Poetess and convert; born at Linum, 30 March, 1798; died. at Paderborn, 18 December, 1876.

Jesuit, hagiographer; b. at Venray (Limburg), 21 June, 1601; d. at Antwerp, 11 Sept., 1681.

Scottish poet, born probably 1420-1430; died about 1500.

Converted to Catholicism by the death of Edmund Campion. Walpole became a Jesuit priest, and was arrested as soon as he returned to England. He was martyred in 1595.

Lengthy article which concentrates on Henry's break with the Church of Rome.

German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1165-1197)

German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1081-1125)

Born 4 March, 1394; died 13 November, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal, by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt.

Biography of this German Dominican mystic, d. 1366.

Usually called Hostiensis. Italian canonist, bishop of Ostia, d. 1261.

Alleged author of an imperial and papal chronicle of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

A Bavarian secular priest, of the fourteenth century, date of death unknown; the spiritual adviser of Margaretha Ebner (died 1351), the mystic of Medingen.

Theologian and mathematician; b. about 1325 at the villa of Hainbuch (Hembuche), near Langenstein in Hesse; d. at Vienna, 11 Feb., 1397.

Carthusian writer, b. at Kalkar in the Duchy of Cleves in 1328; d. at Cologne, 20 December, 1408.

Historian; b. probably near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, between 1080 and 1085; d. 1155.

Friar and chronicler; date of birth unknown; died at Minden, 9 Oct., 1370.

A notable scholastic philosopher and theologian of the thirteenth century.

German theologian; b. at Friemar, a small town near Gotha in Thuringia, about the end of the thirteenth century; d. probably at Erfurt about 1355.

English Jesuit who made his novitiate in prison. He was martyred at Tyburn in 1644.

German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1050-1108)

King of France and Navarre. (1553-1610)

German king and Holy Roman Emperor. (1017-1056)

Biography of the German king and Holy Roman Emperor, d. 1024.