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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Henry was also the younger brother of another king of England, William II, also known as William Rufus. Henry did not have a ...
King Henry VI has married Margaret of Anjou. Various members of the British court have their own plans for the future of King Henry VI. Gloucester and his wife, Eleanor, plot for the throne as ...
She encounters her husband, Gloucester, enroute to her banishment. King Henry VI has married Margaret of Anjou. Various members of the British court have their own plans for the future of King ...