Henry Plantagenet, King of England

1367 - 1413  (45 years)

• Name	Henry Plantagenet
  Title	King of England
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	3 Apr 1367	Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  FSID	94RC-RQV
  Burial	1413	Kentshire, England
  Death	20 Mar 1413	Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I14422	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John Plantagenet, 1st Duke Of Lancaster ,   b. 6 Mar 1340, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicestershire, England (Age 58 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Katherine De Roet, Duchess Of Lancaster ,   b. Abt 25 Nov 1350, Germany d. 10 May 1403, Lincolnshire, England (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	19 May 1359	Berkshire, England
  Family ID	F1052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary de Bohun, Countess of Derby ,   b. Abt 1369, England, United Kingdom d. 4 Jun 1394, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	27 Jul 1380	Sussex, England
  Children	+ 1. Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester ,   b. 3 Oct 1390, Warwickshire, England d. 23 Feb 1447, Suffolkshire, England (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F7989	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  King Henry IV ( 1399 - 1413 ) 1399 - Henry returns from exile in France to reclaim his estates seized b y R i c hard II; he claims the throne and is crowned. His coronation was t he f i r st since the Norman Conquest in which the King's address was in E ngl i s h instead of Norman French. 1400 - Richard dies of starvation in Pontefract Castle. 1400 - Death of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer leaving The Canterbury Tales u n f i nished. 1401 - Owain Glyndwr leads Welsh revolt against English rule 1402 - State visit to England of Manuel II, the Byzantine emperor 1403 - First rebellion by the Percy family from Northumberland defeated a t t h e B attle of Shrewsbury. 1404 - Glyndwr makes a treaty with the French, who send an army in 1405 t o s u p port the rebellion against the English. 1405 - Second Percy rebellion takes place 1406 - Henry contracts a leprosy-like illness 1408 - Third Percy rebellion takes place. 1413 - Henry dies at Westminster, worn out by constant revolts and shor t a g e of money.

  
  

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