Brief Life History of Henry VI King of
When Henry VI King of England was born on 6 December 1421, in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, his father, Henry V King of England, was 35 and his mother, Catherine de Valois Reine d’Angleterre, was 20. He married Margaret de Valois-Anjou on 23 April 1445, in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 21 May 1471, in London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49, and was buried in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
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- Henry VI, "Find A Grave Index"
- Wikipedia - Royal House of Lancaster - Henry VI
- England, Extracted Parish and Court Records, 1399-1795
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Middle English Engelond ‘England’. It was probably a formal alternative to English , which is also well evidenced as a surname in England. These names may have been acquired by English landowners who moved in Norman social circles or who lived in a neighbouring country (Scotland, Wales, or Ireland), or by English merchants who traded abroad.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farmsteads so named, from Old Norse eng ‘meadow’ + land ‘land’.
Swedish: ornamental name with the same meaning as 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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en.Wikipedia Henry VI of England
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to th …
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