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No recognised heir 1199–1207 John: Henry of Winchester: Heir apparent Son 1 October 1207 Born 28 October 1216 Became king Richard, Earl of Cornwall: Heir presumptive Brother 28 October 1216 Brother became king 17 June 1239 Son born to king Henry III: Edward "Longshanks", Lord of Chester: Heir apparent Son 17 June 1239 Born 20 November 1272 ...
Henry was born in Winchester Castle on 1 October 1207. [2] He was the eldest son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême. [3] Little is known of Henry's early life. [4] He was initially looked after by a wet nurse called Ellen in the south of England, away from John's itinerant court, and probably had close ties to his mother. [5]
Henry of Blois (c. 1096 – 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, [2] was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death. He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy , a younger brother of Stephen, King of England , and a grandson of William the Conqueror.
Henry's son William drowned in the White Ship disaster of 1120, throwing the royal succession into doubt. Henry took a second wife, Adeliza of Louvain, in the hope of having another son, but their marriage was childless. In response to this, he declared his daughter Matilda his heir and married her to Geoffrey of Anjou.
William was born in Winchester.His father, King Henry I of England, had married his mother, Matilda of Scotland, to conciliate his English subjects.Matilda was descended from Edmund Ironside and was a great-niece of Edward the Confessor; as such, the marriage represented a union between the new Norman rulers of England and the old Anglo-Saxon dynasty.
The heir apparent: Prince Charles On November 14, 1948, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip welcomed their first child, Prince Charles Philip Arthur George. Prince Charles is next in line to the throne.
William of Winchester (11 April 1184 – 13 December 1213), also called William of Lunenburg (German: Wilhelm von Lüneburg) or William Longsword, [1] a member of the House of Welf, was heir to his family's allodial lands in the Duchy of Saxony after the deposition of his father, Duke Henry the Lion in 1180.
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 ...