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

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 ...

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.

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 ... Sage and elegant, lawfully Richard II, ...

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 ...

He was inspired to write his memoirs when on vacation in Mustique with Lady Anne Glenconner, a former lady-in-waiting for Queen Elizabeth II ... to Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke ...

Coolmore's talented stallion Hennessy reportedly died of an apparent heart failure Aug. 9 at Haras La Mission in Argentina. The 14-year-old son of Storm Cat had shuttled to South America for the ...

Henry was the eldest son of Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I by his second wife) and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. He was known as Henry 'Curtmantle' or 'Fitz Empress' ...

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 ...