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This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful place a king often overlooked in favor of his illustrious progeny.

A vivid and captivating study of England's most neglected late medieval ruler." -David Green, author of The Hundred Years War 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 definitive biography of England's Henry IV reassesses the adversities of his reign, his ruthlessness and extravagance, and his previously unrecognized successes "This wonderful biography of the first of the Lancastrian kings is no less accomplished than its subject.