What makes someone a king? More importantly, what unmakes a king? Henry II’s experiment in co-kingship saw one Henry III fall ...

He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' when he was young and succeeded King Stephen in October 1154. Archbishop Thomas a Becket disagreed with the King's wishes and a rash phrase spoken ...

For as little as £10, you could walk the same halls as King Henry VIII as his former Wiltshire property – valued at £2,500,000 – is being raffled. Built in the 1500s, the historic Grade II-listed ...

Historians have long debated whether his murder was on the orders of Henry II or if it was a terrible ... traitor to the king and the kingdom?” They then murdered Becket, striking him three ...

Order Chaos Theater Company's production proves why THE LION IN WINTER endures. Beneath its medieval trappings lies a searing ...

The film gets some of the history wrong, e.g., it pretends that Becket was a Saxon (to add to the conflict with King Henry II) when he was, in fact, a Norman. It tends sometimes to favor the ...