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Three years ago when my grand-daughter was studying medieval England at school I was asked about the medieval queens that she had heard were...

The daughter of Henry I, known as Matilda , Empress of England (1102 to 1167) married Geoffrey V Plantagenet (1113 to 1151) in 1128. Geoffre...

John of Gaunt was not a king of England but his family had many direct connections with royalty. John Gaunt was born in Ghent, Belgium, on ...

King Edward III was born on 13 November 1312 at Windsor Castle. He was the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France . Edward became kin...

King Edward II was born on 25 April 1284 at Caernarvon Castle in Wales. His parents were King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile . In 1301 h...

Edward I was born on 17 June 1239 at Westminster Palace. His parents were King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Edward became king on 2...

When King John died in 1216 his nine year old son became king - King Henry III. Statue of Henry III at Salisbury Cathedral. Henry III was bo...

King John was born on 24 December 1166 at Beaumont Palace, Oxford. As the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine he was not exp...

King Henry II was England's first Plantagenet king. He was the son of the Empress Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet . Henry was born on ...

In the 1880s, the house Cooring Yering was built for Colonel William Forbes Hutton on his property of the same name near Lilydale. William F...