People

1511–1537

Lord Thomas Howard was a younger son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and became secretly engaged or married to Margaret Douglas, a niece of […]

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1773–1850

Louis-Philippe I was king of the French from 1830 to 1848 after the July Revolution. His constitutional monarchy rested on bourgeois support but collapsed during the […]

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1870–1947

Louisa Pesel was an English embroidery designer, teacher and collector who studied historic needlework and promoted embroidery as both art and therapeutic occupation. During and after […]

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1649–1734

Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille entered the household of Henrietta Anne Stuart and came to England in 1670. After Henrietta’s death she remained at the […]

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1644–1710

Louise de La Vallière was a mistress of Louis XIV who later withdrew from court life to enter a Carmelite convent. Her relationship with the young […]

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920–954

Louis IV of France, known as Louis d’Outremer, was a tenth-century West Frankish king whose reign was marked by aristocratic rivalry and Carolingian survival. His rule […]

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Lozen was a Chihenne Apache warrior, healer and spiritual figure, and the sister of the leader Victorio. She fought during Victorio’s campaigns and later joined groups […]

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39–65

Lucan was a Roman poet of the first century AD and author of the Civil War. His epic depicts the conflict between Caesar and Pompey without […]

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Lucilla was a daughter of Marcus Aurelius, the wife of the emperor Lucius Verus and later the wife of the senator Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. After her […]

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died 217 BCE

Lucius Aemilius Paullus was one of the Roman consuls commanding at Cannae in 216 BC. Ancient sources describe him as cautious and opposed to battle, contrasting […]

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