NOUN
- King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106)
- the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
- king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France
How To Use Henry IV In A Sentence
- Some 100,000 people came to see the Prince of Wales arrive by monoplane self-piloted, to declare the building open, receive a key from Scott – a modern figure in her cloche hat and neatly cropped hair – and attend part of the opening production of Henry IV and then fly off again, well before the end of the performance. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Many of our readers will recall a certain Henry IV in Shakespeare’s plays of that name bemoaning the fact that “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”. Archive 2007-01-01
- Against this he balances what he describes as Henry IV’s passionate fondness for them.38 In sum, this treatise is a model of how a liking for good food could be combined with an interest in health, antiquity, and pleasure. Savoring The Past
- Viète was certainly well known for his mathematical abilities by this time and, as one of the Henry IV's most loyal supporters, it was natural for Henry to turn to Viète to decode messages being sent to his enemy Philip II of Spain.
- Under Bishop Henry II (1047-63), the guardian of Henry IV, the diocese secured the right of coinage was enriched by many donations; under Embrico (or Emmerich, 1063-77) the cathedral was dedicated (1065) and the canonicate and church of St. Peter and St. Felicitas were built. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- The deposition scene was removed from Richard II both on stage and in the printed quartos by about 1597, and the 1600 quarto of Henry IV Part II contained extensive revisions.
- Her historical reach includes surprising shoplifter King Henry IV of France and Abbie Hoffman, who expressed a sense of joyous entitlement in "Steal This Book" in 1971. Books on Fashion's Secrets, Even Theft
- At last she discovered Christina Oldstrom's own baptismal entry for 1410, during the reign of Henry IV. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
- In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure.
- Falstaff's discourse on honor in I Henry IV is a paradoxical redefinition of an aris - tocratic value long unquestioned but, after the decline of active feudalism, a topic for the anti-idealist para - doxists of the Renaissance. LITERARY PARADOX
