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23 hours ago · Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne upon his father's death, at the age of nine months; and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards.
- 21 October 1422 – 19 October 1453
- Catherine of Valois
3 days ago · House of Tudor, an English royal dynasty of Welsh origin, which gave five sovereigns to England: Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509); his son, Henry VIII (1509–47); followed by Henry VIII’s three children, Edward VI (1547–53), Mary I (1553–58), and Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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2 days ago · The Old Globe has revealed the full cast and creative team for Henry 6, a world premiere adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, adapted and directed by Erna Finci ...
1 day ago · My interpretation starts from the appalling circumstances of the 1450s (which John Watts admits), that could not be managed by any king, whether Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III or even Henry VII. Perhaps Henry VI was not the best man to try, but try he did.
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3 days ago · The first chapter sets out Coss' argument that the gentry emerged around 1300. The second chapter, 'The Roots of the Gentry', discredits alternative hypotheses that the gentry originated earlier, before the Norman Conquest or alongside the legal reforms of Henry II.
2 days ago · Hughes says that Ripley originally hoped that Henry VI would be reborn and renewed (as, indeed, Edward IV was – spectacularly – in 1471). This is true also of John Hardyng, another of the examples given in the book, and is supported by the evidence of political prophecies from the 1450s.