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	Henry VI of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry was captured by King Edward in 1465 and subsequently held captive in the Tower of London.
		Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his mother's second marriage, were later given earldoms, Edmund being the father of Henry Tudor, later to gain the throne as Henry VII of England.
		Henry IV's elder surviving son, John, Duke of Bedford, was the senior regent, having been appointed Regent of France (in charge of running the ongoing war) as well as replacing Gloucester as Regent of England whenever Bedford was personally in the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VI_of_England (2367 words)

	Henry VII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Henry VII (January 28, 1457- April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485– April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty.
		Henry's claim to the throne was tenuous: it was based upon a lineage of illegitimate succession, and he had been disqualified from the throne by an earlier act of attainder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VII_of_England (2164 words)

	Henry IV of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unusually for a king of England, he was buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, in the Corona as near to the shrine of Thomas Becket as possible, that cult then being at its height, as evidenced by the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, who was active at the court of Richard and Henry.
		In 1380, 19 years before his accession, Henry married Mary de Bohun; they had two daughters and four sons, one of which was the future Henry V of England.
		The fact that in 1399 Henry had four sons from his first marriage was undoubtedly a clinching factor in his acceptance onto the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_IV_of_England (1150 words)

	Henry VIII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born at the Palace of Placentia at Greenwich, Henry VIII was the third child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
		Henry VIII was also involved in the construction-from-scratch and improvement of several significant buildings, including Nonsuch Palace, King's College Chapel in Cambridge and Westminster Abbey in London - the existing buildings improved were often properties confiscated from Wolsey (such as Christ Church, Oxford, Hampton Court Palace, palace of Whitehall) and Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Henry entered into an alliance with Charles V through the Treaty of Bruges, and Francis I was defeated by Charles' imperial armies at the Battle of Pavia in February 1525.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England (5724 words)

	Henry VII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VII_of_England (2329 words)

	Henry V of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After his father Henry IV died on March 20, 1413, Henry V succeeded him on March 21, 1413 and was crowned on 9 April 1413.
		Henry may have regarded the assertion of his own claims as part of his kingly duty, but in any case a permanent settlement of the national quarrel was essential to the success of his world policy.
		At the time of his birth during the reign of Richard II Henry was fairly far removed from the throne, preceded by the King and another preceding collateral line of heirs, and the precise date and even year of his birth are not definitely recorded; the September 1387 date appears most commonly quoted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_V_of_England (1890 words)

	Henry II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry II established courts in various parts of England, and first instituted the royal practice of granting magistrates the power to render legal decisions on a wide range of civil matters in the name of the Crown.
		Henry's attempts to wrest control of her lands from Eleanor (and from her heir Richard) led to confrontations between Henry on the one side and his wife and legitimate sons on the other.
		Almost simultaneously he began negotiating the annulment of his marriage in order to marry Alys, daughter of King Louis VII of France and already betrothed to Henry's son Richard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_II_of_England (2288 words)

	Henry II of England - Simple English Wikipedia
		Henry II of England (March 5, 1133– July 6, 1189) was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Empress Matilda.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_II_of_England (86 words)

	Encyclopedia: Henry III of England
		Henry III (of England) (1207-1272), king of England (1216-1272), son and successor of King John (Lackland), and a member of the house of Anjou, or Plantagenet.
		The centrepiece of Henry's renovated Westminster Abbey was to be a shrine to the confessor king, Edward.
		Henry, the Young King Henry the Young King (February 28, 1155â€“June 11, 1183) was the second of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-III-of-England (5387 words)

	Henry II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry's third son, Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199), with the assistance of Philip II Augustus of France, attacked and defeated Henry on July 4, 1189; Henry died at the Chateau Chinon on July 6, 1189, and lies entombed in Fontevraud Abbey, near Chinon and Saumur in the Anjou Region of present-day France.
		Henry's attempts to wrest control of her lands from Eleanor (and from her heir Richard) led to confrontations between Henry on the one side and his wife and legitimate sons on the other.
		Following a heated exchange at Henry's court, Becket left England in 1164 for France to solicit in person the support of Pope Alexander III, who was in exile in France due to dissention in the college of Cardinals, and of King Louis VII of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_II_of_England (5387 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Henry came to the throne as an infant after the early death of his father; in name, he was king of both England and France, but a protector ruled each realm.
		Henry VI Henry VI was the only child of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, born on December 6, 1421.
		In 1453, Henry had an attack of the hereditary mental illness that plagued the French house of Valois; Richard, Duke of York, was made protector of the realm during the illness.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon36.html (359 words)

	MSN Encarta - Henry VII (of England)
		Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-1456), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
		Henry VII (of England), often called Henry Tudor (1457-1509), king of England (1485-1509) and first ruler of the house of Tudor, whose reign initiated a period of national unity following the strife of the 15th century.
		In 1494 Henry sent the English statesman Sir Edward Poynings to Ireland to reestablish English control in that country.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570129/Henry_VII_(of_England).html (472 words)

	Wikinfo Henry VI of England
		Henry was eventually crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on November 6, 1429 at the age of eight, and King of France at Notre Dame in Paris on December 16, 1431.
		Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his mother's second marriage, were later given earldoms, Edmund being the father of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England.
		Henry was the only child and heir of King Henry V of England, therefore great things were expected of him from birth.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Henry_VI_of_England (687 words)

