King Henry VIII of England is known for his six wives, but he also makes the list for the top ten longest-reigning British monarchs coming in at number nine with a reign of 37 years, 281 days. He became king in 1509, two months short of his 18th birthday, and reigned until his dea...
Henry VI was crowned atWestminster Abbeyin London, England on November 6, 1429. Two years later, on December 16, 1431, he was crowned King of France atNotre Dame Cathedralin Paris, France. Before Henry came of age, English rule in France had begun a steady decline withJoan of Arc‘s c...
KING HENRY VII, of England, was the first of the Tudor dynasty. His claim to the throne was through his mother,Margaret Beaufort, fromJohn of Gauntand Catherine Swynford, whose issue born before their marriage had been legitimated by parliament. This, of course, was only Lancastrian claim, ...
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Penn provides a detailed narrative of the reign of the most enigmatic and unlikely of England's kings. Henry Tudor, the last plausible Lancastrian claimant of the Wars of the Roses, passed his youth as a fugitive from Edward IV, the Yorkist king whose agents pursued him to the dubious ...
Henry IV died on March 20, 1413, at age 45. Mortimer describes his reign, unstable from the start, as “synonymous with rebellion, unease, heresy and doubt”; despite the fact that he took the throne to unseat a tyrant, the people never truly warmed to him, and the state of affairs ...
The Wars of the Roses, during which the wheel of fortune kept Henry Tudor in exile for 14 years, were a case in point. The miraculous vision of three suns in the sky, which appeared to Edward IV before his victory over the Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross in February 1461, was used ...
Henry Bolingbroke and the Throne of EnglandKing Henry IV was an English nobleman and a member of the Plantagenet Dynasty. He succeeded Edward III as King of England in 1399 and ruled until his death in 1413. He was succeeded by his son, the famous Henry V....
32 and reigned until he died in 1135 at about the age of 67. Henry was the fourth and the youngest son ofWilliam the Conqueror(King William I) andMatilda of Flanders. His birth date and birthplace are uncertain, but he was probably born in September 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England. ...
House of Tudor: Henry VII to Elizabeth I of England (1485 – 1603) House of Stuart: James I to Charles I (1603 – 1649), Charles II to Anne (1660 – 1714) House of Hanover: George I to William IV (1714 – 1837) House of Hanover: Queen Victoria(1901 – 1937) ...