Henry VI

1421-1471.

King of England (1422-1461 and 1470-1471) who as an infant succeeded his father, Henry V, and for most of his reign exercised little power. He was deposed in 1461, and Edward IV was proclaimed king. After a period of exile, Henry regained the throne (1470) but was imprisoned and murdered in the Tower of London (1471).

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Henry VI

1. (Biography) 1165–97, king of Germany (1169–97) and Holy Roman Emperor (1190–97): added Sicily to the Empire

2. (Biography) 1421–71, last Lancastrian king of England (1422–61; 1470–71); son of Henry V. His weak rule was blamed for the loss by 1453 of all his possessions in France except Calais; from 1454 he suffered periods of insanity which contributed to the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses (1455–85). He was deposed by Edward IV (1461) but was briefly restored to the throne (1470)

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Henry VI - son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471)

House of Lancaster, Lancastrian line, Lancaster - the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose

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The King of England, now Henry VI, was only a child.

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The duke was the grandson of Henry VI. and Gabrielle d'Estrees -- as good-natured, as brave, as proud, and above all, as Gascon as his ancestor, but less elaborately educated.

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Puc.--Paisans, pauvres gens de France."--King Henry VI

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--King Henry VI. The mustering of the borderers on the following morning was silent, sullen, and gloomy.

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For what you see is but the smallest part And least proportion of humanity; But were the whole frame here, It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch, Your roof were not sufficient to contain it." Henry VI.

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He was succeeded by his nine-month-old infant son, Henry VI.

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With the completion of Tuesday night's meeting, the conclusion of "Henry VI, Part 1," the group lacks three plays to have read all the Bard's works at Harrisburg District Library.

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However, when Henry V dies, his son, Henry VI, has not been trained to succeed him.

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In Shakespeare's Henry VI, as well as in his historical inspiration, we see an early counterpart of his later characters who have been linked to melancholy or depression, such as the comic figure of Jaques of As You Like It and the tragic figure of Hamlet.

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(3) By 1435, Humphrey, as uncle to Henry VI, had become the heir apparent to the Lancastrian throne.

Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester: Chronicles and Ideas of Exile and Imprisonment in Fifteenth-Century England