He met his troubles, writes A.L. Rowse, with resilience and courage. J.L. Kirby describes how, early in the fifteenth century, King Henry IV of England ordered three trusted servants to conduct ...

His imprisonment by Edward IV eventually led to his brutal murder in the Wakefield Tower of the Tower of London. Henry VI was born on 6 December 1421, the only child of the charismatic Henry V and ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

King of England from 1399, the son of John of Gaunt. In 1398 he was banished by Richard II but returned in 1399 to head a revolt and be accepted as king by Parliament. He was succeeded by his son ...

Henry IV of France (1553–1610), also known as Henry of Navarre, was the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty and ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610. His reign marked a significant turning point ...

Even when contemplating their own deaths, the two cousins inhabited different worlds. Richard II’s will, written in the ...

Although the 20th-century American painter and English sculptor never met, their works draw deep parallels within abstraction ...

Henry III of France (1551–1589) was the last monarch of the Valois dynasty and reigned as the King of France from 1574 until ...

The most enigmatic and in some ways the most tragic victim of this process was Richard II. He is the central figure in Helen ...

King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine (1207-1272) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...

IN this penultimate part of my series on the ancient history of the Scottish Borders, I will deal with momentous events, none ...

After their defeat last time out, Cambridge City bounced back at the first time of asking in the England Hockey Women’s ...