Edward of Westminster, or Edward of Lancaster, as he is sometimes known, the only son of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou was born at the Palace of Westminster, London on 13 October, 1453. At ...

England under King Edward III was engaged in the long struggle with France known as the Hundred Years' War, following King Edward's victory over the French at Crecy in August 1346, the English set ...

Henry III, the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angouleme was born on 1st October 1207 at Winchester. A grandson of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, he was also the great-great-grandson of ...

Following the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, Richard, Duke of York had rid himself of many of his enemies, however, the Queen, Margaret of Anjou, fiercely protective of her infant son, Edward of ...

Morcar was the younger son of Ælfgifu, daughter of Morcar and Ælfgar, earl of Mercia, one of the most powerful earldoms of Anglo- Saxon England, and grandson of Leofric and Godiva, who, according to ...

On the death of Edward the Confessor without a direct heir, the Witan elected his brother-in-law, the powerful Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, as King. Coin of Harold II Harold had been elected from ...

Often considered the greatest of the Plantagenets, Edward I was born on the evening of 17th June 1239, at Westminster Palace, the firstborn child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He was named ...

The charismatic Edward III, one of the most dominant personalities of his age, was the son of Edward II and Isabella of France. He was born at Windsor Castle on 13th of November, 1312 and created Earl ...

The last king of the Lancastrian dynasty, Henry VI was born at Windsor Castle on 6th December 1421 the son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France. Henry became King of ...

When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...

Hengist (also spelt Hengest) and Horsa (Hors), the legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain arrived as mercenaries to fight the Picts and Scots at the invitation of the Celtic ...

Ethelred I, was born around 834 and like his father Ethelwulf, was a man of great piety, and had been brought up very religiously by his mother, Queen Osburh. Ethelred succeeded his brother Ethelbert ...