Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

The Lancastrian forces captured Ludlow in 1459, but at the end of the conflict in 1461 the castle became property of the Crown and passed to Richard's son, Edward IV.

John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard ( 1385 – 1436 ) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray ( 1388 – 1459 ), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( of the first creation ) ( 1366 – 1399 ) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan ( 1366 – 1425 ).

Christian inherited Holstein and Schleswig after a short " interregnum " as the eldest son of the sister of late Duke Adolf VIII, Duke of Schleswig ( Southern Jutland ) and Count of Holstein, of the Schauenburg fürst clan, who died 4 December 1459, without children.

His father had been carver and sword-bearer to Jack Cade, and was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461 ; his mother, who was born on 1 July 1429, and married Poynings in December 1459, inherited her husband's property in Kent, in spite of opposition from her brother-in-law, Edward Poynings, master of Arundel College ; before 1472 she married a second husband, Sir George Browne of Betchworth, Surrey, by whom she had a son Matthew and a daughter.

Louis was the second son and namesake of Louis, Count of Savoy by Anne de Lusignan, daughter of King Janus of Cyprus and became a King of Cyprus from 1459 to 1462 and also a titular King of Jerusalem.

In 1459 the son of Alfonso, king Ferdinand I of Naples again requested the help of Skanderbeg.

His second son Ralph was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre ( of Gilsland ) in 1459 ( see below ).

As mentioned above the second creation of the barony came in 1459 in favour of Ralph Dacre, second son of the sixth Baron of the first creation, and became extinct on his death in 1461.

* James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond ( 1459 – 1487 ) ( son of preceding )

Some of the Yorkist commanders ( the Earl of Warwick, his father the Earl of Salisbury and York's son Edward, Earl of March ) reached Calais on 2 November 1459, where Warwick found his uncle Lord Fauconberg.

At the Battle of Blore Heath he was present on 23 September 1459, equally with his son Edmund Sutton.

* Margaret Touchet ( c. 1431-before 2 February 1481 ), married Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, son of Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville and Antigone Plantagenet, before 12 January 1459.

He had a son Edward, ( b. 1459 ), who succeeded as 2nd Lord Dudley.

*** Nicholas II's son, Ladislaus II Garay ( 1410 – 1459 ) was a Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary ( 1447 – 1458 ).

* 1459: Küchük Muhammad dies and is succeeded by his son, Maxmud.

His son James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley ( 1398 – 1459 ) was killed by Sir Roger Kynaston, whilst leading the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459.

The ancestor of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken was Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken ( 1385 – 1459 ), a son of King Rupert of Germany.

Through his marriage with Mary of Burgundy, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1459 – 1519 ) came into the possession of important books from Burgundy and north France, and brought these to Wiener Neustadt.

It is, in fact, the second continuator ( covering the period 1459 – 1486 ) who claims to be writing in April 1486, and, sure enough, this section ends with the marriage of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the rebellion that followed.

On 4 October 1459, she married her second husband, Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva.

Lepida's second husband was Faustus Cornelius Sulla ,< ref > PIR < sup > 2 </ sup > C 1459 </ ref > consul suffectus in 31, a descendant of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

The first castle at Ruthven was destroyed in 1451, but a second castle was re-built in its place in 1459 as a much grander fortification.

The second was the highly popular De Roma triumphante ( Rome Triumphant, ( 1459 )) about pagan Rome as a model for contemporary governmental and military reforms.

Sir John Fastolf, the inspiration for Shakespeare's Falstaff, was buried here in December 1459, next to his wife Millicent in a new aisle built by Fastolf on the South side of the abbey church.

1485 ), born c. 1459 ), wife of a cloth merchant William Gardiner, of London, sometimes spelled William Gardynyr for his Welsh descent ( born c. 1450 ), having by him: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester ( c. 1490 – 12 November 1555 ); Richard Gardiner ( 1486 – 1548 ); and William Gardiner, ( 1488 – 1549 )

In 1459 Richard was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre in right of his wife.

* In his chronicle Chronica regum Romanorum, completed in 1459, Thomas Ebendorfer ( d. 1464 ) states that King Wenceslaus had drowned the confessor of his wife, indicated as Magister Jan, because he had stated that only the one who rules properly deserves the name of king and had refused to betray the seal of Confession.

He also studied at the school of Vivarini in Venice, then left Venice, initially, it is generally believed, for Padua, where he is believed to have worked in the workshop of Francesco Squarcione and then for Zadar in Dalmatia ( now part of Croatia, but then a Venetian territory ) in 1459, following legal trouble after he was sentenced to prison for six months for having an affair with a married woman, Tarsia Cortese, the wife of a sailor.

The village prospered during the fifteenth century, when it belonged to Millicent, the wife of Sir Stephen Le Scrope and then of Sir John Fastolf ( 1380 – 1459 ), a Norfolk knight who was the effective lord of the manor for fifty years.

* Charlotte ( 1458 – 1464 ) and 1459 – 1464 with her husband Louis of Savoy

In 1451 he was employed by the Duke of Savoy, and he became administrator of the abbey of Novalèse in 1459.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.

In 1459 Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught.

However, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in 1459 Mehmet allowed the deported Greeks to come back to the city.

By 1459 the Sultan promoted a lot of energy to bringing prosperity to Constantinople.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

* 1459 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland ( b. 1401 )

* 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German banker ( b. 1459 )

* St. Antoninus ( d. 1459 )

* 1380 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist ( d. 1459 )

* 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar ( b. 1459 )

Thus Gutenberg was effectively bankrupt, but it appears he retained ( or re-started ) a small printing shop, and participated in the printing of a Bible in the town of Bamberg around 1459, for which he seems at least to have supplied the type.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1459 – 1519 ) is often referred to as the last true knight.

* Alberti is also now thought to have had an important role in the designing of Pienza, a village that had been called Corsignano, but which was redesigned beginning around 1459.

* 1389 – Saint Antoninus of Florence, Archbishop of Florence ( d. 1459 )

* 1459 – Pope Adrian VI ( d. 1523 )

* 1459 – Jakob Fugger, German banker ( d. 1525 )

* 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1519 )

* 1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer ( d. 1507 )

Pope Adrian VI (, ), born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens ( 2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523 ), served as the 218th Pope of the Catholic Church from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523, 1 year and 248 days later.

Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens was born on 2 March 1459 in the city of Utrecht, which was then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, a part of the Burgundian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire.

On 26 September 1459 he called for a new crusade against the Ottomans and on 14 January 1460 he proclaimed the official crusade that was to last for three years.

His long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession, and the Council of Mantua of 1459, a complete failure as regards its ostensible object of mounting a crusade, at least showed that the impotence of Christendom was not owing to the Pope.

* 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.

* February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist ( d. 1459 )