John's mother died in 1394 when he was but five years old, in 1399 his father Henry of Bolingbroke, a grandson of Edward III, usurped the throne of his cousin Richard II and was crowned Henry IV. The ...

The Act of Supremacy, passed in 1534, established King Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the English Church. The Reformation Parliament of 1529-1536 approved the king's break with the see of Rome, as ...

Isabella of Valois the second wife of Richard II was born in Paris on 9 November 1389 and was the daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. Isabella was born at a time of ...

The ancestors of William the Conqueror and England's line of Norman kings had Norwegian Viking roots. The founder of the line, Rollo or Rolf the Ganger, was a Viking raider chief, who was born in 850, ...

John of Gaunt later made Katherine Swynford his third wife and their four Beaufort offspring were legitimated by the pope and by Act of Parliament on 9 February 1397. Their half-brother King Henry IV ...

Æthelflæd has been described as 'our greatest woman general, was born around 864, the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. Her ...

King Edward ordered his army to fight on foot and distributed his army in three divisions, stationed between the villages of Creçy and Wadicourt, one of the divisions were commanded by his ...

Lady Catherine Grey, the second surviving daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon, was born at Bradgate Park near Leicester on 25 August 1540. Catherine was the younger ...