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Also Known As Fernando o Inconstante • Fernando o Formosa • Ferdinand the Fickle • Ferdinand the Handsome
Born October 31, 1345 • Lisbon • Portugal
Died October 22, 1383 (aged 37)
Title / Office king (1367-1383), Portugal
Afonso V
king of Portugal
Christopher Columbus
Isabella I
queen of Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand II
king of Spain
John I and John of Gaunt
John I
king of Portugal
John IV
king of Portugal
António, prior of Crato
Portuguese prior
Luiz de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3 count de Castelo Melhor
Portuguese statesman
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
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Elizabeth I
queen of England
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongol ruler
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Philip II
king of Macedonia
The Yongle emperor, detail of a portrait; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Yongle
emperor of Ming dynasty
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
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Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
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John
king of England
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty

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