Fearing the creation of a separate Norman power to the west, Henry travelled to Dublin to assert his overlordship of the territory they had won. And so, an English presence in Ireland was established. In the course of his reign, Henry had dominion over territories stretching from the Ireland to the Pyrenees. Henry now had problems within his own family.
His sons - Henry, Geoffrey, Richard and John - mistrusted each other and resented their father's policy of dividing land among them. There were serious family disputes in , and Henry was forced to give way. News that John had also turned against him hastened Henry's death on 6 July This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.
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King of England — with Henry the Young King — Duke of Normandy — with Henry the Young King — Duke of Aquitaine — with Eleanor. Henry II of England Wife: Henry the Young King Wife: Richard I of England Wife: John, King of England Wife: Henry captured the three episcopal cities of Metz , Toul , and Verdun , and secured them by defeating the Habsburg army at the Battle of Renty in England's entry into the war later that year led to the French capture of Calais , and French armies plundered Spanish possessions in the Low Countries.
Early life
Henry raised the young Mary, Queen of Scots , at his court, hoping to use her ultimately to establish a dynastic claim to Scotland. On 24 April , Henry's fourteen-year-old son Francis was married to Mary in a union intended to give the future king of France not only the throne of Scotland, but also a claim to the throne of England.
Henry had Mary sign secret documents, illegal in Scottish law, that would ensure Valois rule in Scotland even if she died without an heir.
Henry II introduced the concept of publishing the description of an invention in the form of a patent. The idea was to require an inventor to disclose his invention in exchange for monopoly rights to the patent. The description is called a patent "specification". Publication was delayed until after the patent expired in Henry II was an avid hunter and a participant in jousts and tournaments.
During a jousting match, King Henry, wearing the colors of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, [16] was wounded in the eye by a fragment of the splintered lance of Gabriel Montgomery , captain of the King's Scottish Guard. As Henry lay dying, Queen Catherine limited access to his bedside and denied his mistress Diane de Poitiers permission to see him, even though he repeatedly asked for her.
Following his death, Catherine sent Diane into exile, where she lived in comfort on her own properties until her death. It was the practice to enclose the heart of the king in an urn.
The original bronze urn holding the king's heart was destroyed during the French Revolution and a replica was made in the 19th century. The marble sculpture of the Three Graces holding the urn, executed from a single piece of marble by Germain Pilon , the sculptor to Catherine de' Medici , survives. Henry was succeeded by his sickly fifteen-year-old son, Francis II. Francis II died 18 months later in , and Mary returned to Scotland the following summer.
His mother, Catherine de Medici , acted as Regent. Catherine de' Medici bore 10 of Henry's children: Nostradamus — , a French apothecary and astrological writer known for his prophecies, is said by most commentators to have become famous when one of his quatrains was construed as a prediction of the death of King Henry II:.
CI, Q 35 The young lion shall overcome the older one, on the field of combat in single battle, He shall pierce his eyes in a golden cage, Two forces one, then he shall die a cruel death. But, in fact, the link was first proposed in print only in , [38] fifty-five years after the event and forty-eight after Nostradamus' death; thus it qualifies as a postdiction , or vaticinium ex eventu.
Battle of Britain
The Italian astrologer Luca Gaurico , a contemporary of Nostradamus, also later claimed to have foretold Henry II's death, though in fact he had predicted "a most happy and green old age" for the king. Henri or Henry has had three notable portrayals on the screen. Henry II, here standing on an oriental carpet , continued the policy of Franco-Ottoman alliance of his father Francis I.
A cypher machine in the shape of a book, with arms of Henri II. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Catherine de' Medici m. Italian War of — History of patent law. Ancestors of Henry II of France Alain IX, Viscount of Rohan [23] 9. Marguerite de Rohan [23] Marguerite of Brittany [23] 2. Francis I of France Louis, Duke of Savoy [27] Philip II, Duke of Savoy [24] Anne of Cyprus [27] 5.
Louise of Savoy [20] Charles I, Duke of Bourbon [28]