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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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    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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    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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    known as Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV of England. The parish church of Old Bolingbroke was rebuilt by Alice de Lacy and John of Gaunt....
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    New Bolingbroke is a village in the civil parish of Carrington and New Bolingbroke, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is in the...
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    with the strongest claim was John of Gaunt, whose son and heir was Henry Bolingbroke. In 1397, a dispute between Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray led to the...
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  • American musician Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), English statesman and philosopher Henry St. John (congressman), 19th-century U...
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    Bolingbroke was crowned King of England, as Henry IV, on 13 October 1399. John's eldest sibling was Henry of Monmouth, later King of England as Henry...
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    with Henry Bolingbroke to help him regain the lands Richard confiscated after the death of Bolingbroke's father, John of Gaunt. After Bolingbroke deposes...
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    century, Richard II banished John of Gaunt’s son Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, from England. Following the death of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster...
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    Edward, 2nd Duke of York (category Burials at the Church of Saint Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay)
    belonged to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and which were part of the inheritance of his son, Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV. In May 1399...
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    Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians. Born on Milk Street...
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    Oliver St John. For a period, the title Baron St John was subsumed within the title Earl of Bolingbroke which was granted to the fourth Baron. The Earldom...
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    after. In the meantime, Mowbray had fallen out with John of Gaunt's eldest son, Henry Bolingbroke, and they arranged a trial by combat. No sooner had...
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  • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 2nd Earl of Derby, Earl of Lancaster (jure uxoris), Earl of Leicester (jure uxoris) (1361–1399) Henry Bolingbroke,...
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    arms differenced by a label of five points argent, representing Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster On the north end of the tomb, the three shields...
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    stripped of his title. Bolingbroke and Mowbray were exiled. When John of Gaunt died in 1399, Richard disinherited John's son, Henry, who invaded England...
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  • Mark (10 September 2020). The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 5. Routledge. p. 1393. ISBN 978-1-000-16206-6. Walkling...
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    of Henry of Bolingbroke (later Henry IV of England) and Mary de Bohun. His father's cousin was the reigning English monarch, Richard II. Henry's paternal...
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    served under the King's uncle John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in Spain and Scotland, and was with Gaunt's son Henry Bolingbroke on crusades in Lithuania...
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    Lancaster, Henry's second daughter and eventual heir. When Gaunt died on 4 February 1399 the dukedom passed to his son, Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st duke...
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    was the grandmother to the first Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St John. St John's father was Oliver St John, a leading Parliamentarian and supporter of...
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    Abbey, in the productions, played Henry IV (Bolingbroke). The 2016 app Cycle of Kings features the entire play Henry IV, Part 1 in interactive form, as...
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    Sir Walter St John of Lydiard Tregoze and was the grandmother of Viscount Bolingbroke. His third daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir John Bernard, 2nd Baronet...
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    de Bohun, wife of Henry Bolingbroke, eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt, who later became King of England under the name of Henry IV. In the early 1390s...
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    Library. The adoption of the word club was suggested by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who was exiled in Paris and close to Alary in the early...
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    Appellant. In 1399, after John of Gaunt died, Richard II disinherited Gaunt's son, the exiled Henry of Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke returned to England with...
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    "tyranny". In 1399, after John of Gaunt died, the King disinherited Gaunt's son Henry Bolingbroke, who had previously been exiled. Henry invaded England in June...
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    instructive sayings. Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, into the "modest New England family" of John Thoreau, a pencil...
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    and the earldom were inherited by John of Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke, and both titles ceased to exist when Henry usurped the throne, as the titles...
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