Clearly the awful realisation would also have dawned on her that her marriage to Edward, being invalid, rendered their children illegitimate and according to the canon laws of the times unable to inherit. This applied especially to Edward’s heir Edward, Prince of Wales, who would be unable to...
Cunedda’s descendants were to rule as kings; a 7th-century representative of the dynasty is commemorated upon an inscribed stone in Anglesey as Catamanus Rex (Cadfan the King). In southwestern Wales the Irish presence led to the founding of the Irish kingdom of Dyfed, and some Irish ...
3 The object of enquiry was the size of army that the Carolingians’ successors in Germany, the dynasty we call the Ottonians, could put into the field, and Werner wanted it to be big; his paper had been provoked by a work by a guy called Delbrück which wanted to minimise the war ...
Medieval Kingdom Warsreleased earlier this year in Early Access on Steam. The game appears to be a marriage of grandstrategyand real-time strategy, though reviews for the game are mixed. Players assume the role of a medieval lord who is entangled in domestic and international politics. Sieging...
as well as the dedication poem that lauds them. These have stimulated extensive debates about Henry’s—but not Matilda’s—motives for ordering and donating the liturgical manuscript: was it a pious gift through which he tried to gain the crowns of eternal life for himself and his dynasty?9...
her marriage deserving of careful consideration. Given that she was still unmarried at the age of twenty, with such a rich inheritance, it is possible that previous but unrecorded marital arrangements had fallen through, or that her father and uncle had taken extra care in ensuring that Matilda...
This marriage has, therefore, far-reaching consequences in English history, ultimately giving rise to the claim of the House of York to the crown of England contested in the Wars of the Roses between the Yorks and the Lancasters; Edward IV being descended from the second adult son of Edward...
… and we certainly see on a lute inThe Marriage at Canaby Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, c. 1530–32 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). The cumulative weight of testimony forlate medieval gittern rosespoints in several directions, with a wide range of rose designs. The evidence from art appears to suggest...
At the age of sixteen, Val ran away from an arranged marriage, abandoning a woman’s traditional role. As such, Kai believes she is a bad influence on all the women she comes into contact with. As we flesh out his character, we realize that he fears what Val’s very existence represen...
inheritancepassed to Philip III the Good of Burgundy, an event that marked the end of the independent existence of the duchy of Brabant. The duchy passed to thehouse of Habsburgin 1477 upon the marriage of Philip’s granddaughter, Mary, to the archduke Maximilian. Control of the duchy passed...