Henry V

• Born: September 1387
• Birthplace: Monmouth, Wales
• Died: 31 August 1422 (dysentery)
• Best Known As: The king of England who won victory at Agincourt

Henry V was the great warrior king of medieval England whose brief reign included his conquest of most of Normandy (northern France). Henry was a skilled military strategist who died before realizing his ambition to conquer France, but his attempt made England one of the greatest powers in Europe. The son of Henry Bolingbroke and Mary Bohun, young Henry was not born in direct line to the throne; his father was a cousin to King Richard II. When Richard exiled Bolingbroke in 1398, young Henry went to live with the king, who took him on a military campaign to Ireland. Henry proved himself on the battlefield and Richard knighted him in 1399. But Bolingbroke usurped Richard (1399) and became Henry IV -- and suddenly young Henry was the Duke of Lancaster and heir apparent to the English throne. As a teenager he commanded forces against rebels in Wales (1403-1408) and was wounded on the battlefield by an arrow to the face. After 1408 he was more active in national affairs, though often at political odds with his father the king. Crowned after his father's death in 1413, Henry V put down local uprisings and would-be usurpers and revived the Hundred Years War with France. He won a stunning 1415 victory against superior French forces at Agincourt, an event immortalized in William Shakespeare's play, Henry V. Henry V conquered most of Normandy from French king Charles IV and was named heir to the French throne and regent of France in 1420 (under the Treaty of Troyes). He married Charles's daughter, Catherine de Valois (1421), and they had a son (the future Henry VI) before Henry died of dysentery at age 34. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Henry was of the House of Lancaster... Young Henry, called "Prince Hal," is also in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II... Henry V includes Shakespeare's famous speech for Henry, made to his troops before Agincourt: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother..."

Henry V, King of England (c.1386-1422) was a notable ruler and an outstanding soldier and commander. As a young man he gained wide experience helping to contain the revolt of Glendower against the rule of his father, Henry IV. These campaigns taught him much about war against irregular forces, the importance of siege warfare, and the necessity of maintaining supply routes by both land and sea. Inheriting the throne in 1413, Henry decided to pursue English interests in France. In 1415 he invaded that country, besieged and captured Harfleur, and, on 25 October, went on to win a remarkable victory at Agincourt. In 1417 he returned, his objective now being conquest. The ensuing campaign, which lasted over two years, was to reflect his understanding of the need to wage war in winter, and his determination to capture places which he besieged. His successes at Caen (1417), Rouen (1418-19), and Meaux (1421-2) are evidence of his mastery of the campaigns whose character he was dictating: Rouen was approached from the sea only after a long, circuitous movement by land had been completed, and a chain drawn across the river Seine above the city had effectively isolated it. Successful here, Henry advanced up the Seine valley, towards Paris. He would use the threat posed by his army, and the fear which it instilled in the population, to divide the enemy, divisions which were used to good effect to impose the terms of the Treaty of Troyes upon the French in 1420.

Henry showed many important military qualities. He appears to have been an exceptional, indeed charismatic leader, strict in disciplining his army, yet possessing a clear understanding, founded on experience, of what being a soldier involved; many of those whom he counted as his friends were themselves soldiers. He devoted much time and effort to detailed preparation for his campaigns. On his second expedition into France it is clear that he was exceptionally well prepared with cannon and other suitable weapons as only one who had learned from earlier experience could be. He was able to make the best of the rapidly evolving artillery of the time, a factor which contributed significantly to his successes in siege warfare. It is right to emphasize the flexibility of his approach to war which, as modern scholarship has stressed, included a fine appreciation of how his politico-military ambitions could be furthered by building ships, securing a measure of control at sea, and using rivers such as the Seine to bring men, provisions, and, in particular, heavy cannon to the very quayside of some of the cities (Caen and, in particular, Rouen) which he was besieging.

Bibliography

• Allmand, Christopher, Henry V (London, 1998).
• ——‘Henry V the Soldier, and the War in France’, in G. L. Harriss (ed.), Henry V: The Practice of Kingship (Stroud, 1993)

— Christopher Allmand

Henry V (1387-1422) was king of England from 1413 to 1422. His reign marked the high point in English attempts to conquer France. While the long-term effects of his reign were minimal, Henry V became a folk hero in English literature.

The eldest son of Henry of Lancaster and Mary de Bohun, Henry V was born at Monmouth on Aug. 9, 1387. His early military training was under Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, and he is believed to have been educated at Queen's College, Oxford, under his uncle Henry Beaufort (later bishop of Winchester). Henry's early years were spent in various military campaigns, and in Ireland in 1398-1399 he was a hostage of Richard II. (Richard was deposed in 1399 by Henry's father, who then became King Henry IV.)

At the age of 15 Henry was leading royal forces against Conway, Merioneth, and Carnarvon, fighting Owen Glendower. By 1403 he was fighting with his father at Shrewsbury; 2 years later he was fighting in Wales, capturing Aberystwith, and by 1407 was invading Scotland. All this military activity negates the idea that he spent his youth in dissipation with no regard for his reputation, an idea that Shakespeare took from the work of Edward Hall. He also fought in France against the Armagnacs but withdrew from the Council in 1412, when his French policy was rejected. Coming to the throne on March 21, 1413, Henry was so secure that he pardoned the Percy family, who had conspired against his father, and gave the remains of Richard II an honorable burial.

In internal matters Henry seems to have followed his father's religious policies: the abolition of alien priories, the repression of the Lollards in 1414, and the arrest of Sir John Oldcastle 3 years later. However, he appears to have been favorable to the plan of the lay peers to confiscate some of the Church's wealth.

In external matters Henry revived the English claims to the French crown and is best remembered for his military activities to achieve this end. In August 1415, after dealing with a conspiracy to remove him from the throne, he led an army of 20,000 foot soldiers and 9,000 horsemen to attack Harfleur and, after sending a large part of his army home due to illness, marched to Calais to secure a base for further operations. On the way, unable to avoid a vastly superior French army, he gave battle at Agincourt on Oct. 25, 1415, gaining a great victory and capturing the constable of France and the Duke of Orléans.

Henry soon returned to England to gain new supplies and men, to solidify English support for his further campaigns, and to build a navy. By 1417 he was back in France, attacking Cherbourg, Coutances, Avranches, and Évreux as well as capturing most of Normandy and the key city of Rouen. By making an alliance with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Henry was able to make the Treaty of Troyes (May 21, 1420), by which he was declared the heir to Charles VI, regent of France and lord of Normandy, thus uniting the thrones of England and France. The terms of the treaty included Henry's marriage to Catherine of France.

The French Dauphin and his followers, who did not accept the treaty, continued to oppose Henry, who returned to campaigning, capturing Melun in November and making a triumphal entrance into Paris the following month for the treaty's ratification by the Parliament of Paris. After making plans for the governing of Normandy, Henry took his bride to England to be crowned queen and devoted time to internal affairs, reforming the Benedictine monasteries and dealing with James I of Scotland.

After the defeat of the English forces under the Duke of Clarence at Beauge, Henry was forced to return to France to reestablish his control in March 1421; there he relieved Chartres and drove the forces of the Dauphin across the Loire. After capturing Meaux the following year while on the way to help his ally, the Duke of Burgundy, Henry came down with a fatal fever and died on Aug. 31, 1422, at Bois de Vincennes at the age of 35. After a funeral procession back to England, he was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Further Reading

There are many good biographies of Henry V, beginning with the 16th-century study The First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, edited by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (1911). Other biographies include James Hamilton Wylie, The Reign of Henry the Fifth (3 vols., 1914-1929); Ernest Fraser Jacob's short and interesting Henry V and the Invasion of France (1947); Harold F. Hutchinson, King Henry V: A Biography (1967); and C. T. Allmand, Henry V (1968). The military campaigns are discussed in such works as Edouard Perroy, The Hundred-Years War (trans. 1951), and Christopher Hibbert's shorter Agincourt (1964). Background information is in Ernest Fraser Jacob, The Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485 (1961).

Additional Sources

Allmand, C. T., Henry V, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Barbie, Richard A., Good King Hal, Chicago, Ill.: Dramatic Pub. Co., 1981.

Brennan, Anthony., Henry V, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.

Candido, Joseph, Henry V: an annotated bibliography, New York: Garland Pub., 1983.

Earle, Peter, The life and times of Henry, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.

Gesta Henrici Quinti = The deeds of Henry the Fifth, Oxford Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Labarge, Margaret Wade., Henry V: the cautious conquerer, New York: Stein and Day, 1976, 1975.

Labarge, Margaret Wade., Henry V: the cautious conqueror, London: Secker and Warburg, 1975.

