
Usurper and regicide, Henry IV seized England's crown in 1399 and kept it until his death in 1413. This definitive biography reassesses the adversities of Henry's reign, his ruthlessness and extravagance, and his previously unrecognized successes.

Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores...