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	Margaret of Anjou - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Margaret of Anjou, 1430?-1482, queen consort of King Henry VI of England, daughter of René of Anjou.
		Margaret soon asserted influence at the English court, allying herself with Suffolk and Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of Somerset, in their rivalry with Richard, duke of York, heir presumptive to the throne.
		Margaret was very active in the warfare; for 16 years she fought in defense of her son's claim to the throne.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-MargAnj.html (683 words)

	Encyclopedia: Margaret of Sicily
		Margaret of Sicily (1237â“1270), (Margarethe von Hohenstaufen), Imperial Princess and Margravine of Meissen, was the youngest legitimate daughter of Emperor Frederick II, King of Sicily, by his wife, Isabella of England, daughter of King John Lackland.
		Margaret of Anjou (March 23, 1429 - August 25, 1482) was the Queen consort of Henry VI of England from 1445 to 1471, and a major proponent in the Wars of the Roses.
		Margaret was born in the province of Lorraine in France, the daughter of Rene I of Naples, Duke of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-of-Sicily (502 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
		He was also King of Sicily, from 1198 to 1250, where he was raised and lived most of his life (his mother, Constance of Sicily, was the daughter of Roger II of Sicily).
		Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq.
		1194–1250, Holy Roman emperor (1220–50) and German king (1212–20), king of Sicily (1197–1250), and king of Jerusalem (1229–50), son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI and of Constance, heiress of Sicily.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-II,-Holy-Roman-Emperor (1745 words)

	Margaret of Anjou
		Margaret of Anjou was one of the major players in the Wars of the Roses.
		Margaret was a very intelligent woman and used it to her advantage.
		The marriage took place in 1445 and Margaret’s character seems to have complemented because she was prepared to make decisions and show leadership, whereas he was content to be led by her.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/margaranjou.html (1212 words)

	Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Kingdom of Sicily, he built on the reform of the laws begun at the Assizes of Ariano in 1146 by his grandfather Roger II.
		An attempt to invade the Kingdom of Sicily, under the command of Ranieri, was halted at Spello by Marino of Eboli, Imperial vicar of Spoleto.
		Constance of Sicily (daughter of Roger II of Sicily and Beatrice of Rethel)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (5924 words)

	Amaro-Sicily History
		The Norman Roger II was recognized (1139) by Pope Innocent II as king of Sicily and of the Norman territories in southern Italy.
		Sicily passed briefly to the house of Savoy (1713) and then to the Austrian Habsburgs (1720), but in 1734, during the War of the Polish Succession, both Sicily and Naples were conquered by the Spanish Bourbon prince Charles.
		Sicily was the birthplace of the Mafia, organizations of brigands that developed in the lawless conditions fostered by centuries of unpopular foreign rule.
	www.amarofamily.com /amaro_sicily_history.htm (6110 words)

	AllRefer.com - Margaret of Parma (Benelux History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Margaret of Parma 1522–86, Spanish regent of the Netherlands; illegitimate daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. She was married (1536) to Alessandro de' Medici (d.
		Margaret warned Philip II against harsh measures and resigned as regent, being unable to agree with Alba.
		Margaret's son was the noted general Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MargP.html (305 words)

	Sicily
		Sicily was a Greek colony, a Roman province, an Arab emirate and a Norman kingdom.
		Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, and until the fourteenth century Sicily was the most important island in Europe.
		The wild boar that has been re-introduced into Sicily is actually a Sardinian variety, but a local species of toad whose body grows to a length of almost 20 centimeters (8 inches) sometimes ventures out into the rains, several varieties of frog inhabit the streams, and several varieties of gecko lizard are ubiquitous.
	www.emich.edu /abroad/staff/Benita/Sicily.html (8043 words)

	Biographies of Great Men & Women of England, Wales and Scotland
		Margaret, the Queen of Henry VI, was the fifth child of “Le Bon Roi René,” Count of Anjou, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and was born at Nancy.
		It was at this time, while wandering in a Northumbrian forest, that Margaret is said to have met a ferocious robber and threw herself upon his generosity, not in vain, by revealing to him her rank and that of her young son.
		Margaret was learned and fierce, a far truer product of the clever and cruel Angevin house than her gentle and scrupulous father, René; she was devoted to hunting as well as to reading and, even in the days of her comparative prosperity, was an importunate beggar of everything which she desired.
	www.britannia.com /bios/manjou.html (873 words)

	Genealogy of the British Royal Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ernest, Elector of Saxony, son of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and Margarete of Austria, daughter of Ernest of Austria.
		Margaret II, Countess of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin I of Constantinople and Marie of Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
		Baldwin I of Constantinople, son of Baldwin V of Hainaut and Margaret I of Flanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Royal_geneology (4076 words)

	"Mother" of human rights reporting
		Margaret Fuller openly made her intellectual, emotional sympathy for the 1848 revolutions of Europe a part of her journalism.
		Margaret Fuller was the eldest of nine children born to Unitarian parents in 1810 at Cambridgeport, Mass.
		Margaret Fuller experienced what one source called a delayed mourning for the death of her father, a mourning which finally in the winter of 1840-1841 led to her shifting of attention to issues of female creativity (Steele XI).
	www.worldlymind.org /fuller.htm (1926 words)

