Brad Pitt has a notable ancestral link to medieval England, being a distant relative of the late Queen Elizabeth II through ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

Henry II’s vast kingdom stretching from the ... analyse the relationships of the key figures who established the Plantagenet dynasty. This clip will be relevant for teaching history at KS4 ...

Henry II forges a mighty empire encompassing England ... Professor Robert Bartlett charts the downfall of the Plantagenet dynasty. In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are ...

Following a civil war with King Stephen, their son Henry II ruled vast lands in England ... for supremacy between two branches of the Plantagenet family during the Wars of the Roses, and the ...