www.historynotes.info – Page 5 – This website grown up from my love for the history. It may be considered as a collection of articles about the events and people in history that I am especially interested in.

William Marshal: The archetypal knight

A younger son of a minor nobleman who became a notable tourneyer and warrior, a comrade to princes and kings,...

22/11/2014

The Apollo of Delphi was the god of black jokes. Herodotus says that Croesus, legendarily wealthy king of Lydia, feared...

02/11/2014

Monarchy is very much a family business. According to the law of primogeniture, the eldest son should follow his father...

23/10/2014

All that is generally remembered about Spencer Perceval is that he was the only British prime minister ever to be...

06/09/2014

Victoria was born into a family that rather resented her, and her cousin Charlotte was the product of a failed...

12/08/2014

The three main strands of the chivalric ethos – warrior, courtier and Christian – might throw up some contradictions, but...

04/08/2014

Well aware of this increase in realism, Henry VIII decided to choose his fourth wife from her portrait. Traditionally, dynastic...

08/07/2014

On 6th February 1553, Mary rode to court to see Edward who was still ill. By March, some observers believed...

26/06/2014

On his death, Alexander left as heirs only a mad brother and a posthumous son, neither of whom were able...

24/06/2014

The Allies agreed that the establishment of a second front in north-west Europe was essential to defeat Germany. The Soviets...

06/06/2014