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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: 48. Chapters: Pope Gregory XV, Philip Sidney, Sebastian of Portugal, Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Gonzalo Mendez de Canco, Richard Hooker, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Ernest of Bavaria, Gabriel Gifford, Jakob Christmann, Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, George Somers, Balint Balassi, William Stafford, Philip William, Prince of Orange, Kim Si-min, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, Pietro de' Medici, Sebastian Petrycy, Arthur Faunt, Robert Bruce, Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent, William Paddy, Leonardus Lessius, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Stephen Gosson, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Thomas Lant, Cesare Corte, Rombertus van Uylenburgh, Sakuma Morimasa, Marina de Escobar, Jacques Bongars, Marcin Szyszkowski, Luis de la Puente, Martin Heton, Mir Emad Hassani, Jean de Bonsi, Jacob Kurz von Senftenau, Suminokura Ry i, Francis Throckmorton, Paolo Bellasio, John Cowell, Miles Smith, Janusz Ostrogski, Henry Norreys, John Rashleigh, Thomas Archer, Louis III, Duke of Wurttemberg, Lawrence Arthur Faunt, Buyan Sechen Khan, Pedro Osores de Ulloa, Niccolo Orlandini, Paul Laurentius, Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, Edward Stransham, Anrakuan Sakuden, Honda Yasushige, Jean de la Barriere, Costantini de' Servi, Benedetto Giustiniani, Prospero Farinacci, Hamada Kagetaka, Lorenzo Binago, Kani Saiz, Girolamo Dandini, Angelo Grillo, Henri de Noailles. Excerpt: Sebastian "the Desired" (Sebastiao I, Portuguese pronunciation: , o Desejado; Lisbon, 20 January 1554 - presumed to have died at Alcacer-Quibir, 4 August 1578) was the 16th king of Portugal and the Algarves. He was the son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Spain. He was the grandson of John III of Portugal and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Sebastian was born shortly after 8 in the morning of 20 Janua...