King of England from 1413 to 1422
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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.
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—…
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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...
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