Showing posts with label Hispania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hispania. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Epic Conflict and Unbreakable Alliances: The Briton and the Dane: Concordia – An Audiobook by Mary Ann Bernal, Narrated by Sebastian Lockwood

 


The Briton and the Dane: Concordia
By Mary Ann Bernal
Narrated by: Sebastian Lockwood
Series: The Briton and the Dane, Book 4
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-01-16
Language: English

 A Captive’s Cunning. A Thrilling Chase. A Hidden Truth.

 In a time of prosperity in Ninth Century Britain, a noblewoman bound to a warrior seeks the thrill of the unknown. Captivated by the allure of distant lands, she persuades her husband to set sail for Rome. Pirates abruptly end their voyage, and she finds herself a captive. Amidst the splendor of a Saracen court, a chance for escape emerges. Caught in a labyrinth of deceit and desire, she must use her cunning to outwit her captors and reclaim her freedom from the exotic lands of Muslim Hispania.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

History Trivia - Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.

November 9

694 Egica, a King of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused the Jews of aiding Muslims, and sentenced all Jews to slavery.
Perkin Warbeck

 1492 Peace of Etaples (northern France) between Henry VII and Charles VIII. The treaty served to end an English invasion of France launched in order to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. By this treaty, France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay England an indemnity of £159,000. The treaty was ratified in December

1494 The de' Medici family were expelled from Florence.

Traitor's Gate
1541 Queen Catherine Howard was confined in London Tower.


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Sunday, October 13, 2013

History Trivia - Emperor Claudius poisoned

October 13

54 Emperor Claudius died from poison given him by his physician Xenophon and his empress Agrippina, and Nero became emperor of Rome.

409 Vandals (East Germanic tribe) and Alans (group of Sarmatian tribes) crossed the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania (Iberian Peninsula, modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar).

1307, on Friday the 13th, Hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, and were later tortured into a confession of heresy.

1399 Henry IV of England was crowned.