Henry III 1207-1272. King of England (1216-1272) who succeeded his father, King John. His reign was disrupted by baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort, whose representative parliament, called in 1265, is considered England's first full parliament. American Heritage® Dictionary of the ...
On 28 October 1216, nine days after the death of his father, nineyear-old Henry III was hastily crowned king of England in Gloucester Cathedral by the bishop of Winchester, assisted by a papal legate. As England had not experienced a royal minority since the tenth-century Aethelred “the Un...
Henry VIII, king of England, was famously married six times and played a critical role in the English Reformation, turning his country into a Protestant nation.
impress with the magnificence ofhis entourage and person. Yet in one key respect his court was fundamen-tally different from that of his predecessors. Henry was a sedentary king.He travelled far less often and remained stationary for far longer periodsthan his father. Westminster, in particular,...
Yet the costly tomb monument at Westminster Abbey provided by her grieving father, Henry iii, was probably the earliest recorded memorial to a child known to have been set up in England. It may also have been part of Henry's response to the commemoration programme that...
b.1008–60, king of France 1031–60. 2.Henry II, a.1133–89, king of England 1154–89: first king of the Plantagenets. b.1519–59, king of France 1547–59. 3.Henry III, a.1207–72, king of England 1216–72 (son of John). ...
Henry the Eighth was England's first modern king. He became king after his father's death in April, 1509. Henry was eighteen years old, and England feared a French invasion. Prance had a great many ships. England had just five. In this situation. Henry turned to new technology.The King...
Henry III had an incredible 24 siblings, of which 10 were his father’s illegitimate offspring and 9 were the children of his mother’s second marriage. Of the 5 children begot by his parents together, the two oldest were boys, Henry and Richard, followed by three girls: Joan, Isabella,...
they had six children: Henry V, who succeeded his father as King; Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence; John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford; Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester; Blanche, who later married Louis III, Elector Palatine; and Philippa, who married Eric XIV, King of Swede...
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