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
Price £28.00
Ref:2587
Odoardo Farnese Duke of Parma 1612-1646
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.
Date:
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2586
Louis de Bourbon 1604-1641 Count of Soissons.
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
Price £28.00
Ref:2585
Albert II, King of Germany 1397-1439
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
Price £28.00
Ref:2584
Pierre de Gondi, 1533-1616. Cardinal, Bishop of Paris
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
Ref:2583
Antonius Augustinus 1517-1586 Archbishop of Tarragona
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
Price £28.00
Ref:2582
Pope Benedict XIII, 1649-1730
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
Ref:2581
Luigi Guglielmo Riedl 1832
J.R. Consgliere di Commissione Aulica
Subject nationality: Italian
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Felice Luliani
Date:1832
Size 17.5 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2580
Michael Adolf von Althann 1574–1638
Michael Adolf von Althann, alternatively written Altheimb, Austrian military commander and diplomat. He particularly 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.
Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2579
Karl von Mansfeld 1543-1595
Karl von Mansfeld was a German general during the Cologne War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. Von Mansfeld was the son of Count Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, born in present-day Luxembourg, and was educated in France.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2578