	Henry VIII of England - Simple English Wikipedia
		He was born in Greenwich Palace on June 28, 1491 and was the second son of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
		Henry VIII (June 28, 1491– January 28, 1547), was the King of England.
		Another important event that happened in England when Henry was the king was the country's change in religion from Roman Catholic to Protestant.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England (250 words)

	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.
		King of England and Denmark, was the son of Canute, and succeeded his father on the Danish throne in 1039; and at the same time laid claim to that of England, which had devolved to his half-brother, Harold.
		King of England, first sovereign of the Tudor line, was the son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and his wife, Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of the eldest son of John of Gaunt, and was born, probably at Pembroke Castle, in 1456.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/royalty/kingh.html (3530 words)

	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)

	Henry VIII of England
		Henry VIII (June 28, 1491- January 28, 1547) was King of England from April 22 (crowned on June 24), 1509 until his death on January 28, 1547.
		The other major achievement of Henry's reign was the Act of Union of 1536, which effectively brought Wales under English government, with the result that the first Welsh members of parliament were elected in 1542.
		Henry died in 1547 at Whitehall in London and was buried at Windsor.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_VIII.html (761 words)

	Henry V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry V, one of the Shakespearean histories, based on the life of Henry V of England.
		Henry V of France (1820–1883), claimant to the throne of France.
		Henry V, a 1989 film adaptation of the play, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_V (139 words)

	MSN Encarta - Henry V (of England)
		Henry V (of England) (1387-1422), king of England (1413-1422), known for his victorious campaigns against France, born at Monmouth in August or September 1387.
		On succeeding to the throne in 1413, Henry V restored Sir Henry Percy's son to his lands and titles; he also honourably reburied at Westminster Abbey the remains of Richard II, who had been deposed by Henry IV and had died in prison during the latter's reign.
		In 1410-1411, when his father was incapacitated by illness, Henry headed the royal council, but was removed after a political quarrel with his father.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555074/Henry_V.html (384 words)

	Henry VI of England
		Henry was eventually crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on November 6, 1429 at the age of eight, and King of France at Notre Dame in Paris on December 16, 1431.
		Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper Tudor, the sons of his mother's second marriage, were later given earldoms, Edmund being the father of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England.
		Henry was the only child and heir of King Henry V of England, therefore great things were expected of him from birth.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/h/he/henry_vi_of_england.html (650 words)

	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.
		King of England, first sovereign of the Tudor line, was the son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and his wife, Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of the eldest son of John of Gaunt, and was born, probably at Pembroke Castle, in 1456.
		King of England and Denmark, was the son of Canute, and succeeded his father on the Danish throne in 1039; and at the same time laid claim to that of England, which had devolved to his half-brother, Harold.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/royalty/kingh.html (3530 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Henry had an on-again, off-again relationship with his cousin, Richard II He was one of the Lords Appellant who, in 1388, persecuted many of Richard's advisor-favorites, but his excellence as a soldier gained the king's favor - Henry was created Duke of Hereford in 1397.
		Henry IV was born at Bolingbroke in 1367 to John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster.
		In 1413, Henry died in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon34.html (425 words)

	MSN Encarta - Henry VII (of England)
		Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-1456), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
		Henry VII (of England), often called Henry Tudor (1457-1509), king of England (1485-1509) and first ruler of the house of Tudor, whose reign initiated a period of national unity following the strife of the 15th century.
		In 1494 Henry sent the English statesman Sir Edward Poynings to Ireland to reestablish English control in that country.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570129/Henry_VII_(of_England).html (425 words)

	Henry VIII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born at the Palace of Placentia at Greenwich, Henry was the third child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
		Henry VII was still eager to maintain the marital alliance between England and Spain through a marriage between Henry, Prince of Wales and Catherine.
		Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England (425 words)

	Henry I of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Henry's barons had sworn allegiance to his daughter Maud as their queen, Maud's sex and her remarriage into the House of Anjou, an enemy of the Normans, allowed Henry's nephew Stephen of Boulogne to come to England and claim the throne with popular support.
		Henry appropriated the Duchy of Normandy as a possession of England, and reunited his father's dominions.
		Henry died of food poisoning from eating foul lampreys in December 1135 at in Normandy and was buried at Reading Abbey, which he had founded 14 years before.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henry_I_of_England (425 words)

	Edward IV of England - Psychology Central
		Henry VI was briefly restored to the throne in an act known as the Readeption of Henry VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy.
		While Henry and his militant queen, Margaret of Anjou, were campaigning in the north, Warwick gained control of the capital and had Edward declared king in London in 1461.
		Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and succeeded by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter, Elizabeth of York, later became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Edward_IV_of_England (2408 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry VI
		Henry VI was great in his conceptions, great also in the energy with which he pursued his aims, clearly conscious of passing failures but never daunted by them.
		Henry pursued this design obstinately, although as he well perceived, it was unfeasible without the co-operation of the pope and of the German princes.
		It provided that Duke Henry should be left undisturbed and should have half of the revenues of Lübeck, while on the other hand Brunswick and Lübeck were henceforth to be open cities and two of the duke's sons were to remain at the king's court as hostages.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07233a.htm (1411 words)

	Sly's Fifteenth Century TimeLine
		Henry VI of England is crowned king of France, and John of Lancaster rules as regent in Northern France.
		Henry V of England and Charles VI of France make a peace treaty, and Charles' daughter Catherine of Valois is married to Henry V. Henry V returns from Normandy to England, leaving his brother Thomas, duke of Clarence, as governor of Normandy.
		Henry V of England captures Rouen completing his conquest of Normandy.
	www.edwardsly.com /1400-99.html (1128 words)

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