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Henry IV (c. April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster. [3] Henry was involved in the 1388 revolt of Lords Appellant against Richard II, his first cousin, but he was not punished ...
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (/ ˈ s ɪ n dʒ ɪ n ˈ b ɒ l ɪ ŋ b r ʊ k /; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher.
He mediated between the king and a group of rebellious nobles, which included Gaunt's own son and heir-apparent, Henry Bolingbroke. [4] Following Gaunt's death in 1399, his estates and titles were declared forfeit to the Crown, and his son Bolingbroke, now disinherited, was branded a traitor and exiled. [5]
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman; Other Lords Bolingbroke, bearing the titles: Earl of Bolingbroke; Viscount Bolingbroke; Lucy of Bolingbroke (died c. 1138), Anglo-Norman heiress in central England, later in life countess of Chester; Roger Bolingbroke (died 1441), English ...
Mary married Henry—then known as Bolingbroke—on 5 February 1381, [4] at Arundel Castle. It was at Monmouth Castle, one of her husband's possessions, that Mary gave birth to her first child, the future Henry V, on 16 September 1386. Her second child, Thomas, was born probably at London shortly before 25 November 1387. [5]
His wife Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the castle in 1342. John and Blanche's son, Henry (the future Henry IV), was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and consequently was known as "Henry Bolingbroke" before he became king in 1399. [3] [2]
Henry Bolingbroke was the eldest son of John of Gaunt. He was banished from England by Richard II and at the time of his father's death he was in exile in France. When he returned to England to claim his estates the people rallied round him. Richard II was deposed and Henry was crowned King Henry IV.
There are few references to Katherine in the last years of her life. In the autumn of 1399, Henry Bolingbroke invaded England and deposed King Richard II, crowned himself as Henry IV. Katherine's children, the Beauforts and Thomas Swynford, and her son-in-law Ralph Neville supported the usurpation of the throne.