Malcolm III Canmore was the king of Scotland from 1058 to 1093, and the founder of the dynasty that consolidated royal power in the Scottish kingdom. The son of King Duncan I (reigned 1034–40), Malcolm lived in exile in England during part of the reign
The Humphreys family tree now included numerous kings, queens and emperors of Europe as well as English and Scottish monarchs. Incidentally, it included connexions to Geoffrey Chaucer and the author Henry Fielding. What William Humphreys’ own ancestors – who were Quakers in Reigate – would have...
England was the best organized and most closely integrated western European state and the most likely to rival France, because the Holy Roman Empire was paralyzed by deep divisions. In these circumstances, serious conflict between the two countries was perhaps inevitable, but its extreme bitterness ...
Look, I’m not belittling the lifestyle, I also have my deplorable character traits; however, it seems as if the moment November rolls around I am forced into sharing intimate details of my life to all of you – most of whom I wouldn’t, or don’t, talk to at compulsory family gat...
This ( ) purple dye was called Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred ( ) of emperors. In 16th-century England, purple was ( ) for the kings family members. Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ's clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed to ( ) the color....
calcified tree branches spread out beneath the surface of the turquoise and azure lakes and ponds, whose water color changes with their contents and composition. But these are not like the crystal-clear but lifeless acid-rain-fed lakes some of us have known in the American Northeast; they are...