Henry IV, King of England b. 15 Apr 1367 Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England d. 20 Mar 1413 Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England

1367 - 1413 (45 years)

Name	Henry IV
Suffix	King of England
Birth	15 Apr 1367	Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England [1, 2, 3]
	Photos of Bolingbroke Castle ... http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Lincolnshire/Old_Bolingbroke/Bolingbroke_Castle/pictures/1170145
Gender	Male
Death	20 Mar 1413	Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England [2, 3]
Burial	Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England [3]
	Canterbury Cathedral Picture Gallery ... https://www.expedia.com/pictures/kent/canterbury/canterbury-cathedral.d6091945/
Person ID	I43553	The Hennessee Family
Last Modified	7 Dec 2016

Father	Sir John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, b. 6 Mar 1340, St. Bavo's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 58 years)
Mother	Lady Blanche of Lancaster, Duchess of Lancaster, b. 24 Mar 1345, Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England d. 12 Sep 1368, Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England (Age 23 years)
Marriage	19 May 1359	Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England [1, 2, 4, 5]
	Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors and successors". more ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Abbey
Family ID	F15754	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary de Bohun, b. 1368, (Hereford, Herefordshire, England) d. 4 Jun 1394, Peterborough Castle (Age 26 years)

Marriage 5 Feb 1381 [3, 6]

Children

	1. Henry V, King of England, b. 9 Aug 1386, Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 31 Aug 1422, Chateau de Vincennes, France (Age 36 years)
	2. Sir Humphrey Lancaster, KG, KB, b. ~OCTOBER 1390, Peterborough Castle, Huntingdonshire, , England d. 23 Feb 1447, St. Saviour's Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 57 years)

Family ID F16465 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Apr 2023

Event Map

	Birth - 15 Apr 1367 - Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England
	Death - 20 Mar 1413 - Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
	Burial - - Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England

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Photos

Henry IV, King of England (1367-1413)
Henry of Bolingbroke, flanked by the lords spiritual and temporal, claims the throne in 1399. From a contemporary manuscript, British Library, Harleian Collection

Notes

"...he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets."

Marriage and issue

The date and venue of Henry's first marriage, to Mary de Bohun, are uncertain, but her marriage licence, purchased by Henry's father John of Gaunt in June 1380 is preserved at the National Archives. The accepted date of the ceremony is 5 February 1381, at Mary's family home of Rochford Hall, Essex.[2] Alternately, the near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a rumour that Mary's sister Eleanor de Bohun kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle and held her at Arundel Castle, where she was kept as a novice nun; Eleanor's intention was to control Mary's half of the Bohun inheritance (or to allow her husband, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, to control it).[24][25] There Mary was persuaded to marry Henry. They had six children:[26]

Henry V of England (1386–1422)
Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1387–1421)
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389–1435)
Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447)
Blanche of England (1392–1409) married in 1402 Louis III, Elector Palatine
Philippa of England (1394–1430) married in 1406 Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Mary died in 1394, and on 7 February 1403 Henry married Joanna of Navarre, the daughter of Charles d'âEvreux, King of Navarre, at Winchester. She was the widow of John V of Brittany, with whom she had had four daughters and four sons; however, her marriage to the King of England was to be childless. But Henry had already four sons from his first marriage, which was undoubtedly a clinching factor in his acceptability for the throne. By contrast, Richard II had no children and Richard's heir-presumptive Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old. The only two of Henry's six children who produced children to survive to adulthood were Henry V and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Henry IV's male Lancaster line ended in 1471 during the War of the Roses, between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, with the deaths of his grandson Henry VI and Henry VI's son Edward, Prince of Wales. The descendants of Henry IV's son Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, include Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II,[27] and the Queen's current daughters-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.[28] [3]

Sources

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[S8939] "Henry IV of England", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England, abstracted August 18, 2015 by David.
[S7316] "John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter > Ancestors", http://royalist.info/execute/ancestors?person=37.
[S9276] "Blanche of Lancaster" biography, retrieved March 20, 2016 by David A. Hennessee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_.
[S9846] "Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (25 March 1341 - 16 January 137.