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This is a list of richest monarchs and family members, as estimated by forbes.com in 2015, [1] Business Insider in 2018, [2] and the CEOWORLD magazine in 2019. [3] The evaluations are based on their personal net worths, excluding properties held by the State, Government or Crown, and all of the figures are in U.S. dollars.
Joan of England (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238), was Queen of Alba (Scotland) from 1221 until her death as the wife of Alexander II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the third child of John, King of England [ 3 ] and Isabella of Angoulême .
Alexander II had two wives: 1. Joan of England (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238), who was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She and Alexander II married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster. Alexander was 23; Joan was 11. They had no children.
Pope Alexander II (1010/1015 – 21 April 1073), born Anselm of Baggio, [1] was the head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1061 to his death in 1073. Born in Milan , Anselm was deeply involved in the Pataria reform movement.
There have been 266 popes: 217 from Italy (Including Pope Paul I, II, III, IV, V, VI, Pope Pius I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII); 16 from France (Pope Sylvester II, Pope Stephen IX, Pope Nicholas II, Pope Urban II, Pope Callistus II, Pope Urban IV, Pope Clement IV, Pope Innocent V, Pope Martin IV, Pope Clement V, Pope John XXII, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement VI, Pope ...
Maria Feodorovna kneels at the deathbed of Alexander II. Later rendering. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Maria's father-in-law Alexander II of Russia was killed by a bomb attack carried out by the revolutionary socialist political organization Narodnaya Volya on his way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade. His leg was blown to ...
Alexander II Zabinas, king of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 128–123 BC; Alexander (912–913), Eastern Roman emperor; Pope Alexander II of Alexandria, ruled in 702–729; Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria; Pope Alexander II (died 1073), pope from 1061 to 1073; Alexander II of Scotland (1198–1249), king of Scots
Second wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor; she governed the empire until her son, Henry IV, came of age to rule. [14] She opposed Pope Alexander II and helped to elect Cadalus, his rival, to the throne. In 1062, her son Henry was kidnapped, and, as ransom to save his life, she resigned as regent and lived out the rest of her life in a convent.