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Henry III (king of France and Poland)
king of France from 1574, under whose reign the prolonged crisis of the Wars of Religion was made worse by dynastic rivalries arising because the male line of the Valois dynasty was going to die out with him....
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Henry III of Champagne (king of Navarre)
king of Navarre (1270–74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded his eldest brother, Theobald II (Thibaut V), in both kingdom and countship in December 1270. By his marriage (1269) to Blanche, daughter of Robert I of Artois and niece...
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Henry III of Navarre (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry III the Illustrious (margrave of Meissen)
Landgrave Henry Raspe was elected German ‘‘antiking’’ (against Conrad IV) in 1246; he died the next year. After a war over the long-disputed succession (1256–63), Henry III (the Illustrious), margrave of Meissen, of the house of Wettin, made good his claim and invested his son Albert with Thuringia in 1265. Thuringia thereafter remained a possession of the Wettin...
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Henry IV (fictional character in “Henry IV, Part 1” and “Henry IV, Part 2”)
As Part 1 begins, Henry IV, wearied from the strife that has accompanied his accession to the throne, is renewing his earlier vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He learns that Owen Glendower, the Welsh chieftain, has captured Edmund Mortimer, the earl of......
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Henry IV (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1454 to 1474, whose reign, though at first promising, became chaotic....
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Henry IV (Holy Roman emperor)
count of Luxembourg (as Henry IV), German king (from 1308), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1312) who strengthened the position of his family by obtaining the throne of Bohemia for his son. He failed, however, in his attempt to bind Italy firmly to the empire....
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Henry IV (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry IV (fictional character in “Richard II”)
Richard begins the play as an extravagant, self-indulgent king. He exiles two feuding noblemen, Thomas Mowbray and Henry Bolingbroke, seemingly because Mowbray has been implicated along with Richard himself in the murder of Richard’s uncle Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, while Bolingbroke, Richard’s first cousin, is a th...
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“Henry IV” (play by Pirandello)
...have been rejected by their author materialize on stage, throbbing with a more intense vitality than the real actors, who, inevitably, distort their drama as they attempt its presentation. And in Henry IV the theme is madness, which lies just under the skin of ordinary life and is, perhaps, superior to ordinary life in its construction of a satisfying reality. The play finds dramatic......
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Henry IV (king of England)
king of England from 1399 to 1413, the first of three 15th-century monarchs from the house of Lancaster. He gained the crown by usurpation and successfully consolidated his power in the face of repeated uprisings of powerful nobles. However, he was unable to overcome the fiscal and administrative weaknesses that contributed to the eventual downfall of the Lancastrian dynasty....
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Henry IV (fictional character in “Richard II”)
Richard begins the play as an extravagant, self-indulgent king. He exiles two feuding noblemen, Thomas Mowbray and Henry Bolingbroke, seemingly because Mowbray has been implicated along with Richard himself in the murder of Richard’s uncle Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, while Bolingbroke, Richard’s first cousin, is a th...
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Henry IV (Holy Roman emperor)
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VIII, 1055–61), German king (from 1054), and Holy Roman emperor (1084–1105/06), who engaged in a long struggle with Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII) on the question of lay investiture (see Investiture Controversy), eventually drawing excommunication on himself and doing penance at Canossa (1077). His last years were ...
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Henry IV, Part 1 (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1596–97 and published from a reliable authorial draft in a 1598 quarto edition. Henry IV, Part 1 is the second in a sequence of four history plays (the others being Richard II...
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Henry IV, Part 2 (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1597–98 and published in a corrupt text based in part on memorial reconstruction in a quarto edition in 1600; a better text, printed in the main from an authorial manuscript, appeared in the First Folio of 1623 and is ...
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Henry IV style (art and architecture)
French art and architecture during the reign of King Henry IV of France (1589–1610). Henry’s chief contribution as patron of the arts was in the field of architecture. Although he made additions and improvements to many of his palaces, such as the Stable Court at Fontainebleau...
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Henry IX (British pretender)
last legitimate descendant of the deposed (1688) Stuart monarch James II of Great Britain. To the Jacobites—supporters of Stuart claims to the British throne—he was known as King Henry IX of Great Britain for the last 19 years of his life....
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Henry James Letters (work by Edel)
...1882–1895, both published in 1962) of a definitive five-volume biography completed in 1972. He edited The Complete Tales of Henry James, 12 vol. (1963–65), and Henry James Letters, 4 vol. (1974–84). In addition to teaching at the University of Hawaii (1972–78), Edel lectured...