Lindsay, Philip, King Henry V: a chronicle, London, Howard Baker Publishers Ltd., 1969.

Seward, Desmond, Henry V: the scourge of God, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, 1988, 1987.

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Henry V (1386/7-1422), king of England (1413-22). Eldest son of Henry IV and his first wife Mary Bohun, Henry was born at Monmouth, most probably on 9 August or 16 September 1386 or 1387. He was thrust into prominence by his father's usurpation of the throne in 1399. From then on Henry took a prominent part in affairs. Between 1400 and 1408 he was mostly in the west, concerned with the war against the Welsh. On 21 July 1403 he was with his father at the battle of Shrewsbury, where the English rebels under Henry Percy, ‘Hotspur’, were defeated. Between 1410 and 1413 there seems to have been tension between the king and the prince. It is possible that the king was asked to abdicate in favour of the prince on the grounds of ill-health, but refused to do so. In the last fifteen months of the reign the prince seems to have taken little part in government. Henry succeeded his father on 20 March 1413.

The start of Henry's reign was seen by contemporaries as a new beginning. Henry lived up to these expectations, providing dynamic leadership that fired widespread enthusiasm, and appealed to feelings of nationalism and nationhood. Henry encouraged the keeping of the festivals of English saints and promoted the use of English. He used the war with France to promote the idea that England was a nation blessed by God. The general enthusiasm for the war is evidenced by the large number of the nobility who followed him to France, and by the generous grants of taxation made by Parliament before the first campaign. The contemporary Agincourt carol commemorated the battle as a famous English victory.

Henry did not at first claim the French throne but began by pressing for the implementation of the treaty of Calais of 1360 in which the French had ceded Aquitaine, and to which he added further claims to Normandy, Touraine, and Maine. It is not clear whether Henry really expected to gain his ends by diplomacy, for he had made extensive preparations for war. The subsequent campaigns for the conquest of France were well organized. Henry's diplomacy secured the early neutrality of John, duke of Burgundy, and after Agincourt the whole-hearted support of the Emperor Sigismund. The first campaign brought the capture of Harfleur in September 1415, and victory at Agincourt on 25 October 1415. Further campaigns were aimed at the conquest of Normandy, during which Rouen fell in January 1419. Henry's success forced the French to agree to the treaty of Troyes in May 1420, by which Henry was recognized as heir to the throne of France. The treaty was cemented by Henry's marriage to the Princess Catherine, which took place on 2 June. After this Henry continued his campaigns to reduce areas of the country still loyal to the deposed dauphin, Charles. During the sieges of Melun and Meaux his health began to fail and he died, probably of dysentery, at Bois de Vincennes on 31 August 1422, leaving, as his heir to both crowns, his son Henry, less than a year old.

This article is about the king. For the Shakespeare play, see Henry V (play).

Henry V
King of England (more...)
Reign	21 March 1413 – 31 August 1422
Coronation	9 April 1413
Predecessor	Henry IV
Successor	Henry VI
Spouse	Catherine of Valois
Issue
Henry VI of England
House	House of Lancaster
Father	Henry IV of England
Mother	Mary de Bohun
Born	16 September 1386(1386-09-16) Monmouth, Wales
Died	31 August 1422 (aged 35) Chateau de Vincennes, France
Burial	Westminster Abbey, London

Henry V (16 September 1386^[1] – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death. From an unassuming start, his military successes in the Hundred Years' War, culminating with his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saw him come close to uniting the realms of England and France under his rule.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Role in government and conflict with Henry IV 3 Accession to the throne 4 Domestic policy 5 Foreign affairs 5.1 Campaigns in France 5.1.1 1415 campaign 5.1.2 Diplomacy and command of the sea 5.1.3 1417 campaign 5.1.4 1421 campaign 6 Arms 7 Marriage and Ancestry 8 Notes 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

Early life

Henry was born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and sixteen-year-old Mary de Bohun.

At the time of his birth during the reign of Richard II, Henry was not in line to succeed to the throne, preceded by the king and possibly another collateral line of heirs.

