Father Henry IV of England Mother Mary de Bohun Signature Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years'...
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The play as a whole covers the whole reign of Henry VI, from the death of his father, in 1422, to his own death, in 1471, and includes also a portion of the reign of Edward IV, first king of the rival house of York. The three pivots around which the discordant order of events...
These days the ruins lie within the home’s magnificent gardens, recreated to show how they might hav. Alongside the remains of the west range (andthe medieval great hall which dates from the reign of King Edward IV and is largely intact), are the remains of a late 15th century bridge o...
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...
That the Covent Garden manager, John Rich, [4] could engage four French dancers, and a German with two dogs, taught to dance the _Louvre_ and the _Minuet_, at ten pounds a night, and clear thereby “above 20 good houses,” while the Othello of Booth and the Wildair of Wilkes were...
The Paris of Abelard’s time was astonishingly old; so old that hardly a stone of it can be now pointed out. Even the oldest of the buildings still standing in that quarter–Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, Saint-Severin, and the tower of the Lycee Henri IV–are more modern; only the old Roma...
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...
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...
King Henry VI (1422-1461), the last Lancastrian king of England, inherited the throne when he was less than a year old. His regnal year dates from 1 September to 31 August. His reign can be divided into three periods: The Minority, 1422-1437, when others ruled in his name. ...