Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena ( 1396 – July 12, 1456 ), Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos.

Alfonso the Magnanimous KG ( also Alphonso ; ; 1396 – 27 June 1458 ) was the King of Aragon ( as Alfonso V ), Valencia ( as Alfonso III ), Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica ( as Alfonso II ), and Sicily and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso IV ) from 1416 and King of Naples ( as Alfonso I ) from 1442 until his death.

* Alfonso V of Aragon ( 1396 – 1458 ), King of Naples as Alfonso I

* Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst: 1252 – 1396 and 1544 – 1796

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen: 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1847

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1863

Ordered by Sultan Bayezid I, the mosque was designed and built by architect Ali Neccar in 1396 – 1400.

* Constantine II of Bulgaria ( early 1370s – 1422 ), last emperor of Bulgaria 1396 – 1422.

* 1393 – 1396: Abou Fares Abd el-Aziz ben Ahmed

* 1396 – 1398: Abou Amir Abdallah

* 1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic ( b. 1340 )

* 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier ( d. 1450 )

* Stephen of Perm, Russian icon painter ( 1340 – 1396 )

* Philip III ( the Good ) ( 1396 – 1467 ), Duke of Burgundy, r. 1419 – 1467

* February 21 – John of Rokycan, Archbishop of Prague ( b. c. 1396 )

* June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon ( b. 1396 )

* October 22 – Antonio Bettini, religious writer ( b. 1396 )

* June 15 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy ( b. 1396 )

* May 24 – Ambroise de Loré, French military leader ( b. 1396 )

The Ottoman sultan Bayezid I built the Bayezid Külliyesi ( Bayezid I theological complex ) in Bursa between 1390 and 1395 and the Ulu Cami ( Great Mosque ) between 1396 and 1400.

The Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, widely regarded as the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages, failed to stop the advance of the victorious Ottoman Turks.

By 1396, they were subjugated by the Ottoman Empire.

Sigismund ( after suffering a defeat against the Turks in the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 ) never rejected the possibility of fighting again the Ottoman Empire.

The church was abolished once, during the period of Ottoman rule ( 1396 — 1878 ), in 1873 it was revived as Bulgarian Exarchate and soon after raised again to Bulgarian Patriarchate.

Even after that Vuk showed some resistance to Ottomans, refusing to participate on the Ottoman side in the battles of Rovine ( 1395 ) and Nicopolis ( 1396 ), unlike other Serbian lords such as prince Stefan, king Marko and Konstantin Dejanović.

The Church became subordinate within the Patriarchate of Constantinople, twice during the periods of Byzantine ( 1018 – 1185 ) and Ottoman ( 1396 – 1878 ) domination.

After almost five centuries of Ottoman domination ( 1396 – 1878 ), the Bulgarian state was re-established as the Principality of Bulgaria, covering the land between the Danube River and the Balkan Mountains ( except Northern Dobrudja which was given to Romania ) as well as the region of Sofia, which became the new state's capital.

In 1396, Pope Boniface IX proclaimed a crusade against the Ottomans, and a campaign was organised to recapture the fortress and put a halt to the Ottoman expansion.

Their rapid rise continued after the 1396 Battle of Nicopolis against the Ottoman Empire, where Count Hermann II of Cilli saved the life of King Sigismund of Hungary, the son of late Emperor Charles IV.

In 1396 or 1422, the medieval Bulgarian Empire had ceased to exist, falling under full Ottoman domination.

The Ottoman Empire proceeded to conquer the lands of the Balkans, Thrace and Macedonia, after the Battle of Maritsa in 1371, Sofia in 1382, the then capital of Bulgaria Tarnovgrad in 1393, the northern rest after the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, except Vidin, which fell in 1422.

The raids of the Ottoman Turks since the 1350s cut, however, short the Bulgarian territorial expansion ; by 1396 the whole of Bulgaria was overrun by the Ottomans.

None of the original works of Constantine of Preslav has survived the burning of Preslav by Byzantine Emperor John Tzimisces in 972 and the period of Ottoman rule ( 1396 – 1878 ).

The Battle of Nicopolis took place on 25 September 1396 and resulted in the rout of an allied army of Hungarian, Wallachian, French, Burgundian, German and assorted troops ( assisted by the Venetian navy ) at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising of the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis and leading to the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

In 1396 he took part in the joint French-Hungarian crusade against the Ottoman Empire, which suffered a heavy defeat on September 28 at the Battle of Nicopolis.

He participated as an Ottoman vassal in the Battle of Rovine in 1395, the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, and in the Battle of Ankara in 1402.

In 1396, Hermann II, a soldier in Sigismund of Luxembourg's Crusade of Nicopolis against Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire, saved Sigismund's life in battle, and was rewarded with the county of Seger ( Sagor, Zagorien, Zagorje ) and the town of Varaždin.

However, the Christian army suffered a heavy defeat on 25 September in the battle of Nicopolis and the victorious Ottoman sultan Bayezid I immediately marched to Vidin and seized it by the end of 1396 or the beginning of 1397.

From 1396 until 1878 the city was under Ottoman rule.

* Bulgarian unification in 1885, after the 1396 Ottoman conquest.

Not only did he defeat invading Ottoman forces but successfully counter-attacked and conquered both Corinth ( 1395 ) and Athens ( 1396 ).