Henry IV, King of England ¹

  General Notes:

enry IV (15 April 1367 \endash 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke (/'b?l??br?k/), was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. His father, John of Gaunt, was the fourth son\endash third to survive to adulthood\endash of Edward III and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Henry's cousin Richard II, whom Henry eventually deposed.

Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, and thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets and the first King of England since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French.[3]

Henry married Mary De Bohun in 1380. (Mary De Bohun was born about 1368 and died on 4 Jun 1394 in Peterborough Castle, Northamptonshire, England.)