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Old John of Gaunt, time-honourd Lancaster John of Gaunt (13401399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a Spanish kingdom...

He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He ...

Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was se...

Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was se...

The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanis...

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the...

1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenari...

Edward IIs murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five cen...

Edward II is famously one of England's most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his war-like father Edward I as any man possibly could be...

Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation is the first full-length biography of the queen at the centre of the some of the most dramatic e...

Traditionally, the Wars of the Roses one of the bloodiest conflicts on English soil began in 1455, when the Duke of York attacked King Henry VIs ...