The Middle Ages began since 500 A.D. and lasted until approximately 1500 A.D. Women have since then been living and resisting sexism until they finally got their rights in the 1900's. In the Middle Ages powers of women have gone up or down like the stock market. Unmarried adolescent women and wid...

Henry II Henry II was the first of eight Plantagenet kings. He neither ignored his island kingdom nor dragged it into continental trouble. Along with Alfred, Edward I, and Elizabeth I, Henry II ranks as one of the best British monarchs. Henry II was born in Le Mans, France in 1133. Geoffrey Pl...

The Hundred Years' War During the year 1328, the last Capetian king died without a male successor. Immediately Edward III, the King of England, held claim to the French throne because he was the grandson of Philip IV and felt he had the right to the throne. Edward launching for the French th...