Medieval French nobleman and convicted serial killer
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Gilles de Rais (c.), Baron de Rais was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later ...
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Deposed Queen Lady Yun or Waste Queen Lady Yun (korea:????, hanja:?? ??, ? - August 16, 1482), 11th generation descendant of General Yun Kwan(??), was Joseon Dynasty's King Seongjong of Joseon's second ...
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Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda or Beatrice de Tende or Beatrix (c.1372-1418), was the wife of Facino Cane, Count of Biandrate and a prominent condottiero, and then wife to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan ...
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Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Strathearn and Caithness (died 26 March 1437) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert II of Scotland. Stewart was an enthusiastic advocate of the ransom and return to ...
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Robert Stewart, Master of Atholl was a Scottish nobleman of royal descent. He was the grandson of Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, and the great-grandson of Robert II of Scotland. He was executed, along ...
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Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (Scottish Gaelic: Muireadhach Stiubhart) (1362 – 24 May 1425) was a leading Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany and the grandson of King Robert ...
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Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (25 February 1475 – 28 November 1499) was the son of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and a potential claimant to the English throne during the reigns of ...
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Jan Hus ( c.– 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church ...
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Eoudong or Uhwudong (어우동, 於宇同; ? - 18 October 1480), also known as Eoeuludong (어을우동, 於乙宇同), née Park (박, 朴), was a Korean dancer, writer, artist, and poet from a noble family in the Joseon Dynasty of the ...
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Abu Sa'id Mirza (Chagatay/Persian: ابو سعید میرزا; 1424 – 8 February 1469) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire during the mid-fifteenth century.
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Jean de Montagu or Jean de Montaigu (ca. 1350 or 1363, Paris – Paris, 17 October 1409), was a royal secretary and pupil to Charles V, and subsequently an administrator and advisor to Charles VI of France ...
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Kunz von Kaufungen (also known as Conrad von Kaufungen, or Kunz von Kauffungen; c. 1410 - July 14, 1455), was a German knight and military commander. A veteran of the Hussite wars, he also fought for ...
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Fang Xiaoru (Chinese: 方孝孺; pinyin: Fāng Xìaorú) was a Chinese politician. He was an orthodox Confucian scholar-bureaucrat of the Ming Dynasty, famous for his continuation of the Jinhua school of ...
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Kolgrim, also spelled Kollgrim or Kolgrimr, (d. 1407 in Gardar, Greenland), was an alleged Norse sorcerer who was burned in Greenland for sorcery and for being the lover of a married woman.