Biography Category
(hwän mänw l´, nfän´t th käst ´l ) (KEY) , 1282–1349?, Spanish nobleman, soldier, and writer; nephew of Alfonso X (called the Wise). Juan ...
(j ´d hä-nä´s ) (KEY) , c.135–c.220, Palestinian Jewish communal leader (tanna). He occupied the office of patriarch (nasi) which was reestabli...
(hwä´nä lä b lträn ´hä) (KEY) , 1462–1530, Castilian princess, daughter of Juana of Portugal, queen of Henry IV of Castile. Her paternity was...
fl. A.D. 6, a leader of the Zealots, a radical revolutionary Jewish sect. He raised an insurrection against the taxation census of Cyrenius (A.D. 6) o...
(hwä´nä n s´ d lä kr s) (KEY) , 1651–95, Mexican poet. She is considered the greatest lyric poet of the colonial period. A beautiful and inte...
(j ´´l - n´ ) (KEY) , 1909–2004, queen of the Netherlands (1948–80). She succeeded on the abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina. A popular...