People

1527–1608

Bess of Hardwick was an English noblewoman who rose from the gentry to become one of the wealthiest women of Elizabethan England. Through marriage, estate management […]

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Bilhah was a woman in Genesis who bears children to Jacob on behalf of Rachel. She becomes the mother of Dan and Naphtali, placing her within […]

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1342–1368

Blanche of Lancaster was the daughter and co-heiress of Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster, and the first wife of John of Gaunt. Their marriage brought […]

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1155–c. 13th century

Blondel de Nesle was a French trouvère and nobleman traditionally associated with the legend of Richard the Lionheart’s captivity. Although the famous rescue story is later […]

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Boethius was a Roman statesman and philosopher active under the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Imprisoned and executed after accusations of treason, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, […]

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Brilliana, Lady Harley is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and court politics and dynastic power. […]

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c. 12th century–1172

Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd was a twelfth-century Welsh prince, the son of Gruffudd ap Cynan and the younger brother of Owain Gwynedd. He held lands in Ceredigion […]

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Cadwallon ap Cadfan was king of Gwynedd and a major opponent of Northumbrian expansion in the early seventh century. Allied with Penda of Mercia, he defeated […]

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1644–c. 1660s

Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck was a Wampanoag scholar and the first Native American known to graduate from Harvard College. Educated at the seventeenth-century Indian College, his life reflects […]

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died 293

Carausius was a Roman naval commander who ruled Britain and northern Gaul as an independent emperor from 286 to 293. His breakaway regime created a short-lived […]

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