[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec 1

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1083: Princess Anna Commena of Byzantium
1549 Johan van der Veeken merchant/co-founder (VOC)
1566 Philip earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, Governor of Fort Gorinchem/Nijmegen
1573 Philippus Rovenius [Rouveen] apostile vicar

Deaths:
0660 Eligius/Eloy French bishop of Tournay-Noyon/saint, dies
1135 Henry I Beauclerc king of England (1st king that could read), dies
1374 Magnus Eriksson king of Norway/Sweden, dies
1417 Walraven I van Brederode viceroy of Holland, dies
1455 Lorenzo Ghiberti Italian sculptor, dies at 77
1515 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba [el Gran Capitán] Spanish general, dies at
62
1521 Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
1530 Margaretha of Austria governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51
1580 Edmund Campion English jesuit, hanged at 42
1580 Giovanni Morone Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71

Other Events:
0772 Pope Adrian I elected
1145 Pope Eugene III sent a papal bull to the French King, Louis VII,
proclaiming the Second Crusade. Led by Louis and Emperor Conrad III from
1147_49, the crusade failed to accomplish its goal.
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1170: Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, returns to England from
exile
1372: Geoffrey Chaucer left England for Rome on a Royal mission
1566 Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1590: Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is registered for publication



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