All Norman lords and barons whom King William had granted land in England were ordered to collect information on their domains, which was to be sent to William's advisors. Officials were then ...

Edinburgh Castle perches dramatically on the craggy volcanic Castle Rock and dominates the Edinburgh skyline. The earliest recorded mention of Castle Rock is recorded in the 2nd century, when the ...

Anne of Cleves was the daughter of John III, the Simple, Duke of Cleves and Marie of Juelich and Berg and was born at Dusseldorf, Germany on 22 September 1515. Anne had two sisters, Amelia, and ...

Iona Abbey, one of Scotland's most sacred sites and the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity was the mausoleum of many of the early Scottish Kings. Situated on the Isle of Iona on the West Coast ...

John the Black Comyn, was the son John I Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and Alice de Ros of Helmsley in Yorkshire. The Comyn family were of Norman origin. The surname is a place-name derived from Comines, ...

Thomas Becket was born around 1118, in Cheapside, London, on 21 December, the medieval feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. He was the son of Gilbert Becket, a prosperous London merchant and his wife ...

King Alexander III produced three children who all predeceased their father. He, therefore, obtained a promise from the nobles in 1284 to recognise his granddaughter Margaret, "Maid of Norway", the ...