Henry IV

Henry IV
noun
1. king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑King of France
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bourbon, ↑Bourbon dynasty
2. King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑King of the Germans, ↑Holy Roman Emperor
3. the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑King of England, ↑King of Great Britain
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lancaster, ↑House of Lancaster, ↑Lancastrian line

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Henry IV [Henry IV]
(1366–1413) king of England (1399–1413) after his cousin ↑Richard II. He was born Henry Bolingbroke, the son of ↑John of Gaunt, and was a leading opponent of Richard’s. In 1398 Richard sent him into ↑exile, but in 1399 he returned to England, defeated Richard and was accepted as king by Parliament. While he was king there were ↑rebellions against him in Wales and the north of England. He was forced to accept the principle that the king should govern through Parliament, and in 1407 Parliament took control of the country’s financial affairs.

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