Edward II was given the crown of England on condition that he had nothing more to do with Piers Gaveston, and he did not keep his word.

Henry VI’s campaign to confirm himself as King of France looked to be in trouble after the Duke of Brittany switched sides.

Charles Dickens laments William the Conqueror’s brutal rampage through rebellious Durham and Yorkshire.

Embarrassed by the behaviour of his Norman bishops and abbots, King William I asked monk Guitmond to come over and set an example.

Charles Dickens tells the story of Hereward the Wake, the last Englishman to stand up to William the Conqueror.

However grim and severe the thirteenth century baron might be in his public duties, at dinner-time it was all wine, laughter and song.