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− | '''Henry V of England ''' (September 16, 1387 | + | '''Henry V of England ''' (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one of the great warrior kings of the [[Middle Ages]]. He was born at Monmouth, [[Wales]], September 16, 1387, and he reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422. |
Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], and Mary de Bohun, who died before Bolingbroke became king. | Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], and Mary de Bohun, who died before Bolingbroke became king. | ||
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==Early accomplishments== | ==Early accomplishments== | ||
[[Image:MonStat2.JPG|thumb|left|185px|Statue of Henry V in [[Monmouth]]]] | [[Image:MonStat2.JPG|thumb|left|185px|Statue of Henry V in [[Monmouth]]]] | ||
− | In 1398 when Henry was twelve his father the future king [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] was exiled by the then king [[Richard II of England|Richard II]] who took the boy into his own charge, treated him kindly and took him on a visit to Ireland. In 1399 the Lancastrian usurpation brought Henry's father to the throne and Henry was recalled from Ireland into prominence as heir to the Kingdom of England. He was created Prince of Wales on the day of his father's coronation | + | In 1398 when Henry was twelve his father, the future king [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], was exiled by the then king, [[Richard II of England|Richard II]], who took the boy into his own charge, treated him kindly and took him on a visit to Ireland. In 1399 the Lancastrian usurpation brought Henry's father to the throne and Henry was recalled from Ireland into prominence as heir to the Kingdom of England. He was created Prince of Wales on the day of his father's coronation and Duke of Lancaster, the third person to hold the title that year. His other titles were Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester and Duke of Aquitaine in France. |
From October 1400 the administration was conducted in Henry's name and less than three years later Henry was in actual command of the English forces and fought against Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Shrewsbury. It was there that the sixteen-year-old prince was almost killed by an arrow which became lodged in his face. Henry had the benefit of the best possible care, and, over a period of several days after the incident, the royal physician crafted a special tool to extract the tip of the arrow without doing further damage. The operation was successful although it probably gave the prince permanent scars which would have served as a testimony to his experience in battle. | From October 1400 the administration was conducted in Henry's name and less than three years later Henry was in actual command of the English forces and fought against Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Shrewsbury. It was there that the sixteen-year-old prince was almost killed by an arrow which became lodged in his face. Henry had the benefit of the best possible care, and, over a period of several days after the incident, the royal physician crafted a special tool to extract the tip of the arrow without doing further damage. The operation was successful although it probably gave the prince permanent scars which would have served as a testimony to his experience in battle. | ||
==Role in government and conflict with Henry IV== | ==Role in government and conflict with Henry IV== | ||
− | The Welsh revolt of | + | The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyndŵr absorbed Henry's energies until 1408. Then, as a result of the King's ill-health, Henry began to take a wider share in politics. From January 1410, helped by his uncles Henry and Thomas Beaufort — legitimised sons of John of Gaunt — he had practical control of the government. |
− | Both in foreign and domestic policy he differed from the King, who in November 1411 discharged the Prince from the council. The quarrel of father and son was political only, though it is probable that the Beauforts had discussed the abdication of Henry IV, and their opponents certainly | + | Both in foreign and domestic policy he differed from the King, who in November 1411 discharged the Prince from the council. The quarrel of father and son was political only, though it is probable that the Beauforts had discussed the abdication of Henry IV, and their opponents certainly endeavored to defame the prince. It may be to that political enmity that the tradition of Henry's riotous youth, immortalized by [[Shakespeare]], is partly due. Henry's record of involvement in war and politics, even in his youth, disproves this tradition. The most famous incident, his quarrel with the chief justice, has no contemporary authority and was first related by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531. |
− | + | ||
