King Henry III of France lived in an age of civil and religious unrest. While he tried to get a grip on the situation and ...

On July 20, the King of Navarre and future Henry IV arrived in Paris with 800 gentlemen ... As a dutiful daughter of France, she thwarted her brother d’Alençon’s and her husband’s attempted escape. A ...

Eleven years later he was crowned Henry II of France. Unfortunately it was to ... her daughter Marguerite to the Protestant Henry, King of Navarre. During the wedding celebrations in Paris ...

In foreign policy, Henry II naturally focused more on France’s northern and eastern borders than on Italy. Humiliated during his childhood imprisonment by Charles V during the Italian Wars, he sought ...

On December 1 1420, King Henry V of England rode into Paris amid a rapturous welcome, with wine literally gushing through the streets. He had done something no English sovereign before or since has ...

England’s connection to France went back to the Norman Conquest of 1066. King William I’s son Henry I ruled England and Normandy as a single united kingdom. Henry was considered by people at ...