{"id":675,"date":"2018-05-13T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/?p=675"},"modified":"2018-06-18T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:22:23","slug":"so-called-king-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/2018\/05\/13\/so-called-king-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"So-called King Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

HENRY IV<\/a><\/p>\n

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So often historians make their accounts of the life of HenryBolingbroke, usurper king Henry IV,\u00a0 the usual white-wash of a regicide which is much the standard line we were taught in school.\u00a0 That victors rewrite history we well know and Henry IV certainly rewrote much and (probably) destroyed more as anyone who has looked for primary sources on the reign of Richard II, the king whose crown he stole, will testify.<\/a><\/p>\n

My main point of contention with this view is that Henry kept Church and State in harmony. <\/a><\/p>\n

I would like to ask then was this before or after he had the Archbishop of York executed without trial outside the walls of York?\u00a0 Was it before or after Henry\u2019s hunting down of the followers of Wyclif who merely wanted to read the Bible in their own language?\u00a0 And was this \u2018harmony\u2019 before or after the first public burning in England for heresy with the brutal killing of Sir William Sawtre at Smithfield? \u00a0Some harmony! <\/a><\/p>\n

These apologists for Bolingbroke give the impression that they approve of regicide and an all-round murdering usurper – whom the French continued to call \u2018so-called King Henry IV\u2019 – and who incidentally set back the Reformation a hundred years until Luther called time on the pope. <\/a><\/p>\n

When blindly going along with the accepted view sometimes it’s a good idea to pause, step back a moment and ask for evidence.\u00a0 Then take a look at what your hero actually did.\u00a0 Actions speak volumes, even when they occurred six hundred years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HENRY IV     So often historians make their accounts of the life of HenryBolingbroke, usurper king Henry IV,\u00a0 the usual white-wash of a regicide which is much the standard line we were taught in school.\u00a0 That victors rewrite history we well know and Henry IV certainly rewrote much and (probably) destroyed more as anyone who has looked for primary sources on the reign of Richard II, the king whose crown he stole, will testify. My main point of contention with this view is that Henry kept Church and State in harmony. I would like to ask then was this<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}