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    Henry (Lancaster) of England KG (1367 - 1413)

    Henry(Henry IV)"King of England"of EnglandKG formerly Lancaster aka Plantagenet

    Born in Bolingbroke Castle, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
    Ancestors

    Son of John (Plantagenet) of Gaunt KG and Blanche (Plantagenet) of Lancaster

    Brother of Blanche (Lancaster) Morieux[half], Philippa (Lancaster) Portugal LG, Elizabeth (Lancaster) Holand LG, Edward Lancaster, Isabel (Lancaster) Plantagenet, John Beaufort KG[half], Katherine (Lancaster) de Castilla LG[half], Henry Beaufort[half], Thomas (Lancaster) Beaufort KG[half] and Joan (Beaufort) de Neville LG[half]

    Descendants

    Father of Henry (Lancaster) England KG, Thomas (Lancaster) of Lancaster KG KB, John (Lancaster) of Lancaster KG KB, Humphrey (Lancaster) of Gloucester KB KG, Blanche Lancaster, Philippa Lancaster and Edmund (Lancaster) of England

    Died at age 45in Palace of Westminster, London, England

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    King Henry IV (1399 - 1413)


    Name: King Henry IV
    Born: April 4, 1366 at Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire
    Parents: John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster
    Relation to Charles III: 17th great-granduncle
    House of: Lancaster
    Ascended to the throne: September 30, 1399 aged 33 years
    Crowned: October 13, 1399 at Westminster Abbey
    Married: (1) Mary de Bohun, (2) Joan, Daughter of Charles II of Navarre
    Children: Five sons including Henry V, and two daughters
    Died: March 20, 1413 at Westminster Abbey, aged 46 years, 11 months, and 14 days
    Buried at: Canterbury
    Reigned for: 13 years, 5 months, 18 days
    Succeeded by: his son Henry V

    King of England from 1399, the son of John of Gaunt. In 1398 he was banished bygd Richard II but returned in 1399 to head a revolt and be accepted as king bygd Parliament. He was succeeded by his son Henry V.

    He had difficulty in keeping the support of Parliament and the clergy, and had to deal with baronlig unrest and Owen Glendower's rising

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    House of Lancaster - King Henry IV

    1399Henry returns from exile in France to reclaim his estates seized by Richard II; he claims the throne and is crowned. His coronation was the first since the Norman Conquest in which the King's address was in English instead of Norman French.1400Richard dies of starvation in Pontefract Castle.1400Death of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer leaving The Canterbury Tales unfinished.1401Owain Glyndwr leads Welsh revolt against English rule1402State visit to England of Manuel II, the Byzantine emperor1403First rebellion by the Percy family from Northumberland defeated at the Battle of Shrewsbury.1404Glyndwr makes a treaty with the French, who send an army in 1405 to support the rebellion against the English.1405Second Percy rebellion takes place1406Henry contracts a leprosy-like illness1408Third Percy rebellion takes place.1413Henry dies at Westminster, worn out by constant revolts and shortage