Under the Empire, his friendship with Moreau earned him the suspicion of the Emperor, who gave him command important that from 1805, present in many battles, he was a good rider, wounded during Friedland and at the Moskva. He gets angry with the Emperor preferring to command infantry rather than cav
Son of Pépin de Landen, Grimoald is ambitious and once Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, he wins the confidence of King Sigebert III. He had his son adopted by the king under the royal name of Childebert. But Sigebert III obtains an heir from his Irish wife. Grimoald then imprisoned the young Dagobe
Natural son of Charles Martel, he opposes Carloman and Pépin who received the kingdom in his place. Imprisoned in Neufchâteau, he escapes thanks to the complicity of his sister. He took refuge in Aquitaine alongside Duke Hunald. Defeated, Griffon will take refuge in Saxony before laying down his arm
French sailor. Wing commander in 1779, he participated in the American Revolutionary War, contributing to the victory at Yorktown in 1781. This success made him named lieutenant general. But he was defeated and taken prisoner in 1782 near Dominica.
He distinguished himself during the Revolution, he replaced Hoche in the Army of the Rhine and Masséna in Italy. He went to assist Lucien Bonaparte in Spain in 1801. He was a good tactician, but during the Hundred Days, he sided with the Bourbons. Subsequently, he obtained the Navy and War portfolio
On the death of Clotaire I, Gontran received the former kingdom of Burgundians (Burgundy), he supported first his brother Sigebert facing Chilpéric, but falls out with him and suddenly takes Chilpérics side. On the death of Chilpéric, Gontran gets closer to his nephew Childebert II (son of Sigebert)
Duke of Lower Lorraine and Lothier, attorney of the Holy Sepulchre. He decided to cross in 1095 and he left in August 1096 with his brothers Eustache and Baudouin and ten thousand crusaders from the regions of the Meuse and the Rhine. Arriving in Constantinople in December 1096, he paid homage to th
Grand-nephew of Constable Bertrand du Guesclin, Gilles de Rais is certainly the most troubling of Jeanne d Bow. He gets the marshals baton after Patays landslide victory. He retired to his lands after the failure of Paris, it was there that he committed his crimes. He is accused of having raped, tor
Gerbert became the first French pope in 999 under the name of Sylvester II. Gerbert is also a great scholar and a major political actor. His life is known to us through his numerous letters. He discovered the quadrivium, the four sciences of the time:arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. His sc
Daughter of Didier, King of the Lombards, Gerberge married Carloman with a view to an alliance between the two peoples. But on the death of Carloman, Charlemagne dismisses the inheritance of his nephews and seizes the kingdom. Gerberge then fled with her children to her fathers home in Pavia. The Fr
Gauthier-sans-Avoir is the lord of Poissy. As his name suggests, this knight has no great seigniorial duties, which pushes him to participate in the crusades. He led part of the popular crusade which was massacred before reaching Constantinople. Most of his companions were killed before reaching Byz
Duke of Nemours, Count of Etampes and Viscount of Narbonne. He was the son of Jean de Foix, Count of Etampes and Viscount of Narbonne, and Marie dOrléans, a sister of Louis XII. He received the command of the royal army in Italy, and deserved by his great deeds to be nicknamed the Thunderbolt of Ita
Son of a Marshal of François I, Gaspard is also the nephew of the Constable de Montmorency. Having received a humanist and enlightened education, he decided to pursue a military career and was named Admiral of France in 1552. At first very moderate in his adherence to the Reformation, he became one
Daughter of the king of the Visigoths and elder sister of Brunehaut, she married Chilpéric I who was jealous of her brothers marriage Sigebert with Brunehaut. But the idyll is short-lived, his mistress Frédégonde convinces Chilpéric to kill Galswinthe in order to be able to get married. Thus, Galswi
Count of Montgommery (Basse-Normandie), Gabriel de Lorges is the captain of the Scottish guard of King Henry II . Montgommery becomes an unwitting regicide by piercing the sovereigns eye during a celebratory tournament. On his deathbed, Henry II absolves Montgommery of any wrongdoing. However, the r
Friend of Camille Desmoulins, He took care of the extremely violent newspaper Lorateur du peuple . He took part in the demonstrations of the Champ-de-Mars in 1791 then in the day of August 10, 1792. Representatives on missions under the Terror, he left with Barras in Provence where he became famous
First a servant of Chilpérics wife, she seduces him with her beauty, but after having repudiated his wife , Chilpéric married Galswinthe (daughter of the Visigoth king). Frédégonde stops at nothing to accede to the throne, she convinces Chilpéric to assassinate Galswinthe and thus becomes queen of N
François I of Lorraine, was a great soldier under François I then Henri II. From 1545, he besieged Boulogne in the hands of the English, there he kept the nickname Scarred following a facial injury. Under Henri II, he is in all the campaigns fighting in Naples, in Scotland, he resists Charles Quint
He is the last son of Henry II and Catherine de Medici. Small in stature, he was nevertheless baptized under the name of Hercules, before taking the name of his brother François, who died in 1560. A rebellious prince, he was particularly jealous of his brother Henri dAnjou, who was favored by his mo
Son of Charles dAngoulême and Louise de Savoie, François I succeeded his cousin Louis XII in 1515, whose daughter Claude he married. With the victory of Marignan, François I reconquers the Milanese. The power of Charles V and the threat of the encirclement of the kingdom by the possessions of his ri
Proclaimed Roman emperor after the death of his father, he initially managed Gaul, Brittany and Spain:the Empire had seven emperors in 310. He allied himself with Licinius, who in 313 proclaimed the edict of Milan, which grants Christians freedom of worship. Constantine restores the unity of the Emp
Saint Kinga discovers the salt mines in Bochnia. Saint Kinga (1234-1292) - daughter of the Hungarian king Bela IV and the duchess of Krakow and Sandomierz as the wife of Bolesław the Chaste. She was engaged at the age of five, and the wedding took place when she was twelve. Together with her hus
There was a phrase prevalent in the British caste that the white caste was made only to win and rule. He did not follow any kind of morality to achieve victory. That is why in the Second World War, when Japans victory chariot continued to move forward even after Germany had surrendered, America drop
After the success of Bardoli, Sardar Patel came to be seen as a miracle man. He had done what no one had been able to do before him. The Ghori government of Bombay was seen laying down its arms for the first time. Therefore, wherever Sardar Patel went, people would gather to see him. Now he was a na