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John was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland ( Norman : Jean sans Terre , lit. 'John without land') [ 2 ] because, as a younger son, he was not expected to inherit significant lands. [ 3 ]
Henry was born in Winchester Castle on 1 October 1207. [3] He was the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême. [4] Little is known of Henry's early life. [5] He was initially looked after by a wet nurse called Ellen in the south of England, away from John's itinerant court, and probably had close ties to his mother. [6]
Richard FitzRoy (c. 1190 – June 1246) (alias Richard de Chilham and Richard de Dover [2]) was the illegitimate son of King John of England and was feudal baron of Chilham, [2] in Kent. His mother was Adela de Warenne, his father's first cousin and a daughter of Hamelin de Warenne by his wife Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey.
Prince John (John Charles Francis; 12 July 1905 – 18 January 1919) was the fifth son and youngest of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary. At the time of his birth, his father was heir apparent to John's grandfather Edward VII .
He was born 5 January 1209 at Winchester Castle, the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême.He was made High Sheriff of Berkshire at age eight, was styled Count of Poitou from 1225 and in the same year, at the age of sixteen, his brother King Henry III gave him Cornwall as a birthday present, making him High Sheriff of Cornwall.
Aslam Husain as Philip the Bastard in the 2012 Bard on the Beach production of King John. William Shakespeare depicted Philip of Cognac as "Philip the Bastard" in his play, The Life and Death of King John (mid-1590s). In this, he is the son of Lady Faulconbridge, widow of Sir Robert Faulconbridge, and learns of his true paternity in the first ...
William supported King John when he became king in 1199, arguing against those who maintained the claims of Arthur of Brittany, the teenage son of John's elder brother Geoffrey. [24] William was heavily engaged with the defence of Normandy against the growing pressure of the Capetian armies between 1200 and 1203. He sailed with King John when ...
Illustration of descent of John of Gaunt and of his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, from King Henry III. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399), was an English royal prince, military leader and statesman. He was the fourth son (third surviving) of King Edward III of England, and the father of King Henry IV.