Henry I of England

Henry VIII King Henry is perhaps the most popular kings of all time. Mostly known because of the amount of wives that he had. Henry VIII was born in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, United Kingdom on June 28 1491.When Henry was a kid he was highly intelligent and was very athletic. Henry’s other interest were books,music, and he was a lavish patron of the arts and even participated in wrestling,jousting,hunting and writing .Later on in England after the death of Henry VII (Henry VIII’s…

When Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part II, England faced issues of kingship, constitution, and rebellion. Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Elizabethans in the 1590s, undoubtedly had anxieties about the aging Queen Elizabeth I’s lack of an apparent heir, much like the anxieties surrounding Hal’s imminent succession to the throne. At the same time, Shakespeare presents to his audience a history play, dramatizes information, introduces fictional characters, and “mingling kings and clowns” on stage, and…

The first Queen Elizabeth was one of the greatest rulers England ever had. The time when she reigned is called the Elizabethan Age, and it was a long period, forty-five years, when England became very rich and powerful. When Elizabeth II came to the throne the British people rejoiced and hoped there would be another Elizabethan Age like the first one. The first Elizabeth was born in the year 1533. Her father was Henry VIII, who married six different times. Elizabeth’s mother was his second wife.…

fascinated with the control that only being the king could have brought him, and he would have taken any risk that was needed to become the King. He was motivated by his need for control; he manipulated people and murdered his way onto the throne. I believe that there are two Richards, a Machiavellian monster formed by Shakespeare; and Richard III; the historical figure who many historians have claimed is an innocent…

Richard I, but not of all historians, who have generally more conflicted opinions on the Lionheart. Richard I is still, to a certain extent, seen as an English hero. It was even truer in the Middle Ages, when kings were often compared to Richard, thus Edward I in 1272 was described as the “new Richard.”2 This shows that it was still Richard who set the standard which new kings were expected to follow. Surprisingly enough,…

young, Mary’s uncle, Henry VIII tried to take control of power. Mary of Guise was the one to act as regent on for her daughter. Since the Scots had a long and great alliance with one another and Mary’s mother was French, Mary was betrothed to the French heir. She was sent to France at the age of five where she grew up to marry the son of the French King Henry II…

British history. King Henry VIII wishes to divorce his wife, the Spanish princess Catherine, his brother’s widow, as the pair find themselves unable to produce a male heir. When Sir Thomas More rises to the title of Lord Chancellor of England, the King approaches him, hoping to convince More to support the divorce. More did not approve of the marriage from the start, as it went against the Bible and forced the Pope to issue a dispensation to allow the nuptials. Years pass and Henry creates a new…

Shakespeare and Henry V: Instinct Over Intellect In Shakespeare's Henry V, the title character is a king renowned for his various strength as a leader. The Bishop of Canterbury, in conversation with another priest, attests to his skills as a speaker primarily. "The air," he says "is still" when the king speaks in "sweet and honeyed sentences" (l.i.51-53). Henry uses his talents as an orator to impress or to debate just as often as he uses them to persuade his enemy of something. In Act lll,…

Elizabeth I was an audacious leader of England since she initially inherited the throne; however, she also obtains qualities that may qualify her as a leader whom contradicts her apparent beliefs. The Queen’s upbringing, personality, and surrounding environment all affected the manner in which she ruled. Queen Elizabeth I was born an ordinary child without official monarch titles; however, she led an extraordinary life. Elizabeth Tudor was born on September 7, 1533, in Greenwich, England, a…

Elizabeth’s reign of England. She was forced to acknowledge Richard as the King of England in order to leave the sanctuary and permit Richard to provide for her and her daughters. This was the same king who was rumored to have murdered or ordered the execution of her four sons. However, Elizabeth’s last ditch effort to establish her power in England came from the potential betrothals to her eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York. During a rebellion against Richard, led by Henry Tudor, Henry’s mother…