Edith of Wessex, sister of King Harold II was the daughter of the powerful Earl Godwine of Wessex and his wife Gytha, the daughter of Thorkell Sprakaleg. Gytha was the sister of Ulf, a Danish earl who ...

Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by the English. Llywelyn, who was born around 1223 was the son Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, himself the son of Llywelyn ...

Anne of Denmark was born on 12 December 1574 at the castle of Skanderborg on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, the second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Geoffrey Plantagenet was the illegitimate son of King Henry II, the first of the Plantagenet Kings. The identity of Geoffrey's mother is not known with certainty, but she is thought to have been a ...

Edward VIII, or David, as he was known to his family, was the eldest son of George V and Mary of Teck. He was born on 23rd June 1894, at White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, at the home of his maternal ...

Philip II of Spain was the only son of the Habsburg Emperor Charles V and his cousin Isabella of Portugal and was born in the Spanish capital of Valladolid on 21 May 1527. Philip had two sisters with ...

The subject of ballads, books and films, Robin Hood has proven to be one of England's most enduring folk heroes. The often told legend of Robin Hood relates that in the days of King Richard the ...

The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the House of Plantagenet, the houses of Lancaster, whose emblem was the red rose and the House ...

The larger than life King Henry VIII, England's bluebeard, was born on 28th June, 1491 at Greenwich Palace and was christened at the church of the Observant Friars. As only the second son of Henry VII ...

Henry of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon was the son of King David I of Scotland. Through his mother Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, he was the grandson of the Saxon Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and ...

Isabella of France was born in Paris, the daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre, the daughter of Henry I, King of Navarre. No record survives of her birth, but calculations based on ...

The known history of the Boleyn family starts with Thomas Boleyn, a yeoman farmer of Sale in Norfolk who married Anne Bracton, the daughter of Sir John Bracton. Thomas descended from Nicholas Boleyn.