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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Henry II
Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b.
Henry II, the son of his sister, Gisela, and to Henry the childless duke bequeathed his duchy, despite the opposition of the nobles (1006).
Henry's power was in fact controlling, and this was in no small degree due to the fact that he was primarily engaged in solidifying the national foundations of his authority.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07227a.htm   (1248 words)

  
  Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was a son of Count Henry VI of Luxemburg and Beatrice of Avesnes.
Henry VII then travelled to Rome to be crowned as emperor, the title having been vacant since the death of Frederick II.
Henry wanted to punish Robert of Naples for his disloyal actions (Robert was technically Henry's vassal), but he died on August 24, 1313, near Siena.
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 Henry VII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry's claim to the throne was tenuous: it was based upon a lineage of illegitimate succession, and overlooked the fact that he had been disqualified by an earlier act of attainder.
Henry VII was one of the first European monarchs to recognise the importance of the newly-united Spanish kingdom and thus concluded the Treaty of Medina Del Campo in 1489, by which his son, Arthur Tudor, was married to Catherine of Aragon.
Henry VII's elder daughter Margaret was married first to James IV of Scotland (1488–1513), and their son became James V of Scotland (1513–42), whose daughter became Mary, Queen of Scots.
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 Henry VII of England
Henry VII (January 28, 1457-April 21, 1509), King of England (August 22, 1485-April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of England's most successful kings.
Henry Tudor was the posthumous son of Edmund Tudor, a half-brother of King Henry VI of England.
Henry's elder daughter Margaret was married first to James IV of Scotland, and their son became James V of Scotland, whose daughter became Mary Queen of Scots.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_VII.html   (1280 words)

  
 Habsburg - LoveToKnow Watches
Albert's successor as German king was Henry of Luxemburg (the emperor Henry VII.), and this election may be said to initiate the long rivalry between the houses of Habsburg and Luxemburg.
Rudolph died in 1612, the reigning emperor Matthias was old and ill, and the question of the succession to the Empire, to the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia, and to the hereditary lands of the Habsburgs became acute.
The emperor Francis I. died in 1765 and was succeeded by his son Joseph II., an ambitious and able prince, whose aim was to restore the Habsburgs and the Empire to their former great positions in Europe, and whose pride did not prevent him from learning from Frederick the Great, the despoiler of his house.
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 Henry VII
Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of England's most insidious kings.
Henry Tudor was the posthumous son of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, a half-brother of King Henry VI of England.
Henry was a fiscally prudent monarch who restored the fortunes of an effectively bankrupt exchequer (Edward IV's treasury had been emptied by his wife's Woodville relations after his death and before the accession of Richard III) by introducing efficiently ruthless mechanisms of taxation.
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 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Henry VIII, born in 1491, was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
Henry married the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533; she gave him another daughter, Elizabeth, but was executed for infidelity (a treasonous charge in the king's consort) in May 1536.
Henry was beloved by his subjects, facing only one major insurrection, the Pilgrimage of Grace, enacted by the northernmost counties in retaliation to the break with Rome and the poor economic state of the region.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon41.html   (938 words)

