Medievalists.net » King Henry IV http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Usurpation of Henry IV: His Quest for Legitimacy on the English Throne http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/02/usurpation-henry-iv-quest-legitimacy-english-throne/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/02/usurpation-henry-iv-quest-legitimacy-english-throne/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:35:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54566 On 30 September 1399, Richard II's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, would usurp the throne, taking the name Henry IV, and months after the coronation, Richard would die a prisoner in Pontefract Castle amidst speculation that he was murdered.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/02/usurpation-henry-iv-quest-legitimacy-english-throne/feed/ 0 Did the Battle of Hyddgen even take place? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/14/battle-hyddgen-even-take-place/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/14/battle-hyddgen-even-take-place/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 14:38:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49611 The Battle of Hyddgen is said to be the first victory of the Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr and many historians believe it played a central role to his revolt in the early fifteenth-century. A historian is now questioning where the battle took place, and even if the encounter took place at all.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/14/battle-hyddgen-even-take-place/feed/ 0 Gower’s “Confessio” and the “Nova statuta Angliae”: royal lessons in English law http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/13/gowers-confessio-and-the-nova-statuta-angliae-royal-lessons-in-english-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/13/gowers-confessio-and-the-nova-statuta-angliae-royal-lessons-in-english-law/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:19:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44854 In the following discussion, I will explore some hitherto unexamined links between the Confessio Amantis and one of these legal texts, the Nova Statuta Angliae or New Statutes of England, which circulated among professional and non-professional readers in the 1380s and 1390s and which Richard II received in a manuscript now in Cambridge: St. John’s College MS A.7.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/13/gowers-confessio-and-the-nova-statuta-angliae-royal-lessons-in-english-law/feed/ 0 ‘Kings were not wont to render account’ Henry IV and the Authority of the King http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/kings-were-not-wont-to-render-account-henry-iv-and-the-authority-of-the-king/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/kings-were-not-wont-to-render-account-henry-iv-and-the-authority-of-the-king/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:58:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42500 Henry travelled extensively, became famed throughout Christendom as a champion jouster, crusaded in Eastern Europe, and looked after his father’s holdings whilst John of Gaunt campaigned in Spain.3 It is impossible not to note that Henry Bolingbroke’s popularity continued to increase while Richard II’s declined.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/31/kings-were-not-wont-to-render-account-henry-iv-and-the-authority-of-the-king/feed/ 0 Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/10/sir-john-fortescue-and-the-french-polemical-treatises-of-the-hundred-years-war/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/10/sir-john-fortescue-and-the-french-polemical-treatises-of-the-hundred-years-war/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:04:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39182 Inevitably Fortescue had to adopt new arguments for the defence of Henry VI. To this end he asserted that the Lancastrians now had a just title through divine and ecclesiastical approbation, popular consent and prescription, but the core of his case was a direct response to the Yorkist claim that they had a superior hereditary title to the throne.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/10/sir-john-fortescue-and-the-french-polemical-treatises-of-the-hundred-years-war/feed/ 0 Narrative and political strategies at the deposition of Richard II http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/narrative-and-political-strategies-at-the-deposition-of-richard-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/narrative-and-political-strategies-at-the-deposition-of-richard-ii/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:59:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38958 This paper is an attempt to examine the role of what might loosely be termed formal and informal political ideas in the coup d’e´tat which brought Henry IV to power in 1399.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/narrative-and-political-strategies-at-the-deposition-of-richard-ii/feed/ 0 The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/22/the-personnel-of-english-and-welsh-castles-1272-1422/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/22/the-personnel-of-english-and-welsh-castles-1272-1422/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:14:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35024 In England, the role played on the continent by the castellanies would appear to have been performed by the county castle and the sheriff, a post that remained firmly under the king's control in all but a few counties. Instead, a more subtle link between the castle community and political power will have to be found. It will be searched for in the appointment of constables to royal castles, and in grants of ownership of castles, royal or forfeited. It may be found in the building activity that was so common in this period, or in the marriage alliances that created many of the great castle owning estates.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/22/the-personnel-of-english-and-welsh-castles-1272-1422/feed/ 0 The Nevilles and the political establishment in north-eastern England, 1377-1413 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-nevilles-and-the-political-establishment-in-north-eastern-england-1377-1413/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-nevilles-and-the-political-establishment-in-north-eastern-england-1377-1413/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:01:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34480 The Nevilles were instrumental in Henry IV's rise to power, and became the focal point of his subsequent efforts to stabilise the North.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-nevilles-and-the-political-establishment-in-north-eastern-england-1377-1413/feed/ 0 “In the Name of Almighty God”: Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/06/%e2%80%9cin-the-name-of-almighty-god%e2%80%9d-gregory-vii-and-the-investiture-controversy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/06/%e2%80%9cin-the-name-of-almighty-god%e2%80%9d-gregory-vii-and-the-investiture-controversy/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:02:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26192 The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German King Henry IV over who had the right to appoint church officials in the Catholic Church.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/06/%e2%80%9cin-the-name-of-almighty-god%e2%80%9d-gregory-vii-and-the-investiture-controversy/feed/ 0 A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/30/a-norfolk-gentlewoman-and-lydgatian-patronage-lady-sibylle-boys-and-her-cultural-environment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/30/a-norfolk-gentlewoman-and-lydgatian-patronage-lady-sibylle-boys-and-her-cultural-environment/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:25:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24688 A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment Bale, A. Medium Aevum, 78(2), (2009) Abstract The poetry of John Lydgate (c.1370–1449/50) is often discussed in terms of the poet’s illustrious and powerful patrons: literary commissions for royal figures such as Henry V (Troy Book), Henry VI (numerous mummings and pageant poems), […]

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