People

1779–1869

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough was the British commander-in-chief in India during the Sikh Wars. He led hard-fought victories at Mudki, Ferozeshah, Sobraon, Chillianwala and Gujrat, […]

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1540–1616

Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, was an Irish Gaelic lord and leader of resistance to Tudor rule during the Nine Years’ War. His alliance-building and military […]

1 book

1301–1364

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French cardinal and influential churchman of the fourteenth century. His career placed him within the diplomacy of the Avignon papacy and […]

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c. 1505–1558

Hürrem entered the Ottoman imperial harem as an enslaved young woman and became the favoured consort of Suleiman I. Their legal marriage broke with established dynastic […]

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1251–1284

Hōjō Tokimune was the shikken, or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate during the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281. He directed defensive preparations, rejected […]

1 book

1244–1287

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway was a Danish princess who became queen of Norway through marriage to Magnus VI. As the mother of Eric II […]

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1301–1361

Ingeborg of Norway was a Norwegian princess and duchess who became a major political figure in fourteenth-century Scandinavia. After the death of her husband Eric Magnusson, […]

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c. 1160s–1216

Innocent III was pope from 1198 to 1216 and one of the most powerful medieval advocates of papal authority. His pontificate was involved in the Fourth […]

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752–803

Irene of Athens was Byzantine empress, first as regent for her son Constantine VI and later as ruler in her own right from 797 to 802. […]

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Irvin McDowell is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works approach the figure […]

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