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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.
Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
3rd Duke of York 1411–1460: Edward IV 4th Duke of York 1442–1483 r. 1461–1470, 1471–1483: Edmund Earl of Rutland 1443–1460: George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence 1449–1478: Richard III 1452–1485 r. 1483–1485: Elizabeth of York 1444–c. 1503: John de la Pole Duke of Suffolk 1442–1492: Henry VII 1457–1509 r. 1485–1509 ...
In Western Australia, York County and the towns of York and Albany were named after Prince Frederick. [46] [47] Albany was originally named "Frederick Town". [48] The towering Duke of York Column on Waterloo Place, just off The Mall, London was completed in 1834 as a memorial to Prince Frederick. [49]
Lysimachus of Acarnania (Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos) was one of the tutors of Alexander the Great.Though a man of very slender accomplishments, he ingratiated himself with the royal family by calling himself Phoenix, and Alexander Achilles, and Philip Peleus; and by this sort of flattery, according to Plutarch, he obtained the second place among the young prince's tutors.
3rd Duke of York, 8th Earl of Ulster: King James II 1430–1460: Prince Edward 1442–1483 4th Duke of York, 9th Earl of Ulster Later King Edward IV: Dukedom of York (1st creation) and Earldom of Ulster (2nd Irish creation) merged in the Crown, 1461: Duke of Albany (2nd creation), 1458: Duke of York (2nd creation), 1474: Alexander Stewart 1454 ...
The Treaty of York was an agreement between the kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, signed at York on 25 September 1237, which affirmed that Northumberland (which at the time also encompassed County Durham), [1] Cumberland, and Westmorland were subject to English sovereignty.
On 6 August 1385, he was elevated to Duke of York. [3] Edmund acted as Keeper of the Realm in 1394/95 when his nephew, King Richard II of England, campaigned in Ireland and presided over Parliament in 1395. He was also keeper of the realm in 1396 during the king's brief visit to France to collect his child-bride Isabella of Valois. The duke was ...