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Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-1883 (work by Edel)
...won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for the second and third volumes (Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870–1883 and Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882–1895, both published in 1962) of a definitive five-volume biography completed i...
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Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882-1895 (work by Edel)
...and a National Book Award for the second and third volumes (Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870–1883 and Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882–1895, both published in 1962) of a definitive five-volume biography completed in 1972. He edited The Complete Tales of Henry James, 12......
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Henry, John (folk hero)
hero of a widely sung U.S. black folk ballad. It describes his contest with a steam drill, in which John Henry crushed more rock than did the machine but died “with his hammer in his hand.” Writers and artists see in John Henry a symbol of man’s foredoomed struggle against the machine and of the black man’s tragic ...
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Henry, Joseph (American physicist)
one of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin. He aided Samuel F.B. Morse in the development of the telegraph and discovered several important principles of electricity, including self-induction, a phenomenon of primary importance in electronic circuitry....
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Henry Kendall College (university, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The university offers undergraduate degrees through the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, and the Colle...
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Henry, Lenny (British actor and comedian)
Aug. 29, 1958Dudley, West Midlands, Eng.In February 2009 British comedian Lenny Henry made his stage debut in the lead role of Shakespeare’s Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. His performance won rave reviews (one critic called it “one of the most astonishing debuts in Shakespeare [he had] ever seen...
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Henry, Lenworth George (British actor and comedian)
Aug. 29, 1958Dudley, West Midlands, Eng.In February 2009 British comedian Lenny Henry made his stage debut in the lead role of Shakespeare’s Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. His performance won rave reviews (one critic called it “one of the most astonishing debuts in Shakespeare [he had] ever seen...
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Henry, Lou (American first lady)
American first lady (1929–33), the wife of Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States. A philanthropist who was active in wartime relief, she was also the first president’s wife to deliver a speech on radio....
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Henry, Marguerite (American author)
American author of some 50 children’s books that featured tales about animals, notably the classic novel Misty of Chincoteague (1947), a story about a wild horse and one of the most popular children’s books of all time; Henry received numerous awards...
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Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance (work by Merritt)
...Henry Merritt. Upon her marriage she gave up her career, but when her husband died just three months later she resumed it. She wrote a memoir of her husband and supplied 23 small etchings for Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance (1879)....
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Henry Mountains (mountains, Utah, United States)
segment of the Colorado Plateau, extending for 40 miles (64 km) in a northwest–southeast direction across Garfield county, southern Utah, U.S. Mount Ellen, which ascends to 11,615 feet (3,540 metres), is the highest point. Named for Joseph Henry, a great American scientist and the first secr...
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Henry, O. (American author)
American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name and cost him critic...
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Henry of Anjou (king of England)
duke of Normandy (from 1150), count of Anjou (from 1151), duke of Aquitaine (from 1152), and king of England (from 1154), who greatly expanded his Anglo-French domains and strengthened the royal administration in England. His quarrels with Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, and with members of his fam...
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Henry of Bavaria (bishop of Utrecht)
...centre until it was surpassed by Amsterdam (26 miles [42 km] northwest) in the 15th century. Utrecht’s bishops came increasingly under the influence of Holland until the Utrecht bishop Henry of Bavaria sold his temporal rights to Emperor Charles V in 1527, upon which Utrecht became part of the Habsburg dominions. Spanish domination prevailed until 1577, when the women of Utrecht......
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Henry of Blois (British bishop)
bishop of Winchester (from 1129) and papal legate in England (1139–43), who was largely instrumental in having his brother Stephen recognized as king of England (1135)....
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Henry of Bourbon (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry of Burgundy (king of Portugal [1057-1112])
Alfonso VI, emperor of Leon, had granted the county of Portugal to Afonso’s father, Henry of Burgundy, who successfully defended it against the Muslims (1095–1112). Henry married Alfonso VI’s illegitimate daughter, Teresa, who governed Portugal from the time of her husband’s death (1112) until her son Afonso came of age. She refused to cede her power to Afonso, but his ...
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Henry of Flanders (emperor of Constantinople)
second and most able of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, who reigned from 1206 to 1216 and consolidated the power of the new empire....
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Henry of Ghent (French philosopher)
Scholastic philosopher and theologian, one of the most illustrious teachers of his time, who was a great adversary of St. Thomas Aquinas and whose controversial writings influenced his contemporaries and followers, particularly postmedieval Platonists....
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Henry of Guise (French noble)
popular duke of Guise, the acknowledged chief of the Catholic party and the Holy League during the French Wars of Religion....
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Henry of Hainault (emperor of Constantinople)
second and most able of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, who reigned from 1206 to 1216 and consolidated the power of the new empire....
