Following the death of Edward the Confessor, there were several claimants to the English throne. Harold Godwinson was from Wessex, in England. He was a wealthy nobleman, and it is claimed that ...
Henry began to build plans for the future of the English throne over the coming years. In 1127, he married Matilda to Fulk’s son (Fulk was King of Jerusalem), a man called Geoffrey Plantagenet.
Elizabeth I died without any heirs to succeed her, so her cousin James, who was the King of Scotland, came to the English throne as James I of England. James was the first monarch in the Stuart ...
In 1610, Lady Arbella defied King James I to marry her choice of husband, William Seymour, another claimant to the English throne. Seymour was imprisoned and Lady Arbella placed under house arrest.