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

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

Richard II’s will, written in the spring of 1399 ... The others, including Henry Bolingbroke, soon to be Henry IV, were exiled. Henry received written guarantees from Richard that when John ...

Richard II believed that English kings were made ... drama would end – with Richard deposed in 1399 by his cousin Henry of Bolingbroke, who took the throne to become King Henry IV.

King of England from 1399, the son of John of Gaunt. In 1398 he was banished by Richard II but returned in 1399 to head a revolt and be accepted as king by Parliament. He was succeeded by his son ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown. The English noble and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV died on ...

The Conservatives return to power, after the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury calls a general election, known as the 'Khaki election', on the back of huge jingoistic support for the Boer War. The Labour ...

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 ...

Letter to Mr. Drummond (10 November 1710), quoted in Gilbert Parke, Letters and Correspondence, Public and Private, of The Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Visc. Bolingbroke; during the Time he ...

Henry II of France (1519–1559) was the second monarch of the Valois-Angoulême dynasty, reigning from 1547 to 1559. His rule was marked by significant efforts to consolidate royal power, religious ...