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Vor 2 Tagen · Henry was the second son of Henry VII, first of the Tudor line, and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, first king of the short-lived line of York.When his elder brother, Arthur, died in 1502, Henry became the heir to the throne; of all the Tudor monarchs, he alone spent his childhood in calm expectation of the crown, which helped give an assurance of majesty and righteousness to his willful ...
King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415, by Sir John Gilbert in the 19th century. Despite advancing through what the French monk of Saint Denis described as "a terrifying hail of arrow shot", the plate armour of the French men-at-arms allowed them to close the distance to the English lines after the English longbowmen started shooting from extreme longbow range (approximately 300 yards ...
Henry VII (r. 1485 -1509) Henry VII’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a granddaughter of an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt. His father, Edmund Tudor, was the son of the widow of Henry V. There was very little royal blood in Henry VII. Growing up, first in Wales and then in Brittany, for the first 25 years of his life, no one saw Henry as a ...
Charles-Henri Sanson was the fourth in a six-generation family dynasty of executioners. His great-grandfather, a soldier in the French royal army named Charles Sanson (1658 – 1695) of Abbeville, was appointed as Executioner of Paris in 1688. [1] Upon his death in 1695, the Sanson patriarch passed the office to his son, also named Charles ...
By Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810–96) [1] – →. Edward I was born in June 1239 and died in July 1307. Also known as Edward Longshanks, he reigned as King of England from 1272 until his death. He inherited the throne from his father, Henry III, and had first-hand experience of the challenges of governing England.
25. Aug. 2021 · Charles King was a gentleman soldier who lived in a world of romance and chivalry that did not persist into the twentieth century. King depicts a world that was washed away with World War I and the advent of modern warfare. He was not washed away with it. He continued to serve nearly until his 1931 death, but his works and entire personage reveal a man out of time.
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
