By springtime, he was supported by a rich merchant syndicate under the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales.

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.

* Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile.

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

* Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain since 1979.

* Prince Henry, Count of Paris, Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Eu ) and Orléanist pretender to France since 1999.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

In December 1514, she had another son, Prince Henry who died shortly after birth.

Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate.

The Battle of Muret was a massive step in the creation of the unified French kingdom and the country we know today — although Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V would threaten later to shake these foundations.

At the end of June 1703 Gundaker Starhemberg replaced Gotthard Salaburg as President of the Treasury, and Prince Eugene succeeded Henry Mansfeld as the new President of the Imperial War Council ( Hofkriegsratspräsident ).

In Henry IV, part 1, act II, scene iv, he has Falstaff call Prince Henry, " you starveling, you elfskin!

Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's death, Henry married Jane Seymour, but she died shortly after the birth of their son, Prince Edward, in 1537.

In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is ultimately repudiated after Hal becomes king.

In the published version of Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff's name is always unmetrical, suggesting a name change after the original composition ; Prince Hal refers to Falstaff as " my old lad of the castle " in the first act of the play ; the epilogue to Henry IV, Part II, moreover, explicitly disavows any connection between Falstaff and Oldcastle, a dancer declaring: "... where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already ' a be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this is not the man ".

* Gray's Inn Christmas / New Year Revels: The High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Purpoole ( 1594-5 ) ( See Gesta Grayorum )

He afterwards became the confidential counsellor of Maurice, Prince of Orange, and afterwards of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in their conduct of the foreign affairs of the republic.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

Cardinal Murphy-O ' Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England, pointed out that Prince William ( later the Duke of Cambridge ) " can marry by law a Hindu, a Buddhist, anyone, but not a Roman Catholic ".

Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, ( who translated the text for their own use ).

The show paved the way for later culture-conflict programs such as McCloud, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Doc.

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

# Maria Paola or Marie Pauline Bonaparte ( 1780 – 1825 ), married in 1797 to French general Charles Leclerc and later married Prince Camillo Borghese.

The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

In 1867 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick merged with the Canadas in Confederation, with Prince Edward Island joining them six years later in 1873.

On 4 August 1265 Montfort faced an army led by Prince Edward ( the later King Edward I ) and the powerful earl of Gloucester, who had recently defected to the royalist side, at the Battle of Evesham.

Prince Pedro of Bragança ( King D. João's older son ) stayed in South America acting as regent of the local kingdom, but, two years later in 1822, he proclaimed himself D. Pedro I, first Emperor of Brazil.

He was the eldest son of Prince Shirakabe ( later known as Emperor Kōnin ), and was born prior to Shirakabe's ascension to the throne.

When the daughter of a chūnagon became the favored consort of the Crown Prince Ate ( later known as Heizei-tennō ), her father's power and position in court was affected.

* Imperial Princess Koshi ( 高志内親王 ) ( 789 – 809 ), married to Prince Ōtomo ( Emperor Junna later )

The Institutio principis Christiani ( Basel, 1516 ) ( Education of a Christian Prince ) was written as advice to the young king Charles of Spain, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his grand-nephew, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and later as a mentor —" Honorary Grandfather " and " Honorary Grandson ", they fondly called each other according to the Jonathan Dimbleby biography of the Prince — though according to both the Ziegler biography of Mountbatten and the Dimbleby biography of the Prince, the results may have been mixed.

Princess Hashihito no Anahobe bore him four sons, including Prince Shotoku, who would later become crown prince and regent to Empress Suiko.

A year later, ( in 672 ) Tenji died and Prince Ōtomo ascended to the throne as Emperor Kōbun.

Genshō was an elder sister of Emperor Mommu and daughter of Prince Kusakabe and his wife who later became Empress Gemmei.

Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

He from time to time strongly upbraided the Prince for showing tendencies towards the idle pleasure-seeking dilettantism of his predecessor as Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, whom Mountbatten had known well in their youth.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

Prince Louis ( the future Louis VIII, reigned 1223 – 1226 ) was involved in the subsequent English civil war as French and English ( or rather Anglo-Norman ) aristocracies were once one and were now split between allegiances.

Pole reported that the Prince was spoken of highly by Thomas Cromwell in England and had influenced Henry VIII in his turn towards Protestantism, and in his tactics, for example during the Pilgrimage of Grace.

In December 1503, Julius issued a dispensation allowing Henry VIII to marry Katharine of Aragon who had previously been briefly married to Henry's brother Prince Arthur Tudor who had died some years before.

The Prince of Wales ( later Edward VIII ) visited in 1925.

** Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother to King George VI and King Edward VIII, dies in a flying accident over Morven in Scotland at the age of 39.

** The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate.

Prince Albert becomes King George VI in December 1936 after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.

Alexander the Great, Henry VIII and his consort, Anne Boleyn, and Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gothe all had greyhounds as companions.

* May 21 – First Barons ' War: Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet.

* Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans ( Philippe VIII ) ( 1894 – 1926 )

Following the death of Prince Arthur, the Prince of Wales, Henry VII invested his second son, the future Henry VIII, with the title — although only after it was clear that Arthur's wife, Catherine of Aragon, was not pregnant.

This was first used by the future King Edward VIII in 1910, and followed by the current Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.

On 20 January 1936, King George V died and Albert's brother, Edward, Prince of Wales, became King Edward VIII.

Four kings: Edward VII ( far right ), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V ( far left ), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII ( rear ), and Albert, later George VI ( foreground ), c. 1908.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor ( previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield ; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986 ), was an American socialite whose third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, abdicated his throne to marry her.