Now! Then! Tag: Henry IV (1367-1413)

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Aka Henry Bolingbroke, King of England 1399-1413, son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (third son of Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster, first English ruler whose mother tongue was English since the Norman Conquest, faced a number of rebellions, including Owain Glyndŵr, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, and the English knight Henry Percy (Hotspur), killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403.

1 October 1399: Henry IV pardons the hermit Matthew Danthorpe, who he found building an unlicensed chapel when he landed at Ravenspurn on his way to dethroning Richard II
14 February 1400: Richard II possibly dies a prisoner in Pontefract Castle, but probably not as described by Shakespeare
29 May 1405: On Shipton Moor, the Earl of Westmorland, acting for Henry IV, tricks the Archbishop of York and the Duke of Norfolk, rebellious defenders of York’s rights and purses
30 January 1410: Henry IV acts against salmon poaching in Yorkshire
7 September 1837: Mary Frances Heaton is gaoled at Doncaster for a breach of the peace and later sent to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum

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