King Henry VIII was the first monarch in England to be addressed as ‘Your Majesty.’ High-end textiles King Louis XIV was known for his fashion sense, and he helped to establish France as a prominent producer of high-end textiles. A polar bear pet In 1252, King Haakon IV of Norway pr...
The English people had suffered the disastrous effects of religious intolerance since Henry VIII had broken away from the Catholic Church and established the Church of England. The result had been over a hundred years of religious conflict and persecution. Mary I (1516 – 1558), a devout ...
It was rebuilt and repaired a number of times, including during the reigns of King Edward III and that of King Richard II (during whose reign it was also ransacked in the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381). Other kings to visit it over the years included King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. A...
During the 1170s Baldwin served in the household of Henry II’s eldest son Henry The Young King. He made a lifelong friendship with another younger son struggling to make his own way in the world – William Marshal. Like Marshal as well as serving the Young King and Henry II, Baldwin of...
•Alderman Alastair King has been elected the 696th Lord Mayor of London.King, who succeeds Lord Mayor Professor Michael Mainelli, takes office on 8th November for a one year term with the annual Lord Mayor’s Show, which takes place the following day, his first public event. “It is ...
#2: Henry VIII of England. 1491 - 1547. ... #1: Louis XIV of France. 1638 - 1715. Who was the first person to rule the world? Meet the world's firstemperor.King Sargon of Akkad—who legend says was destined to rule—established the world's first empire more than 4,000 years ago...
It is not an extensive country, for it consists of only a hundred or so regions (as we shall often term the elements), yet it accounts for everything material in our actual world. From the hundred elements that are at the center of our story, all planets, rocks, vegetation, and ...
(it was celebrated on 25thMarch at the time), several passages praise Henry VI, the founder of King’s: ‘We must account it sure as well the peculiar felicity, as glory of this society, to be bless’d with such a sovereign for its founder; who prefer’d the honor and service of ...
Not surprisingly, about a week before the event, tickets for the date in the Washington DC metro area were already sold out . While other dates of the tour had been booked in medium-sized theatres, the DC gig was slated to take place at a rather unlikely venue, considering the relative...
none ofwhom had been born in the East and each of whom had his own entourage. I usethat term in the following sense: first there were the members of his own house-hold: knights, chaplains and professional servants; secondly there were hiskindred who came from the West to join him; thi...