The Plantagenets, who had dominated England for 331 years, fell into oblivion. Professor Robert Bartlett details how the mental illness of Henry VI destabilised the Plantagenet dynasty ...

But when he died in 1135 the English throne was seized by Matilda's cousin: Stephen. The Plantagenets fought back. Geoffrey led a successful invasion of Normandy, which had been part of Henry I ...

I am a student of English medieval history, reading histories, listening to lectures and traveling to historic English sites. Despite these efforts, what I recall are disassociated dates, names ...

It ended with the rise of Henry II and the Plantagenets, England’s ­longest-reigning dynasty at 331 years, but if the Peterborough scribes imagined that this would usher in a golden age of ...