Mary Beatrice's father, the Duke of Modena died when she was just four, after which her younger brother Francesco succeeded to the dukedom, with her mother Laura Martinozzi acting as regent until he ...

Canute or Cnut the Great was born circa 985- 995, the son of King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, the identity of his mother is uncertain, although it is likely that she was a Slavic princess, daughter of ...

Humphrey was married his cousin to Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland, daughter of William VI, Count of Hainaut. The couple married at Hadleigh in Essex, sometime before 7 March 1423.

Alexander III of Scotland made agressive attempts to recover the Hebridean Islands, known as Innse Gall, and Argyll from the grip of the Norwegians, launching raids against them including a raid on ...

The battle of Tinchebrai was fought on the 28th September 1106 near the town of Tinchebrai on the border of the county of Mortain, in the southwest of Normandy, between the armies of King Henry I of ...

The child was christened at Winchester Cathedral, his godfathers were John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby and Lord Maltravers, Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Edward IV ...

The eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, daughter of Henry IV of France, the future Charles II was born on 29th May 1630, at St. James Palace, London, the second child of ...

When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...

Henry VI, with characteristic kindness, would not countenance any violence toward the newborn child or his mother. The wheel of Fortune turned once more for the House of York on the return of King ...

Edward VI, the only legitimate son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, was born at Hampton Court Palace, after a difficult and protracted labour, on 12th October, 1537. Edward's christening ...

Debate remains as to where Rollo or Rolf, the first Viking ruler of Normandy, was born. He is first referred to in historical sources as a leader of the Vikings who besieged Paris in 885-6 during the ...

William III of Orange was born at The Hague on 4th November, 1650. He was the posthumous son of William II of Orange and of Mary Stuart, Princess Royal the eldest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta ...