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Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg (1417 – 9 March 1477) was from 1422 to 1477 Duke of Mecklenburg. Life. Henry IV of Mecklenburg, because of his obesity and lavish lifestyle also called the "Henry the Fat", was the son of the Duke John IV of Mecklenburg and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg. He inherited Mecklenburg when his father died in 1422.
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Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (German: Heinrich der...
- Portraits of Henry IV of Saxony and Catherine of Mecklenburg
The work was Cranach's first official portrait, and depicts...
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Enrique IV (1417 - 9 de marzo de 1477) fue desde 1422 hasta 1477 duque de Mecklemburgo . Biografía. Enrique IV de Mecklemburgo, llamado por su obesidad y su lujoso estilo de vida "Enrique el Gordo", fue el hijo del duque Juan IV de Mecklemburgo y Catalina de Sajonia-Lauemburgo . Heredó Mecklemburgo cuando su padre murió en 1422.
- Early Life
- Regency Crisis of 1788
- Marriage and Mistresses
- Regency
- Reign
- Declining Health and Death
- Legacy
- Titles, Styles, Honours, and Arms
- References
- Further Reading
George was born at St James's Palace, London, on 12 August 1762, the first child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. As the eldest son of a British sovereign, he automatically became Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay at birth; he was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester a few days later. On 18 September of the same year, he was bapti...
In the summer of 1788, the King's mental health deteriorated, possibly as the result of the hereditary disease porphyria. He nonetheless discharged some of his duties and declared Parliament prorogued from 25 September to 20 November. During the prorogation, he became deranged, posing a threat to his own life, and when Parliament reconvened in Nove...
Prince George's debts continued to climb, and his father refused to aid him unless he married his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick. In 1795, the prince acquiesced, and they were married on 8 April 1795 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The marriage, however, was disastrous; each party was unsuited to the other. The two were formally sepa...
In late 1810, the King's mental health once again broke down, following the death of his youngest daughter, Princess Amelia. Parliament agreed to follow the precedent of 1788; without the King's consent, the Lord Chancellor affixed the Great Seal of the Realm to letters patent naming Lords Commissioners. The letters patent lacked the Royal Sign Man...
When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent, then aged 57, ascended the throne as George IV, with no real change in his powers. By the time of his accession, he was obese and possibly addicted to laudanum. George IV's relationship with his wife Caroline had deteriorated by the time of his accession. They had lived separately since 1796, and bot...
George's heavy drinking and indulgent lifestyle had taken their toll on his health by the late 1820s. While still Prince of Wales, he had become obese through his huge banquets and copious consumption of alcohol, making him the target of ridicule on the rare occasions that he appeared in public; by 1797, his weight had reached 17 stone 7 pounds (11...
George's only legitimate child, Charlotte, had died from post-partum complications in 1817, after delivering a stillborn son. George III's second son, Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, had died childless in 1827, so the throne passed to the third son of George III, William, Duke of Clarence, who reigned as William IV. George was described as the ...
Titles and styles
At birth, George was entitled to the dignities Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cornwall, and Duke of Rothesay.Under the Act of Parliament that instituted the regency, the prince's formal title as regent was "Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland".
Arms
George's coat of arms as the Prince of Wales was the royal arms (with an inescutcheon of Gules plain in the Hanoverian quarter), differenced by a label of three points Argent. The arms included the royal crest and supporters but with the single arched coronet of his rank, all charged on the shoulder with a similar label. His arms followed the change in the royal arms in 1801, when the Hanoverian quarter became an inescutcheon and the French quarter was dropped altogether.The 1816 alteration d...
Works cited
1. David, Saul (2000). Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3703-2. 2. De-la-Noy, Michael (1998). George IV. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1821-7. 3. Derry, John W. (1963). The Regency Crisis and the Whigs. Cambridge University Press. 4. Hibbert, Christopher (1972). George IV, Prince of Wales, 1762–1811. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-12675-4. 5. Hibbert, Christopher (1973). George IV, Regent and King, 1811–1830...
Machin, G. I. T. (1964). The Catholic Question in English Politics 1820 to 1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Priestley, J. B. (1969). The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency (1811–20). London: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-434-60357-2.Raymond, John (1962). "King George IV: A Reappraisal". History Today. 12(8, 9): 538–547, 614–621.Henry IV (c. April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster , himself the son of Edward III .
Adolfo Federico IV (en alemán: Adolf Friedrich IV; 5 de mayo de 1738-2 de junio de 1794) fue Duque de Mecklemburgo-Strelitz . Biografía. Nació en Mirow siendo hijo del Duque Carlos Luis Federico de Mecklemburgo y su esposa, la Princesa Isabel Albertina de Sajonia-Hildburghausen.
