1332 Edward Balliol, son of John Balliol, invades Scotland and deposes David II. Edward Balliol is crowned King of Scotland by the English 1333 David is restored to the throne. 1333 Balliol flees to ...

IN this week in 1560, there died the man who would have been King of Scotland had he just survived a few more years. Although classed as an adult, King Francis II of France died in that fateful year ...

John Balliol was chosen and crowned king at Scone in 1292. However he endured a short but difficult reign caught between the English King and the Scottish nobles who humiliated him. He was called Toom ...

Philip II the Bold (French: Philippe II le Hardi; Dutch: Filips de Stoute; 17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and jure uxoris Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. He was the ...

When her father the King of France received news of Richard's death he demanded that Isabella be returned ... She died at the age of nineteen, a few hours after giving birth to her only child, a ...

The little known story of England's first evangelical QueenThe modern evangelical movement owes a great debt to England's first evangelical queen. This is the story ...

Ahead of World Day of the Poor, observed in the church Nov. 17, French bishops gave a green light to open the sainthood cause ...

Over the following six weeks he managed, through a series of heart-poundingly close escapes, to evade capture before finally making it to safety in France. One of the joys of this book, a result not ...

John II of Castile was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.

The future King George VI – then known as Prince Albert – served in the First World War, an experience that would later influence his leadership during World War II. As a young naval officer ... it ...

Before the BBC started using telerecordings, all the repeat performances of plays in television drama series such as "Sunday Night Theatre" were re-stagings of the first performance and also ...

The Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education is sponsoring a four-day event in Rome to honor the spiritual and intellectual legacy of Pope Saint John Paul II while marking the 25th anniversary ...