Category: History - European
‘_Ave, Roma Immortalis!_’, ‘_Hail, Immortal Rome!_’ This cry, breaking from the lips of a race that had carried the imperial eagles from the northern shores of Europe to Asia and Africa, was no mere patriotic catchword. It was the expression of a belief that, though humanity m...
‘_Ave, Roma Immortalis!_’, ‘_Hail, Immortal Rome!_’ This cry, breaking from the lips of a race that had carried the imperial eagles from the northern shores of Europe to Asia an...
2. PART I. THE FALL OF THE GREEK EMPIREThe final failure of Christendom to preserve Eastern Europe from the infidel may be traced back to the disastrous Fourth Crusade[48] in the thirteenth century, when Venice, for...
3. PART II. VOYAGE AND DISCOVERYAll through the Middle Ages it had been to the cities of the Mediterranean, first of all to Amalfi and Pisa, then to Marseilles, Barcelona, Genoa, and Venice, that Europe had tu...
4. d. 1309| +---------------+--+------------+-----------+ | | | | CHARLES MARTEL ROBERT JOHN MARGARET = CHARLES | King of of Durazzo of Valois | Naples | [See Table IV for | | | House of...
5. d. 1417| +---------------+-------------------++--------+ | | | | LOUIS III RÉNÉ LE BON* CHARLES MARY = CHARLES VII d. 1434 d.1480 Duke of | of France | Maine | | | | YOLANDE = FREDERIC...
6. d. 12967. d. 1477 King of the Romans[28] The province of Dauphiné, formerly an imperial fief, was acquired by the French crown in 1349, and became a regular ‘appanage’ of the King’s eldest son, conferring on him t...