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The Kingdom of Asturias[3] was a kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the Visigothic nobleman Pelagius. It was the first Christian political entity established after the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711. [4] In the Summer of 722, [5] Pelagius defeated an Umayyad army at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is retroactively ...
Mother. Herleva of Falaise. William the Conqueror[a] (c. 1028[1] – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, [2][b] was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) [3] from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle, his ...
14th-century depiction of King Henry II of England with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket. " Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? " (spoken aloud ⓘ; also expressed as " troublesome priest " or " meddlesome priest ") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in ...
Crusader Kings III. Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy role-playing video game set in the Middle Ages, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Crusader Kings (2004) and Crusader Kings II (2012). The game was released on PC on 1 September 2020 and on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on ...
Gendry was born in King's Landing after Robert's Rebellion ended, and is one of sixteen (twenty in the television series) bastard children of King Robert Baratheon. [5] He is 14 years old when introduced in the first book, and is portrayed as tall and very muscled, having blue eyes and thick black hair, very similar to his biological father Robert in youth.
The House of Plantagenet[a] (/plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
The House of Godwin (Old English: Godƿin) was an Anglo-Saxon family who were one of the leading noble families in England during the last fifty years before the Norman Conquest. Its most famous member was Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066. The founder of the family's greatness, Earl Godwin, was raised from comparative ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 September 2024. 10th and 11th-century Grand Prince of Kiev and Novgorod "Prince Vladimir" redirects here. For the 2006 Russian film, see Prince Vladimir. In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sviatoslavich. Vladimir the Great Vladimir's effigy on one of his coins ...