	Italy
		Margaret was the heiress of Montferrat, which brought the Margravate, soon to be a Duchy also, to Mantua -- though it was separated from Mantua by the territory of the much more powerful Milan.
		Sicily and Naples then continued separately or together until the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was overrun by Garbaldi, fighting for a united Kingdom of Italy, in 1860.
		Sicily and Naples remained united to Spain until Naples (and Sardina) was ceded to Austria, and Sicily to Savoy, after the War of the Spanish Succession (1713).
	www.friesian.com /italia.htm (10172 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Margaret d' Anjou
		Margaret of Anjou (March 23, 1429 - August 25, 1482) was the Queen consort of Henry VI of England from 1445 to 1471, and a major proponent in the Wars of the Roses.
		Margaret was born in the province of Lorraine in France, the daughter of Rene I of Naples, Duke of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
		By the time Margaret, her son and daughter-in-law were ready to follow Warwick back to England, however, he had been defeated and killed by the returning King Edward IV, and Margaret was forced to lead her own army at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, at which they were defeated and her son was killed.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/3/3295.htm (665 words)

	Did you know: Food History
		In Sicily, bread is broken in chunks not cut with a knife, whereas in most of the rest of Italy bread is cut by holding the loaf against the chest with one arm and slicing with a knife towards the body with the other hand.
		Michele Amari, one of the greatest Sicilian scholars and the preeminent authority of the Arabs in Sicily proposed that sfincioni, a Sicilian word for pizza, derives from the Arabic sfang, a fried dough or pastry that was perhaps fermented.
		The stuffed pizza typical of Sicily is similar to that in the Kabylie region of Algeria.
	www.cliffordawright.com /history/breads_sicily.html (744 words)

	SAINT MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE Virgin
		Margaret was born at Lhautecour, France, 22 July, 1647, and died at Paray-le-Monial, 17 October, 1690.
		The date of Margaret's birth cannot be ascertained with accuracy, but it must have been between the years 1038, when St. Stephen died, and 1057, when her father returned to England.
		In 1250 Margaret was canonized by Innocent IV, and her relics were translated on 19 June, 1259, to a new shrine, the base of which is still visible beyond the modern east wall of the restored church.
	www.ewtn.com /new_evangelization/europe/holiness/saints3.htm (18404 words)

	Margaret of Anjou - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Margaret of Anjou (1430–82) Queen consort of Henry VI of England from 1445.
		She led the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses, raising troops in France.
		After her only son, Edward, was killed at Tewkesbury (1471), Margaret was taken prisoner.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-MargaretofAnjou.html (440 words)

	Margaret Cowling Art Tours - Eastern Sicily
		Every town in Sicily is distinct in nature, history and character.
		Sicily’s second largest city (after Palermo), Catania exists at several levels, physically and historically, according to the path of the lava flows.
		We visit the Roman theatre and odeon, very much part of living Catania, whose residents have built on the very perimeters of the theatre, and we paint in amongst the hive of activity in the fish market with its striking red umbrellas and crusty sword fish sellers.
	www.arttour.com.au /sicily3.htm (303 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 16
		Margaret was the daughter of the exiled Aetheling Prince Edward (of the line of Saxon kings and son of King Edmund Ironsides) and Agatha (kinswoman of Saint Stephen of Hungary--in the line of the Roman emperors).
		When Margaret was 12, her family was received at the court of her great uncle Saint Edward the Confessor.
		Margaret wanted, like her sister who later became an abbess, to enter religious life, but after much prayer, she realized that her vocation was for marriage.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1116.htm (3843 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Margaret of Anjou by Jacob Abbott
		Her children, and especially Margaret, were very beautiful too, and this greatly increased the compassion which the people were disposed to feel for her.
		And even Margaret, though left for the present with her mother, did not escape being involved in the entanglements of the treaty.
		At the time of this ceremony, the two children, Margaret and her brother, were seated beside their mother in a grand state carriage, which was lined with velvet and embroidered with gold, and in this way they were conveyed through the streets of the city.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=margaret&story=parents (2191 words)

	Isabella of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When her brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, passed through Sicily returning from the Crusades, he had to beg Frederick to see Isabella and speak with her for a few moments.
		She bore four children, all of whom died as infant aside from a daughter, Margaret of Sicily (1237-1270).
		Isabella died in childbirth at Foggia along with her newborn child in 1241, and according to Thomas Costain, Frederick buried her beside one of his Saracen mistresses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabella_of_England (199 words)

	Welcome to Sicily Bella - About the province of Catania
		The Normans took possession in 1072 and its fortunes were those of the Kingdom of Sicily until unification with Italy in 1860.
		During 1458, a Parliament was assembled and it nominated Giovanni d'Aragona prince of Caltagirone and King of the Reign of Sicily.
		In 1799 the fief and the abbey (also known as the Castle) were given by Ferdinand III of Sicily to Admiral Nelson for his help in repressing the riots in Naples.
	www.sicilybella.com /about_catania.html (2041 words)