− | The story of | + | The story of Falstaff originated partly in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle. That friendship, and the prince's political opposition to Thomas Arundel, [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], perhaps encouraged [[Lollardy|Lollard hopes]]. If so, their disappointment may account for the statements of ecclesiastical writers, like Thomas Walsingham, that Henry on becoming king was changed suddenly into a new man. |
==Accession to the throne== | ==Accession to the throne== | ||
− | After his father Henry IV died on 20 | + | After his father Henry IV died on March 20, 1413, Henry V succeeded him and was crowned on 9 April 1413. |
===Domestic policy=== | ===Domestic policy=== | ||
− | Henry tackled all of the domestic policies together, and gradually built on them a wider policy. From the first, he made it clear that he would rule England as the head of a united nation, and that past differences were to be forgotten. The late king [[Richard II of England]] was | + | Henry tackled all of the domestic policies together, and gradually built on them a wider policy. From the first, he made it clear that he would rule England as the head of a united nation, and that past differences were to be forgotten. The late king [[Richard II of England]] was honorably reinterred; the young Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, was taken into favor; the heirs of those who had suffered in the last reign were restored gradually to their titles and estates. Henry used his personal influence in vain, and the gravest domestic danger was [[Lollard]] discontent. But the king's firmness nipped the movement in the bud (January 1414), and made his own position as ruler secure. |
− | With the exception of the | + | With the exception of the Southampton Plot in favor of Mortimer, involving Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham and Richard, Earl of Cambridge (grandfather of the future King [[Edward IV of England]]) in July 1415, the rest of his reign was free from serious trouble at home. |
===Foreign affairs=== | ===Foreign affairs=== | ||
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====Campaigns in France==== | ====Campaigns in France==== | ||
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Henry may have regarded the assertion of his own claims as part of his Kingly duty, but in any case a permanent settlement of the national debate was essential to the success of his world policy. | Henry may have regarded the assertion of his own claims as part of his Kingly duty, but in any case a permanent settlement of the national debate was essential to the success of his world policy. | ||
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During the siege, the French had been able to call up a large feudal army which the Constable of France, Charles d'Albret, deployed between Harfleur and Calais, mirroring the English manoeuvres along the River Somme, thus preventing them from reaching Calais without a major confrontation. The result was that d'Albret managed to force Henry into fighting a battle that, given the state of his army, he would have preferred to avoid. The English had very little food, had marched 260 miles in two and a half weeks, were suffering from sickness such as dysentery, and faced large numbers of experienced, well equipped Frenchmen. Although the lack of reliable and consistent sources makes it very difficult to accurately estimate the numbers on both sides, estimates vary from 6,000 to 9,000 for the English, and from about 15,000 to about 36,000 for the French. | During the siege, the French had been able to call up a large feudal army which the Constable of France, Charles d'Albret, deployed between Harfleur and Calais, mirroring the English manoeuvres along the River Somme, thus preventing them from reaching Calais without a major confrontation. The result was that d'Albret managed to force Henry into fighting a battle that, given the state of his army, he would have preferred to avoid. The English had very little food, had marched 260 miles in two and a half weeks, were suffering from sickness such as dysentery, and faced large numbers of experienced, well equipped Frenchmen. Although the lack of reliable and consistent sources makes it very difficult to accurately estimate the numbers on both sides, estimates vary from 6,000 to 9,000 for the English, and from about 15,000 to about 36,000 for the French. | ||
+ | [[image:Map Agincort.svg|thumb|right|400px|The battle of Agincourt]] | ||
+ | The battle was fought in the narrow strip of open land formed between the woods of Tramecourt and Agincourt. Henry deployed his army (approximately 900 men-at-arms and 5,000 longbowmen) across a 750 yard part of the defile. It is likely that the English adopted their usual battle line of longbowmen on either flank, men-at-arms and knights in the center, and at the very center roughly 200 archers. The English men-at-arms in plate and mail were placed shoulder to shoulder four deep. The English archers on the flanks drove pointed wooden stakes called palings into the ground at an angle to force cavalry to veer off. | ||
