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 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
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
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, 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
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, 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 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
Ruprecht von Eggenberg was an Austrian colonel-general from the Duchy of Styria in Inner Austria, part of the Holy Roman Empire. He was a member of the Eggenberger family and cousin of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg.
Date:1611
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2577
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 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2576