This letter reserved 10 % of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself.

During the rule of Henry VIII an Act of Parliament declared that ' this realm of England is an Empire ... governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same '.

His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

However, the King of Castile, Henry IV, declared Gibraltar to be Crown property and not the personal property of the Guzman family.

It is notable that decisions of Pope Alexander III, his successor, Pope Lucius III, and King Henry VIII in proclaiming the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 were predicated on this document.

Meanwhile, in foreign politics Henry IV continued to try to obtain the subordination of the other Silesian Dukes, which indirectly could bring him the Royal Crown.

Anjou was united with the English Crown from 1151-1199, when Henry II, and, in turn, his ( third ) son Richard the Lionheart, inherited the county, and thus themselves became Counts of Anjou.

But Richard had no legitimate issue, so in 1199 Anjou passed to his nephew, Arthur of Brittany ( the posthumous son of Henry II ’ s fourth son, Geoffrey ), while the Crown of England passed to Henry II ’ s fifth son and Richard ’ s youngest brother, John.

In the 1660s the Crown granted Soho Fields to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans.

By 957, Otto II's older brothers Henry ( born 952 ) and Bruno ( born 953 ) had died, as well as Otto I's son from his first wife Eadgyth, the Crown Prince Liudolf, Duke of Swabia.

** Henry V ( TV film ), The Hollow Crown ( TV series ), 2012, a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Thea Sharrock

MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which flew the first mission beyond low earth orbit to the Moon, enabling its crew, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders to become the first human beings to see the Earth as a whole, as well as becoming the first to view the Moon up close ( as well as the first to view its farside at all ).

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

Henry Crown, still GD's largest shareholder, died on 15 August 1990.

When Henry VI founded the school, he granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land, a plan for formidable buildings ( Henry intended the nave of the College Chapel to be the longest in Europe ) and several religious relics, supposedly including a part of the True Cross and the Crown of Thorns.

It may be that he felt he had to maintain this posture of loyalty to protect his son Henry Bolingbroke ( the future Henry IV ), who had also been one of the Lords Appellant, from Richard's wrath ; but in 1398 Richard had Bolingbroke exiled, and on John of Gaunt's death the next year he disinherited Bolingbroke completely, seizing Gaunt's vast estates for the Crown.

Palace House ( not to be confused with the Palace of Beaulieu in Essex ), which overlooks the village from across Beaulieu River, began in 1204 as the gatehouse to Beaulieu Abbey, and has been the ancestral home of a branch of the Montagu family since 1538, when it was bought from the Crown following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

The Duchy of Lancaster was created in 1351 but became merged with the Crown when, in 1399, the duke, Henry Bolingbroke ascended the throne of England as Henry IV.

Bothwell would have been released, but the monarch, King Frederick II of Denmark, had heard that the English Crown was seeking Bothwell for the alleged murder of Henry Stuart, the murdered second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and decided to take him into custody in Denmark.

Henry long and faithfully supported his older cousin, Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ), in his attempts to solidify his hold on the Imperial Crown and his repeated wars with the cities of Lombardy and the Popes, several times turning the tide of battle in Frederick's favor with his fierce Saxon knights.

News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.

Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

Patrick Henry ( May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799 ) was an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.

In 1154, Henry II became the first Plantagenet king.

The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen by Henry Morton Stanley in his travelogue of exploring the Congo, later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.

* then to Henry III of Navarre, who became Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.

Henry IV became so filled with hubris over his position, that he renounced Gregory VII and named the bishop of Ravenna pope.

Henry attacked Rome, and on the outskirts of the city gained thirteen cardinals who became loyal to his cause.

Henry IV's son, Henry V, rebelled and became emperor after his father's abdication.

However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.

* Henry Craigie ( 1816 –) became a photographer.

As soon as the annulment was granted, Eleanor became engaged to Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, who became King Henry II of England in 1154 ; he was her cousin within the third degree and was nine years younger than she.

However, Henry and Eleanor eventually became estranged.

Henry VIII died in 1547 ; Elizabeth's half-brother, Edward VI became king at age nine.

In 1951, Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. succeeded his father and continued the company's development as a major factor in the metal-working equipment business.

The present Chairmain of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. is Henry Keswick, the company's Tai-pan from 1970 ( aged 31 ) to 1975 and the 6th Keswick to be Tai-pan of the company.

The present Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. is Sir Henry Keswick, who is based in the UK, was the company's tai-pan from 1970 ( aged 31 ) to 1975 and was the 6th Keswick to be tai-pan of the company.

The Steinway founder's great-grandson, Henry Z. Steinway, talks about the company's history.

Statue of Sir Henry Royce, standing outside the company's HQ at Moor Lane, Derby

The company's releases included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Rembrandt ( 1936 ), both of which starred Charles Laughton and were directed by Korda.

" Ford Motor Company eventually decided on the name " Edsel ", in honor of Edsel B. Ford, son of the company's founder, Henry Ford ( despite objections from Henry Ford II ).

Kendall arranged for the owner of the company's Chilean bottling operation to meet National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger on September 15.

It is the oldest surviving railway company in the world ( although not the oldest working-a record which goes to the Middleton Railway ), having been founded by the Act of Parliament on 23 May 1832 with capital mostly raised in Dublin by Henry Archer, the company's first secretary and managing director.

In 1921, the Aluminium Corporation at Dolgarrog in the Conwy Valley bought for £ 40, 000 (£ as of ), a controlling interest in the FR and Henry Jack became Chairman, the FR company's financial administration moving to Dolgarrog.

Andrew Carnegie placed industrialist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881.

The station was then rebuilt again between 1927 and 1929 as part of the construction of 55 Broadway the company's new headquarters building designed by Charles Holden and featuring statues and carved stone panels including ones by Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, and Henry Moore.

" The name was chosen when Quaker Mill partner Henry Seymour found an encyclopedia article on Quakers and decided that the qualities described — integrity, honesty, purity — provided an appropriate identity for his company's oat product.

In 1902, William Murphy and his partners at the Henry Ford Company hired Leland to appraise the company's factory and tooling prior to liquidation.

By 1834 he had acquired an interest in the company's Western Outfit, and in 1840 he became an equal partner in the business together with Joseph Rolette and Henry Hastings Sibley.

The first publication of the new press, in 1936, was " New Directions in Prose & Poetry ," an anthology of poetry and writings by authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings, a roster that heralded the fledgling company's future as a preeminent publisher of modernist literature.

└──> Henry Yvert ( died 1885 ), company's owner after 1870, legitimist journalist too.

Inspired by the Opera's innovation, Diamond Match salesman Henry Traute began approaching manufacturers to advertise their products on his company's matches, promoting them as something that would be viewed by their users many times a day.

Sorensen's help in innovating foundry practice for mass production earned for him from Henry Ford the nickname of " Cast-Iron Charlie " during the company's first decade, when he invented ( or at least independently reinvented ) the use of metal patterns instead of wood ones to withstand the huge number of moldmaking cycles needed for mass production, and methods of core registration to accurately position the cores without relying on the sand under them to assist in the registration.

In addition to using the house as a school for training Ford tractor mechanics, the company's British chairman, Lord Perry, established Fordson Estates Limited there, and founded the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, an agricultural college.

The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ).

However, it was the ability of japan black to dry quickly that made it a favorite of early mass produced automobiles such as Henry Ford's Model T. The Ford company's reliance on japan black led Henry Ford to quip " Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black ".