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+ | The French advanced but became congested and could not use their weapons properly. The English archers rained arrows onto them. As the battle was fought on a recently ploughed field, and there had recently been heavy rain leaving it very muddy, it proved very tiring to walk through in full plate armor. The deep, soft mud particularly favoured the English force because, once knocked to the ground, the heavily armoured French knights struggled to get back up to fight in the melee. | ||
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+ | The only French success was a sally from Agincourt Castle behind the lines. Ysambart D'Agincourt with 1,000 peasants seized the King's baggage. Thinking his rear was under attack and worried that the prisoners would rearm themselves with the weapons strewn upon the field, Henry ordered their slaughter. The nobles and senior officers, wishing to ransom the captives (and perhaps from a sense of honor, having received the surrender of the prisoners), refused. The task fell to the common soldiers. It is believed more Frenchmen died in this slaughter than in the battle itself. | ||
− | The | + | The French lost about 6,000 killed against English losses of between 150-450. Among the French dead were the constable, three dukes, five counts and 90 barons and a number of notable prisoners were taken. |
+ | |||
+ | The Battle of Agincourt did not result in Henry conquering France, but it did allow him to escape and renew the war two years later. | ||
;Diplomacy and command of the sea | ;Diplomacy and command of the sea | ||
− | The command of the sea was secured by driving the [[Genoa|Genoese]] allies of the French out of the [[English Channel|Channel]].([[Grace Dieu (ship)|His flagship, Grace Dieu]] | + | The command of the sea was secured by driving the [[Genoa|Genoese]] allies of the French out of the [[English Channel|Channel]].([[Grace Dieu (ship)|His flagship, Grace Dieu]] – 1420) |
A successful diplomacy detached the emperor [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund]] from France, and by the [[Treaty of Canterbury]] paved the way to end the [[Schism (religion)|schism]] in the Church. | A successful diplomacy detached the emperor [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund]] from France, and by the [[Treaty of Canterbury]] paved the way to end the [[Schism (religion)|schism]] in the Church. | ||
;1417 campaign | ;1417 campaign | ||
− | So, with these two allies gone, and after two years of patient preparation since [[Battle of Agincourt|Agincourt]], in 1417 the war was renewed on a larger scale. Lower [[Normandy]] was quickly conquered, [[Rouen]] cut off from [[Paris]] and besieged. The French were paralysed by the disputes of [[Burgundy|Burgundians]] and [[Armagnac (party)|Armagnacs]]. Henry skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike energy. In January 1419 Rouen fell. By August the English were outside the walls of Paris. The intrigues of the French parties culminated in the assassination of [[John the Fearless]] by the [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]]'s partisans at [[Montereau]] (10 September, 1419). [[Philip the Good|Philip]], the new duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms. After six months' negotiation Henry was by the [[Treaty of Troyes]] | + | So, with these two allies gone, and after two years of patient preparation since [[Battle of Agincourt|Agincourt]], in 1417 the war was renewed on a larger scale. Lower [[Normandy]] was quickly conquered, [[Rouen]] cut off from [[Paris]] and besieged. The French were paralysed by the disputes of [[Burgundy|Burgundians]] and [[Armagnac (party)|Armagnacs]]. Henry skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike energy. In January 1419 Rouen fell. By August the English were outside the walls of Paris. The intrigues of the French parties culminated in the assassination of [[John the Fearless]] by the [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]]'s partisans at [[Montereau]] (10 September, 1419). [[Philip the Good|Philip]], the new duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms. After six months' negotiation Henry was by the [[Treaty of Troyes]] recognized as heir and regent of France (see [[English Kings of France]]), and on 2 June 1420 married [[Catherine of Valois]] the king's daughter. From June to July his army besieged and took the castle at Montereau, and from that same month to November, he besieged and captured [[Melun]], returning to England shortly thereafter. |
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Revision as of 21:52, 17 September 2007
Henry V | ||
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By the Grace of God, King of England,
Heir and Regent of the Kingdom of France and Lord of Ireland | ||
Reign | 21 March 1413 - 31 August 1422 | |
Coronation | 1413 | |
Born | September 16 1387 | |
Monmouth, Wales | ||
Died | 31 August 1422 (aged 34) | |
Bois de Vincennes, France | ||
Buried | Westminster Abbey | |
Predecessor | Henry IV | |
Successor | Henry VI | |
Consort | Catherine of Valois (1401-1437) | |
Issue | Henry VI (1421-1471) | |
Royal House | Lancaster | |
Father | Henry IV (1367-1413) | |
Mother | Mary de Bohun (c. 1369-1394) |
Henry V of England (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, September 16, 1387, and he reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422.
Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Mary de Bohun, who died before Bolingbroke became king.
At the time of his birth during the reign of Richard II, Henry was fairly far removed from the throne. The precise date and even year of his birth are therefore not definitely recorded. By the time Henry died, he had not only consolidated power as the King of England but had also effectively accomplished what generations of his ancestors had failed to achieve through decades of war: unification of the crowns of England and France in a single person.
Early accomplishments
In 1398 when Henry was twelve his father, the future king Henry IV, was exiled by the then king, Richard II, who took the boy into his own charge, treated him kindly and took him on a visit to Ireland. In 1399 the Lancastrian usurpation brought Henry's father to the throne and Henry was recalled from Ireland into prominence as heir to the Kingdom of England. He was created Prince of Wales on the day of his father's coronation and Duke of Lancaster, the third person to hold the title that year. His other titles were Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester and Duke of Aquitaine in France.
From October 1400 the administration was conducted in Henry's name and less than three years later Henry was in actual command of the English forces and fought against Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Shrewsbury. It was there that the sixteen-year-old prince was almost killed by an arrow which became lodged in his face. Henry had the benefit of the best possible care, and, over a period of several days after the incident, the royal physician crafted a special tool to extract the tip of the arrow without doing further damage. The operation was successful although it probably gave the prince permanent scars which would have served as a testimony to his experience in battle.
Role in government and conflict with Henry IV
The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyndŵr absorbed Henry's energies until 1408. Then, as a result of the King's ill-health, Henry began to take a wider share in politics. From January 1410, helped by his uncles Henry and Thomas Beaufort — legitimised sons of John of Gaunt — he had practical control of the government.
Both in foreign and domestic policy he differed from the King, who in November 1411 discharged the Prince from the council. The quarrel of father and son was political only, though it is probable that the Beauforts had discussed the abdication of Henry IV, and their opponents certainly endeavored to defame the prince. It may be to that political enmity that the tradition of Henry's riotous youth, immortalized by Shakespeare, is partly due. Henry's record of involvement in war and politics, even in his youth, disproves this tradition. The most famous incident, his quarrel with the chief justice, has no contemporary authority and was first related by Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531.
The story of Falstaff originated partly in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle. That friendship, and the prince's political opposition to Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, perhaps encouraged Lollard hopes. If so, their disappointment may account for the statements of ecclesiastical writers, like Thomas Walsingham, that Henry on becoming king was changed suddenly into a new man.
Accession to the throne
After his father Henry IV died on March 20, 1413, Henry V succeeded him and was crowned on 9 April 1413.
Domestic policy
Henry tackled all of the domestic policies together, and gradually built on them a wider policy. From the first, he made it clear that he would rule England as the head of a united nation, and that past differences were to be forgotten. The late king Richard II of England was honorably reinterred; the young Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, was taken into favor; the heirs of those who had suffered in the last reign were restored gradually to their titles and estates. Henry used his personal influence in vain, and the gravest domestic danger was Lollard discontent. But the king's firmness nipped the movement in the bud (January 1414), and made his own position as ruler secure.
With the exception of the Southampton Plot in favor of Mortimer, involving Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham and Richard, Earl of Cambridge (grandfather of the future King Edward IV of England) in July 1415, the rest of his reign was free from serious trouble at home.
Foreign affairs
Henry could now turn his attention to foreign affairs. A writer of the next generation was the first to allege that Henry was encouraged by ecclesiastical statesmen to enter into the French war as a means of diverting attention from home troubles. This story seems to have no foundation. Old commercial disputes and the support which the French had lent to Owain Glyndŵr were used as an excuse for war, whilst the disordered state of France afforded no security for peace. The French king, Charles VI, was prone to mental illness, and his eldest son an unpromising prospect.
