Henry V of England

King of England from 1413 to 1422 · United Kingdom · Politicians · Lived 1386 to 1422 · aged 35

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He conquered most of France, forced its king to name him heir, and died weeks before he could inherit two kingdoms at once. The gap between what Henry V nearly pulled off and what actually survived him is why the story still bites.

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Henry's father, Henry IV

A gold noble coin of Henry V

English chancery hand. Facsimile of a letter from Henry, 1418.

Henry marching his forces against the Lollards

The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in the 15th-century St Albans Chronicle by Thomas Walsingham.

The morning of the Battle of Agincourt

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Thou speakest as a fool, for by the God of Heaven in whose grace I trust and in whom is my firm hope of victory, I would not have one more than I have, even if I could...
Answer to Walter Hungerford, who lamented on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt that in addition to the small band which he had there could, Own words

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Awards

Knight of the Garter

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Spouse Catherine of Valois

Child Henry VI of England Their record only

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Henry of Monmouth became heir apparent at thirteen when his father took the throne in 1399, then cut his teeth fighting Welsh rebels and the Percy family in the north - at sixteen he was already in the thick of Shrewsbury. Tensions with his ailing father marked his late teens, but when Henry IV died in March 1413, the new king moved fast: he revived England's old claim to France and in 1415 launched the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. Agincourt that autumn made him a legend; his second campaign took Paris and most of northern France. The Treaty of Troyes in 1420 gave him everything - regent of France, heir to Charles VI, husband to the king's daughter Catherine - and sketched a union of the two crowns under one man. Then he died in August 1422, two months shy of his father-in-law, and left it all to an infant son who couldn't hold it.

Country

United Kingdom

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