Search Results: Catherine of Aragon

A 19th century CE illustration depicting Catherine of Valois (l. 1401 - c. 1437 CE). Catherine was the wife of Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422 CE) and mother of Henry VI of England (r. 1422-61 & 1470-71 CE). She also later married the Welsh...

The Dissolution of the Monasteries was a policy introduced in 1536 CE by Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) to close down and confiscate the lands and wealth of all monasteries in England and Wales. The plan was designed as a lucrative...

Portrait of the Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna (the future Catherine the Great) around the time of her wedding, oil on canvas by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1745. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Scanned by Mrlopez2681 from the Sept...

Catherine the Great in the guise of Minerva, marble statue by Fedot Shubin, 1789-1790. Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on the 28th of June, 1762, the day of the coup, watercolour by an unknown artist based on the original painting of Joachim H. Kaestner. Late 18th or early 19th century. State Hermitage Museum...

The throne of Empress Catherine II The Great (1729-1796). State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), oil on canvas portrait by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, depicting St. Catherine of Siena wearing a crown of thorns, c. 1746. The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Margaret of Valois' eyewitness account of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre is among the most famous and the only written record of the event left by a member of the royal family of France at the time. Her account appears in her memoirs as Letter...

Catherine de' Medici from the powerful Italian family married the future King Henry II of France at 13. When he was impaled through the eye during a joust Catherine ruled France as regent for three of her sons during civil and religious wars...

St. Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt. It was founded by Justinian I in the mid-6th century CE.