Tuesday, August 30, 2011

August 24

August 24

ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Alexandre Coste   {2003} (illegitimate son of Prince Albert II of Monaco)






HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS

1200   King John "Lackland" of England marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.

1215   Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS

1113   Geoffrey Plantagenet V "the Handsome" of Anjou, Count of Anjou, Touraine, + Maine, Duke of Normandy (d.1151)

1198   King Alexander II of Scotland (d.1249)

1358   King Juan I of Castile (d.1390)

1393   Arthur III, Duke of Brittany, Count of Montfort (d.1458)

1750  Maria Letizia Ramolino Buonoparte, Madame Mere de l'Empereur mother of Emperor Napoleon I [Bonaparte] of France (d.1836)


1758   Duchess Sophia Frederica [Sophie Friederike] of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of Denmark + Norway (d.1794)


1772   King Willem I of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Limburg, Count of Nassau (d.1843)


1865   King Ferdinand I of Romania, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d.1927)



DEATHS

1042   Michael V, Byzantine Emperor

1103   King Magnus III "Barefoot" of Norway, King of Mann + the Isles

1883   Henri, Count of Chambord, disputed King of France as Henri V

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