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Henry of Hainaut (emperor of Constantinople)
second and most able of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, who reigned from 1206 to 1216 and consolidated the power of the new empire....
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Henry of Lancaster (king of England)
king of England from 1399 to 1413, the first of three 15th-century monarchs from the house of Lancaster. He gained the crown by usurpation and successfully consolidated his power in the face of repeated uprisings of powerful nobles. However, he was unable to overcome the fiscal and administrative weaknesses that contributed to the eventual downfall of the Lancastrian dynasty....
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Henry of Navarre (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry of Oatlands (English noble)
Protestant brother of Charles II of England....
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Henry of Speyer (German count)
Conrad was the son of Count Henry of Speyer, who had been passed over in his inheritances in favour of a younger brother. Henry was descended, through the marriage of his great-grandfather Conrad the Red to a daughter of Emperor Otto, from the Saxon house. Left poor, Conrad was brought up by the Bishop of Worms and did not receive much of a......
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Henry of Susa (bishop of Ostia)
...(d. c. 1234), archdeacon of Bologna, best known for his work on church marriage law and his manual of ecclesiastical procedural law; Henry of Susa (d. 1271), cardinal bishop of Ostia, known as the “king of law” and author of a “Golden Summary” (Summa Aurea) of the titles of the decretals; St. Raymon...
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Henry of Trastámara (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1369, founder of the house of Trastámara, which lasted until 1504....
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Henry of Valois (king of France and Poland)
king of France from 1574, under whose reign the prolonged crisis of the Wars of Religion was made worse by dynastic rivalries arising because the male line of the Valois dynasty was going to die out with him....
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Henry, Patrick (American statesman)
brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, perhaps best known for his words “Give me liberty or give me death!” which he delivered in 1775. He was independent Virginia’s first governor (serving 1776–79, 1784–86)....
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Henry, Pierre (French composer)
In 1948 two French composers, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and their associates at Radiodiffusion et Télévision Française in Paris began to produce tape collages (analogous to collages in the visual arts), which they called musique concrète. All the materials they processed on tape were recorded......
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Henry, prince de Béarn (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry Puyi (emperor of Qing dynasty)
last emperor (1908–1911/12) of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644–1911/12) in China and puppet emperor of the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo (Chinese: Manzhouguo) from 1934 to 1945....
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Henry Raspe (antiking of Germany)
landgrave of Thuringia (1227–47) and German anti-king (1246–47) who was used by Pope Innocent IV in an attempt to oust the Hohenstaufen dynasty from Germany....
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Henry, Saint (patron of Finland)
...during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Christianity was known in Finland as early as the 11th century, and in the 12th century Henry, bishop of Uppsala (Sweden), began organizing the church there. He suffered a martyr’s death and eventually became Finland’s patron sai...
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Henry, Saint (Holy Roman emperor)
duke of Bavaria (as Henry IV, 995–1005), German king (from 1002), and Holy Roman emperor (1014–24), last of the Saxon dynasty of emperors. He was canonized by Pope Eugenius III, more than 100 years after his death, in response to church-i...
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Henry Street Settlement (housing, New York City, New York, United States)
American nurse and social worker who founded the internationally known Henry Street Settlement in New York City (1893)....
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Henry system (police technology)
...for the fingerprint classification systems developed by Sir Edward R. Henry, who later became chief commissioner of the London metropolitan police, and by Juan Vucetich of Argentina. The Galton-Henry system of fingerprint classification, published in June 1900, was officially introduced at Scotland Yard in 1901 and quickly became the basis for its criminal-identification records. The system......
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Henry the Bastard (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1369, founder of the house of Trastámara, which lasted until 1504....
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Henry the Cardinal-King (king of Portugal [1512-80])
king of Portugal and Roman Catholic ecclesiastic whose brief reign (1578–80) was dominated by the problem of succession. His failure to decisively designate a successor left the Portuguese throne at his death prey to its Spanish claimant, King Philip II....
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Henry the Child (ruler of Hesse)
...the landgraviate of Thuringia. In 1247 Henry Raspe, the last landgrave of Thuringia, died, and his niece, Sophia, the wife of Henry II of Brabant, acquired Hessen. She gave the territory to her son, Henry I (the Child), who founded the Brabant dynasty of Hessen and in 1292 was raised to the rank of a prince of the Holy Roman Empire....
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Henry the Elder (duke of Lower Bavaria)
...of Holland and its dependencies. These successes did not sit well with John of Bohemia, who refused to be pacified either by the donation of Upper Lusatia in 1320 or by the marriage of Duke Henry the Elder of Lower Bavaria with a Luxembourg the following year, or by the acquisition, by way of collateral, of the Egerland. Luxembourg finally allied itself with France, and this move, in......
