George VI
2 booksGeorge VI became king of the United Kingdom in 1936 after the abdication of Edward VIII. His reign is closely associated with the Second World War, […]
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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest […]
Girolamo Savonarola
2 booksGirolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar whose preaching against corruption and luxury made him a dominant political and religious figure in Florence after the Medici expulsion […]
Giulia Farnese
2 booksGiulia Farnese was an Italian noblewoman known for her relationship with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI. Celebrated for her beauty, she gained access […]
Gnaeus Mallius Maximus
2 booksGnaeus Mallius Maximus was a Roman consul whose command ended in disaster at Arausio in 105 BC against the Cimbri and Teutones. The defeat exposed weaknesses […]
Godwin, Earl of Wessex
2 booksGodwin, Earl of Wessex, rose under Cnut and became the most powerful English nobleman of the mid-eleventh century. His daughter Edith married Edward the Confessor, while […]
Gordian III
2 booksGordian III became Roman emperor in AD 238 at about thirteen years old after the murder of Balbinus and Pupienus. The government was initially directed by […]
Anastasia grew up with her siblings at the imperial residences and was known within the family for energetic humour and practical jokes. After the February Revolution, […]
Gratian
2 booksGratian was Roman emperor in the West from the fourth century and a ruler during the increasingly Christianised late empire. His reign included military pressure on […]
Gunnhild, Mother of Kings
2 booksGunnhild, Mother of Kings, was a tenth-century Norwegian royal woman and the wife of Erik Bloodaxe. Sagas portray her as politically formidable and sometimes as a […]