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Portrait of Count Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724-1797), an Austrian field marshal best known for leading armies against Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolutionary Wars. Engraving by an unknown artist, 1778-1793. Österreichische...

Cooper engraving presenting a reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541). Created around 1522.

A portrait of James II of Scotland (r. 1437-1460 CE) by Jörg von Ehingen. 1450s CE. (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, Germany)

The Western Roman Empire is the modern-day term for the western half of the Roman Empire after it was divided in two by the emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) in c. 285/286 CE. The Romans themselves did not use this term. At its height (c...

Johann Eck (l. 1486-1543) was a Catholic theologian and writer best known for his disputations with Martin Luther (l. 1483-1546) beginning in 1517 and continuing until his death in 1543. Eck maintained the position that, if anyone could determine...

Page from the early 14th-century Codex Manesse - an illuminated book of poetry composed in Middle High German - depicting Duke Heinrich von Breslau (probably Henry IV of Silesia, also known as Henryk IV Probus in Polish) participating in...

A 1629 portrait of the mercenary General Albrecht von Wallenstein, leader of the Imperial forces during the Thirty Years' War. (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich)

Modern statue of Katharina von Bora (Martin Luther's wife) on the compound of the Lutherhaus, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).

A medieval illustration of the Germanic knight Wolfram von Eschenbach and his squire. 1305-1315 CE. (Codex Manesse, Zurich, Switzerland)