People

1510–1537

Alessandro de’ Medici was the first hereditary duke of Florence, ruling from 1532 to 1537 under imperial and Medici protection. His authoritarian government ended when his […]

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born 41 BCE

Alexander Helios was a son of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII and the twin brother of Cleopatra Selene II. At the Donations of Alexandria in 34 […]

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1818–1881

Alexander II was emperor of Russia from 1855 to 1881 and is best known for the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He also introduced judicial, […]

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c. 5th century BCE–331 BCE

Alexander of Lyncestis was a Macedonian nobleman from the ruling family of Lyncestis and a contemporary of Alexander the Great. Two of his brothers were executed […]

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1872–1918

Born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandra married Nicholas II in 1894 and became empress of Russia. She was the mother of four daughters […]

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1802–1870

Alexandre Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist whose adventure fiction made him one of the most widely read writers of the nineteenth century. Works such […]

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1904–1918

Alexei Nikolaevich was the youngest child and only son of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. As tsarevich he was heir to the Russian throne, but he […]

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Alexios IV Angelos was a Byzantine prince who became co-emperor in 1203 after persuading leaders of the Fourth Crusade to restore his blinded father, Isaac II […]

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Alfonso VIII ruled Castile from 1158 to 1214 and spent much of his reign contesting territory with neighbouring Christian kingdoms and the Almohad rulers of al-Andalus. […]

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Alice Perrers is represented in the linked historical fiction through court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of […]

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