Upon the exile of Henry's father in 1398, Richard II took the boy into his own charge and treated him kindly. The young Henry accompanied King Richard to Ireland, and while in the royal service, he visited the castle at Trim in Meath, the ancient meeting place of the Irish Parliament. 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 at his father's coronation. He was created Duke of Lancaster on 10 November 1399, the third person to hold the title that year. His other titles were Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, and Duke of Aquitaine. A contemporary record notes that during that year Henry spent time at The Queen's College, Oxford, under the care of his uncle Henry Beaufort, the Chancellor of the university.^[2]

From October 1400, the administration was conducted in his name.^{[citation needed]} Less than three years later, Henry was in command of part of the English forces—he led his own army into Wales against Owain Glyndŵr and joined forces with his father to fight Harry Hotspur at Shrewsbury in 1403.^[3] It was there that the sixteen-year-old prince was almost killed by an arrow which became stuck in his face. An ordinary soldier might have died from such a wound, but Henry had the benefit of the best possible care. Over a period of several days the royal physician treated the wound with honey to act as an antiseptic, crafted a special tool to extract the tip of the arrow without doing further damage and then flushed the wound with alcohol. The operation was successful, but it left him with permanent scars which would serve as evidence of his experience in battle.^[4]

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 — legitimated 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 endeavoured to defame the prince. It may be to that political enmity that the tradition of Henry's riotous youth, immortalised 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 Henry IV died on 20 March 1413, Henry V succeeded him the next day and was crowned on 9 April 1413 at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was marked by a terrible snow storm, but the common people were undecided as to whether it was a good or bad omen.^[5] Henry was described as having been "very tall (6ft 3 in), slim, with dark hair cropped in a ring above the ears, and clean-shaven". His complexion was ruddy, the face lean with a prominent and pointed nose. Depending on his mood, his eyes "flashed from the mildness of a dove's to the brilliance of a lion's".^[6]

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. On the one hand he let past differences be forgotten - the late Richard II was honourably reinterred; the young Mortimer was taken into favour; the heirs of those who had suffered in the last reign were restored gradually to their titles and estates. On the other hand, where Henry saw a grave domestic danger - such as the Lollard discontent - he acted firmly and ruthlessly in January 1414, including the execution by burning of the Henry's old friend Sir John Oldcastle, so as to "nip the movement in the bud" and make his own position as ruler secure.

A statue to Henry V below the clock face of the Shire Hall in Monmouth. Henry V was born in Monmouth Castle on August 9, 1387 and the statue was placed on the Shire Hall in 1792

With the exception of the Southampton Plot in favour of Mortimer, involving Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham and Richard, Earl of Cambridge (grandfather of the future King Edward IV) in July 1415, the rest of his reign was free from serious trouble at home. Starting in August 1417, Henry V promoted the use of the English language in government^[7], and his reign marks the appearance of Chancery Standard English as well as the adoption of English as the language of record within Government. He was the first king to use English in his personal correspondence since the Norman conquest, which occurred 350 years earlier.^[8][9]

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 was an unpromising prospect.

Following Agincourt, Hungarian King (later Holy Roman Emperor 1433–1437) Sigismund made a visit to Henry in hopes of making peace between England and France. His goal was to persuade Henry to modify his demands against the French. Henry lavishly entertained the emperor and even had him enrolled in the Order of the Garter. Sigismund in turn inducted Henry into the Order of the Dragon.^[10] Henry had intended to crusade for the order after uniting the English and French thrones, but he died before fulfilling his plans.^[11][12][13] Sigismund left England several months later, having signed the Treaty of Canterbury, acknowledging English claims to France.

Campaigns in France

Henry V of England depicted in Cassell's History of England (1902)

Henry may have regarded the assertion of his own claims as part of his royal duty, but in any case, a permanent settlement of the national debate was essential to the success of his foreign policy.

1415 campaign

On 11 August 1415 Henry sailed for France, where his forces besieged the fortress at Harfleur, capturing it on 22 September. Afterwards, Henry decided to march with his army across the French countryside towards Calais, despite the warnings of his council.^[14] On the 25 October 1415, on the plains near the village of Agincourt, a French army intercepted his route. Despite his men-at-arms being exhausted, outnumbered and malnourished, Henry led his men into battle, decisively defeating the French who suffered severe losses. It is often argued that the French men-at-arms were bogged down in the muddy battlefield, soaked from the previous night of heavy rain, and that this hindered the French advance, allowing them to be sitting targets for the flanking English and Welsh archers. Nevertheless, the victory is seen as Henry's greatest, ranking alongside Crécy and Poitiers.

