ISFP

The Granada poet-architect who crossed the Sahara to build for Mansa Musa — the ISFP who raised Timbuktu's mosque.

Ukrainian Cossack chorister who secretly wed Empress Elizabeth — the gentle ISFP 'night emperor' who declined to wield power.

Pachacuti's passed-over heir — set aside as insufficiently warlike, spent his life on terraces and irrigation instead.

The princess Henry could not bear to touch, who agreed to her own annulment and outlived every other wife — the ISFP who won by losing

Hadrian's beloved companion, drowned in the Nile at twenty and deified with thousands of statues across the empire.

The Byzantine princess wed to the khan, longing for home — the ISFP caught between two worlds in Ibn Battuta's tale.

Henry V's queen who secretly wed a Welsh commoner for love — the ISFP whose heart founded the Tudor dynasty.

The gentle French king broken by madness — the 'glass king' whose delusion let England in; an ISFP lost to illness.

The last Roman emperor, who threw off the purple to die as a common soldier in the breach — the quietly valiant ISFP.

The impressionable young accomplice who fled with Booth

Killed Pizarro at twenty for his father's execution, was proclaimed governor, beheaded at twenty-two.

The king who loved his favorites and ditches more than his crown — the ISFP destroyed by a throne he never fit.

Sam Houston's first wife — who walked out on their wedding night

The shipwrecked Spaniard who became a Maya war chief and refused Cortés's call to return.

The gentle, pious king who rebuilt Westminster Abbey but could not rule — the ISFP artist who lost England to his barons.

The countess who defied her Comyn kin to crown Bruce — and was caged on Berwick's walls for it: the defiant ISFP.

The swordsman whose failed dagger-thrust against the King of Qin became legend.

Richard's spirited sister, moved kingdom to kingdom as a pawn, who refused a king's peace-marriage on her own conviction — the strong-willed ISFP.

Eldest son of Genghis Khan, disqualified by a doubt over his birth — the wounded, withdrawn ISFP who fathered the Golden Horde

The sergeant who held a machine-gun position alone against a massed assault on Guadalcanal.

Louis XV's lifelong melancholy and reluctance to govern make him a textbook ISFP, the private heart trapped in France's most public office

Marcus Aurelius's co-emperor, who ran the Parthian War by delegating to good generals while he enjoyed Antioch.

The pope's daughter, slandered as a poisoner but really a pawn who became a gracious, capable Duchess of Ferrara — the quietly resilient ISFP.

Composer of Defiance and Devotion.

Mansa Musa's overshadowed heir, weak between two giants — the ISFP who never fit the throne he inherited.

Maria Theresa's favored daughter, the only one allowed to marry for love — a gifted painter and co-founder of the Albertina, typed ISFP

Thomas Jefferson's wife — who died ten years before he became president

The cultured general executed for a death march he may not have ordered.

Nobunaga's celebrated-beauty sister, twice married to doomed men, who chose to die beside her husband in the flames — the quietly steadfast ISFP.

The clerk whose one letter announcing Brazil became the founding document of Brazilian literature.

The streetcar conductor who became Whitman's closest companion

The 'greatest warrior in Japan,' who chose a hopeless loyalty and nearly cut down Ieyasu himself at Osaka — the gallant, doomed ISFP.

The queen of Persia whose dignity in captivity moved even Alexander.

Countess who traded wealth and rank to live openly with a disgraced favorite — the ISFP whose one act was pure conviction.

The workshop sculptor whose bust of Nefertiti became the ancient world's most famous face.

The last Sapa Inca, raised for the sun cult not the throne, silenced fifteen thousand mourners with one raised hand before his execution.

The boy king remembered for his intact tomb far more than his steered, brief reign.

The knight who won Stirling Bridge and died defying England for Scotland's freedom — the ISFP martyr of conviction.

The legendary beauty sent to distract a king and break a kingdom.

Imperial Consort, Cultural Muse, and the Tragic Beauty of the Tang Court