The Eagle and the Hart, Helen Castor’s biography of Richard II and Henry IV, offers an enthralling account of the two cousins ...

YORK arrives at Westminster Hall and announces to the gathered Lords and noblemen that RICHARD has given up the Crown and that BOLINGBROKE is now the rightful KING HENRY IV. RICHARD is summoned ...

The film begins as KING RICHARD II (Ben Whishaw) tries to resolve a bitter dispute between his cousin, HENRY BOLINGBROKE (Rory Kinnear) and THOMAS MOWBRAY (James Purefoy). BOLINGBROKE has been ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

After being banished by Richard, Henry Bolingbroke returns intent on taking back the land Richard seized after Bolingroke's father, John of Gaunt, died. Faced with Bolingbroke's army, and with his ...

Although a handsome, cultured man he was not a successful ruler and he was deposed as king and imprisoned in 1399 by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV), son of John ... Sage and ...

The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English ... at the hands of Henry’s father Henry Bolingbroke, the newly-minted Henry ...

11/15 Civil unrest and rebellion at home and setbacks abroad lead to turmoil in the kingdom of Henry VI.

Volume 1: The First Four Books of Historia rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh The first volume of this four-volume set of Latin chronicles, edited by Richard Howlett (1841–1917) and published ...