Part 20 (1/2)

ENGLAND

Henry VII., 1485-1509.

Henry VIII., 1509-47.

Edward VI., 1547-53.

Mary, 1553-58.

Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

FRANCE

Charles VIII., 1483-98.

Louis XII., 1498-1515.

Francis I., 1515-47.

Henry II., 1547-59.

Francis II., 1559-60.

Charles IX., 1560-74.

Henry III., 1574-89.

SPAIN

Granada, taken by Ferdinand and Isabella, the sovereigns of Aragon and Castile (”Los Reyes Catolicos”) in 1492. Their daughter, Joanna, married Philip, son of the Emperor Maximilian of Germany. Ferdinand died 1516, and was succeeded by Charles V., son of Philip and Joanna, as King of Spain, in 1517. On the death of his grandfather Maximilian, in 1519, Charles was elected Emperor of Germany. He resigned all his dignities and retired to the monastery of Yuste in 1555, and was succeeded by his son, Philip II.

Charles died 1558. Philip II., who married as his first wife Mary Tudor, of England, reigned from 1555 till 1598.

SULTANS OF TURKEY

Bajazet II., 1481-1512; Selim the Cruel, 1512-20; Soliman the Magnificent, 1520-66; Selim II., known to the Spaniards as ”el bebedor” (the drunkard), 1566-74; Murad III., 1574-95.

POPES OF ROME

Pius III., 1503; Julius II., 1503; Leo X., 1513; Hadrian VI., 1522; Clement VII., 1523; Paul III., 1534; Julius III., 1550; Marcellus II., 1555; Paul IV., 1555; Pius IV., 1559; Pius V., 1566; Gregory XIII., 1572; Sixtus V., 1585.

GRAND MASTERS OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA