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Peter was the eldest son of James I of Aragon and his second wife Violant of Hungary. [1] On 13 June 1262, Peter married Constance II of Sicily, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily. [2] During his youth and early adulthood, Peter gained a great deal of military experience in his father's wars of the Reconquista against the Moors. [3]
Peter the Great. The government reforms of Peter I aimed to modernize the Tsardom of Russia (later the Russian Empire) based on Western European models. Peter ascended to the throne at the age of 10 in 1682; he ruled jointly with his half-brother Ivan V. After Ivan's death in 1696, Peter started his series of sweeping reforms.
A Sardinian ducat (or principat), also called an Alfonsino, of Peter IV's reign.Note the four bars representing the Crown of Aragon.. Peter IV [a] (Catalan: Pere IV d'Aragó; Aragonese; Pero IV d'Aragón; 5 September 1319 – 6 January 1387), called the Ceremonious (Catalan: El Cerimoniós; Aragonese: el Ceremonioso), was from 1336 until his death the king of Aragon, Sardinia-Corsica, and ...
Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), known as Peter the Great, [note 1] was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
Peter the Great of Russia (1682–1725) Catherine the Great of Russia (1762–1796) [21] Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740–1786) [22] Charles III of Spain (1759–1788) [23] Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of French Republic (1799–1804) and as Emperor of The First French Empire (1804–1814). Frederick VI of Denmark (1808–1839) [24]
On 11 December 1102 Peter was in Estella on the border with Castile, perhaps seeking the aid of Alfonso VI after a particularly disastrous autumn for the Christians of eastern Spain. [19] In 1104 Peter granted a fuero to all the infanzones of his realm, retaining his right to require three-day field service. [20]
Peter III of Aragon the Great (1240–1285), King of Aragón since 1276; Peter of Aragon (1275-1296), son of Peter III of Aragon and Constance II of Sicily; Peter IV of Aragon (1319–1387), King of Aragón since 1336; Peter of Aragon, Heir of Sicily (1398–1400), Heir Apparent of Sicily and Heir Presumptive of Aragon
Lindsey Hughes (4 May 1949 – 26 April 2007) was a British historian who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the reign of Peter the Great. She wrote biographies of Peter and his predecessor Sophia Alekseyevna, as well as a more general work, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. She also wrote prolifically on art ...