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... guard , but he found the door locked . After a brief reconnaissance , Bothwell and his second - in - command , Huntley , leaped in through a window , swords in hand . Henry Darnley calmed them by say- ing what had happened was the ...
... guard , who now functioned as her advisor and a sort of regent , which displeased the British in general and Queen Elizabeth I of England above all.30 Some nobles within the realm complained that Both- well was more arrogant than the ...
... guards put them to flight . Gaspar de Coligny suffered wounds in the face and his right arm . It was now clear that someone very close to the king wanted him dead . Both Prince Henry and Catherine de ' Medici knew that Coligny could in ...
... guards dispatched by Charles IX from his palace had protected the diplomat from the militias . This protection had in turn allowed him to shelter English- men such as Walter Raleigh , who happened to be in Paris on that bloody day . To ...
... guards arrested Morton as he was about to enter the royal residence . The charge was having participated in the assassination of Henry Darnley fourteen years earlier . The ex - regent found himself confined in a dark cell in Edinburgh ...
Contents
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Times of Action 15871605 | 50 |
New Horizons 16051644 | 65 |
Era of Expansion 16441691 | 81 |
Time of Intrigue 16911721 | 96 |
Some Brief Reigns 17211775 | 110 |
Rise of the Terror 19341940 | 229 |
The End of the ThousandYear Reich 19401945 | 247 |
Odessa and the Vatican Ratline 19461958 | 268 |
New Alliances 19581976 | 285 |
Vatican Inc and Gods Business 19761978 | 302 |
Time of the Assassins 19791982 | 318 |
The Polish Years 19822005 | 335 |
The Years to Come Benedict XVI | 352 |
The Rise and Fall of Eagles 17751823 | 124 |
An Era of Spies 18231878 | 140 |
The League of the Impious 18781914 | 160 |
The Horseman of the Apocalypse 19141917 | 177 |
Intriguing Toward Peace 19171922 | 197 |
Era of the Dictators 19221934 | 211 |
List of Popes Since the Creation of the Holy Alliance | 373 |
Notes | 375 |
Bibliography | 399 |
Archives Consulted | 407 |
Index | 409 |
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The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage Eric Frattini,MICHAEL MUNN No preview available - 2010 |