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Hadrian IV
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Wenceslas IV
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Henri IV
Henri IV (1553–1610) The first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty of France, Henri IV was king from 1589 until his assassination in 1610. He was born in the town of Pau, the son of Antoine de Bourbon, the Duke of Vendome, and Jeanne d'Albret, the Queen of Navarre, a committed Calvinist... Read more |
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Joan of Navarre
Joan of Navarre (c.1370–1437), queen of Henry IV. A daughter of Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, Joan married John IV, duke of Brittany, in 1386; they had eight children. After his death in 1399, she acted as regent for Duke John V until his inauguration in 1401. Henry ( IV) had... Read more |
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Gadshill
Gadshill, near Rochester, the scene of Prince Hal's joke robbery of Falstaff in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV (ii. ii); also the name of one of Falstaff's companions. Gadshill was the home of Dickens in his later years.... Read more |
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Innocent IV
Innocent IV d. 1254, pope (1243-54), a Genoese named Sinibaldo Fieschi, a distinguished jurist who studied and later taught law at the Univ. of Bologna; successor of Celestine IV. He was of a noble family. Although he had been regarded as sympathetic to the empire, once pope he quickly took up the... Read more |
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Richard Neville 1st earl of Warwick
Warwick, Richard Neville, 1st earl of (1428–71), known as ‘the Kingmaker’. Warwick was the mightiest of overmighty subjects, who was instrumental in putting Edward IV on the throne in 1461, deposing him in 1470, and restoring Henry VI. So powerful was he in the early years... Read more |
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Treaty of Melun
Melun, treaty of, 1593. Elizabeth and Henri IV of France pledged themselves at Melun not to make a separate peace with Spain. When Henri concluded a settlement in 1598 at Vervins, Elizabeth was indignant. J. A. Cannon... Read more |
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Malcolm IV
Malcolm IV 1141-65, king of Scotland (1153-65), grandson and successor of David I . On his accession the young king was at once faced with a rebellion of the western Gaels, supported by the Norse, which he put down. Henry II of England insisted he give up his claim to Northumbria in 1157 in return... Read more |
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Valois (French royals)
Valois , royal house of France that ruled from 1328 to 1589. At the death of Charles IV, the last of the direct Capetians , the Valois dynasty came to the throne in the person of Philip VI , son of Charles of Valois and grandson of Philip III. The direct Valois line ended (1498) with Charles... Read more |
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Kline's Falstaff Scintillates In Shakespeare for American...
...seems, and Kevin Kline's magnificent...than anyone in Henry IV, Part I or...Falstaff's in Henry IV, but none bigger. He steals the play, as...secret to Mr. Kline's masterly...You must catch ... |