People

George Maniakes was an eleventh-century Byzantine general renowned for campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean and southern Italy. He captured Edessa and later recovered much of eastern […]

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1528–1590

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, was an English nobleman best known as one of the custodians of Mary, Queen of Scots. His long responsibility for […]

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1070–1136

Gerald de Windsor was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who served as constable of Pembroke Castle during the expansion of Norman power in south-west Wales. He married Nest […]

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Gerd von Rundstedt is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure […]

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Geronimo was a Bedonkohe Apache leader and spiritual figure who became internationally known for resistance to Mexican and United States forces. After repeated escapes from reservations, […]

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1725–1798

Giacomo Casanova was a Venetian adventurer, writer, gambler and sometime diplomat whose memoir, Histoire de ma vie, records a life spent across eighteenth-century Europe. His imprisonment […]

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1535–1615

Giambattista della Porta was an Italian polymath, playwright and natural philosopher of the Renaissance. His interests ranged from optics and natural magic to cryptography and theatre, […]

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1351–1402

Gian Galeazzo Visconti was the first duke of Milan and one of the most ambitious rulers of late medieval Italy. He expanded Visconti power across northern […]

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1807–1882

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian nationalist soldier and revolutionary, central to the Risorgimento and the unification of Italy. His expedition of the Thousand in 1860 helped […]

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1852–1919

Gojong was king of Joseon from 1864 and proclaimed himself emperor of Korea in 1897. His reign was shaped by court faction, reform, foreign intervention and […]

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