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A mid-15th century CE illustration of Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376 CE) dressed as a knight of the Order of the Garter. From the Garter Book by William Bruge. (British Library, London)

A painting titled Valkyrie's Vigil created by the painter Edward Robert Hughes before 1915. Valkyries were key figures in various Norse sagas that were present in Prose Edda, the Heimskringla and the Njáls Saga. They were maidens whose role...

Woodcut of a manticore from Edward Topsell's The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes (1607).

Edward the Confessor (r. 1042-1066 CE) with Harold Godwinson (left), from the Bayeux Tapestry (1067-1079 CE). (Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France)

A portrait of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), one of the Members of Parliament instrumental in the drawing up of the 1628 Petition of Right which sought to curb the powers of Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649).

Edward G. Walker (sometimes given as Edwin G. Walker, l. 1830-1901), son of abolitionist David Walker, one of the first two Black men elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature.

An illustration showing the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Low, marooned by his crew in 1724. Low was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). (National Maritime...

A 1779 oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds of the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Private Collection)

A late-19th century cigarette card showing the notorious English pirate Edward Low who was active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic from 1721 to 1724 during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730). Low was known for his acts of cruelty on...

An 18th-century engraving showing the pirate Edward England and his ship Fancy attacking the East India Company ship Cassandra in 1720.