Events Tagged: "captivity"

By the rivers of Babylon - exiled Judeans weep remembering Zion, refuse to sing songs in foreign land

Valerian dies in captivity - used as footstool by Shapur, body stuffed and displayed

Patrick captured by Irish raiders at age 16 from Roman Britain (possibly Bannavem Taburniae) and enslaved in Ireland as a shepherd

Richard I becomes Duke at age 10 - Louis IV tries to annex Normandy, holds young duke captive at Laon

Richard Lionheart ransomed for 150,000 marks - twice England's annual revenue

Napoleon Egyptian Campaign begins; French occupy Papal States, Pope Pius VI taken prisoner

Pope Pius VI dies in French captivity at Valence - symbolically ends century of Church weakening