Edward, son of Edward II and Isabel, daughter of King Philip of France, was born at Windsor Castle on 13th November 1312 at 5:40am – he was the first English king to have the exact time of his birth ...

The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

In 1269 the remains of Edward the Confessor, England’s only canonized ... they were murdered by their uncle Richard III. Opening the tomb of King John (d. 1216) might tell us if the villain ...

A Genealogical History of the Kings of England.... by Francis Sandford 1677 (his engraving shows the tomb with two lions at the feet and gablet behind the head in place) King Henry III and St Edward ...