Edmund I of England

“What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” In this case, there is no immovable object, only two unstoppable forces. These forces were the Spanish Armada and the British Royal Navy. Both countries engaged in a decisive naval battle on July 29th, 1588. The battle ended with the Royal Navy beating the Armada. The victory was given to Britain even though the Spanish suffered no significant losses. Nonetheless, Britain was still declared victorious. Many factors contributed…

sentences and complex language. Elizabeth I delivered a speech…

Finance, they were anti-court and the extravagance of it that was present during the reigns of James I and Charles II, who would have the last scandalous court, and wanted to limit spending by the crown. The 3rd area of tension, Religion, they took a strong stance against Catholics and wanted the emancipation of dissenters, Quakers. Puritans, and other religions who wanted the death of Charles I. The 4th area of tension, Foreign Policy, was related to their view towards religion in which they…

Orangemen’s Day is an annual celebration. Schools and businesses are closed so students and employees can take the day off. The Protestants of Ireland come together to celebrate William of Orange, the Protestant prince of the Netherlands and the King of England, and his victory over James II, the overthrown Catholic…

Through a short, separate line of women, and accompanying text, the roll-maker shows that Matilda, Queen of Henry I, was the daughter of Saint Margaret, the Queen of Scotland. Margaret was a descendent of the Anglo-Saxon line of kings through Edgar the Aetheling. Malcom, the King of Scotland, was a descendent of the Scottish line of kings. Therefore, by marrying Matilda, Henry I strategically integrated himself into two illustrious lines of kings. Through the Matilda-Henry marriage, the…

Keanah Santiago The Poem That Ruined My Life It was a dreary Saturday morning in England for all but me. Today my friend Marie de France was asked to be a court writer for the court of Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she chose me as her lady in waiting. We were walking in the marketplace when we got this news, and Marie was ecstatic. No one knew why they chose Marie, some say that Eleanor wanted to have someone in the court who had a french background besides herself. Others…

detailed costumes to help to display their character’s personalities and to aid the audience in who they were depicting. “By the end of the sixteenth century, popular commedia companies were traveling throughout Europe, performing in Spain, France, England and Germany, as well as Eastern Europe…influencing writers and performers including William Shakespeare” (Human Race Theatre). Although the acting of Commedia dell’Arte was mainly improvisation, things like the plot, props, costumes and stage…

The king of England, King John, is being extremely unfair. He raised the taxes in England and punished his enemies without trial. The king has gained too much power. My fellow nobles and I will have to find a way to lower the king’s power. Tomorrow I shall hold a meeting with my fellow nobles and come up with a strategy that will give everyone the same amount of rights . If luck is with us, we will be able to take away most of the king’s powers and limit the government's powers.…

Who wrote Shakespeare? Introduction The Shakespeare authorship question refers to a controversial argument in the realms of arts and literature that someone else other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon composed the numerous works accredited to him as shown in most books of history. Anti-Stratfordian theorists allege that the original author of the works used Shakespeare as a pen name thereby shielding his or her identity (Shapiro 56). Such dissenting viewpoints arise from theorists…

King John of England, also known as John Lackland, was born either in late 1166 or early 1167 at the Tower of London. He was the youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, the latter controlling a ‘territory that stretched from the pyrenees in the south of France to the very borders of Scotland’. His father held considerable claims of territories at the time, and was part of a Royal House known as the Angevins. Due to the size of his controlled lands, they collectively became known…