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1 day ago · John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France , resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th ...
5 days ago · Explore the tumultuous life of King John, one of England's most notorious monarchs. From his ascent to the throne to the sealing of the Magna Carta, delve in...
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5 days ago · The 1984 BBC production of "King John" catches the mood of the play's final scenes by showing the characters slogging miserably through pouring rain and mud. 10. In the final scene of Shakespeare's "King John" a character appears for the first time, the young prince who would become king after his father died.
5 days ago · A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark. Originally published by R Baldwin, London, 1773. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Public Domain. John Noorthouck, 'Book 1, Ch. 3: King John to Edward I', in A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark, (London, 1773) pp. 37-56.
2 days ago · Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300125351; 336pp.; Price: £30.00. Æthelstan might not, to the uninitiated, seem a very likely candidate for a volume in the prestigious Yale English Monarchs series. He lacks the name-recognition associated with a Conquerer or a Confessor, and is not ...
2 days ago · The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late Medieval England, (review no. 17) The study of the Black Death has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years. A flurry of articles (including J. Hatcher, 'England in the aftermath of the Black Death', Past and Present 144 (1994)), a selection of sources (R. Horrox, The Black Death (1994)) and ...
3 days ago · Edgar (or Eadgar; c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu. A detailed account of Edgar's reign is not possible, because only a few events were recorded by chroniclers and monastic ...
