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The original insurance system devised by McGivney gave a deceased Knight's widow a $1,000 death benefit. Each member was assessed $1 upon a death, and when the number of Knights grew beyond 1,000, the assessment decreased according to the rate of increase. [130] Each member, regardless of age, was assessed equally.
The Europa Universalis game (eventually named Europa Universalis: The Price of Power) was designed by Eivind Vetlesen of Aegir Games and has a solo mode by David Turczi. Jonathan Bolding of PC Gamer described a preview version as "something between a high player count Twilight Imperium and A Game of Thrones with a dash of Napoleon in Europe". [57]
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After the death of his childless brother Wenceslaus, Sigismund inherited a claim on the Bohemian crown, though it was then, and remained until much later, in question whether Bohemia was a hereditary or an elective monarchy, especially since the line through which Sigismund claimed the throne had accepted that the Kingdom of Bohemia was an ...
Rules for a Knight is a novel written by Ethan Hawke and illustrated by Ryan Hawke. The story takes place in the 15th century and is written in the form of a letter from the novel's protagonist, Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, to his four children.
After their deaths, Samogitia was to return to the Knights. (Both rulers were at the time aged men. [9]) In the south, the Dobrzyń Land, captured by the Knights during the war, was ceded back to Poland. Thus, the Knights suffered virtually no territorial losses – a great diplomatic achievement after the crushing defeat in the Battle of Grunwald.
Her early death pushed him even more towards a man's world, where one grew up first as a warrior rather than a politician. [24] [25] Eleanor and Maximilian, from Empress Eleanor's Book of Hours. The mother fed him knights' tales, encouraged him to fence, dance and hunt, while the father wanted Maximilian to be good at Latin. [26]
Handbook of a Christian Knight. The Handbook of the Christian Knight (Latin: Enchiridion militis Christiani), sometimes translated as The Manual of the Christian Knight or The Handbook of the Christian Soldier or just the Enchiridion, is a work written by Dutch scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in 1501. [1]