King of England from 1100. Youngest son of William the Conqueror, he succeeded his brother William II. He won the support of the Saxons by granting them a charter and marrying a Saxon princess, Edith, ...
Henry VIII's early military campaigns began when he joined Pope Julius II's Holy League against France ... saw this war as an opportunity to invade England, they were defeated at Flodden in ...
St Pauls Cathedral, aged 48. Also crowned Henri II of France, December 1431, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, aged 10. Buried at: Chertsey, reburied in 1485 when his body was moved to St George's ...
IN this week in 1560, there died the man who would have been King of Scotland had he just survived a few more years. Although classed as an adult, King Francis II of France died in that fateful year ...
thereby declaring her the true heiress of England. Elizabeth was never to forget this insult and her father-in-law's actions were to have disastrous results for Mary in the future. As the Scottish ...
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