You may think that all the Kings and
Queens of Great Britain are buried somewhere in our sceptre isle,
even if in the case of some efforts are still going on to work out
exactly where. In fact, two of our Kings and one of their wives at
buried at the Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud, in Anjou,
France. They are Henry II, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and their
son Richard I. For this was in…
King Stephen of England was born in Blois
in France in either 1092 or 1096. It’s quite unusual that we do not
have a birth date for a future King of England, but by the time of
his birth, it was not expected that he would ever be king. His
parents were Stephen-Henry…
The “self-indulgent” King Henry VIII has
earned himself the title of the worst monarch in history granted by
the Historical Writers Association. Twenty per cent voted the
obsessive tyrant the worst monarch citing his “self-indulgent”
and…
Henry I saw his worst nightmare come true
on 25 November 1120. His only son and heir to the Kingdom of
England drowned in the White Ship disaster. Without a son, he
turned to his only surviving legitimate child, Matilda. Young
Matilda had been married to the Holy Roman Emperor since 1114, but
when he died in 1125 and Henry’s second marriage to Adeliza of
Louvain produced no surviving…