Towards the end of the battle, with victory in sight, a third French battalion reformed and advanced upon the English army. Henry therefore made a decision that arguably tarnished his reputation. He supposedly ordered that the French prisoners taken during the battle be mercilessly put to death, including some of the most illustrious who could be used for ransom. It is widely held that Henry was concerned that the prisoners might turn on their captors when the English were busy repelling this third wave, thus jeopardising a hard-fought victory. However, the reformation of the third battalion never came to full fruition, and Henry suspended the order in progress.

The victorious conclusion of Agincourt, from the English viewpoint, was only the first step in the campaign to recover the French possessions that belonged to the English crown.

Diplomacy and command of the sea

Command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the English Channel. While Henry was occupied with peace negotiations in 1416, a French and Genoese fleet surrounded the harbour at the English-garrisoned Harfleur. A French land force also besieged the town. To relieve Harfleur, Henry sent his brother, the Duke of Bedford, who raised a fleet and set sail from Beachy Head on 14 August. The Franco-Genoese fleet was defeated the following day after a gruelling seven hour battle, and Harfleur was relieved. Diplomacy successfully detached Emperor Sigismund from France, and the Treaty of Canterbury (1416) paved the way to end the schism in the Church.

1417 campaign

So, with those two potential enemies gone, and after two years of patient preparation following Agincourt, Henry renewed the war on a larger scale in 1417. Lower Normandy was quickly conquered, and Rouen cut off from Paris and besieged. The French were paralysed by the disputes between Burgundians and Armagnacs. Henry skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike approach. In January 1419, Rouen fell. Those Norman French who had resisted were severely punished: Alan Blanchard, who had hanged English prisoners from the walls, was summarily executed; Robert de Livet, Canon of Rouen, who had excommunicated the English king, was packed off to England and imprisoned for five years.^[15]

Henry's marriage to Catherine of Valois

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 Good, the new duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms. After six months of negotiation, the Treaty of Troyes recognised Henry as the heir and regent of France (see English Kings of France), and on 2 June 1420, he married Catherine of Valois, the French king's daughter. From June to July, Henry's army besieged and took the castle at Montereau. He besieged and captured Melun in November, 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 the Château de Vincennes near Paris, apparently from dysentery which he had contracted during the siege of Meaux. He was 35 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.

Arms

As Prince of Wales, Henry's arms were those of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of three points.^[16] Upon his accession, he inherited use of the arms of the kingdom undifferenced.

Marriage and Ancestry

He married Catherine of Valois in 1420, and their only child was Henry, who became Henry VI of England

v • d • e Ancestors of Henry V of England

16. Edward II of England               8. Edward III of England                       17. Isabella of France               4. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster                             18. William I, Count of Hainaut               9. Philippa of Hainault                       19. Joan of Valois               2. Henry IV of England                                   20. Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster               10. Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster                       21. Maud Chaworth               5. Blanche of Lancaster                             22. Henry de Beaumont               11. Isabel de Beaumont                       23. Alice Comyn               1. Henry V of England                                         24. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford               12. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton                       25. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan               6. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford                             26. Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere               13. Elizabeth de Badlesmere                       27. Margaret de Clare               3. Mary de Bohun                                   28. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel               14. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel                       29. Alice de Warenne               7. Joan FitzAlan                             30. Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (= 20)               15. Eleanor of Lancaster                       31. Maud Chaworth (= 21)

Notes

1. ^ Ian mortimer, "Henry IV's Date of Birth and the Royal Maundy", Historical Research, vol. 80 (2007), pp. 567–576, at n.7 on pp. 568–9)
2. ^ Salter, H. E.; Lobe, Mary D. (1954). "The University of Oxford". A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. three. pp. 132–143. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63877. 
3. ^ Harriss, Gerald (2005). Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 532. ISBN 0198228163. 
4. ^ "John Bradmore and His Book Philomena", Social History of Medicine 1992; 5: 121–130
5. ^ TimeRef-History Timelines, retrieved on 27 May 2009
6. ^ Allen Andrews, Kings and Queens of England and Scotland, p. 76, published by Marshall Cavendish Publications Ltd., London, 1976
7. ^ Fisher, John. The Emergence of Standard English, The University Press of Kentucky, 1996, ISBN 9780813108520 , page 22
8. ^ Harriss, 46
9. ^ Mugglestone, Lydia. The Oxford History of English, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0199249318, page 101
10. ^ Rezachevici, Constantin; Miller, Elizabeth (ed.) (1999). "From the Order of the Dragon to Dracula". Journal of Dracula Studies (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada) 1. http://www.blooferland.com/drc/index.php?title=Journal_of_Dracula_Studies. Retrieved 2008-04-18. 
11. ^ Mowat, Robert Balmain (1919). Henry V. London: John Constable. pp. 176. ISBN 1406767131. 
12. ^ Harvey, John Hooper (1967). The Plantagents. London: Collins. 
13. ^ Seward, Desmond (1999). The hundred years war: The English in France 1337-1453. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140283617. 
14. ^ Barker (2005: 220)
15. ^ Henry V, the Typical Medieval Hero, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, C.P. Putnam's Sons, London, New York, 1901
16. ^ Marks of Cadency in the British Royal Family

