It might be thought that a woman of the Middle Ages whose father was a Prince of Wales and whose mother was herself the daughter of an English princess and earl was destined to have a good life. And those life expectancies would seem even better if we take into account that the three kings of Englan
With the Treaty of London in 1913, the great powers recognized the state of Albania. With the Florence Protocol, the Greek Northern Continent was granted to the newly established state. The powers pressured Greece to cede Northern Epirus, threatening that otherwise they would not recognize sovereign
Ramiro I was the son of King Vermudo I of Asturias. His father, who had ascended the throne in the year 788, did not last long in power. Three years after taking the crown he suffered a heavy defeat against the Muslims of Hisham I, son of Abderramán I, in Burbia. It is not very clear if this militar
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenet. Several are the blog entries related to the conflict for the English throne between the houses of York and Lancaster known as the War of the Roses, already about its main characters (Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York; Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, Edw