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 ...

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 ...

Henry Stafford was born on 4 September 1455, the son of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, and Margaret Beaufort. His father, Humphrey Stafford had been a Lancastrian supporter in the early stages ...

During their marriage, King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had fifteen children, all of whom, with the exception of Octavius and Alfred, survived to reach adulthood. The ...

Strathclyde or Ystrad Clud (beautiful Estuary) was a kingdom of the Britons, or brythonic celts in the Hen Ogledd, in what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, through the post-Roman and ...

John the Red Comyn, so known for his red hair, was the son of John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, otherwise known as the Black Comyn, one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland, who based his claim on ...

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 ...

Catherine of Lancaster was born on 31 March 1373 at Hertford Castle, she was the daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (third surviving son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault) and his ...