[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Dec. 11

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1475 Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] Italy, Pope (1513-21)
1566 Manuel Cardoso composer

Deaths:
0384: Death of St. Damascuc I, Pope
0493: Death of St. Daniel the Stylite
0711 Justitianus II emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1241: Death of Ogudai; Mongols withdraw from Hungary
1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies
1282 Michael VIII Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1521: Death of Wladislaus II, King of Hungary and Bohemia
1524 Henry Van Zutphen Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1533: Death of Vasily III, Czar of Russia
1573 Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant duke of Alva, hanged
1582 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1595 Philip III van Croij prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69

Other Events:
0384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1192: Richard the Lion-Hearted captured near Vienna by Leopold of Austria
1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1477 Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie
1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem


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