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Also Known As Richard, Earl of Cornwall
Born January 6, 1209 • Winchester • England
Died April 2, 1272 (aged 63) • Berkhamsted • England
Title / Office emperor (1257-1272), Holy Roman Empire
House / Dynasty house of Plantagenet
duke of Monmouth
James Scott, duke of Monmouth
English noble
Matilda
Matilda
consort of Holy Roman emperor Henry V
Alexis Simon Belle: James Edward, the Old Pretender
James Edward, the Old Pretender
claimant to English and Scottish thrones
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Edmund Mortimer, 5th earl of March
English noble
Arabella Stuart, painting possibly by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1605; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Arabella Stuart
English noble
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Lambert Simnel
English pretender
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
queen of Scotland
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Charles VI
Holy Roman emperor
Darnley, detail of an engraving by R. Elstrack
Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
British lord
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Perkin Warbeck
English pretender
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Isabella Clara Eugenia, archduchess of Austria
archduchess of Austria
Günther von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, detail from his tomb sculpture, c. 1349; in the cathedral at Frankfurt am Main
Günther
king of Germany
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William
king of Germany
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Ferdinand IV
king of Bohemia
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Beatrice Webb
British economist
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Sidney Webb
British economist
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]
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Priscilla Alden
English colonist
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Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman

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