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| Gabriel Bethlen the Musulman @Wikipedia |
the Musulman: "After some seven years of instability, the country found its brightest star in Gabor Bethlen (1613-29). At thirty-three, Bethlen was no political or military novice... In October 1613 he was elected prince in particularly humiliating circumstances. The Diet was convened by the Turkish commander and was ordered to elect Bethlen. In return for Ottoman support, Bethlen had to suffer an additional humiliation: Istanbul wanted the retrocession of Lippa (Lipova, Romani), a fortress of great strategic importance. Bethlen was forced to besiege his own castle, defended by his own soldiers, clear it out and hand it over to the Turks. The incident did little to enhance his reputation, earning him the nickname 'Gabor, the Musulman'. . . ." (Molnar and Magyar: 118)
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| Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard the Richest Man in France @google.com |
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| Gabrielle d'Estrees the Glorious Venus @Wikipedia |
the Duchess of Filth (la Duchesse d'Ordure)
the Fair Gabrielle (la Belle Gabrielle)
the Glorious Venus
the Marvelous Blond of Picardy
the Model Mistress
the Queen of Filth.
the Fair Gabrielle (la Belle Gabrielle)
the Glorious Venus
the Marvelous Blond of Picardy
the Model Mistress
the Queen of Filth.
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| Gaby Deslys the Uncrowned Queen of Portugal @Wikipedia |
the Uncrowned Queen of Portugal.
Belfiore: "In 1377, Galeotto Novello Malatesta is born in the fortress and as a result is nicknamed 'Belfiore'. On his death, the village passes to his brother Carlo and then to his nephew Galeotto Roberto, who is succeeded in 1432 by his brother, Sigismondo Pandolfo, the most famous member of the Malatesta family." (Montefiore Conca@borghitalia.it)
Garcia III Sanchez de Navarra:
El de Najera: (Sp. He of Najera)
Garcia Ramirez
Garcia IV, V, VI or VII
the Restorer (Sp. el Restaurador)
the Greatest Italian Woman Poet Ever
Gaston of France, Duke of Orleans.
born Gaston-Jean-Baptiste of France
Gaston of Bourbon
Gaston of Orleans
the Grand Monsieur.
the Hero (Fr. le Preaux): " . . . Why Gaston II chose that moment to go crusading in Spain has been sometimes explained as a move to renew the traditional Iberian ties of the Foix dynasty, a view perhaps supported by the betrothal of his nine-year-old heir to the daughter of King James III of Majorca. But the Count's decision to join the Castilian campaign against the Moors of Granada may have simply stemmed from a sense of his obligations as a knight and a Christian prince. Gaston II has been characterized as 'a ruthless and self-serving warlord', but he is also entered in chronicles with the epithet of 'le Preux' (the Hero). And the crusading mystique still had a powerful hold on the chivalric imagination. It would fade only after the surrender of Moslem Granada had brought to completion the Spanish Reconquista, and the growing Ottoman threat had rendered the prospect of 'liberating' Jerusalem more chimerical than ever, but throughout the fourteenth centurty the idea of crusade was a constant preoccupation of every pope and most kings." (Lord of the Pyrenees: Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix (1331-1391): 9)
Gaston X de Bearn
Gaston III de Andorra
Gaston III de Marsan
Gaston Phoebus:
--"By all accounts, Gaston was an effective ruler and an exceptionally learned and cultivated man. The great wealth he accumulated through efficient administration of his territories enabled him to maintain the most magnificent court in southern France, and he was well known as a patron of art and literature. . . Although Froissart admired him as the 'perfect knight,' Gaston could be extremely cruel and unscrupulous. The count himself chose the surname Febus (or Phoebus, 'Brilliant') when he was still a young man." (Drees: 179)
--" . . . He was called Phoebus on account either of his light hair or of a sun he bore on his escutcheon. . . ." (Ripley and Dana, 1883: 301)
--"Why Febus? It is not exactly known why Gaston III of Foix-Bearn took the name the will be passed on to posterity. Perhaps it was because of his physical beauty evoking the Greek god, hos blonde hair which is colored like the sun or even because he had decided to use the star as his emblem."
--" . . . Gaston III himself chose to be known as Febus, a name that would eventually become his official signature and appear not only on lapidary inscriptions, but also on coinage from his Morlaas mint. As a gesture, its adoption is akin to that of a conqueror crowning himself. Febus is the Bearnais spelling of Phoebus, one of the several names of Apollo, the sun god of classical Antiquity. As for its meaning, the etymology of the name (from the Greek verb meaning 'to shine'), and the perceived (albeit anachronistic) analogy with the emobleem chosen three centuries later by Louis XIV -- the 'Sun King' -- suggest an explanation in terms of physical vanity. Froissart notes that, contrary to current fashion, Gaston III always went bareheaded, with his hair flowing free down to his shoulders; and in a surviving motet in praise of the Count of Foix, the entrance of the 'illustrious prince' is pointedly illuminated by his 'blond curls'. . . ." (Lord of the Pyrenees: 50)
the Lion of the Pyrenees: "Physically, as the writings of his time say, Gaston Febus was beautiful, well-proportioned with a good stature... His hair was blond. Gaston Febus is also sometimes called 'the Lion of the Pyrenees.'"
the Dove: Meanwhile, Margaret's childish lover, Gaston, had left the chateau at Blois. The modest mannered boy, known familiarly as 'the Dove,' had gone to take up a man's business, leaving his little weeping friend behind him. . . ." (Old & Sold)
the Fair: "Geoffrey the Fair, one of the handsomest and most courteous knights in Europe, was more often called by his nickname, Plantagenet, because of his habit of wearing a sprig of broom plant---planta genista---in his cap. . . ." (Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World: 54)
the Handsome (Fr. le Bel): " . . . His daughter, Maud, who had been the wife of the Emperor Henry V, had returned to her father after her husband's death, and Henry gave her in marriage to Geoffrey the Handsome, count of Anjou, who was called also Plantagenet, because he often wore in his cap a sprig of broom (plante-a-genet). . . ." (Outlines of English History: 39)
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