Władysław Łokietek in the painting by Jan Matejko. Władysław the Short (-1333) The prince and king of Poland from the Piast dynasty. He was born as a son of the district prince Kazimierz I of Kuyavia, from whom in 1267 he inherited Kujawy Brzeg and Dobrzyń. Initially, the power on his behalf w
Count of the March of Brittany, Roland would be the nephew of Charlemagne. In 778, in Roncesvalles, after a campaign against the Muslims of Spain, Rolands rearguard was massacred by a detachment of Gascons (Basques). This famous event inspired La Chanson de Roland where the Gascons became Muslims. H
Aspasia, born in Miletus (Asia Minor) in 470 and died in 400 BC, was a learned Greek courtesan who won the respect of the great men of her time. A hetaera Aspasia is the daughter of Axiochos, of whom little is known, and probably belongs to the family of Alcibiades . She probably belonged to a wea
Sei Shōn agon (circa 965 – after 1013) is a great Japanese writer, author of one of a masterpiece of Japanese and world literature, the Bedside Notes . Poets daughter Sei Shōnagon was born around 965 into the Kiyohara clan, a powerful family in the Tōhoku region in the northeast from the island