House of Plantagenet

From his Angevin inheritance, Henry ruled England plus western France, the largest realm in Western Europe. His legal reforms, iti...

Longshanks codified statutes, summoned the Model Parliament 1295, expelled Jews 1290. He conquered Wales, ring of castles, Caernar...

Claimed the French crown through his mother, starting the Hundred Years War. Victories at Crécy and Poitiers, his son the Black Pr...

Richard seized the throne from his nephews, the Princes in the Tower vanished under his watch. Two years later Henry Tudor killed ...

Son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard spent only about six months of his reign in England. On the Third Crusade he too...