Henry ii

Times started to transform in the 12th and 13th century with how the government ran in England. Henry II was King at this time and had developed a government system where he had professionals work for him. These professionals had schooling and got paid salary by the King. The government was very institutionalized with royal officials administering both revenues and law. The king did not have to be present much, in place, he had his officials do administrative work and record keeping. The king traveled

Henry Ford was born on July 30 in 1863 in Greenfield Township, Michigan he was one of the first American industrialists and wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Back then, before 1908 automobiles were expensive that only rich people could afford. Henry Ford wanted to change this and wanted everyone to have a vehicle to drive. He was able to accomplish this by the assembly line, in which it created more cars in less time. The first car Henry Ford made was the Model T created on

I: Deposing “God’s Elected Deputy”: Richard II Eclipsed by Henry Bolingbroke Let us begin with Richard II and Richard’s extra-legal actions in act 1. As we shall see, though Richard here seizes the exception and establishes himself as sovereign over English law, his actions create a dangerous precedent that will eventually prove the king’s undoing. The play famously begins with King Richard mediating an argument between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. As Katherine Eisaman Maus explains, the

rightful line of succession. However, this was not always the case and some kings such as Richard II had their crown forced from them. If a king believed in the divine right he often had a close relationship with God. In William Shakespeare’s comedies, the divine right to rule a kingdom is present in the ways in which Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V are come to rule England. Both Richard II and Henry V were powerful rulers, whose ruling was heavily dictated by their divine right to rule and their

over the crown to Henry. At this point, Henry now has gone from little power to ruling the kingdom. Henry’s son, Hal, also gets a taste of power. The power of Christ is also a focus that Shakespeare uses in his plays as he looks into the fate of each individual and how the power of God can change everything. Power and kingship have a great role regarding motives, in both Shakespeare’s plays, Richard II and Henry IV. Act III scene two is set on the coast of Wales, King Richard II, the Bishop of Carlisle

When King Henry II of France died in 1559, many people in France were surely upset. King Henry II of France was killed during a jousting accident. Certainly none of them would have any idea how his accidental death while jousting would have extremely dire consequences for the people of France and much of the rest of Europe. As King Henry II of France was laid to rest, his 15 year old frail son Frances II of France came to power. With King Frances only being 15 he would need someone to help him rule

King Henry II Reforms, the Clash with Archbishop Thomas Becket. Henry II was educated in England and by the year 1150, he became a duke of Normandy and the counts of Maine, Touraine, and Anjou after his father Geoffrey Plantagenet, who was a wealthy London merchant, died in 1151. Due to his mother’s entitlement to the royal family tree, he claimed the throne and by the High Middle Age, there was a struggle for power between the State and the Church. Moreover, an influx of royal power and crusade

Comedy in I Henry IV and II Henry IV     In I Henry IV and II Henry IV, William Shakespeare brings together drama and comedy to create two of the most compelling history plays ever written. Many of Shakespeare's other works are nearly absolute in their adherence to either the comic or tragic traditions, but in the two Henry IV plays Shakespeare combines comedy and drama in ways that seem to bring a certain realism to his characters, and thus the plays. The present essay is an examination of

During the initial years of Henry II’s reign as king of England, he attempted to restore the authority that had lapsed during the reign of King Stephen from 1141 to 1154. In order to do this, Henry II worked to limit the power of the nobles, for example, by destroying adulterine castles. In addition, he standardised the legal system, which meant that the nobility was reliant on him for justice and also became more involved with financial matters, which helped to reinforce his control. However, he

II: Courting Catastrophe: 1 and 2 Henry IV From its first lines, 1 Henry IV makes it clear that Henry’s position as king is not an enviable one. The newly crowned sovereign himself opens the play, explaining his wish to lead a crusade “in strands afar remote” from the shores of England (1.1.4). His reasoning is twofold. Firstly, he wishes to atone for deposing and murdering Richard II. More interestingly for our purposes, we learn that only “lately” came a “furious close [to the] civil butchery”