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Henry the Fat (king of Navarre)
king of Navarre (1270–74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded his eldest brother, Theobald II (Thibaut V), in both kingdom and countship in December 1270. By his marriage (1269) to Blanche, daughter of Robert I of Artois and niece...
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Henry the Fowler (king of Germany)
German king and founder of the Saxon dynasty (918–1024) who strengthened the East Frankish, or German, army, encouraged the growth of towns, brought Lotharingia (Lorraine) back under German control (925), and secured German borders against pagan incursions....
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Henry the Fratricide (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1369, founder of the house of Trastámara, which lasted until 1504....
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Henry the Great (king of France)
king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With ...
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Henry the Impotent (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1454 to 1474, whose reign, though at first promising, became chaotic....
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Henry the Liberal (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1454 to 1474, whose reign, though at first promising, became chaotic....
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Henry the Lion (duke of Bavaria and Saxony)
duke of Saxony (1142–80) and of Bavaria (as Henry XII, 1156–80), a strong supporter of the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry spent his early years recovering his ancestral lands of Saxony (1142) and Bavaria (1154–56), thereafter founding the ci...
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Henry the Minstrel (Scottish writer)
author of the Scottish historical romance The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, which is preserved in a manuscript dated 1488. He has been traditionally identified with the Blind Harry named among others in William Dunbar’s The Lament for the Mak...
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Henry the Navigator (prince of Portugal)
Portuguese prince noted for his patronage of voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa. The epithet Navigator, applied to him by the English (though seldom by Portuguese writers), is a misnomer, as he himself never embarked on any exploratory voyages....
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Henry the Proud (duke of Bavaria)
margrave of Tuscany, duke of Saxony (as Henry II), and duke of Bavaria, a member of the Welf dynasty, whose policies helped to launch the feud between the Welf and the Hohenstaufen dynasties that was to influence German politics for more than a century....
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Henry the Scarred (French noble)
popular duke of Guise, the acknowledged chief of the Catholic party and the Holy League during the French Wars of Religion....
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Henry the Sufferer (king of Castile)
king of Castile from 1390 to 1406. Though unable to take the field because of illness, he jealously preserved royal power through the royal council, the Audiencia (supreme court), and the corregidores (magistrates). During his minority, the anti-Jewish riots of Sevilla (Seville) and other places produced the large class of convers...
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Henry the Young King (king designate of of England)
second son of King Henry II of England by Eleanor of Aquitaine; he was regarded, after the death of his elder brother, William, in 1156, as his father’s successor in England, Normandy, and Anjou....
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Henry the Younger (duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel)
duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, one of the leading Roman Catholic princes attempting to stem the Reformation in Germany....
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Henry, Thierry (French athlete)
In mid-2004 Thierry Henry clinched the 2003–04 Golden Shoe as Europe’s leading association football (soccer) goal scorer (with 30) and helped the English Football Association (FA) club Arsenal to another Premier League championship. If anyone deserved credit for turning Henry into one of the finest players in the world, it was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who transformed the young ...
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Henry, Thierry Daniel (French athlete)
In mid-2004 Thierry Henry clinched the 2003–04 Golden Shoe as Europe’s leading association football (soccer) goal scorer (with 30) and helped the English Football Association (FA) club Arsenal to another Premier League championship. If anyone deserved credit for turning Henry into one of the finest players in the world, it was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who transformed the young ...
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Henry, Thomas (British apothecary)
To Thomas Henry, an apothecary in Manchester, Eng., is attributed the first production of carbonated water, which he made in 12-gallon barrels using an apparatus based on Priestley’s. Jacob Schweppe, a jeweler in Geneva, read the papers of Priestley and Lavoisier and determined to make a similar device. By 1794 he was selling his highly carbonated artificial......
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Henry V (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1599 and published in 1600 in a corrupt quarto edition; the text in the First Folio of 1623, printed seemingly from an authorial manuscript, is substantially longer and more reliable. Henry V ...
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Henry V (Holy Roman emperor)
German king (from 1099) and Holy Roman emperor (1111–25), last of the Salian dynasty. He restored virtual peace in the empire and was generally successful in wars with Flanders, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland. As son of Henry IV, he continued his father’s Investiture Controversy...
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Henry V (king of England)
king of England (1413–22) of the House of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt (1415, in the Hundred Years’ War with France), he made England one of the strongest kingdoms in Europe....
