king of england

Examines the achievements of four great medieval warlords: Richard the Lion Heart, Charlemagne, El Cid, and Barbarossa.

A biography of the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was the first Stuart king of England, the sponsor of what is known as the King James Version of the Bible, and the monarch responsible for the migration of the Puritans to America in 1620.

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Richard, the second surviving son of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne from his brother, before embarking on the Third Crusade, a conflict that is complicated by the schemes of his usurping brother, John.

Adelia Aguilar, King Henry II's mistress of the art of death, is commanded by the king to accompany his ten-year-old daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry William II of Sicily, and she takes along her Arab companion Mansur, her lover Rowley, and the Irish sea captain O'Donnell, all of whom come in handy when members of the princess's household come under attack by a murderer.

After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia, seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward, and in the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled political enmities of tenth-century Britain.

A fictionalized account of the life of Katherine of Aragon, daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, discussing her passionate marriage to England's Prince Arthur, and telling how she had to deny their love after his death in order to marry his brother Henry and claim her rightful place as queen.