	SparkNotes: Henry VI Part 1: Act V, Scene v
		Margaret continues to ask him if she can go, while Suffolk ruminates that he has a wife and, thus, cannot woo the girl for himself.
		Meanwhile, Margaret grows annoyed that Suffolk, lost in his schemes, is ignoring her questions of him.
		When he later convinces Henry to marry Margaret, he overturns the plan already in effect to have Henry marry a relative of Charles, thus, effecting a peace with France, instead convincing him to marry a bride without any real fortune or kingdom.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/henry6pt1/section12.rhtml (510 words)

	Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Summary
		In Frederick's name she dissolved Sicily's ties to the Empire, sending home his German counsellors (notably Markward of Anweiler and Gualtiero da Pagliara), and renouncing his claims to the German kingship and empire.
		In the Kingdom of Sicily, he built on the reform of the laws begun at the Assizes of Ariano in 1140 by his grandfather Roger II.
		An attempt to invade the Kingdom of Sicily, under the command of Ranieri, was halted at Spello by Marino of Eboli, Imperial vicar of Spoleto.
	www.bookrags.com /Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (6330 words)

	Sicily: History
		Interlopers from mainland Greece seized the remainder, and Sicily became a battleground for rival empires.
		Even after Italian unification, Sicily was neglected by the central government, and the island's economic and social problems long remained unattended.
		Sicily was given limited autonomy under the Italian constitution of 1947.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861078.html (897 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
		Married in 1692 in Parma Princess Margaret Farnese of Parma (*1664 Parma,†1718 Colorno).
		Married in 1538 in Rome Dowager Duchess of Tuscany Margaret of Habsburg (*1522 Pamele/Oudenaarde,†1586 Ortona).
		Married in 1536 in Naples Margaret of Habsburg (*1522 Pamele/Oudenaarde,†1586 Ortona).
	homepage.mac.com /crowns/i/avtxt.html (9817 words)

	FReeper Canteen ~ Part VIII of Women Warriors:European Women Leaders ~ March 9, 2004
		Margaret of Denmark (1353-1411) became ruler of Denmark and nominal Queen of Norway on the death of her son Olaf II in 1387.
		Denmark, Norway and Sweden were at war and Margaret led her armies against key cities and fortresses, eventually forcing the Swedes and Norwegians to withdraw from Denmark.
		Her daughter Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) married Henry VI of England and defended the Lancastrians during the War of the Roses.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1093736/posts (3622 words)

	Humanities West \| current programs
		From the Sicali to the Phoenicians, from the Greeks to the Romans, from the Carthaginians to the Arabs, from the Goths to the Vandals, the island of Sicily has been a crossroads for ethnic groups moving through the Mediterranean or south from Central Europe.
		In 850 BC the Carthaginians established trading ports in the west of Sicily at Palermo, Solunto and Mozia.Over the centuries most of the powers of the Mediterranean have laid some claim to parts or all of Sicily.Roy Willis an emeritus Professor of History from UC Davis will follow the threads through this fascinating tapestry.
		The Greeks who colonized Sicily from 735 BC to 413 left behind many great buildings, both civil and religious that are among the finest examples in Magna Graecia.Margaret Miles (UC Irvine) will help us discover these treasures.She will also present examples of other art forms that flourished in Sicily.
	www.humanitieswest.org /current.html (549 words)

	Self-guided bike tour—Sicily: Italian Isle of Myth
		Sicily is a world unto itself; it offers so many different stories, sights, and tastes that is would take a long time to see them all.
		The tour of Sicily begins in Scopello, a tiny seaside village on the Castellamare gulf, at the entrance of the Zingaro park.
		There is no describing the beauty of the place: the golden stone of the temple shining in the sun and the peace of the landscape of soft hills.
	www.pedalandseaadventures.com /sicily_self_guided_tour.html (1259 words)

	Philip II, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1527–98, king of Spain (1556–98), king of Naples and Sicily (1554–98), and, as Philip I, king of Portugal (1580–98).
		Philip ascended the Spanish throne on the abdication of his father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who had previously made over to him Naples and Sicily, the Low Countries, Franche-Comté, and the duchy of Milan.
		His first wife, Maria of Portugal, died giving birth to the unfortunate Don Carlos (1545–68), and in 1554 Philip married Queen Mary I of England.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ph/Philip2-Sp.html (815 words)

	Amazon.com: The Memoirs of Cleopatra: Books: Margaret George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Margaret George is writing for Cleopatra's side, so if there's a dispute or an interpretation of propaganda, she resolves it in Cleopatra's favor.
		Margaret George makes Antony lovable in a way that even Richard Burton's massive acting talent, Elizabeth Taylor's passion, and all the money in Hollywood could not.
		The book is told in the first person and as the title suggests it is about the happenings in the life of the very young Egyptian Princess and the fights she had with her brother who should take over the rule of Egypt after their father the pharaoh died.
	www.amazon.com /Memoirs-Cleopatra-Margaret-George/dp/0312187459 (2137 words)

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