Painting of Henry II

Plantagenet

Historian John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV

When royals marry ‘commoners’: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ‘Princes in the Tower’

The 5 greatest mysteries behind the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

8 of Britain’s best battlefields. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History quiz – prison escapes and the princes in the Tower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Henry V of England

My history hero: Henry V. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III: A hostage to fortune. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

A 19th-century illustration depicting the battle of Agincourt.

Books interview with Ranulph Fiennes: "The Hundred Years' War was caused by my ancestor's advice being ignored". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with 'The White Queen' writer Philippa Gregory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Laurence Olivier plays Richard III in the 1955 film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. In it, the controversial monarch is damned as everything from a "bottled spider" and "lump of foul deformity" to a "poisonous bunch-backed toad". (Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Why did Shakespeare revile Richard III?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

An A to Z of the Plantagenets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The medieval castle in the English county of Kent

The King and his castle: how Henry II rebuilt his reputation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryAn adulterous scandal and a grisly end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.