A pair of rare pistols from the private collection of an 18th Century prince are to be sold at auction later.The guns were owned by Prince Augustus Frederick, the first Duke of Sussex, the sixth son ...

Over 700 years ago, the papacy went through a shift - one that saw it physically uprooted from Rome and relocated to Avignon, France ... especially King Philip IV - Clement chose instead to ...

At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait ... had escaped Madrid’s control, while rival France had bested its neighbor across the Pyrenees ...

For three young women in the early 1300s, being the daughters-in-law of a king could be just as burdensome, especially when the sovereign was the ruthless Philip IV of France. Like many kings ...

Hundreds of Knights Templar were arrested by order of King Philip IV of France, making the event a reason for the day’s unlucky reputation. In Norse mythology, there’s another theory leading ...

Friday the 13th comes around at least once every year, and while many know of its "unlucky" reputation, not many know why. Sept. 13 marks the first Friday the 13th of 2024, but not the last.

If you were a member of the Knights Templar in medieval France, then you would have had a good reason to worry about Friday the 13th. On that day in 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the ...

King Philip IV of France, and "Sacracen," which I assume is a misspelling of Saracens. You may like Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of ...

For the first time in nearly 60 years, a new monarch is set to appear on the full suite of coins in Australia. Today, the first full proof set of coins bearing the face of King Charles III was ...