Henry and his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine were crowned in Westminster Abbey on Sunday 19th December 1154 by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury. His titles were King of England, Duke of Normandy and ...
Aged just 25, and whilst celebrating the feast of Augustine, Edmund was stabbed by a robber in his royal ... third son of Henry II. By the age of 16, he was leading his own army putting down ...
Henry VII became King of England and Wales in 1485, not by royal lineage but on the battlefield. In what has become the most synonymous of battles to end the violent civil war known as the War of the ...