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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Edward VI of England, John III of Sweden, Thomas Preston, Hieronymus Fabricius, Kwon Yul, Patrick Adamson, Philip Galle, John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, Bartholomew Clerke, Arnaud d'Ossat, Simon I of Kartli, Longqing Emperor, Ludvig Munk, Francesco Barozzi, Humphrey Toy, John Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Willem IV van den Bergh, Isaac van Swanenburg, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Pedro Tellez-Giron, 1st Duke of Osuna, John Fowler, Ismail II, Francisco Ribera, Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Nabeshima Naoshige, Johannes Praetorius, Jakob Middendorp, Giovanni Battista Naldini, Jane Lumley, Francisco Verdugo, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, Shimizu Muneharu, Sanada Nobutsuna, Stefano Lusignan, Zofia Odrow, Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Achille Gagliardi, Kat Mitsuyasu, Saegusa Moritomo, Johann Wolff, Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Anton Maria Salviati, Shimozuma Rairen, kubo Tadasuke, Shimazu Toshihisa, Amano Yasukage. Excerpt: Edward VI (12 October 1537 - 6 July 1553) became King of England and Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first ruler who was raised as a Protestant. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because he never reached maturity. The Council was led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, (1547-1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, (1550-1553), who later became Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that, in 1549, erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from there and Boulogne-...
