In 1589, at the death of Henry III of France, the House of Valois became extinct in the male line. Under the Salic law, the head of the House of Bourbon, as the senior representative of the ...
King of England from 1272, son of Henry III (1207–72). He led the royal forces against Simon de Montfort ... He married Eleanor of Castile (1254–90) and in 1299 married Margaret, daughter of Philip ...
Their eldest son Henry died aged 18 of typhoid, and their 2nd son Charles became King Charles I. The marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Frederic ... They are captured on the way to France and ...
She gave a speech praising the goodness and mercy of the king, and asked those gathered to pray for her. Then she removed her fine, ermine-trimmed gown, and knelt down – and the expensive French ...