• Roger Bolingbroke (died 18 November 1441) was a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. He flourished in...
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  • Viscount Bolingbroke Lucy of Bolingbroke (died c. 1138), Anglo-Norman heiress in central England, later in life countess of Chester Roger Bolingbroke (died...
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    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (/ˈsɪndʒɪn ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and...
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    succession, through her horoscope. The astrologers Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke predicted that Henry VI would suffer a life-threatening illness in...
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  • astronomy and would in June 1433 successfully forecast an eclipse. Roger Bolingbroke was the best known of these scholars, described as a 'gret and konnyng...
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    Henry IV (c. April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt,...
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  • German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280) Roger Bacon – Medieval English polymath, philosopher and friar Roger Bolingbroke – Astrologer and alleged necromancer...
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  • known as the "Witch of Eye") and astrologers Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke to predict the date of King Henry's death. In 1441, the conspirators...
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  • 1290) 1349 – Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1310) 1441 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer...
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  • Jourdemayne, Englishwoman executed for treasonable witchcraft November 18 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer...
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  • Baron of Kendal, Lord of Bolingbroke. He was the son of Roger FitzGerold (de Roumare), 1st Baron of Kendal, Lord of Bolingbroke and Lucy, widow of Ivo de...
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  • Jourdemayne, Englishwoman executed for treasonable witchcraft November 18 – Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer...
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    John Hum – priest John Southwell – priest Margery Jourdayne – witch Roger Bolingbroke – conjurer Asmath – a spirit The False Miracle Sander Simpcox – impostor...
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    Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, FBA, FRSL (/ˈskruːtən/; 27 February 1944 – 12 January 2020) was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised...
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  • Lucy of Bolingbroke or Lucia Thoroldsdottir of Lincoln (died circa 1136) was an Anglo-Norman heiress in central England and, later in life, countess of...
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  • armour. Roger Bolingbroke is chaplain to the Duchess of Gloucester and orchestrates the demon-summoning in Henry VI, Part 2. For Bolingbroke see also...
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    hearing of Bolingbroke's landing in Yorkshire, capitulated to Bolingbroke at Berkeley on 27 July. Edward speedily deserted to Bolingbroke as well and...
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    oppose Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke soon deposed Richard and took the crown for himself as Henry IV. Richard II was captured by Henry Bolingbroke's supporters...
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    especially Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, the Duke of Surrey and the Earls of Wiltshire, Salisbury and Gloucester. Mowbray apparently urged Bolingbroke to turn...
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    Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange...
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  • appeared in Ninja Assassin, and in Speed Racer. On stage, he played Bolingbroke in the Old Vic's production of Richard II in 2005 alongside his father-in-law...
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  • father of Henry Bolingbroke, dies. March 18 – Richard II of England cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's...
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  • Evans as Earl of Salisbury/Clerk of Chartham Derek Farr as Lord Say/Roger Bolingbroke (uncredited)/1st Gentleman (uncredited) Julia Foster as Queen Margaret...
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    heir-apparent, Henry Bolingbroke. Following Gaunt's death in 1399, his estates and titles were declared forfeit to the Crown, and his son Bolingbroke, now disinherited...
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    prime movers behind the deposition of King Richard II in favour of Henry Bolingbroke in 1399. He later fell out with the new regime and rebelled, and was...
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    1399, after John of Gaunt died, the King disinherited Gaunt's son Henry Bolingbroke, who had previously been exiled. Henry invaded England in June 1399 with...
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    period, the title Baron St John was subsumed within the title Earl of Bolingbroke which was granted to the fourth Baron. The Earldom died out with the...
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    of the Earldom of Lincoln. He also gained the manor and the castle of Bolingbroke. He was also buried at Stanlow. (1240–1258) Of Edmund de Lacy, son of...
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  • his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. October – King Richard II exiles both Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk...
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    brother Roger. Edmund was a supporter of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV of England, in spite of the fact that his older brother Roger had...
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