Henry IV of England - Henry IV of England Henry IV (April 3, 1367 - March 20, 1413) was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire - hence the other name by which he was known, "Henry Bolingbroke". His father, John of Gaunt was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England. After supporting his cousin, King Richard II of England, in some early difficulties, Bolingbroke was exiled and disinherited in 1398. Returning the following year on September 30, 1399 he deposed Richard and took the throne, rising from Henry, Duke of Lancaster to King Henry IV. Henry's coronation, on October 13, 1399 is notable as the first time following the Norman Conquest that the monarch made an address in English. In 1380 Henry married Mary de Bohun; they had.
Henry IV - Henry IV See the appropriate pages for People: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV of England Henry IV of France Henry IV of Castile Henry IV, Duke of Breslau Plays by William Shakespeare: Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2.
Henry VII of England - Henry VII of England Henry VII (January 28, 1457-April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485-April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of England's most successful kings. Henry VII King of England, Lord of Ireland Henry Tudor was the posthumous son of Edmund Tudor, a half-brother of King Henry VI of England. His mother was Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of King Edward III on the wrong side of the blanket. From his father, he inherited the title Earl of Richmond; from his mother, his questionable claim to the throne of England. He was born in Pembroke, Wales but grew up in exile in Brittany, having fled from the Yorkist kings of England. As.
Henry VIII of England - Henry VIII of England Henry VIII King of England, Ireland and France Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 - January 28, 1547) was King of England from April 22 (crowned on June 24), 1509 until his death on January 28, 1547. He was accorded the title King of Ireland by the Irish Parliament in 1541, having previously been styled Lord of Ireland. Born at the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London, he was the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He was created Prince of Wales after the death of his older brother Arthur, Prince of Wales. A dispensation from Pope Julius II was necessary in order to allow him to marry his brother's widow Catherine.
Henry V of England - Henry V of England Henry V, (August 9 or September 16, 1387 - August 31, 1422), King of England, son of Henry IV of England by Mary de Bohun, was born at Monmouth, Wales, in September 1387. On his father's exile in 1398, Richard II took the boy into his own charge, and treated him kindly. Next year the Lancastrian revolution forced Henry into precocious prominence as heir to the throne. From October 1400 the administration of Wales was conducted in his name; less than three years later he was in actual command of the English forces and fought against Harry Hotspur at Shrewsbury. It was there, in 1403, that the sixteen-year-old prince was almost killed by an arrow which lodged itself in his face. An.
Henry VI of England - Henry VI of England Henry VI (December 6, 1421 - May 20, 1471) was King of England from 1437 to 1461 and then from 1470 to 1471. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Childhood 2 Coronations 3 Reign 4 Death and Legacy Childhood Henry was the only child and heir of King Henry V of England, therefore great things were expected of him from birth. He was born on December 6, 1421 at Windsor, but his father died when he was only a few months old. His mother, Catherine of Valois, was French and only twenty years old. Because of general suspicion of her nationality, she was prevented from having much to do with her son's upbringing, and regents ruled the kingdom on his behalf. Henry's half-brothers,.
Henry IV, part 1 - Henry IV, part 1 Though titled "Henry IV," this play by William Shakespeare is the tale of the coming-of-age of the future Henry V—young Prince Hal, the compatriot of Falstaff and other disreputable rascals. At the outset, Prince Hal seems to pale in comparison with the fiery Hotspur Percy, the young noble lord of the North. But Prince Hal does indeed grow up, evolving into King Henry V, perhaps the most heroic of all of Shakespeare's characters. This is the tale of the prodigal son writ large against the backdrop of medieval England. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it..
Edward IV of England - Edward IV of England Edward IV was King of England 1461-1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470-1471. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Childhood 2 King of England 3 Flight to France 4 Restoration 5 Death and Succession 6 Children 7 Was Edward Illegitimate? 7.1 Evidence of Illegitimacy 7.2 Consequences of Illegitimacy Childhood Edward was born on April 28, 1442, at Rouen in France, the eldest son of Richard, Duke of York (a leading claimant to the throne of England) and Cecily Neville. York's challenge to the ruling family marked the beginning of the conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. When Richard was killed in 1460, at the Battle of Wakefield, pressing his claim against the Lancastrian king, Henry VI of.
King Henry - King Henry There has been a bewildering array of monarchs with the name "Henry". The years shown below are the regnal years. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Byzantine Empire 2 England 3 France 4 Germany and Holy Roman Empire 4.1 Dukes of Saxony 4.2 Princes zu Reuss 5 Portugal 6 Spain 6.3 Navarre Byzantine Empire Henry of Flanders (1206-1216) (Latin Empire) England Henry I of England r. (1100 - 1135) Henry II Plantagenet of England r. (1154 - 1189) Henry III of England r. (1216 - 1272) Henry IV of England r. (1399 - 1413) Henry V of England r. (1413 - 1422) Henry VI of England r. (1429 - 1471) Henry VII of England r. (1485 - 1509) Henry VIII of England r. (1509 - 1547).
James IV of Scotland - James IV of Scotland James IV (March 17, 1473 - September 9, 1513) was king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513. He was the son of King James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark. When his father was murdered on June 11, 1488, the fifteen-year-old James took the throne and soon proved an effective ruler. Having fought off the aggression of King Henry VII of England, he recognized that he could not hope to gain the upper hand and so attempted to maintain peace with his neighbor by marrying Henry's daughter, Margaret Tudor, on August 8, 1503, at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. The couple's first three children all died in infancy. When war broke out between England and France, James found himself in a difficult position. The.