  
 Francia Media:  Lorraine & Burgundy
When the Emperor Lothar I died in 855, his "middle kingdom" (Francia Media) was divided between his three sons: (1) Louis II received Italy and the Imperial crown, (2) Charles, Burgundy, and (3) Lothar II what was left, the area from Burgundy down to the North Sea.
Although the Kingdom was otherwise non-functioning, the Emperor Charles IV was still formally crowned as King of Burgundy at Arles in 1365.
The first Count of Savoy, Humbert White Hands, is sometimes said to be the grandson of Charles Constantine, Count of Vienne, who is said to be the son of the Emperor and King of Lower Burgundy Louis III, who is sometimes said to have married the daughter Anna of the Emperor Leo VI of Romania.
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 Henry VII, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Henry was the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, who died before Henry was born, and Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster.
Henry made an unsuccessful attempt to land in England during the abortive revolt (1483) of Henry Stafford, 2d duke of Buckingham.
A truce (1497) between England and Scotland was followed by the marriage (1503) of Henry’s sister Margaret Tudor to James—a marriage that led ultimately to the union of the monarchies of England and Scotland.
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 Henry VII's Reign
Henry VII's reforms had the effect of transforming the judicial system, from one dominated by the whims of the nobility, to one based on a system of law, grounded in a commitment to the General Welfare.
Henry's army is reported to have had a significant number of cannon at the victorious Battle of Bosworth, an emphasis undoubtedly learned from the French, who used them against the English with devastating effectiveness to end the Hundred Years War.
Henry VII was the first English king to manufacture iron cannon, based on his constructing the first blast furnaces in England.
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 GENUKI: Kings of England - H
Henry II., King of England, first of the Plantagenet line, was the eldest son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, and his wife, the ex-Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I., and was born at Mans, in March, 1133.
Henry was crowned a second time, in 1220, and two years later was declared of age, but his feebleness of character unfitted him to role, and the real power remained with his ministers.
Henry was a man of sincerely religious character, but without the strength and capacity to rule, and his misfortunes and tragic end may justly be pitied.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/royalty/kingh.html   (3530 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Henry VII, Holy Roman emperor and German king (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
A minor count of the house of Luxembourg, Henry was elected German king on the death of King Albert I after the electors had set aside the two main contenders, Albert's eldest son, Frederick of Austria, and the French prince Charles of Valois.
Henry VII's abortive Italian campaign only served to prove the futility of any attempt to revive the ancient imperial policy at a time when the papacy and S Italy were controlled by France and the N Italian towns were autonomous.
Henry was succeeded by Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV.
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 Henry VII and Castile
Henry's policy, besides, in requiring bonds and securities for every position of trust, joined to his continued watchfulness, naturally inclined all men who had anything to lose to become firm supporters of his government.
But the emperor might be assured that he was not suggesting anything impracticable, and he only wished that the emperor never embarked on expeditions which had been less carefully planned and considered beforehand than this.
Henry had been willing, if the marriage could have been arranged, to reside at times in the Low Countries for their more efficient government; or he would have agreed, if desired, that the administration should still be carried on in the name of Margaret only.
tudorhistory.org /secondary/henry7/c12.html   (5127 words)

  
 About Henry VII TUDOR (King of England)
Born at Pembroke Castle, Wales, 28 Jan 1457, Henry Tudor was the son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort.
So the old theory that Henry VII was the first King to use "new men" in his government is not true, but it is true that he relied to a great extent on the abilities and intellect of such "new men" as Cardinal Morton and Bishop Fox of Winchester with much success.
Arthur died within months and Henry secured a papal dispensation for Catalina to marry Arthur's brother, the future Henry VIII ; this single event had the widest-ranging effect of all Henry's actions: Henry VIII's annulment from Catalina was the impetus for the separation of the Church of England from the body of Roman Catholicism.
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 LOUIS IV, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII the Luxemburg party among the electors set aside Henry’s son, John of Luxemburg, because of his youth and chose Louis as rival king to Frederick the Fair.
The popes Clement V and his successor John XXII refused to approve Louis’s election and, claiming that the imperial throne was vacant, declared the Holy Roman Empire to be under papal rule.
In 1327–30 Louis was in Italy, where he was crowned emperor by the representatives of the Roman people, and set up Pietro Rainalducci as Antipope Nicholas V. Rainalducci was soon reconciled with the pope, however, and Louis unsuccessfully attempted to reach a settlement.
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 Henry VII
Henry VII, Henry Tudor (January 28, 1457-April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485-April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty and is generally acknowledged as one of England's most successful kings.
Henry succeeded in securing his crown by a number of means but principally by dividing and undermining the power of the nobility.
Henry was a fiscally prudent monarch who restored the fortunes of an effectively bankrupt exchequer (Edward IV's treasury had been emptied by his wife's Woodville relations after his death and before the accession of Richard III) by introducing efficient mechanisms of taxation.
www.welshpedia.co.uk /genfamousdetail.php?mytown=henry7   (1303 words)

