Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into …

Background. Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and ruler of Gascony in south-western France (which he held as the feudal vassal of the king of France), and Eleanor, Countess of Ponthieu in northern France. Eleanor was from the Castilian royal family. Edward I proved a successful military leader, leading the suppression of the …

Edward was born on 23 June 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on the outskirts of London during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. He was the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary).His father was the son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).His mother was the eldest …

William of Hatfield (1336 – 1337), second son, was born at Hatfield near Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire late in 1336, where Edward III kept Christmas with Queen Philippa. He was baptised by William Melton, Archbishop of York, but died soon afterwards.He was buried at York Minster on 10 February 1337, where survives his monument with effigy in the north quire aisle, …

William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. . As King of …

Henry was born on 6 December 1421 at Windsor Castle, the only child and heir-apparent of King Henry V.Succeeding to the throne as King of England at the age of nine months on 1 September 1422, the day after his father's death; he remains the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne. On 21 October 1422, in accordance with the Treaty of Troyes of 1420, he …

Edward (Portuguese: Duarte ([d u ˈ a ɾ t(ɨ)]; 31 October 1391 – 9 September 1438), also called Edward the King Philosopher (Duarte o Rei-Filósofo) or the Eloquent (o Eloquente), was the King of Portugal from 1433 until his death. He was born in Viseu, the son of John I of Portugal and his wife, Philippa of Lancaster.Edward was the oldest member of the "Illustrious Generation" of ...

James Francis Edward Stuart (* 10.Juni 1688 im St James’s Palace; † 1. Januar 1766 in Rom) war Thronprätendent für den schottischen und den englischen Thron aus dem Hause Stuart.Er war der Sohn von Jakob II. von England und dessen zweiter (katholischer) Frau Maria Beatrice von Modena.Er wurde von seinen Anhängern, den Jakobiten, als Jakob III. von England und …

Edward of Woodstock, benannt nach seinem Geburtsort, Prince of Wales und Aquitanien, bekannt als Der Schwarze Prinz (englisch The Black Prince), eigentlich aber Eduard Plantagenet; KG (* 15. Juni 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire; † 8. Juni 1376 im Palace of Westminster, Middlesex) war der älteste der sieben Söhne von König Eduard III. und Königin Philippa und …

Exile. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016, Canute had Edward, said to be only a few months old, and his brother Edmund, sent to the Swedish court of Olof Skötkonung (who was either Canute's half-brother or his stepbrother), supposedly with instructions to have the children murdered. However, Olof was an old ally of Æthelred the Unready, the princes' grandfather, …