After years of traveling around England partly for pleasure and partly to document myself for my historical book projects, the idea of taking a visual tour of the different locations visited has occurred to me. In them there are places that are in history from Roman times to others from the 19th c
After dealing with the historical events starring Perkin Warbeck/Richard of York and analyzing the sources that dealt with the fate of the Princes of the Tower of London, the last entry in this series It is dedicated to another of the aspects that must be analyzed in relation to the matter:the behav
The failure of attempts to conquer England (such as that of the Spanish Armada or the Battle of Britain in World War II) has contributed to the myth that British insularity constitutes an insurmountable defense for enemy armies since the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066, the last tim
The failure of attempts to conquer England (such as that of the Spanish Armada or the Battle of Britain in World War II) has contributed to the myth that British insularity constitutes an insurmountable defense for enemy armies since the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066, the last tim
III.- 1399:Richard II against Henry IV Bolingbroke Richard II came to the throne in 1377 when he was only ten years old, succeeding his grandfather Edward III. His eldest son had died a year earlier. It was about Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, who was a renowned military man, hero
IV.- 1461. The War of the Roses:Henry VI against Edward IV Although the Wars of the Roses began in 1455, it is not possible to understand this dynastic conflict without the facts described in the previous entry about the succession of Edward III and the deposition of Richard II by Henry Bolinbroke
Entry extracted from the book The Plantagenets Although the date that is traditionally indicated as the starting gun of the War of the Roses (of which Ricardo Plantagenet was the main protagonist) is May 22, 1455, in which the first battle of St. Albans took place, it is not possible to understan
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
Second entry in the series dedicated to the Battle of Stoke Field. We had left the first entry in this series with the defeat of the rebel army against Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke Field on June 16, 1487, and with the question of whether history could have some connection with the mystery of the
Legend has it that when Leopold of Austria took Richard the Lionheart prisoner on his way back from the Crusades, he handed him over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who locked up in a castle in Germany, the location of which was kept secret. A troubadour named Blondel de Nesle whom Ricardo, who had
Blog readers know that I dont usually do translations of other blog posts or articles or historical posts. I prefer to write my posts with my own words and personal contributions and from different sources. Today I am going to throw an exception for the first time. Mattthew Lewis is a well-known aut
Today, December 4, is the anniversary of the death, in 1214, of the King of Scotland, William the Lion. This monarch played an important role in relations between England and Scotland, which have traditionally been complicated. The last episode of this story took place in 2014 with the Scottish inde
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The infamous King of England, John the Landless, died in Newark-on-Trent on October 19, 1216. Upon his death, John left a divided kingdom, with an invading French army (led by the dauphin Luis, who had been called by the noble rebels against the deceased ki
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets These days a lot is being read and heard about the possibility that the President of the United States Donald Trump will be subjected to an impeachment process known as the impeachment . He would be the third highest US president to go through this process
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The recent terrorist attack in London has led various media to refer to it as an attack on the cradle of parliamentary democracy, as well as to talk much about the birth of such a democracy in the British Isles. This has made me decide to recover the sect
The Vikings series and The Last Kingdom, the latter based on the books by Bernard Cornwell and of which the fourth season has just been released on Netflix, have made the story of the struggles between Saxons and Vikings for dominance of England very topical. There are two entries on the subject i
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In December 1154, Henry of Anjou was crowned at Westminster as King of England under the name of Henry II, thus giving rise to the Plantagenet dynasty, which would rule England and part of France for more than three hundred years. He was accompanied by his
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The first entry in the series dedicated to Eleanor of Aquitaine ended with the birth of a son from her marriage to Henry II, whom they called William. On February 28, 1155, Henry, the couples second son, was born. Sadness at the untimely death of the eldes
Entry extracted from the book The Plantagenets Since the early Middle Ages, the figure of the High King existed in Ireland, although the island was divided into independent kingdoms (Connacht, Ailech, Airgíalla, Ulster, Mide, Leinster, Osraige, Munster, Thormond). This position of Supreme King was
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the entry dedicated to one of the main figures of the Wars of the Roses, the Earl of Warwick Richard Neville, The Kingmaker, we had pointed out the causes and main events of this conflict. The fundamental year in the development of this dynastic war was
The use of the pilum in the Italian peninsula it began very early, the first specimens are documented in the Samnium region in the 8th century BC. C. (Roggiano Gravina specimens). From the 5th century BC. C. we also document it in Lucania (specimens from Metaponto, Paestum...) and in Etruria (speci
In the battle of Zama , 202 BC, the Carthaginian army and the great Hannibal – scourge of the Romans - they were defeated by Scipio «the African» . A peace treaty was signed which, like the previous ones, left Cartago touched, and almost sunk. So, Hannibal (the best strategist in history) he chang
The Beast of Gévaudan claimed more than a hundred victims between 1764 and 1767, in the province of Gévaudan , in the south of Auvergne. The extremely unusual wounds, such as bite size and decapitation, could not be done by a wolf but only by a beast . Faced with the scale of the massacre and the in
Albania is a peculiar country in many ways. Anyone who has ever visited the small Balkan state on the Adriatic will be able to confirm that. Even the completely unbiased visitor will quickly notice a few distinctive features of this country. If you drive through Albanias rural areas, you will not on