[Loch-Ruadh] Today In History dec. 23

[Steve Rourke]

Born:
1574 Lucas I Franchoys Belgian painter
1582 John Barclay Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)

Deaths:
0679: Murder of St. Dagobert II, King of the Franks
1002 Otto III German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
1193: Death of St. Thorlac
1356 Margaretha of Bavaria Empress of Germany, dies
1516 Ferdinand II king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63
1548 Bernardo Pisano composer, dies at 57
1569: Martyrdom of St. Philip of Moscow, Primate of the Russian Church
killed by Czar Ivan "the Terrible"
1588: Murder of the Duc de Guise and Cardinal de Tournon

Other Events:
0619: Election of Pope Boniface V
0800: Pope Leo III purges himself of charges of moral turpitude, before
Charlemagne
1096: Godfrey and Baldwin's armies of the 1st Crusade arrive in
Constantinople



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