany at the age of eleven in 1690.
Date:1705
Size 7.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:909
Italian jurist and genealogist, born in Florence in 1547. In 1576 he was in the service of Cardinal-Archduke Andreas of Austria. In 1585 he converted to Lutheranism and spent the rest of his life in the Protestant Imperial City of Kempten, where he died in 1626. His most famous work was Principum Christianorum Stemmata
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:908
Member of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria, the son of Emperor Ferdinand I, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Her elder brother Archduke Ferdinand, succeeded as Holy Roman Emperor in 1619
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:907
Charles Louis, Elector Palatine KG was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the “Winter King” of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charles I of England.
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:905