Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, was the daughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and the mother of Lady Jane Grey. Through this royal descent her […]
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Francisco de Miranda
1 bookFrancisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan soldier, traveller and revolutionary whose career connected the American, French and Spanish Atlantic worlds. He served in the Spanish army, […]
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros was a Spanish cardinal, reformer and statesman under the Catholic Monarchs. He served as confessor to Isabella I, promoted church reform and […]
Francisco Tenamaztle
1 bookFrancisco Tenamaztle was an Indigenous Caxcan leader who became one of the principal commanders of the Mixtón War against Spanish rule in New Galicia. After years […]
Francis Knollys
1 bookFrancis Knollys was an English courtier and committed Protestant who married Catherine Carey, a cousin of Elizabeth I. The family lived in exile during Mary I’s […]
Francis Marion
1 bookFrancis Marion (c. 1732–1795), widely known as the “Swamp Fox”, was a South Carolina planter, militia commander and politician who became one of the most celebrated […]
Francis McLean
1 bookFrancis McLean was a British army officer who served in continental Europe, the Caribbean, Portugal and North America. During the American Revolution he commanded British forces […]
Francis Weston
1 bookFrancis Weston was a gentleman of Henry VIII’s privy chamber and a member of the fashionable circle around Anne Boleyn. In May 1536 he was arrested […]
Frank Lloyd Wright
1 bookFranz Joseph I of Austria
1 bookFranz Joseph I was emperor of Austria from 1848 and king of Hungary after the creation of Austria-Hungary in 1867. His long reign encompassed revolution, military […]