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor - Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, (1081 - May 23, 1125) was the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. He forced the abdication in 1105 of his father, the emperor Henry IV and secured his own election as king, assuming the imperial crown in 1111. Despite initial Papal support for his accession, Henry continued the Investiture Controversy started by his father against the Pope's insistence on control all ecclesiastical appointments in Germany. Invading Italy twice (1110 and 1116) and setting up a rival antipope in opposition to the Pope in Rome, Henry eventually secured a compromise (the Concordat of Worms, 1122) under which the Pope would invest church appointees with their spiritual offices, the Emperor with their lay rights. In.
Henry V (play) - Henry V (play) Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. It deals only with the events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. It is important to note that the play was one of a series of "histories" written by Shakespeare, and would have been performed as such. Audiences would already have been familiar with "Prince Hal" as depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild undisciplined lad. In Henry V, the young prince has grown into a mature man and is about to embark on the attempted conquest of France. Because of the scene changes that would have been required in order to convey the changes of.
Henry Benedict Stuart - Henry Benedict Stuart Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart (March 11, 1725 - July 13, 1807), born in Rome, Italy, Prince of England and Scotland and Duke of York, was known by the Jacobites as Henry IX, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland (January 31, 1788 - July 13, 1807). He was the second son of James Francis Edward Stuart, known as The Old Pretender. His mother was Maria Clementina Sobieski, daughter of the Polish prince John III Sobieski. He was in France in 1745 preparing to help his brother, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), with the Scottish Jacobite Rebellion. After the suppression of the rebellion, Henry Stuart returned to Italy where he entered the Roman Catholic Church and in 1747 was made a.
Henry Cardinal Beaufort - Henry Cardinal Beaufort Henry Beaufort, the second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, was born in Anjou (France) in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church. In about 1390 their cousin Richard II of England declared him and his two brothers and one sister legitimate. (There is some confusion on this point; there seems to have been another such procedure in 1397, involving Parliament.) In 1398 Henry Beaufort was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln. When his half-brother deposed Richard and took the throne as Henry IV of England, he made Bishop Beaufort Chancellor of England in 1403, but he resigned that position the next year to become Bishop of Winchester. Between 1411 and 1413 Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace.
Henry the Lion - Henry the Lion Henry the Lion (face of statue on his tomb in Brunswick Cathedral) Henry the Lion (1129/1131-1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was Duke of Saxony from 1142 and Duke of Bavaria from 1156. He was the richest of the German nobles, at least until the enrichment of the rival Hohenstaufen dynasty during the reign of Frederick I. The Lion was his heraldic animal. Henry achieved this great wealth in large part by the combined legacies of his four grandparents. He was the son of Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria and Saxony, who was the son of duke Welf IV and an heiress of the Billungs, former dukes of Saxony. Henry's mother was Gertude, only daughter of the Emperor Lothar II and of.
Henry Percy - Henry Percy Henry Percy was the name of several nobles in the line that produced the earls of Northumberland. Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur (1364 ? - 1403) was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland and 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick. His nickname is suggestive of his impulsive nature. Harry acquired a great reputation as a warrior, fighting against the Scots and the French. He fought against the Scots at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. With his father he helped depose Richard II of England, but later with his uncle.
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Henry Stafford (1454-1483), 2nd Duke of Buckingham, played a major role in Richard III of England's rise and fall. He is also one of the primary suspects in the disappearance (and presumed murder) of the Princes in the Tower. Buckingham was related to the royal family of England so many different ways that he was his own cousin many times over, but his connections were all through daughters of younger sons. His chances of inheriting the throne would seem remote, but in the end the internecine conflicts between and within the Houses of Lancaster and York brought him within striking distance of a crown. Some even say Buckingham played no little role in formenting some of those conflicts. Buckingham was.
Henry Vane the Younger - Henry Vane the Younger Sir Henry Vane (1613 - June 14, 1662), son of Henry Vane the Elder, served as a stateman and Member of Parliament in a career spanning England and Massachusetts. A Puritan from an early age, Vane visited North America (1635) and became in 1636 governor of Massachusetts. In 1637 he returned to England and became an administrator (1639) and a parliamentarian (1640). King Charles I of England knighted him in 1640. He steered a moderate but generally pro-Parliament course through the English Civil War. In August 1642, at the outbreak of war, he was placed upon the committee of defence. In 1643 he was the leading man among the commissioners sent to treat for a league with the Scots. Vane, who was.
Henry VI, part 2 - Henry VI, part 2 The play we know as King Henry VI Part II was originally known as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. It was the first half of a two-part play on the popular theme of the 'Wars of the Roses'. It was this two-part play that established Shakespeare's reputation as a major playwright in the 1590s. Shakespeare also wrote a play on the major event before the Wars of the Roses: the expulsion of the English from France by Joan of Arc. This play, which may have been written before or after the two-part play, was grouped together by later editors with the two-parter to form a trilogy - Henry VI parts 1, 2,.
Henry VI, part 3 - Henry VI, part 3 Henry VI Part III is the third of William Shakespeare's plays set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England, and prepares the ground for one of his best-known and most controversial plays: the tragedy of King Richard III (Richard III of England). It follows on from Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2. Warning: wikipedia contains spoilers The play begins with the Earl of Warwick (Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick) presiding over a dispute between Richard, Duke of York and the reigning King Henry, in the course of which Henry agrees to make York his heir. The Queen, Margaret of Anjou, makes it clear that she will not agree to this, and declares war on the Yorkists, with.
