Duchess. Born in Wartburg Castle, near Eisenach in Thuringia, Germany. She married Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier and was the heiress of Hesse which she passed on to her son, Henry upon her retention of the territory following her partial victory in the War of the Thuringian Succession. Died in Marburg.
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Sophia, Duchess of Brabant
{Next to an image of the Virgin Mary:} Shrine of Our Lady of Hal The catholic...
Born in Hanover as the Crown Prince of the Hanoverian royal family but also related to the British royals. In 1878 he became Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale on the death of his father, the 2nd Du...
Reigned: 1485 - 1509. Buried Westminster Abbey. 2025: Ian Visits reported on the effigy head held by Westminster Abbey, its history and the plans to create a high resolution 3D model.
Born Prince Alexander of Denmark in Sandringham, Norfolk. Parents: Haakon VII (first King of Norway following the dissolution of the union with Sweden) and Maud of Wales (daughter of our Edward VII...
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Elia" is the pseudonym Lamb used for a series of essays he wrote for th...
Leonard Huxley 1860 - 1933 Julian Huxley 1887 - 1975 Aldous Huxley 1894 - 1963 Men of science and letters lived here. English Heritage
On the day this plaque was unveiled so was a restored plaque from 1948, at the other end of Olympic Way.
We first thought Francis Bacon but he normally has more hair, and, so far, all the heads are literary rather than scientific.
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