Henry IV King of England

geni.com geni.com Henry IV of Bolingbroke, King of England Birthdate: April 03, 1367 Birthplace: Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom) Death: March 20, 1413 (45) house of the Abbot of Westminster in the "Jerusalem" chamber, Westminster, Middlesex, England Place of Burial: Plot: Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England Immediate Family: Son of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 1st Earl of Richmond and Blanche of Lancaster Husband of Mary de Bohun, Countess of Derby and Joan of Navarre, Queen of England Partner of Mistress of Henry IV of England Father of Edmund Labourde; Edward Plantagenet, of Lancaster; Henry V of England; Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence; John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford; Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester; Blanche Plantagenet, of Lancaster, England, and Philippa of Lancaster, Princess of England, Queen of Denmark, Sweden & Norway « less Brother of Filipa de Lencastre, rainha consorte de Portugal; John Plantagenet, of Lancaster; Edward Plantagenet, of Lancaster; John II (1366-1367) of Lancaster; Isabel Plantagenet, of Lancaster; and Elizabeth Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter « less Half brother of Blanche fitzJohn; Catalina de Lancáster, reina consorte de Castilla; John of Lancaster; Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter; Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland; Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset « less Henry IV (April 1367 – 20 March 1413) was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philip IV of France, to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French. He was known as Henry Bolingbroke before taking the throne. His father was Edward III's fourth son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. His mother Blanche was the daughter of royal nobleman, Henry, Duke of Lancaster. He was known as Henry Bolingbroke before taking the throne. His predecessor was Richard II, and successor Henry V. John of Gaunt enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of his own nephew, King Richard II. Henry was involved in the revolt of the Lords Appellant against Richard in 1388. He was later exiled by the king. After John of Gaunt died in 1399, the king did not allow Henry to inherit Gaunt's duchy. That year, Henry rallied a group of supporters, overthrew and imprisoned Richard II, and took the throne. As king, Henry faced a number of rebellions. Owain Glyndŵr, the self-proclaimed ruler of Wales, revolted against the king. Henry IV defeated Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. The king had poor health in the latter part of his reign, and his eldest son, Henry of Monmouth, assumed the reins of government in 1410. Henry IV died in 1413, and was succeeded by his son. ... Marriages and issue First marriage: Mary de Bohun The date and venue of Henry's first marriage to Mary de Bohun (died 1394) are uncertain but her marriage licence, purchased by Henry's father John of Gaunt in June 1380 is preserved at the National Archives. The accepted date of the ceremony is 5 February 1381, at Mary's family home of Rochford Hall, Essex. The near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a rumour that Mary's sister Eleanor de Bohun kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle and held her at Arundel Castle, where she was kept as a novice nun; Eleanor's intention was to control Mary's half of the Bohun inheritance (or to allow her husband, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, to control it). There Mary was persuaded to marry Henry. They had six children: 1. Henry V of England (1386–1422), 1st son 2. Thomas, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), 2nd son, who married Margaret Holland, widow of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, without progeny. 3. John, Duke of Bedford (1389–1435), 3rd son, who married twice: firstly to Anne of Burgundy (d.1432), daughter of John the Fearless, without progeny. Secondly to Jacquetta of Luxembourg, without progeny. 4. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447), 4th son, who married twice but left no surviving legitimate progeny: firstly to Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland (d.1436), daughter of William VI, Count of Hainaut. Through this marriage Gloucester assumed the title "Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault". Secondly to Eleanor Cobham, his mistress. 5. Blanche of England (1392–1409) married in 1402 Louis III, Elector Palatine. 6. Philippa of England (1394–1430) married in 1406 Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The only two of Henry's six children who produced legitimate children to survive to adulthood were Henry V and Blanche, whose son, Rupert, was the heir to the Electorate of the Palatinate until his death at 20. All three of his other sons produced illegitimate children. Henry IV's male Lancaster line ended in 1471 during the War of the Roses, between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, with the deaths of his grandson Henry VI and Henry VI's son Edward, Prince of Wales. Second marriage: Joanna of Navarre Mary de Bohun died in 1394, and on 7 February 1403 Henry married Joanna, the daughter of Charles II of Navarre, at Winchester. She was the widow of John IV, Duke of Brittany (known in traditional English sources as John V), with whom she had had four daughters and four sons; however, her marriage to the King of England was childless. Mistresses By an unknown mistress, Henry IV had one illegitimate child: 1. Edmund Le Boorde (1401 – shortly before 19 December 1419) Final illness and death The later years of Henry's reign were marked by serious health problems. He had a disfiguring skin disease and, more seriously, suffered acute attacks of some grave illness in June 1405; April 1406; June 1408; during the winter of 1408–09; December 1412; and finally a fatal bout in March 1413. ... Medical historians have long debated the nature of this affliction or afflictions. The skin disease might have been leprosy (which did not necessarily mean precisely the same thing in the 15th century as it does to modern medicine), perhaps psoriasis, or some other disease. The acute attacks have been given a wide range of explanations, from epilepsy to some form of cardiovascular disease. Some medieval writers felt that he was struck with leprosy as a punishment for his treatment of Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, who was executed in June 1405 on Henry's orders after a failed coup. According to Holinshed, it was predicted that Henry would die in Jerusalem, and Shakespeare's play repeats this prophecy. Henry took this to mean that he would die on crusade. In reality, he died in the Jerusalem Chamber in the abbot's house of Westminster Abbey, on 20 March 1413 during a convocation of Parliament. His executor, Thomas Langley, was at his side. Burial Despite the example set by most of his recent predecessors, Henry and his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, were buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel and directly adjacent to the shrine of St Thomas Becket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_Englandz