Henry V (1386 – 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death. From an unassuming start his military successes in the Hundred Years War, culminating with his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saw him come close to uniting the realms o...
Owain ab Gruffydd, lord of Glyndyfrdwy (c. 1359 – c. 1415), or simply Owain Glyndŵr or Glyn Dŵr, was a Welsh leader who instigated a fierce and long-running yet ultimately unsuccessful war of independence with the aim of ending English rule in Wales durin...
Henry IV (possibly 3 April 1366 – 20 March 1413) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (1399–1413). Like other kings of England, at that time, he also claimed the title of King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the othe...
Archibald Douglas, Duke of Touraine, Earl of Douglas, Earl of Wigtown, Lord of Annandale, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, and 13th Lord of Douglas (1372–17 August 1424), was a Scottish nobleman and warlord. He is sometimes given the epithet "Tyneman" ...
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (20 June 1389 – 14 September 1435), also known as John Plantagenet, was the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England by Mary de Bohun, and acted as Regent of France for his nephew, King Henry VI....
Aided Henry Bolingbroke to seize the throne of Richard II, then regretted it and became a rebel against the newly crowned Henry IV. He was the father of Henry "Hotspur" Percy, who was kiilled at the battle of Shrewsbury (which Shakespeare ahistorically at...
(12 February 1371 – 20 April 1417) Shakespeares "Kate" name for her appears to be his own invention. She is daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster. Her first husband was Henry Percy "Hotspur,"...
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Red-nosed, drunken companion of Sir John Falstaff, called Bardoll in the first quarto of 1 Henry IV....
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