Henry VI of England

...the French into giving up the crown itself. Unfortunately he promptly died, leaving his infant - and subsequently infantile - son Henry VI nominally in charge of the greatest English kingdom since the days of the Angevins. Needless to...

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...in 1066. Ties were closest in the later decades of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Then, in 1431, a ten-year old king of England, Henry VI, travelled from London to Paris to be crowned king of France in Notre Dame cathedral. His...

In this article: England, France, Hundred Years War, Henry VI, Cherbourg, Calais, Notre Dame cathedral, and Bordeaux

Posted by Todd Lighty at 6 a.m. William Shakespeare famously suggested in Henry VI (Part 2) that, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. " The current Great Recession has led to a glut of struggling unemployed and...

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...unique: there were several divinely inspired "prophets" around Charles's court. Another, Guillaume le Berger, was captured and paraded in Henry VI's coronation procession, bound with rope. Barker chillingly adds, "He would disappear at the...

In this article: Juliet Barker, Charles VI, France, Henry V, Burgundy, Charles VII, Bread, Armagnac, Saint George, and Dysentery

...to prop up a table leg - which, I'm beginning to suspect, it probably was. . . . Measure for Measure has a smear of glue across page 84; Henry VI got splatted with strawberry jam. '' It's enough to give anyone who's ever owned a book...

In this article: Paul Collins, First Folio, William Shakespeare, Palpitation, Measure for Measure, Hay-on-Wye, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Henry VI, and Thomas Paine

...stash of money" at the time. He said the groats - fourpenny pieces - dated mostly from the reigns of Henry V (1413 - 1422) and Henry VI (1422 - 1460) and were relatively free from corrosion but were worn from being in circulation.

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...The Sign of the Cross. Historians no longer believe that he did fiddle as Rome burned. The legend was built around a quote from Shakespeare's Henry VI For nearly 2,000 years Nero has been viewed as the archetypal tyrant in literature and...

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...the histories are staged as a football game with the crown as the ball: "The quarterback hands off to the hunchback ... he's cutting Henry VI up into three parts; that's got to hurt." But the piece de resistance is "Hamlet," performed...

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...daily singing of services in his magnificent chapel", the college website says. In August, an album of songs by the choir, England my England, reached number one in the UK classical artist charts. Speaking in December last year about the...

In this article: Allegation, Cambridge University, Christmas Eve, Cambridge, Suicide, and Cambridgeshire

...in Shakespeare's canon. Embittered by his own physical deformities, the power-hungry Richard will stop at nothing to gain control of England, seducing and murdering his way to the throne. Since its stage premiere in 1592 with Shakespeare's...

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