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farming the taxes

(Encyclopedia)farming the taxes: see farming, in taxation. ...

Ferdinand the Catholic

(Encyclopedia)Ferdinand the Catholic: see Ferdinand II, king of Aragón. ...

Eric the Red

(Encyclopedia)Eric the Red, fl. 10th cent., Norse chieftain, discoverer and colonizer of Greenland according to the sagas. He left (c.950) Norway with his exiled father and settled in Iceland. A feud resulting in m...

Ivan the Terrible

(Encyclopedia)Ivan the Terrible: see Ivan IV.

Howel the Good

(Encyclopedia)Howel the Good: see Hywel Dda.

Henry the Fowler

(Encyclopedia)Henry the Fowler: see Henry I, German king. ...

Henry the Lion

(Encyclopedia)Henry the Lion, 1129–95, duke of Saxony (1142–80) and of Bavaria (1156–80); son of Henry the Proud. His father died (1139) while engaged in a war to regain his duchies, and it was not until 1142...

Henry the Minstrel

(Encyclopedia)Henry the Minstrel: see Blind Harry. ...

Henry the Navigator

(Encyclopedia)Henry the Navigator, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal, patron of exploration. Because he fought with extraordinary valor in the Portuguese conquest of Ceuta (1415), he was created duke of Viseu by his ...

Henry the Proud

(Encyclopedia)Henry the Proud, c.1108–1139, duke of Bavaria (1126–38) and of Saxony (1137–38). A member of the Guelph family, he inherited the duchy of Bavaria and enormous private wealth. By his marriage (11...