Count Johann von Werth , also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years’ War
Size 8 x 13 cms
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Count Johann von Werth , also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years’ War
Size 8 x 13 cms
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Charles Thomas was the only son of Charles Henri of Lorraine, prince of Vaudémont and Commerce and Anne Élisabeth de Lorraine, and a grandson of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. His father used the style of prince de Vaudémont, although he held no corresponding territory, until 1708 when he received the allodial territory of Commerce from Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. Henceforth, the father reigned there as the Prince of Commerce, while Charles Thomas was styled the prince of Vaudémont.
Size 8 x 14 cms
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Son of Rodrigo de Orozco, lord of Leveche and Cerniago, who went to Italy with the army of the Count of Fuentes at the beginning of the 17th century, and who received the title of Marquis of Mortara from Philip III. His mother was Victoria de Portia, daughter of the Count of Portia. He married Isabel Manrique de Lara, and they had as a son Juan Antonio de Orozco and Manrique de Lara, who succeeded him.
Artist: Simone Durello
Date:1668
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Philip was the youngest son of Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582–1632) and Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1603–1657). He began his military career in the army of the Duchy of Lorraine.
Size 13 x 17 cms
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Odoardo Farnese, also known as Odoardo I Farnese to distinguish him from his grandson Odoardo II Farnese, was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1622 to 1646.
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Size 17 x 28 cms
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons (May 1604 – 6 July 1641) was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and his wife, Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. A second cousin of Louis XIII of France he was a prince du Sang, those considered part of the royal family. Part of the faction who opposed Cardinal Richelieu and his policy of war with Spain, he was killed leading a revolt at the Battle of La Marfée in 1641.
Size 12 x 15 cms
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Albert II was King of Germany from 1438 to 1439. A member of the House of Habsburg, he became Duke of Austria by inheritance. Following the death of his father-in-law, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Albert became King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia and gained a claim to the Duchy of Luxembourg
Date:1438
Size 13 x 17.5 cms
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Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
Artist: Claude Duflos
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Antonio Agustín y Albanell , also referred to as Augustinus, was a Spanish Humanist historian, jurist and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona who pioneered the historical research of the sources of canon law.
Size 12 x 16 cms
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Pope Benedict XIII, born Pietro Francesco Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his death in February 1730. A Dominican friar, Orsini focused on his religious responsibilities as bishop rather than on papal administration.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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