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 ...

Even when contemplating their own deaths, the two cousins inhabited different worlds. Richard II’s will, written in the ...

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 ...

Image: Members of the Old Vic Theatre Company appearing in the radio production of Richard II ... and Harry Andrews (Henry Bolingbroke). The Third Programme was launched on 29 September 1946 ...

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