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Henry IV, King of England

Henry IV
Illumination of Henry IV (cropped).jpg
King of England (more...)
Reign 30 September 1399 – 20 March 1413
Coronation 13 October 1399
Predecessor Richard II
Successor Henry V
Born (1367-04-15)15 April 1367
Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England
Died 20 March 1413(1413-03-20) (aged 45)
Westminster Palace, London, Kingdom of England
Burial Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, Kingdom of England
Spouse Mary de Bohun
Joan of Navarre
Issue
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Henry V, King of England
Thomas, Duke of Clarence
John, Duke of Bedford
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Blanche, Electress Palatine
Philippa, Queen of Denmark
House House of Lancaster
Father John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
Mother Blanche of Lancaster
Religion Roman Catholicism
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Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry of Bolingbroke (/ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/), was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. His father, John of Gaunt, was the fourth son of Edward III and the third son to survive to adulthood, and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Henry's cousin Richard II, whom Henry eventually deposed. Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, and thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets and the first King of England since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French.

One of Henry's elder sisters, Philippa of Lancaster, married John I of Portugal, and the other, Elizabeth, was the mother of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter. His younger half-sister Catherine, the daughter of his father's second wife, Constance of Castile, was queen consort of Castile. He also had four half-siblings by Katherine Swynford, originally his sisters' governess, then his father's longstanding mistress, and later his third wife. These four children were given the surname Beaufort after a castle their father held in Champagne, France.


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