When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.

Then Monroe travelled to New York to appear at a birthday celebration for John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, where she famously serenaded the President.

John travelled around the country to oppose the rebel forces, directing, among other operations, a two-month siege of the rebel-held Rochester Castle.

After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, Cook travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby to be introduced to friends of Sanderson's, John and Henry Walker.

Growing irritated with his subordinate position to Henry II and increasingly worried that John might be given additional lands and castles at his expense, Henry the Young King travelled to Paris and allied himself with Louis VII.

Like previous kings, John managed a peripatetic court that travelled around the kingdom, dealing with both local and national matters as he went.

After the failure of the crusade, John travelled throughout Europe seeking assistance, but found support only from Frederick, who then married John and Maria's daughter Isabella II in 1225.

Following the success of his double first, William travelled with his brother John on a Grand Tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, France, Germany and Italy.

During that year, diplomatic pressure from France and Rome persuaded Edward to release the imprisoned King John into the custody of the pope, and Wallace was sent to France to seek the aid of Philip IV ; he possibly also travelled to Rome.

Carte travelled to New York in the summer of 1879 and made arrangements with theatre manager John T. Ford to present, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the first authorised American production of Pinafore.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

A Scottish economist and finacier, John Law, exiled after killing a man in a duel, had travelled around Europe before settling in France.

Foinavon, whose owner had such little faith in him that he had travelled to Worcester that day instead, had been lagging some 100 yards behind the leading pack, giving his jockey, John Buckingham, time to steer his mount wide of the havoc and make a clean jump of the fence on the outside.

In 1859, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier and John Ross travelled to Great Britain to present the British Parliament with a project for confederation of the British colonies.

According to contemporary reports, John travelled from Spalding in Lincolnshire to Bishop's Lynn, in Norfolk, was taken ill and decided to return.

The explorer John Oxley passed by the Apsley Falls in September 1818 and travelled eastwards through this area en route to Port Macquarie.

In 1862 John McDouall Stuart travelled along the south-western boundary of Kakadu but did not see any people.

Later, Rolepana ( aged 8 years ), child-survivor of a massacre by a ' roving party ' led by John Batman, travelled with him as part of the founding party of Melbourne in 1835.

In the winter of 1749 – 1750, Adam travelled to London with his friend, the poet John Home.

The following year he travelled to the UK and made little effort against local prospect John L. Gardner, before collapsing without getting hit in the 6th round.

As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy.

Sicily and Sardinia were inherited by his brother John, who survived him.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

In 1522 he participated in the Siege of Rhodes against the Knights of St. John, which ended with the island's surrender to the Ottomans on 25 December 1522 and the permanent departure of the Knights from Rhodes on 1 January 1523 ( the Knights relocated first ( briefly ) to Sicily and later ( permanently ) to Malta ).

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

* During the middle of the century, the Cappella Palatina is built in Palermo, Sicily, and the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript illustrates the Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes.

Manfred's former chancellor, John of Procida, had arranged contact between Michael, Peter and the refugees at his court, and conspirators on the island of Sicily itself.

In fact, the master-plan of John of Procida was to place Peter on the throne of Sicily, his Hohenstaufen inheritance.

In 1136, at the insistence of Innocent and Byzantine Emperor John II Comnenus, the campaign began, directed against Roger of Sicily.

Bagheria was a preferred stopping point for Europeans pursuing the Grand Tour in Sicily including Patrick Brydone, Goethe, John Soane, K. F. Schinkel and many others.

* Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile ( 1358 – 1382 ), wife of John I of Castile, daughter of Peter IV of Aragon and Eleanor of Sicily

" John Lemprière in his Classical Dictionary ( 1827 ) wrote, " Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures.

The Italian physician John of Procida acted on behalf of Peter in Sicily.

Peter left John of Procida in charge of Sicily and returned via his own kingdom to Bordeaux, which, evading a suspected French ambush, he entered in disguise.

He had one older brother, William IX, Count of Poitiers ( d. 1156 ), and his younger siblings included Matilda, Duchess of Saxony ; Richard I of England ; Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Eleanor, Queen of Castile ; Joan, Queen of Sicily ; and John of England.

The Turks were forced onto the defensive, while John kept his diplomatic situation relatively simple by allying with the Holy Roman Emperor against the Normans of Sicily.

On the western front, in Sicily, Michael and John ordered the general George Maniakes to drive the Arabs out of the island.

Roger remained in Sicily, leaving its mainland garrisons helpless under the chancellor Robert of Selby, while even the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus sent subsidies to Lothair.

Unfortunately for Frederick, a part of the Catalan-Aragonese nobles of Sicily favoured King James, and both John of Procida and Roger of Lauria, the heroes of the war of the Vespers, went over to the Angevins, and the latter completely defeated the Sicilian fleet off Capo d ' Orlando.

* John ( 1317 – 1348 ), Duke of Randazzo, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, Regent of Sicily ( from 1338 )

John was the eldest son of Peter IV and his third wife, Eleanor, who was the daughter of Peter II of Sicily.

In 1955, on holiday in Sicily soon after his resignation as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill discussed with Sir John Colville and Lord Cherwell the possibility of founding a new institution.

* John Julius Norwich, The Kingdom in the Sun, reprinted as part of his The Normans in Sicily, ISBN 0-14-015212-1

With only Reynier's small force in Calabria still struggling against the revolt, the British organised an expeditionary force under Sir Sir John Stuart to prevent any potential invasion of Sicily and perhaps to trigger a full scale rebellion against the French across Italy.

* John Julius Norwich, The Kingdom in the Sun, reprinted as part of his The Normans in Sicily, ISBN 0-14-015212-1