As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

Basic information and contact details for the University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples was established in 1224 and it remains one of the world’s oldest universities to be founded by a ...

The Church honors Jeanne d’Arc as a virgin martyr and national patroness, whose courage, purity and fortitude continue to ...

While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some military leaders who really ...

After the death of his grandfather Ferdinand II of Aragon in ... with the even more erratic Henry. Another foe was the Ottoman Empire, whose sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, boasted a court of equal ...

1997: Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley’s body is discovered floating in the Mississippi River. Buckley had disappeared when swimming on May 29 in Wolf River Harbor, while wearing boots, all of his ...

Henry was a leading Saxon king, and it passed down through other Saxon royal hands before finding its way to the famous warrior king Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor in the second half of the ...

Adrian rewarded Frederick Barbarossa for his help in quelling Arnold’s uprising by crowning him Holy Roman Emperor. However ... This papal bull granted the king of England, Henry II, the title of ...

In 1039, Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. In 1812, The U.S. House of Representatives approved, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain. The Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri ...