unmarried (未婚的).Queen Mary and a young man named Lord Darnley were the next heirs (继承人).And Mary made Darnley her husband.They had a son,who,after the death of his father and mother,was k___ to be the heir to the English throne (宝座),when Elizabeth's life should end. 相...
The stories of these women - told here in all their vivid humanity - illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman; and the king was the head of all. How, then, could a woman be king, how could royal ...
England Have a Close Shave ... Germany Are Heirs to Throne[broken bar] ASIL FAWLTY'S order not to mention the war -- and by implication the Germans -- is not so easy after their magisterial demolition of the world's fourth-ranked nation Holland.Lawton, James...
Building upon the earlier tradition of the inquest, Henry issued several assizes, or ordinances, that introduced the procedures that eventually developed into theGrand Jury. He also developed a number of writs to bring cases from the feudal courts of the barons into the royal courts. In addition...
WaroftheRosesRiseoftheTudorsHenryVIIIandhisHeirs WaroftheRoses1455-1485 HouseofLancastervs.HouseofYork THETAMINGOFENGLAND •Englandisanisland–naturaldefenses•Englandcouldhavebeenthefirstnationtoconsolidate•But..nobleambitionandaweakkinginterfered•WaroftheRosesfixedthis•HenryVIIandVIIIendeddynastic...
HenryVIIIhadmarriedCatherineofAragon,daughterofFerdinandandIsabellaofSpain,andtheauntofEmperorCharlesV.By1527,theunionhadproducednomaleheirtothethroneandonlyonesurvivingchild,adaughter,Mary.Henrywasjustifiablyconcernedaboutthepoliticalconsequencesofleavingonlyafemaleheir.Inthisperiod,peoplebelieveditunnaturalforwomento...
King Charles I came to the throne in 1625, utterly convinced that he had been put there by God and that his governance must, therefore, be beyond question. As Charles saw things, the Parliament that sat at Westminster had only one function, namely to enact his policies and raise the nec...
The most famous English monarch of all,Henry VIIIis best known for his six wives, the result of a desperate drive to produce healthy male heirs to carry the Tudor dynasty forward. Another consequence of this need was the English Reformation, as Henry split the English Church away from the ...
The Battle of Hastings King Edward of England (called "The Confessor" because of his construction of Westminster Abbey) died on January 5, 1066, after a reign of 23 years. Leaving no heirs, Edward's passing ignited a three-way rivalry for the crown that culminated in the Battle of ...
Although he had reigned for23 years, he had no heirs, because of this a three-way rivalry ofwho would be the king began and this situation also led to theBattle of Hastings and the end of the rule ofAnglo-Saxon. Harold Godwinson was oneof the competitor players. He was the second ...