A member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria and Styria from 1330, as well as Duke of Carinthia from 1335 until his death. He ruled jointly with his elder brother Duke Albert II.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2887
Siegfried Freiherr von Breuner 1538-1594
Seyfried (Siegfried) von Breuner ( 1538 – 27 June 1594 in Vienna ) was an Austrian nobleman from the Breuner family and a Lower Austrian civil servant
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Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2886
Michael Adolf von Althann 1574–1638
Distinguished himself in the Long Turkish War, at Székesfehérvár and Esztergom. At the end of the war he was appointed field marshal. On 14 June 1610 he was made an Imperial Count. He was later sent on diplomatic missions to the Principality of Transylvania and the Sublime Porte. In 1625 he became the first grand master of the short-lived order of knighthood Militia Christiana, of which he was a founder. He died in Vienna on 7 May 1636.
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2882
Peter Strozzi 1626-1664
Habsburg Army general of Italian descent, killed by the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Novi Zrin Castle in Medjimurje County, Croatia
Date:1646
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2881
György Orossy 1650
Chief Justice of Hungary to Ferdinand III and royal councillor (1650–1665)
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2880
John George III, Elector of Saxony 1647-1691
Johann Georg III was born in Dresden, the only son of Johann George II and Magdalene Sybille of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
John George succeeded his father as elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680; he was also appointed Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire. Because of his courage and his enthusiasm for the War he gained the nickname of the “Saxonian Mars”.
Size 6 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2877
Frederick III, 1415-1493 Holy Roman Emperor
Prior to his imperial coronation, he was duke of the Inner Austrian lands of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1424, and also acted as regent over the Duchy of Austria from 1439. He was elected and crowned King of Germany in 1440.[1] His reign of 53 years is the longest in the history of the Holy Roman Empire or the German monarchy. Upon his death in 1493 he was succeeded by his son Maximilian.
Size 23 x 36 cms
Price £55.00
Ref:2876
Louis XVI, 1754-1793 Flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes ( Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King wished to initiate a counter-revolution by joining up with royalist troops. They escaped as far as the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne, where they were arrested after being recognized at their previous stop in Sainte-Menehould.
Size 16 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:2875
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma 1524-1586
Born in Valentano, Ottavio was the second son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (eldest son of Pope Paul III) by his wife Gerolama Orsini. Ottavio’s brother was Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2872
Rudolf von Dietrichstein 1603-1649
Son of Baron Bartholomäus von Dietrichstein zu Hollenburg and Elisabeth Freiin von Franking, Heiress von Riedau
Husband of Elisabeth von Dietrichstein and Susanna Margareth von Dietrichstein
Brother of Gottfried von Dietrichstein; Sigmund Georg von Dietrichstein; Anna Sabina Countess of Starhemberg; Friedrich von Dietrichstein-Hollenburg; Maria Elisabeth von Dietrichstein
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2869