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Nov 1, 2019 · November 1, 2019 Leave a comment. April 15, 1367 – March 20, 1413. Henry IV of England was born on April 15, 1367, at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, England. Due to the customs of the time, Henry became known as Henry Bolingbroke as a reference to his birthplace. Henry’s father, John of Gaunt, was the third surviving son of King Edward ...
Mar 3, 2017 · In contrast, Henry IV of Germany (r.1053-1106) offers a number of interesting points of comparison. Though well known within the German-speaking world, Henry is something of an unknown quantity elsewhere. Born on November 11th, 1050, he came to the throne at the tender age of three upon the sudden death of his father.
Catholicism (1593–1610) Signature. Henry IV ( French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (German: Heinrich der Fromme) (16 March 1473, in Dresden – 18 August 1541, in Dresden) was a Duke of Saxony from the House of Wettin. Succeeding his brother George, Duke of Saxony , a fervent Catholic who sought to extinguish Lutheranism by any means possible, Henry established the Lutheran church as the ...
Henry IV's father died on 20 July 1454 and he was proclaimed king the following day. One of King Henry's first priorities was the alliance with Portugal. He achieved this by marrying a second time to Joan of Portugal , daughter of King Edward of Portugal , in 1455; and by meeting her brother King Afonso V of Portugal in Elvas in 1456.
On May 14, 1610, while his carriage was stopped on a Paris street, 56-year-old King Henri IV of France was stabbed to death by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac. King Henri IV of France. King Henri IV of France was the first French king of the House of Bourbon. Born in 1553, in Pau, Kingdom of Navarre, now in France, Henri was the son of ...
Death of John of Gaunt. Richard Cavendish explains the life and death of Henry IV's father, on February 3rd, 1399. King of England and its first Lancastrian monarch. He usurped the throne after leading a revolt against Richard II. He clashed with the church, Parliament and Wales.
