The youngest and most enterprising son of Clotaire. On the death of his father, he leads Neustria and tries to seize the treasure of Paris. He marries Galswinthe, one of the daughters of the Visigoth king (sister of Brunehaut). But maintaining an affair with Frédégonde, the two lovers decide to suff
Eclipsed in the collective memory by Liane de Pougy, Caroline Otéro or Cléo de Mérode, Lina Cavalieri began her career as a singer at the café-concert, before becoming a soprano at the Opera. Celebrated as one of the most perfect beauties of the demi-monde, the diva seduces four husbands and countle
Prince of one of the oldest families in Poitou. Around the age of 14, he was sent as a page to the court of Louis XI. Well placed at the court of France, he appears as one of the familiars of the regent of Anne de Beaujeu. He participated in the States-General of Tours and entered the royal council.
Katarzyna Habsburżanka (photo:public domain) Katarzyna Habsburżanka (1533-1572) Daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I and Anna Jagiellon, wife of Zygmunt August. Catherine was born in 1533 in Vienna. At sixteen she married the Duke of Mantua, Francis III. Just a few months after her wedding, in 1550