Henry IV of England
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Henry IV (c. April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413, Lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (the fourth son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster.
Quotes about Henry IV
[edit]- King Henry the Fourth, who was the deposer of King Richard, was the first of all English kings that began the unmerciful burning of Christ’s saints for standing against the pope.
- John Foxe, Fox's Book of Martyrs. The Acts and Monuments of the Church. Vol. I, ed. John Cumming (1875), p. 713
- I would maintain that in politics Henry was not a man of constitutional principle at all but an opportunist and a politique.
- K. B. McFarlane, Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights (1972), p. 24
- [H]e seems to us a man whose life was embittered by the knowledge that he had taken on himself a task for which he was unequal, whose conscience, ill-informed as it may have been, had soured him, and who felt that the judgments of men, at least, would deal hardly with him when he was dead.
- William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development, Vol. III (1878), p. 9
