The original version of the popular 1620 painting of William the Conqueror.
Panel from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo of Bayeux, Duke William, and Count Robert of Mortain (11th century).
Ethelred the Unready, circa 968–1016. Illuminated manuscript, The Chronicle of Abindon, c.1220. MS Cott. Claude B.VI folio 87, verso, The British Library.
Statue of King Alfred the Great in Wantage, Oxfordshire, erected in 1877.
Scene 57 from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings (11th century).
An illustration of King Stephen from the illuminated manuscript of Matthew Paris, a monk in the 13th century.
Portrait of Empress Mathilda, from “History of England” by St. Albans monks (15th century).
Drawing from a 14th century manuscript depicting King Henry I and the sinking of the White Ship.
Photo of the tomb of Robert, Duke of Normandy, which rests in Gloucester Cathedral (2020).
Enamel effigy of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, from his tomb, 1151. Formerly at Le Mans Cathedral, now in the Museum of Archeology and History in Le Mans.
Oil painting of King Henry IV by an unknown artist, circa 1597–1618.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, circa 1593 by Lucas Cornelisz de Kock.
Portrait of Richrd II by an unknown artist, circa 1390.
The bronze effigy of Edward III in Westminster Abbey, 1377.
The tomb of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral, 1376.
A depiction of the imprisonment of Charles, Duke of Orléans, in the Tower of London from a 15th-century manuscript. The White Tower is visible, St Thomas’ Tower (also known as Traitor’s Gate) is in front of it, and in the foreground is the River Thames.
Richard II meeting with the rebels during the Peasants’ Revolt. From a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles.
Posthumous portrait of King Edward IV circa 1520, from original circa 1470–1475.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth Woodville by an unknown artist, circa 1471.
Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist, circa 1540.
Portrait of Richard, Duke of York, by an unknown artist, circa 1450.
Queen Margaret of Anjou from the illuminated manuscript of Talbot Master, circa 1445.
Illustration of the Battle of Barnet from the Ghent manuscript, late 15th century.
An illustration of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, from the Rous Roll, 15th century.
Portrait of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, by Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, 16th century.
An illuminated miniature depicting the beheading of Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, while King Edward IV watches, late 15th century.
Portrait of King Richard III by unknown artist, circa 1520.
Middleham Castle, home of Richard III and Anne Neville. Photo 2007.
Image of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, by unknown artist, 18th century.
Painting of the Princes in the Tower by John Everett Millais, 1878, Royal Holloway Collection.
Henry Tudor, Earl of RIchmond, in his youth, painted by an unknown French artist, circa 1470–1480.
Bust of King Henry VII by Pietro Torrigiani. This bust was based on a plaster cast taken from the dead King’s face, circa 1512.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth of York by an unknown artist, circa 1500.
Portrait of the Royal Tudors by an unknown artist, circa 1503–9. At left, Henry VII, with Prince Arthur behind him, then Prince Henry (later Henry VIII), and Prince Edmund, who did not survive early childhood. To the right is Elizabeth of York, with Princess Margaret, then Princess Elizabeth who didn’t survive childhood, Princess Mary, and Princess Katherine, who died shortly after her birth. Circa 1505 and circa 1509.
Pembroke Castle, home of Henry Tudor and Jasper Tudor. Photo 2007.
Oil painting of Margaret Beaufort by an unknown artist, 16th century.
Portrait of Arthur, Prince of Wales, circa 1500.
Oil painting of Catherine of Aragon, wife of Arthur and Henry VIII, at 40 years of age. Author unknown, early 18th century.
Portrait of young Henry VIII by Meynnart Wewyck, circa 1509.
A stained glass window featuring Jasper Tudor at Cardiff Castle, date unknown.