Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Henry VI is a unique case in history. He was the only person ever to be simultaneously crowned King of England and King of France. However, his coronation had to be organized in a hurry, neither in one place nor in the other did he rule peacefully, he ended
William Long Sword is the second Duke of Normandy or second Jarl of the Normans of the Seine. He succeeded his father Rollo around 927. He was the natural son of Rollo and Poppa, his concubine, Danish-style wife of the Viking. The young woman gave Rollo two children. A girl with the Scandinavian nam
Practically at the same time that Marco Polo arrived in China, a Chinese monk of Mongolian origin, Rabban Bar Sauma , he undertook a journey that would end up taking him through Byzantium and medieval Europe and meet emperors, popes and kings. From Mongol-dominated Beijing to Capetian France, Bar Sa
About half a thousand protesters entered San Franciscos Golden Gate Park on the 19th to practice the new fashion of toppling statues. One of those chosen was the bronze effigy of Fr. Junípero Serra . This Spanish Franciscan, far from being a genocide or a racist, represented the opposite throughout