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 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 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, part 1 - Henry VI, part 1 King Henry VI Part 1 is one of the "history" plays of William Shakespeare. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often performed in sequence under the title "Wars of the Roses". In fact, Shakespeare's concern with historical accuracy is non-existent. Although the characters and events are based on things that actually happened, in the century before his birth, his sole purpose was to produce entertaining and dramatic action for the troupes of actors with whom he was associated; he had little interest in educating his audience. The sources on which Shakespeare drew for this period included the Chronicle of Raphael Holinshed, which was itself a literary as much as a scholarly work. Warning: wikipedia contains spoilers The play.
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.
Edward VI of England - Edward VI of England Edward VI (October 12, 1537 - July 6, 1553) was King of England from January 28 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on February 20), 1547 to July 6,1553. Edward VI King of England, Ireland and France Edward VI, the only surviving son of King Henry VIII, was England's first Protestant king. Though his father had broken the link between English Catholicism and Rome, it was in Edward's reign that the decisive move was made from Catholicism to a form of Protestantism which came to be known as Anglicanism. Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, the son of Jane Seymour, who died a few days later. The boy's father, Henry VIII, was delighted by his birth, but devastated by the death of his.
Kevin Spacey - Best Actor for American Beauty in 1999. Spacey's first professional stage appearance was as a messenger in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI, part 1 in 1981. The following year he made his first Broadway appearance in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts. Although his interest soon turned to film, Spacey remains actively involved in the live theater community. In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Uncle Louie in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers. Spacey announced in February 2003 that he is moving to London, England to become the artistic director of the Old Vic, one of the city's oldest theatres. Spacey will direct a new Old Vic Theatre Company, which will stage shows eight months out of the year, starting in 2004. Spacey has.
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 I of England - James I of England James VI of Scotland (June 19, 1566 - March 27, 1625, reigned July 24, 1567 - March 27, 1625) and James I of England and Ireland (reigned March 24, 1603-March 27,1625) was the first king of both England and Scotland. James succeeded Elizabeth I as the closest living relative of the unmarried childless English monarch, through his descent from Henry VIII's sister Margaret Tudor. He was a popular monarch, but less skilled at governing than Elizabeth I had been. His taste for political absolutism, his mismanagement of the kingdom's funds, and his cultivation of unpopular favorites laid much of the groundwork that would lead to the deposition and execution of his son Charles I during the English Civil War. During James' own life,.
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu - Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses, best-known for eliminating Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV of England. Montagu was a younger son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury, and a brother of Warwick the Kingmaker . He fought at the Battle of Blore Heath and was captured and imprisoned by the Lancastrians. After the Yorkist victory at Northampton he was released, but was captured again at the second Battle of St Albans. Following his second release from imprisonment, he led the Yorkist forces in the north of England, defeating the Lancastrians at Hedgeley Moor and again at Hexham ( both 1465). In reward for driving out the Lancastrians, Montagu was created.
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 Stuart, Lord Darnley - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley Henry Stewart, (or Stuart, although that is technically incorrect) Duke of Albany (1545-1567), commonly known as Lord Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, was the first-cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. Darnley was born on December 7, 1545, at Temple Newsham in Yorkshire, the son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife Margaret Douglas. Margaret being the daughter of Margaret Tudor (by her second husband), and hence granddaughter of King Henry VII of England, Darnley was descended from the royal houses of both England and Scotland, and by the time of his marriage to Mary on July 29, 1565, was second.
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 Balnaves - Henry Balnaves Henry Balnaves (1512?-1579) was a Scottish politician and religious reformer. Born at Kirkcaldy about 1512, he was educated at the University of St Andrews and on the continent, where he adopted Protestant views. Returning to Scotland, he continued his legal studies and in 1538 was appointed a lord of session. He married Christian Scheves, and in 1539 was granted the estate of Halhill in Fife, after which lie is generally named. Before 1540 he was sworn of James V of Scotland's privy council, and was known as one of the party in favour of the English alliance and of an ecclesiastical reformation. He is also described as treasurer to James, but the regent Arran appointed him secretary in the new government of the infant.
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, Prince of Wales - Henry, Prince of Wales Henry, Prince of Wales or Henry Frederick Stuart (February 19, 1594 - November 6, 1612) was the eldest son of King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark. He was born at Stirling Castle and became Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick and Lord of the Isles immediately on his birth. Following his father's accession to the throne of England in 1603, he was made Duke of Cornwall and was invested Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1610, thus bringing together the Scottish and English titles traditionally held by male heirs to the throne ever since that date. Henry showed great promise, and his death from typhoid at the age of eighteen was regarded as a.
Henry Sidney - Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney (1529 - May 5, 1586), lord deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney, a prominent politician and courtier in the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he received extensive grants of land, including the manor of Penshurst in Kent, which became the principal residence of the family. Henry was brought up at court as the companion of Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward VI; and he continued to enjoy the favour of the sovereign throughout the reigns of Edward and Mary. In 1556 he went to Ireland with the lord deputy, the 3rd Earl of Sussex, who in the previous year had married his sister Frances Sidney; and from the first he had.
Henry Wotton - Henry Wotton Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - December, 1639) was an English author and diplomat. The son of Thomas Wotton (1521-1587) and grandnephew of the diplomat Nicholas Wotton, he was born at Bocton Hall in the parish of Bocton or Boughton Malherbe, Kent. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated on June 5 1584. Two years later he moved to Queen's College, graduating in 1588. At Oxford he was the friend of Albericus Gentilis, then professor of Civil Law, and of John Donne. During his residence at Queen's he wrote a play, Tancredo, which has not survived, but his chief interests appear to have been scientific. In qualifying for his M.A. degree he read three lectures De oculo, and.
