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5 days ago · The counts were recurrent enemies of the dukes of Normandy and of Brittany and often the French king. Fulk IV, Count of Anjou, claimed rule over Touraine, Maine and Nantes; however, of these only Touraine proved to be effectively ruled, as the construction of the castles of Chinon, Loches and Loudun exemplify.
2 days ago · The Old City forms a walled quadrilateral about 3,000 feet (900 meters) long on each side. Its modern walls date to the reign of the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66), who invested heavily in restoring the splendor of the city. The Old City may be entered through any of seven gates in the wall: the New, Damascus, and Herod ...
2 days ago · Fine of the Month: August 2009. 1. Isabella countess of Arundel’s confrontation with King Henry III. Susanna Annesley is an AHRC funded doctoral student at King’s College London, working on the countesses of thirteenth-century England. In this article she re-examines a dispute between the king and Isabella, countess of Arundel, in light of ...
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3 days ago · Richard I, duke of Aquitaine (from 1168) and of Poitiers (from 1172) and king of England, duke of Normandy, and count of Anjou (1189–99). His knightly manner and his prowess in the Third Crusade (1189–92) made him a popular king in his own time as well as the hero of countless romantic legends.
- When his brother Henry died, Richard I became heir to the throne of England, and King Henry II asked Richard to yield Aquitaine to his brother John...
- Richard I spent little time in England during his reign as king. Rather than planning for the future of the English monarchy, he put everything up...
- Sailing home via the Adriatic, Richard I was captured and imprisoned in the castle of Duke Leopold of Austria, whom he had insulted during the Crus...
- Richard I spent the last years of his life in France. In 1199 he was fatally wounded while besieging the castle of the vicomte of Limoges, who had...
5 days ago · May 25, 2024. In the year 70 AD, the city of Jerusalem endured one of the most brutal and consequential sieges in ancient history. For seven long months, the military juggernaut of the Roman Empire unleashed its full fury against the outnumbered Jewish rebels, culminating in the complete destruction of the sacred Second Temple. The fall of ...
4 days ago · Charter of Henry king of the English (Angl’), duke of the Normans, and count of the Angevins, son of king Henry, giving the nuns of Fontevrault 60l. in Bedeford [shire] from (in) his manor of Lecton, given them by the king, his lord and father, and in Bocingehamsire 4l. from his manor of Radenai, namely 15 librates of the endowment of William ...
4 days ago · This was a turning point in the conflict between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. Margaret of Anjou, fearing for her son‘s inheritance, formed an alliance against Richard, leading to the outbreak of war in 1455. The Yorkist Kings Edward IV (r. 1461-1470, 1471-1483) Edward IV was the eldest son of Richard, Duke of York.
