[Loch-ruadh] Today in history Nov. 29

STEVE K ROURKE SROURKE at prodigy.net
Wed Nov 28 22:23:11 PST 2001


496 Death of St. Gelasius, Pope.
741 Death of St. Gregory, Pope.
799 Charlemagne returned Pope Leo III to Rome.
1198 Death of al Aziz, Caliph of Egypt.
1226 Coronation of Louis IX (France).
1268 Death of Pope Clement IV.
1314 Death of Philip IV "the Fair" (France).
1348 A new Vicar is appointed at Shaftesbury, England, to replace one who
had died of the plague.
1378 Death of Charles IV (Germany).
1484 Convention of Spanish Inquisitors held; Constitution of the Holy Office
written, under Tomas de Torquemada.
1489 Birth of Margaret, Wife of the King of Scotland.
1503 Imprisonment of Caesare Borgia. (can't find anything that actually
talks about him other than he was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince.)
1516 Death of Giovanni Bellini.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bellini/
1519 Magellan sights South America.
1530 Death of Thomas Wolsey.
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/england/lecture5.htmlhttp://www.newadvent.
org/cathen/15685a.htm (some info, not much)
1543 Death of Hans Holbein "the Younger".
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/holbein/
1577 Cuthbert Maine, 1st seminary priest in England, executed for treason.
1596 Philip II (Spain) admits his nation is bankrupt.






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