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Definition of Henry iv

1. Noun. 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.

2. Noun. King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106).

3. Noun. The first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Henry Iv

Henry Clay Henry Clay Frick Henry David Thoreau Henry Engelhard Steinway Henry Fielding Henry Fonda Henry Ford Henry Ford II Henry Graham Greene Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hubert Turner Henry Hudson Henry I Henry II Henry III Henry IV Henry James Henry John Heinz Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell Henry Kissinger

Henry Laurens Henry Lee Henry Louis Aaron Henry Louis Gehrig Henry Louis Mencken Henry Luce Henry M. Robert Henry M. Stanley Henry Martyn Robert Henry Miller

Literary usage of Henry iv

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Henry IV, despite the efforts of d'Ossat and Duper- ron, did not dare, ... The frivolity of Henry IV in his private life won for him the nickname Vert ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The arrival at Rome of the Duke of Luxemburg, who represented the Princes and the Catholic nobility that had adhered to Henry IV, and who spoke in his name, ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In the meantime Tuscany, and still more Venice, were following a different path, and inclined, though with great caution to favour Henry IV, endeavouring to ..."

4. The Century of the Renaissance: Crowned by the Académie Des Sciences Morales by Louis Batiffol, John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1916)
"henry iv Henry IV's difficulties (1689-1610) in obtaining recognition of his title to ... Henry IV seizes Chartres. Violence of the demagogic faction of the ..."

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