Henry I died in Normandy, France in 1135 after eating lamprey, a type of fish. But, due to bad weather, it took a while to get his body home to England. "He was finally brought back to England, by ...

Former USMNT star Charlie Davies reflects on his excitement at joining The Athletic, the latest step in his remarkable ...

She is part of a team seeking backing to search for the ruins of Reading Abbey, founded by Henry in 1121 and where he was buried after his death 14 years later, allegedly brought about by eating ...

Shortly after Thomas More, a leading statesman and longtime friend of Henry VIII, was executed on July 6, 1535, his head was ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV decided Thursday to declare St. John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of ...

Henry VIII’s decision to form the Church of England proved predictably contentious, as evidenced by the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace uprising, which found some 30,000 Northerners taking up arms in ...

Her new husband’s name: Owen Tudor, grandfather of Henry VII and the unlikely founder of one of England’s most well-known royal houses.

Fifteen years later, when King Henry died without an heir, the country slipped into civil war and “the bloodiest anarchy that England has ever suffered,” only recovering when in 1154 his ...