People

1316–1374

Magnus IV of Sweden was a king of Sweden and Norway who inherited both crowns as a child. His long reign involved regency government, legal reform, […]

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Magnus the Good was king of Norway from 1035 and king of Denmark from 1042. The son of Olaf Haraldsson, he returned from exile after the […]

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1834–1870

Majid was a son of Said bin Sultan and succeeded to authority in Zanzibar after his father’s death divided the Omani maritime empire. He became the […]

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Mangas Coloradas was a leading Mimbreño Apache chief who resisted Mexican and United States encroachment in the south-west. He formed alliances with other Apache leaders, including […]

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1772–1820

Manuel Lisa was a Spanish-American merchant and fur trader who established trading posts on the upper Missouri River in the early nineteenth century. As a founder […]

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1473–1541

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was a Plantagenet noblewoman and one of the last members of a dynasty with a strong hereditary claim to the English […]

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Margaret Winstar, more accurately recorded as Margaret or Margrethe Vinstarr, was a Danish gentlewoman and favoured attendant of Anne of Denmark at the Scottish court of […]

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Margery Brewes is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government. These […]

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1492–1549

Born Marguerite of Angoulême, she was raised with her brother Francis under the supervision of their mother, Louise of Savoy. She married first Charles IV of […]

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Mariah Reddick is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and crime, espionage […]

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