  
 Henry VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Henry could never rely on loyalty in more that the Dublin "Pale" area and in a few ports which lived by English trade, and he was not ready to risk full-scale armed intervention to gain total Irish obedience.
He was delighted to be accepted as an ally by the Emperor Maximilian and the Spanish monarchs in 1489 in their war against France, though later it proved that only Henry had the enthusiasm to prosecute that war seriously.
Though Henry had married her for political reasons, with no sentimental wooing, he seems to have been a good husband, and he was certainly fortunate that his wife gave him seven children, of whom two sons and two daughters survived infancy.
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 Dante
Henry was as deaf to this exhortation as the Florentines themselves.
Popes, kings, emperors, poets and warriors, Florentine citizens of all degrees, are there found; some doomed to hopeless punishment, others expiating their offenses in milder torments, and looking forward to deliverance in due time.
As the emperor is intended to assure their earthly happiness, so does their spiritual welfare depend upon the pope, to whom the emperor is to do honor as to the first-born of the Father.
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 The Siege of Florence in 1312
Then the Emperor departed from Tivoli, and came with his people to Todi, and was received honourably by the inhabitants, and as their lord, forasmuch as they took his part.
Nevertheless, the followers of the Emperor remained victorious in the combat, and the Florentines were filled with fear; and the Emperor spent that night two miles this side of Ancisa on the way to Florence.
But as it pleased God, the Emperor resolved that night to go direct to the city of Florence, believing that he should take it without opposition; and he left the host of the Florentines be–hind at Ancisa, seeing that they were in a state of siege, and in much fear, and in great disorder.
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 Henry, VII Biography / Biography of Henry, VII Biography
He is often called the last medieval emperor, since his vision of the grandeur of the imperial office resembled that of his much more powerful predecessors.
When he was elected Holy Roman emperor in November 1308, Henry, Count of Luxemburg, was the ruler of a modest territory between Germany, France, and Flanders.
Henry was elected precisely because of his meager personal resources, and, like his predecessors, he used some of the imperial resources to increase the wealth and power of his dynasty.
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 Meditations On The Divine Comedy
Henry was in Italy between 1310 and 1313, and was hailed by Dante as the Liberator.
Henry died at Buonconvento of disease in 1313, as he was marching on Florence and planning a campaign against Naples, ending the dreams of Dante and the Florentine exiles.
Henry of Lusignan King of Cyprus (died 1324), whose bad rule Dante cites as a warning to Joanna wife of Philip the Fair, concerning her separate kingdom of Navarre.
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 Tarot.com :: Tarot, Astrology, Numerology & I-Ching
Emperors are mentioned four times in the Paradisio (6:10, 6:57, 6:95, 30:136) and always with effusive praise.
However, Henry VII himself does not appear since he was not yet dead in the temporal setting of the Commedia (Easter week, 1300).
But immersed in the continuing political conflict between the very real persons of the Emperor and Pope and knowing of Joachim's predictions and the symbolic characteristics ascribed by Dante, the card-players must have had deeper insights into the symbols than a modern viewer to whom these images are more mythic than imminent.
www.tarot.com /about-tarot/library/boneill/dante5   (1248 words)

  
 JOHN XXII
After Emperor Henry VII died Frederick of Austria and Louis of Bavaria fought for the imperial crown.
Soon the Pope was excommunicating Louis, and the Emperor was appealing to a general council against the Pope.
This it was which sent a number of rebel friars to serve as volunteers for the Emperor in his struggle with the Pope.
www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp194.htm   (526 words)

  
 Oh, Henry! O, Henri! Ach, Heinrich! quiz -- free game
This Henry is said to have stood barefoot in the snow for three days to beg the Pope's forgiveness after his excommunication:
Which Henry died in a jousting accident, a mishap said to be predicted in the writings of Nostradamus?
Which Henry was said to have maintained a chaste marriage, for which, among other things, he and his wife were canonized as saints?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=77335   (257 words)

  
 Sigismundus :: The Age of Sigismund
King Sigismund of Luxemburg was the younger son of Charles IV Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most influential monarchs of Central Europe.
The rise of the family bearing the title of Count of Luxemburg is due to the great grandfather of Sigismund, Henry who became a German king and then Holy Roman Emperor as Henry VII.
Henry VII took advantage of his position and donated the Czech throne to his son John, after the dying out of the Přemysl House.
www.sigismundus.hu /?l=en&s=2   (1879 words)

  
 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guy de Montfort murders Prince Henry, son of Richard, king of the Romans, and nephew of Henry II of England, at Viterbo.
Henry III of England is succeeded by Edward I. Purg.
The Emporor Henry of Luxemburgh, bu whom he had hoped to be restored to Florence, dies.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/poetry/thedivinecomedy1-inferno/chap37.html   (1129 words)

  
 AH 330 (Hutchison): Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Thus the commission is not directly relate to the Emperor himself, but the style of the anonymous painter clearly shows the influence of the court.
Particularly useful is the substantial catalogue of the exhibition held on the 500th anniversary of the Emperor's death in 1978 (Nuremberg).
After the death of the old Emperor in 1378, the most interesting Bohemian painter is the unknown who, with his workshop, painted the Trebon Altarpiece, now in Prague's National Gallery.
www.wisc.edu /arth/ah330/charles.html   (1926 words)

  
 History
From the time of Emperor Henry VII's descent into Italy, Cangrande faithfully supported the Ghibelline cause, and obtained the titles of Imperial Vicar and Captain General of the Ghibelline League.
After Emperor Henry's death, Cangrande aided his successors, Frederick the Handsome of Austria, and Lewis of Bavaria.
Cangrande della Scala is portrayed in the seventh tale of the first Day of the Decameron as a great and munificent lord - second only to Frederick II - wise enough to understand and accept a veiled reproach from one of his courtiers.
www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/history/characters/cangrande.shtml   (304 words)

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