Henry I of England

Elizabeth was born on March 6, 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England. She is the oldest of 12 siblings. Her father is Edward Moulton Barrett, and her mother is Mary Graham Clarke. Edward died in 1857 and Mary died in 1828 at the age of 22. In 1832, her father had sold his rural estate and moved the family to London. It took them 3 years to permanently be settled in. In the 1830’s she started gaining a lot of attention, she continued to live in her father’s house in London. Her father would…

He was a ruler during the Renaissance. He is also called Charles V before he became ruler. I will tell you all about his life. Charles I during the Renaissance; he became ruler, during ruling, and withdrawing from ruling. Charles was the son of Philip I (the Handsome), king of Castile, and Joan the Mad. He was born in the Flemish city of Ghent. He was raised be his paternal aunt Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands when his father died. His tutor’s names were Chamberlain Guillaume de…

beheaded, and survived goes the saying that King Henry VIII is most famous for. There’s also another fact that no one really knows. Stated by Benson and Stock, “Henry VIII became the first English King in the Tudor family” (Benson and Stock). Although having no prior training of kingly duties and inheriting a distraught and unmotivated country, King Henry VIII’s rule of England has gone through countless reforms and through his popularity and inspiration, England changed distinctively from what…

whether Thomas Becket’s fight with secular authority (such as the king) ended with his murder in Canterbury Cathedral on the 29th December 1170 . Becket was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by King Henry II from 1162 until his death , and came into conflict with him over clerical privilege, with Henry believing that the Church was subject to the laws of the land, whilst Becket maintained that ‘the church was above the law’ . This led to Becket’s murder at the hands of some of the king’s…

The Man Who Left a Huge Impact; Peter the Great Peter I, the second-crowned czar of Russia, was the most efficient ruler of Russia. Also known as Peter the Great, he died February 8, 1725. Peter ruled from May 7, 1682 until November 2, 1721. Peter is the son of Alexis of Russia and Natalya Naryshkina. In 1689, Peter married his first wife, chosen by his mother, Eudoxia Lopukhina, however after nine years, Peter decided that he really was not in love with his wife, and he got divorced. Peter had…

Cleopatra VII By: Ashleigh Hatfield Cleopatra: Cleopatra was born 69 B.C in Alexandria, Egypt. When she was eighteen years old, her father died, leaving her to rule Egypt. Because Egyptian tradition held that a woman needed a male consort to rule. Her twelve-year old brother,Ptolemy XIII, was ceremonially married to her. Cleopatra soon dropped his name from all official documents, so she could rule alone.She died August 12, 30 B.C.To this day,…

Agrippina the younger was the first empress of the Roman Empire, which almost no modern sources remembered her as such; Agrippina was not often remembered at all, unlike Augustus and his wife Livia. Agrippina’s the younger played an important notable role in the Julio-Claudian family performance. Which had influenced her as its origin the only resource available to women of her time, and especially the male power. Agrippina was before Livia and the wife of one emperor and the mother of another.…

King Henry VIII is commonly remembered as the English monarch who broke with the Roman Church. When King Henry VIII became the king of England in 1509, he started his reign with a lot of money and motivation to be one of the greatest kings in England. During his rule he declared himself the Head of the Church of England (Anglican Church), in effect, replacing the Pope. He quickly closed down monasteries and took all of their money. This caused a rebellion, but Henry stopped it as he became more…

image of Henry VIII, which changes greatly after he institutes the Reformation in England. In his early years as the King of England, and for many years prior, portraits of the monarchy in England were done in medieval style. Figures were flat, bodiless, two-dimensional, and quite unintimidating. These characteristics, however, did not match the king’s title once he changed the country’s religious denomination to Protestantism. He declared himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England,…

“The first lesson I learned was not to wait for a man’s rescue. History is written by the survivors and I am surely that.” Catherine didn't have a great life when she was younger she has been through alot but still accomplished her major goals. Catherine de’ Medici was a very strong women who had to fight for her rights to achieve her goal. Catherine had her up’s and down’s throughout her life. She was mostly involved with starting wars. Which some people can believe, and can't . Catherine…