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Henry V (film by Branagh [1989])
...miniseries Fortunes of War (1987). The couple became frequent collaborators and married in 1989 (divorced 1995). Thompson starred with Branagh in Henry V (1989), which he directed, and followed with two more Branagh-directed films, the thriller Dead Again (1991), in which the couple played dual roles, and the......
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Henry V (fictional character in “Henry IV, Part 1” and “Henry IV, Part 2”)
...with rebellion, treachery, and shifting alliances in the period following the deposition of King Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV focus especially on the development of Prince Hal (later Henry V) from wastrel to ruler rather than on the title character. Indeed, the king is often overshadowed not only by his son but also by Hotspur, the young rebel military leader,....
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Henry V (fictional character in “Henry V”)
...14th and early 15th centuries. The main source of the play was Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, but Shakespeare may also have been influenced by an earlier play about King Henry V called The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth....
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Henry V (film by Olivier [1944])
...first foreign-made film to win the Academy Award for best picture. It was Olivier’s second attempt at producing, directing, and starring in a film adaptation of a Shakespeare play. His first try, Henry V (1944), had been made as a patriotic, morale-boosting swashbuckler during World War II. When it was released in the United States in 1946, it was nominated for four Academy Awards...
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Henry VI (fictional character)
Part 1 begins at the funeral of Henry V, as political factions are forming around the boy king, Henry VI. The chief rivalry is between Henry’s uncle Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, the Lord Protector, and his great-uncle, Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester. The peace Henry V had established in France is shattered...
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Henry VI (king of England)
king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, a pious and studious recluse whose incapacity for government was one of the causes of the Wars of the Roses....
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Henry VI (Holy Roman emperor)
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI, 1027–41), duke of Swabia (as Henry I, 1038–45), German king (from 1039), and Holy Roman emperor (1046–56), a member of the Salian dynasty. The last emperor able to dominate the papacy, he was a powerful advocate of the Cluniac refo...
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Henry VI (Holy Roman emperor)
German king and Holy Roman emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty who increased his power and that of his dynasty by his acquisition of the kingdom of Sicily through his marriage to Constance I, posthumous daughter of the Sicilian king Ro...
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Henry VI, Part 1 (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1589–92 and published in the First Folio of 1623. Henry VI, Part 1 is the first in a sequence of four history plays (the others being Henry VI, Part 2...
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Henry VI, Part 2 (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590–92. It was first published in a corrupt quarto in 1594. The version published in the First Folio of 1623 is considerably longer and seems to have bee...
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Henry VI, Part 3 (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1590–93. Like Henry IV, Part 2, it was first published in a corrupt quarto, this time in 1595. The version published in the First Folio of 1623 is considerably longer and seems to have been bas...
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Henry VII (king of Germany)
German king (from 1220), son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II....
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Henry VII (king of England)
king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty....
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Henry VII (Holy Roman emperor)
count of Luxembourg (as Henry IV), German king (from 1308), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1312) who strengthened the position of his family by obtaining the throne of Bohemia for his son. He failed, however, in his attempt to bind Italy firmly to the empire....
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Henry VII (fictional character)
...acceptance of the crown. The nefarious partnership between Richard and Buckingham ends when Buckingham balks at killing the young princes and then flees to escape the same fate. An army led by Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, challenges Richard’s claim to the throne. On the night before the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard is haunted b...
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Henry VIII (Holy Roman emperor)
duke of Bavaria (as Henry VIII, 1055–61), German king (from 1054), and Holy Roman emperor (1084–1105/06), who engaged in a long struggle with Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII) on the question of lay investiture (see Investiture Controversy), eventually drawing excommunication on himself and doing penance at Canossa (1077). His last years were ...
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Henry VIII (king of England)
king of England (1509–47) who presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation. His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future queen Mary I), Anne Boleyn (the mother of the future queen Elizabeth I...
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Henry VIII (fictional character)
As the play opens, the duke of Buckingham, having denounced Cardinal Wolsey, lord chancellor to King Henry VIII, for corruption and treason, is himself arrested, along with his son-in-law, Lord Abergavenny. Despite the king’s reservations and Queen Katharine’s entreaties for justice and truth, Buckingham is convicted as a traitor...
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Henry VIII (work by Shakespeare)
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1613 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The primary source of the play was Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles...
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Henry VIII and the English Monasteries (work by Gasquet)
Educated at Downside School (Somerset), Gasquet entered the Benedictine monastery there and was prior from 1878 to 1885. From 1888 onward he published works on monastic history, including Henry VIII and the English Monasteries (1888–89), which has considerable value but is regarded by some as biased and occasionally inaccurate. Other works include A History of the Church in......
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