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2 days ago · Henry I ( c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus inherited Normandy and England ...
Mar 3, 2024 · Henry was already King of Navarre, as the successor of his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, but he owed his succession to the throne of France to the line of his father, Antoine of Bourbon, an agnatic descendant of Louis IX. He was the first French king from the House of Bourbon . Henry's succession in 1589 proved far from straightforward.
Mar 12, 2024 · Henry VII, king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty. His son was Henry VIII. Learn more about Henry VII’s life, reign, and accomplishments in this article.
Feb 21, 2024 · 1:30 PM Henry V Attempting to leave behind his rowdy and unpredictable past, Henry lays claim to certain parts of France through familial roots and ancient land laws. When his claim, and the new reign are insulted by the Dauphin of France, Henry begins a war that whisks us from England to France, in Shakespeare’s most famous “war play.”
Feb 21, 2024 · Henri Dieudonné d’Artois, count de Chambord was the last heir of the elder branch of the Bourbons and, as Henry V, pretender to the French throne from 1830. The posthumous son of the assassinated Charles-Ferdinand, Duke de Berry, and grandson of King Charles X, he was forced to flee France in 1830
Mar 10, 2024 · Answer: Henry VI Part 2. "Henry V" is part four in a tetralogy, or series of four plays, about the House of Lancaster. These plays show how Henry Bolingbroke became Henry IV and how his son, Prince Hal, spent his youthful, wild days until it came time to step up to the throne of England. 2.
Feb 29, 2024 · Kenneth Branagh (left) as Henry V and Emma Thompson as Katharine in Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Henry V (1989). (more) In 1989 Branagh brought Henry V to the screen. The movie received critical acclaim, and Branagh was nominated for an Academy Award for best director and another for best actor.