"[H]e seems to us a man whose life was embittered by the knowledge that he had taken on himself a task for which he was unequal, whose conscience, ill-informed as it may have been, had soured him, and who felt that the judgments of men, at least, would deal hardly with him when he was dead."
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William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development, Vol. III (1878), p. 9
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Henry IV of England
Henry IV (c. April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413, Lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (the fourth son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster.
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