Catherine of Braganza
2 booksCatherine of Braganza was the Portuguese princess who became queen consort of Charles II of England. Her marriage brought a substantial dowry and diplomatic alliance, but […]
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Catiline
2 booksCatiline was a Roman aristocrat best known for the conspiracy against the Republic uncovered in 63 BC. After failed bids for the consulship, he gathered supporters […]
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
2 booksCecily Neville was the wife of Richard, Duke of York, and mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Known as the ‘Rose of Raby’, she stood […]
Cem Sultan
2 booksCem Sultan was an Ottoman prince who contested the throne with his elder brother Bayezid II after the death of Mehmed II in 1481. Defeated in […]
Chagatai Khan
2 booksChagatai Khan was the second son of Genghis Khan and Börte and received a large ulus in Central Asia after the Mongol conquests. He was regarded […]
Charles Cornwallis
2 booksCharles Cornwallis is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works […]
Charles de Gaulle
2 booksCharles de Gaulle was a French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War and later founder and first president of the Fifth […]
Charles Elliot
2 booksCharles Elliot was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who became chief superintendent of British trade in China during the crisis that led to the […]
Charles II of Navarre
2 booksCharles II of Navarre, known as Charles the Bad, was a fourteenth-century king whose ambitions in France made him a disruptive figure during the Hundred Years’ […]
Charles James Fox
2 booksCharles James Fox was a British Whig politician and one of the most prominent parliamentary figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He opposed […]