How long did Henry V reign? What date did Henry Hudson go on his first voyage? What was King Edward III's claim to the French throne? Who was king of England when Oliver Cromwell was alive? When Henry of Navarre became Henry IV of France, what did he do?
Edward’s first reign ended in 1470 when on 30th October, he was forced into exile and King Henry VI. But it was only to be for a brief period – Edward IV reclaimed the throne on 11th April, 1471, defeating the Lancastrians in a decisive battle at Barnet on 14th April (April marked...
Intended as the first of a series of volumes, the remainder of which were not in fact published (Volume 2 was quickly suppressed given the number of errors found in the text), this collection of letters to and from Henry IV (1367-1413) was originally published in 1860 by Francis Charles...
through whom the Duke of York claimed inheritance. Shakespeare notices this in Scene 2 of Act IV, when Stafford says: "Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this," and although Cade answers in an aside, "He lies, for I invented it myself," it is not conclusive. It is altoget...
while Sanders suggests that early seventeenth-century pamphlet literature by writers such as Thomas Dekker Reconfigured spaces: plague as backdrop to 2 Henry IV Probably first performed in 1598, 2 Henry IV dates from the mid- point between two great plague epidemics in London, in 1593 and 1603...
CHAPTER IV POLITICAL PLAYS “Whoever attempteth to introduce corruption into any community, doth much the same thing, and ought to be treated in much the same manner with him who poisoneth a fountain.” –Dedication of the _Historical Register_. A prolonged retirement into Dorsetshire, however ...
Concordat of Worms,compromisearranged in 1122 between PopeCalixtus II(1119–24) and theHoly Roman emperorHenry V(reigned 1106–25) settling theInvestiture Controversy, a struggle between the empire and thepapacyover the control of church offices. It had arisen between Emperor Henry IV (1056–1106...
The escape would have been to love her; then, THEN he would have lived. SHE had lived–who could say now with what passion?–since she had loved him for himself; whereas he had never thought of her (ah how it hugely glared at him!) but in the chill of his egotism and the light...
The subject of this piece, Gabrielle d’Estrées, was the the mistress of King Henry IV of France, and the woman on the left is her sister, Julienne-Hypolite-Joséphine, Duchess of Villars. Gabrielle is pinching her sister’s ring finger, perhaps a gesture symbolizing Henry’s promise to...
Wikipedia dates it at about 1540, tempera on panel, 16.7 × 12.9″ – currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Margaret was the mother of Sir Henry Lee, Queen Elizabeth’s champion. (Check it out; I swear I can see some Wyatt in his painting.http://en.wikipedia...