Matilda of Flanders was born circa 1031, the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adele of France, who was the daughter of Robert II of France and Constance of Arles. She was also a descendant ...
Prior to 1788, King George had informed his daughters that he would take them to Hanover and find them suitable husbands, but remarked, "I cannot deny that I have never wished to see any of them marry ...
Mary Adelaide was the daughter of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, the youngest surviving son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was therefore a first cousin of Queen ...
His was a difficult birth, his mother was at a precarious age for childbearing in the middle ages and the child was a breech. As an infant Richard was weak and sickly and not expected to survive the ...
Edgar Atheling, the last surviving male member of the ancient Royal House of Wessex, was born in Hungary circa 1051. Edgar's father, 'Edward the Exile' was the eldest son of Edmund II known as ...
Charles eldest son, James Crofts was born on 9 April 1649 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his 18-year-old father was living in exile following the execution of Charles I. His mother was Charles ...
The last king of the Lancastrian dynasty, Henry VI was born at Windsor Castle on 6th December 1421 the son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France. Henry became King of ...
Arguably one of the most effective Kings ever to wear the English crown and the first of the great Plantagenet dynasty, the future Henry II was born at Le Mans, Anjou on 5th March, 1133. He was the ...
Edward of Westminster, or Edward of Lancaster, as he is sometimes known, the only son of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou was born at the Palace of Westminster, London on 13 October, 1453. At ...
When John, the last child of the great Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine was born on Christmas Eve, 1167 at Beaumont Palace in Oxfordshire, his father jokingly nick-named him Sans Terre or Lackland, ...
England's first Yorkist King, Edward IV, was the eldest surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Cecily Neville and was born on 22nd April, 1442 at Rouen, whilst the Duke was stationed ...
At the age of five, Richard was married to Anne Beauchamp, the sister of the Duke of Warwick, in 1434. On the death of the Duke of Warwick in 1446, the Earldom of Warwick and its vast estates were ...