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 ...

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 ...

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.

When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Settlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, or ...

Joan Beaufort was the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent" (the mother ...

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 ...

Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany, was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite Prince Charles Edward Stuart otherwise known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' and his Scottish mistress, Clementina ...

Morcar was the younger son of Ælfgifu, daughter of Morcar and Ælfgar, earl of Mercia, one of the most powerful earldoms of Anglo- Saxon England, and grandson of Leofric and Godiva, who, according to ...

Often considered the greatest of the Plantagenets, Edward I was born on the evening of 17th June 1239, at Westminster Palace, the firstborn child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He was named ...

Æthelflæd has been described as 'our greatest woman general, was born around 864, the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. Her ...

Robert de Bellême was a Norman noble, the most powerful vassal of the English crown under the Norman kings, William II Rufus and Henry I, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for ...

Germanic tribes migrated to Britain after the departure of the Roman legions, which was then occupied by Brythonic Celtic peoples. Many of the Celts were killed, others were taken prisoner and forced ...