Edward III of England

one hundred year war in France. In the war he was a P.O.W. and King Edward III paid his ransom to set him free. After King Edward III paid his ransom Geoffery Chaucer than went to work for him in the royal court. Seven years later, Geoffery Chaucer married a woman named Phillippa Roet, which helped further his career with King Edward III. She passed away in 1387. After Chaucer started working for King Edward III, he began his writing career. He retired from working in the royal…

The Hundred Years' War was a series of wars fought between the two most powerful countries in Europe; England and France from 1337 to 1453. It was not the first war between these two nations; it was actually the final stage of the long-standing conflict. They have always had an unresolved territorial dispute, to solve this problem French and England dynasties agreed to a truce and a royal marriage to seal peace between their kingdoms but it only created a bigger conflict between them which is…

Thanks to the ingenious use of the longbow in the Battle of Crecy, the English king, Edward III, and his army were able to win the battle with under 100 casualties while the French having over 10,000(Kops). Because of the outcome of the war, the longbow earned the name “The Medieval Machine Gun” (Kagay). Many of the tactics used during the Battle of Crecy by the English army were considered to be great breakthroughs in warfare and were the basis of some of the tactics used in modern warfare.…

get your way? If so, you would fit in with the royal family of England in the late 1400s. The Princes in the Tower were born in 1470 and 1473. Their names were Edward, Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York. Though their lives were cut short and they were never crowned, the mystery surrounding their deaths is still well-known today. Two theories that proposed to solve the mystery behind the Princes in the Tower are that King Richard III had them murdered or he was framed. Because the princes…

At that time, two unified kingdoms existed: the kingdom of England and the kingdom of Scotland. They developed side by side. Besides the desire in the north to expand its territorial limits, the realm from the South also had the ambition to govern Scotland. As Malcolm III was helped by the English to conquer the throne of Scotland, they saw the opportunity to realise their wishes of governance. Nonetheless, once he was King, Malcolm turned his back on them and became an opponent. He invaded…

changed the face of England and France socially, politically, economically, and territorially. This paper will demonstrate the unreliability of the mercenary armies employed during the course of the Hundred Years’ War,…

Henry VII of England Born: 28th January 1457, Penbroke Castle, Wales. Parents: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond. Siblings: - Married: Elizabeth of York, died 1503 Children: Arthur, Margaret, Henry VIII, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary, Edmund, Kathrine. Died: 21st April 1509, Richmond Palace. Buried 11th May 1509 in Westminster Abbey. Brief Summary (Write a brief summary of there life. Highlight the key areas of their life) Henry was born on 28th January…

Richard the III was without a doubt one of the most controversial kings in the history of England. During his plot to sit on the throne he managed to remove anyone that stood in his way and opposed a threat to him including the accused murder of 2 princes in a tower. In his book, Shakespeare clearly made him as an image of pure evil and of selfishness. Although written as pure evil, Richard might have not been as bad as Shakespeare portrayed. William Shakespeare was writing for the Tudors which…

It became central to early parliamentary reform such as the Oxford Assizes in 1259, the rebellion and the first representative Parliament established by Simon de Montfort in 1265, Edward I’s subsequent Parliament in 1278 and also the authors of the Bill of Rights in 1689. However in both Henry III’s and Edward I’s reigns, the confirmation of the Magna Carta was linked with the need for the monarch to obtain both the support of Parliament and to raise cash for the Exchequer, establishing a…

of London are the Edward V and Richard, Duke of York. Edward V was born in 1470, and his brother Richard, Duke of York was born three years later in 1473. They were the sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Their imprisonment and sudden disappearance has been one of history’s greatest secrets. No one truly knows what happened to Edward V and his brother…