Biography Category
(b pt st´ d lä säl´) (KEY) , 1651–1719, French educator, founder of the Christian Brothers, b. Reims. He became a priest and canon of the cathe...
1358–90, Spanish king of Castile and León (1379–90), son and successor of Henry II. He tried unsuccessfully to unite the Portuguese and Castilian...
1912–78, pope (1978), an Italian (b. Canale d’Agordo) named Albino Luciani; successor of Paul VI. Born into a poor, working-class family, he train...
(John Cantacuzene) (k n´´t ky z n´) (KEY) , c.1292–1383, Byzantine emperor (1347–54). He was chief minister under Andronicus III, after whose d...
1633–1701, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1685–88); second son of Charles I, brother and successor of Charles II.
Early Life
As the yo...
1811–82, American student of religion and social problems, b. Albany, N.Y.; father of the philosopher William James and of the novelist Henry James....