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The authoritative edition of Henry IV, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Family relationships are at the center of Henry IV, Part 1. King Henry IV and Prince Hal form one major father-son pair, with Henry in despair because Hal lives a dissolute life.
Dec 12, 2004 · The only Englishman ever to be Pope, Nicholas Breakspear was elected on December 4th, 1154. Pope Adrian IV. Nicholas Breakspear spent most of his life outside England. Born in humble circumstances at Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, perhaps about 1100, he studied in Paris and became a canon regular of St Rufus near Avignon.
Debbi Codling | Published in History Today Volume 57 Issue 1 January 2007. Henry IV (r.1399-1413) has left only a faint imprint on the historical imagination. Despite being the subject of two plays by Shakespeare, he emerges clearly from neither. In the first play it is Hotspur who dominates, in the second it is the King’s son. Yet Henry was ...
Jan 1, 2007 · The man who founded the Tudor dynasty was born on January 28th, 1457. Henry Tudor (1457-1509) The future Henry VII was born with a claim to the English crown which was extremely slight and intriguingly complicated. He was to spend his youth in the nightmare politics of the Wars of the Roses but he was a survivor.
Born in the same year as Richard, 1367, Henry was only forty-six when he died. It is as if the strain of kingship exhausted the strength of even the toughest. We can see what medieval people thought, or rather how they reacted, from the ill omens at Henry’s coronation that Adam of Usk recorded in his Chronicon , ‘Three ensigns of royalty ...
Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, England, probably in April 1366. He was the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and the grandson of King Edward III. Before becoming king, he was known as Henry Bolingbroke, and he received from his cousin King Richard II the titles earl of Derby (1377) and duke of Hereford (1397).
Hotspur (Henry Percy). Why, so it would have done at the same season, if 1560 your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself had never been born. Glendower. I say the earth did shake when I was born. Hotspur (Henry Percy). And I say the earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you it shook. 1565; Glendower.
