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Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or Leuconides (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias, he was entrusted with the main superintendence of Alexander's education in his earlier years, apparently before he became a student of Aristotle.
George was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 20 October. [3] His coronation was accompanied by rioting in over twenty towns in England. [32] George mainly lived in Great Britain after 1714, though he visited his home in Hanover in 1716, 1719, 1720, 1723 and 1725. [33] In total, George spent about one fifth of his reign as king in Germany. [34]
George's wife Sophia had been kept in imprisonment since their divorce in 1694. The Duchess of Kendal was a very thin woman, being known in Germany as "the Scarecrow" (German: Die Vogelscheuche) and in England as "the Maypole". The Jacobites called her "the Goose", most famously in the taunting Scots ballad Cam Ye O'er Frae France.
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Alexander was the only son of Amyntas I and an unknown spouse, [5] whose name was perhaps Eurydice. [6] He had a sister named Gygaea (Greek: Γυγαίη). [7]According to Herodotus, Alexander married his sister to the Persian general Bubares while a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire as a bribe to cover up his murder of a Persian embassy. [8]
The Palace of Aigai was built by Alexander the Great’s father, Phillip II, and completed in 336 B.C., officials said. Alexander was proclaimed king of Macedonia in the monumental complex that ...
Alexander (Greek: Αλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920) [a] was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920. The second son of King Constantine I , Alexander was born in the summer palace of Tatoi on the outskirts of Athens .
Alexander's second marriage with Tamar (died after 1455), daughter of prince Alexander I of Imereti, took place around 1414. Their children were: George VIII, first king of independent Kakheti; David, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia consecrated in 1426. Zaal (born c.1428 – died after 1442), Alexander's fifth son, sixth and last child. He was ...