Campaigns in France
Henry may have regarded the assertion of his own claims as part of his Kingly duty, but in any case a permanent settlement of the national debate was essential to the success of his world policy.
- 1415 campaign
Henry V invaded France for several reasons. He hoped that by fighting a popular foreign war, he would strengthen his position at home. He wanted to improve his finances by gaining revenue-producing lands. He also wanted to take nobles prisoner either for ransom or to extort money from the French king in exchange for their return. Evidence also suggests that several lords in the region of Normandy promised Henry their lands when they died, but the King of France confiscated their lands instead.
Henry's army landed in northern France on August 13, 1415 and besieged the port of Harfleur with an army of about 12,000. The siege took longer than expected. The town surrendered on September 22, and the English army did not leave until October 8. The campaign season was coming to an end, and the English army had suffered many casualties through disease. Henry decided to move most of his army (roughly 7,000) to the port of Calais, the only English stronghold in northern France, where they could re-equip over the winter.
During the siege, the French had been able to call up a large feudal army which the Constable of France, Charles d'Albret, deployed between Harfleur and Calais, mirroring the English manoeuvres along the River Somme, thus preventing them from reaching Calais without a major confrontation. The result was that d'Albret managed to force Henry into fighting a battle that, given the state of his army, he would have preferred to avoid. The English had very little food, had marched 260 miles in two and a half weeks, were suffering from sickness such as dysentery, and faced large numbers of experienced, well equipped Frenchmen. Although the lack of reliable and consistent sources makes it very difficult to accurately estimate the numbers on both sides, estimates vary from 6,000 to 9,000 for the English, and from about 15,000 to about 36,000 for the French.
The battle was fought in the narrow strip of open land formed between the woods of Tramecourt and Agincourt. Henry deployed his army (approximately 900 men-at-arms and 5,000 longbowmen) across a 750 yard part of the defile. It is likely that the English adopted their usual battle line of longbowmen on either flank, men-at-arms and knights in the center, and at the very center roughly 200 archers. The English men-at-arms in plate and mail were placed shoulder to shoulder four deep. The English archers on the flanks drove pointed wooden stakes called palings into the ground at an angle to force cavalry to veer off.
The French advanced but became congested and could not use their weapons properly. The English archers rained arrows onto them. As the battle was fought on a recently ploughed field, and there had recently been heavy rain leaving it very muddy, it proved very tiring to walk through in full plate armor. The deep, soft mud particularly favoured the English force because, once knocked to the ground, the heavily armoured French knights struggled to get back up to fight in the melee.
The only French success was a sally from Agincourt Castle behind the lines. Ysambart D'Agincourt with 1,000 peasants seized the King's baggage. Thinking his rear was under attack and worried that the prisoners would rearm themselves with the weapons strewn upon the field, Henry ordered their slaughter. The nobles and senior officers, wishing to ransom the captives (and perhaps from a sense of honor, having received the surrender of the prisoners), refused. The task fell to the common soldiers. It is believed more Frenchmen died in this slaughter than in the battle itself.
The French lost about 6,000 killed against English losses of between 150-450. Among the French dead were the constable, three dukes, five counts and 90 barons and a number of notable prisoners were taken.
The Battle of Agincourt did not result in Henry conquering France, but it did allow him to escape and renew the war two years later.
- Diplomacy and command of the sea
The command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the Channel.(His flagship, Grace Dieu – 1420) A successful diplomacy detached the emperor Sigismund from France, and by the Treaty of Canterbury paved the way to end the schism in the Church.
