Royalty
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Catherine Hanley [Hanley, Catherine]

1. Matilda (bottom) is depicted on a genealogical roll, along with her father, Henry I (right), her mother, Edith-Matilda (top), and her only legitimate brother, William Adelin (left). 2. Mainz ...
( Category: Women in History July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Don Jordan & Michael Walsh [Jordan, Don]

stroked all that were brought to him and then put about each of their necks a white ribbon with an angel of gold on it. In this manner His Majesty ...
( Category: Royalty June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-10 | Author:Anne Edwards

17 DIANA WAS GUARDED at all times by armed detectives from the SAS-trained Royal Protection Squad. Wherever she went, there had to be at least one detective with her and ...
( Category: Royalty June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-01 | Author:Anne Edwards

Footnote 1The Communards (members of the Commune of Paris) had been formed during the Revolution of 1792 and had virtually engineered the storming of the Tuileries. The Commune re-formed in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Richard Abels

5 Law and (Dis)order In a macabre sense, the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre is a reminder of the precocity of English royal government in the late tenth century. Æthelred was ...
( Category: Royalty June 9,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-29 | Author:Holland, Tom [Holland, Tom]

4 Angelcynn One year before the great durbar at Cirencester, while leading his army northwards against the King of the Scots, Athelstan arrived beside the River Wear. Here he halted ...
( Category: Royalty June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Lavelle, Ryan [Lavelle, Ryan]

5 Into Realms Beyond Is Cnut in Hell? In a profound investigation into the motivations of an early tenth-century usurpation, the historian Geoffrey Koziol asked the same question of the ...
( Category: Royalty June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Edmund King

( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Amy Licence [Licence, Amy]

7 TROUBLE AHEAD 1468–1469 ‘Especially astute and cunning.’ I By the late 1460s, Edward and Warwick were set on a collision course over France and Burgundy. Edward may have been ...
( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

Elizabeth Lambert For the sake of clarity we had perhaps better establish that Edward IV’s last known mistress, Elizabeth Lambert, is the person who still frequently masquerades under the pseudonym ...
( Category: Royalty May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Paul Stephenson [STEPHENSON, PAUL]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Kings and War The ancient sources imply that the main business of kings was warfare, though this is more the result of their omission of other activities than ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Rappaport, Helen [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter 10 ‘The Baggage Will Be in Utter Danger at All Times’ In the entire Romanov story there is no more enigmatic, elusive figure than Vasily Yakovlev. Debate has never ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

Thomas Seymour’s emotional state was not helped by the tense wait for news of his wife’s labor. It was the same for Elizabeth, whose health continued to be poor at ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-25 | Author:King, Edmund [King, Edmund]

4 Infertility Henry and his court returned to England on 25 November 1120. The king had made the Channel crossing, in one direction or another, at least twenty times. The ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )