Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by the English. Llywelyn, who was born around 1223 was the son Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, himself the son of Llywelyn ...

Anne of Denmark was born on 12 December 1574 at the castle of Skanderborg on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, the second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Geoffrey Plantagenet was the illegitimate son of King Henry II, the first of the Plantagenet Kings. The identity of Geoffrey's mother is not known with certainty, but she is thought to have been a ...

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born on 7 December 1545, at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son child, but the first surviving son of Matthew Stuart, Earl of ...

The daughter of Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de Medici, Henrietta Maria was born at the Palais du Louvre, on 25th November 1609. The child was of decidedly mixed European ancestry, ...

The MacAlpin dynasty, which ruled Scotland throughout the Dark Ages, united the warring races of Picts and Scots as one nation. Our section on this dynasty includes the reign of Kenneth I himself and ...

The Celtic religion, druidism, was closely tied to the natural world and they worshipped their gods in sacred places like lakes, rivers, cliffs and bushes. The moon, the sun and the stars were ...

His was a difficult birth, his mother was at a precarious age for childbearing in the middle ages and the child was a breech. As an infant Richard was weak and sickly and not expected to survive the ...

Often considered the greatest of the Plantagenets, Edward I was born on the evening of 17th June 1239, at Westminster Palace, the firstborn child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. He was named ...

During their marriage, King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had fifteen children, all of whom, with the exception of Octavius and Alfred, survived to reach adulthood. The ...

Strathclyde or Ystrad Clud (beautiful Estuary) was a kingdom of the Britons, or brythonic celts in the Hen Ogledd, in what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, through the post-Roman and ...

The Celtic Kingdom of Dumnonia existed between the fourth and eighth centuries. The name derives from the Celtic tribal people the Dumnonii who inhabited the area which is now known as Cornwall ...