- 1417 campaign
So, with these two allies gone, and after two years of patient preparation since Agincourt, in 1417 the war was renewed on a larger scale. Lower Normandy was quickly conquered, Rouen cut off from Paris and besieged. The French were paralysed by the disputes of Burgundians and Armagnacs. Henry skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike energy. In January 1419 Rouen fell. By August the English were outside the walls of Paris. The intrigues of the French parties culminated in the assassination of John the Fearless by the Dauphin's partisans at Montereau (10 September, 1419). Philip, the new duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms. After six months' negotiation Henry was by the Treaty of Troyes recognized as heir and regent of France (see English Kings of France), and on 2 June 1420 married Catherine of Valois the king's daughter. From June to July his army besieged and took the castle at Montereau, and from that same month to November, he besieged and captured Melun, returning to England shortly thereafter.
- 1421 campaign
On 10 June, 1421, Henry sailed back to France for what would be his last military campaign. From July to August, Henry's forces besieged and captured Dreux, thus relieving allied forces at Chartres. That October, his forces lay siege to Meaux, capturing it on 2 May, 1422. Henry V died suddenly on 31 August 1422 at Bois de Vincennes near Paris, apparently from dysentery which he contracted during the siege of Meaux. He was 34 years old. Before his death, Henry V named his brother John, Duke of Bedford regent of France in the name of his son Henry VI, then only a few months old. Henry V did not live to be crowned King of France himself, as he might confidently have expected after the Treaty of Troyes, as ironically the sickly Charles VI, to whom he had been named heir, survived him by two months. Catherine took Henry's body to London and he was buried in Westminster Abbey on 7 November 1422.
Following his death, Catherine would secretly marry or have an affair with a Welsh courtier, Owen Tudor, and they would be the grandparents of King Henry VII of England.
In literature
Henry V is the subject of the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, which largely concentrates on his campaigns in France. He is also a main character in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, where Shakespeare dramatises him as "Prince Hal," a wanton youth.
Ancestors
Henry V of England | Father: Henry IV of England |
Paternal Grandfather: John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Edward III of England |
Paternal Great-grandmother: Philippa of Hainault | |||
Paternal Grandmother: Blanche of Lancaster |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ||
Paternal Great-grandmother: Isabel de Beaumont | |||
Mother: Mary de Bohun |
Maternal Grandfather: Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford |
Maternal Great-grandfather: William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton | |
Maternal Great-grandmother: | |||
Maternal Grandmother: Joan FitzAlan |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel | ||
Maternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor of Lancaster |
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Christopher Allmand, Henry V (London, 1992)
- Henry V. The Practice of Kinship, edited by G.L. Harris (Oxford, 1985)
- P. Earle, The Life and times of Henry V (London, 1972)
- H.F. Hutchinson, Henry V. A Biography (London, 1967)
- Juliet Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England (London, 2005)
External links
- J. Endell Tyler. Henry of Monmouth:Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Volume 1, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg
- Henry V Chronology
- About.com - Biography of Henry V
- Britannia: Monarchs of England - Henry V
- Columbia Encyclopedia: Henry V
- Official site of the Royal family: Henry V
- A BBC piece presenting an alternative version of Henry V
- Illustrated history of Henry V
House of Lancaster Cadet Branch of the House of Plantagenet Born: 16 September 1387; Died: 13 August 1422 | ||
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Regnal Titles
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Preceded by: Henry IV |
King of England 1413 – 1422 |
Succeeded by: Henry VI |
Peerage of Ireland
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Preceded by: Henry IV |
Lord of Ireland 1413 – 1422 |
Succeeded by: Henry VI |
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Preceded by: John of Gaunt |
Duke of Aquitaine 1399 – 1422 |
Succeeded by: Henry VI |
Peerage of England
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Vacant Title last held by Richard II |
Prince of Wales 1399 – 1413 |
Vacant Title next held by Edward of Westminster |
Preceded by: Henry IV |
Duke of Lancaster 1399 – 1413 |
Merged in Crown |
Preceded by: Sir Thomas Erpynham |
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1409–1412 |
Succeeded by: Thomas Fitzalan |
Notes and references | ||
1. Van de Pas, Leo, Genealogics.org (2007). |
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