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Definition of Henry VII

1. Noun. King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313).

2. Noun. First Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Henry VII

Henry Miller Henry Moore Henry Morgan Henry Norris Russell Henry Oscar Houghton Henry Purcell Henry Robinson Luce Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Henry Russell Henry Spencer Moore

Henry Steinway Henry Sweet Henry Tudor Henry V Henry VI Henry VII (current term) Henry VIII Henry Valentine Miller Henry Villard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Ward Beecher Henry Watson Fowler Henry Wheeler Shaw Henry le Chatelier Hensen's canal Hensen's cell Hensen's disk Hensen's duct Hensen's knot Hensen's line

Literary usage of Henry VII

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1825)
"King Henry VII. to Sir Gilbert Talbot, knight, AD 1495, to prepare to join the King with his forces 19 xn. Lord Bothwell from the Court of James the Fourth ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"VI., and then remitted to the Duke of Burgundy, was an officer of this kingdom. Henry VII. created an officer by this title the day before his coronation ..."

3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"Three letters of Henry VII. are printed in the Christ Church Letters (ed. ... W. CAMPBELL'S Materials for the History of the Reign of Henry VII. ..."

4. Utopia by Thomas More, Joseph Rawson Lumby (1908)
"... sickness which in old times was so fatal and so prevalent. On this disease, see Bacon, Henry VII. (Pitt Press Series), p. i2, line 19, and notes. ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"But it is not evident that Henry VII carried the authority of the crown ... The laws of Henry VII have been highly praised by Lord Bacon 9 as " deep and not ..."

6. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1901)
"Recognition of the Title of Henry VII (1485. I Henry VII. c. I. 2 SR 499.) To the pleasure of Almighty God, the wealth, prosperity and surety of this realm ..."

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