See also

Dieu et mon droit English Longbow Davy Gam Cultural depictions of Henry V of England

House of Lancaster Kings of England List of British monarchs

References

• 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)
• J.H. Fisher, The Emergence of Standard English (Lexington, 1996)

External links

• J. Endell Tyler. Henry of Monmouth:Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Volume 1, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg
• Henry V of England at Genealogics
• 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
• Works by or about Henry V of England in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Henry V of England House of Lancaster Cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet Born: 16 September 1387 Died: 31 August 1422
Regnal titles
Preceded by Henry IV	King of England Lord of Ireland 1413 – 1422	Succeeded by Henry VI
English royalty
Preceded by Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March	Heir to the English Throne as heir apparent 30 September 1399 – 20 March 1413	Succeeded by Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
Vacant Title last held by Richard of Bordeaux	Prince of Wales 1399 – 1413	Vacant Title next held by Edward of Westminster
French nobility
Preceded by Henry of Bolingbroke	Duke of Aquitaine 1399 – 1422	Succeeded by Henry VI, King of England
Preceded by Isabella of Bavaria	Regent of France 1420 – 1422	Succeeded by John, Duke of Bedford
Peerage of England
Vacant Title last held by Richard of Bordeaux	Duke of Cornwall 1399 – 1413	Vacant Title next held by Henry
Preceded by Henry IV of Bolingbroke	Duke of Lancaster 1399 – 1413	Merged in Crown
Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Thomas Erpynham	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1409 – 1412	Succeeded by The Earl of Arundel

Family information
John of Gaunt House of Plantagenet	Henry IV of Bolingbroke, King of England	Henry V of England
Blanche of Lancaster House of Plantagenet
Humphrey de Bohun House of Bohun	Mary de Bohun
Joan FitzAlan House of FitzAlan

v • d • e   English monarchs   Kingdom of the English 886–1066 Alfred the Great · Edward the Elder · Ælfweard · Athelstan the Glorious1 · Edmund the Magnificent1 · Eadred1 · Eadwig the Fair1 · Edgar the Peaceable1 · Edward the Martyr · Æthelred the Unready · Sweyn Forkbeard · Edmund Ironside · Cnut1 · Harold Harefoot · Harthacnut · Edward the Confessor · Harold Godwinson · Edgar the Ætheling Kingdom of England 1066–1649 William I · William II · Henry I · Stephen · Matilda · Henry II2 · Henry the Young King · Richard I · John2 · Henry III2 · Edward I2 · Edward II2 · Edward III2 · Richard II2 · Henry IV2 · Henry V2 · Henry VI2 · Edward IV2 · Edward V2 · Richard III2 · Henry VII2 · Henry VIII2 · Edward VI2 · Jane2 · Mary I2 with Philip2 · Elizabeth I2 · James I3 · Charles I3 Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653–1659 Oliver Cromwell4 · Richard Cromwell4 Kingdom of England 1660–1707 Charles II3  · James II3  · William III and Mary II3  · Anne3 1Overlord of Britain. 2Also ruler of Ireland. 3Also ruler of Scotland. 4Lord Protector. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.

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v • d • e Dukes of Cornwall HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall (1952–present) Edward, the Black Prince (1337–1376) · Richard II (1376–1377) · Henry V (1399–1413) · Henry VI (1421–1422) · Edward of Westminster (1453–1471) · Edward V (1470–1483) · Edward of Middleham (1483–1484) · Arthur Tudor (1486–1502) · Henry VIII (1502–1509) · Henry Tudor (1511) · Henry Tudor (1514) · Edward VI (1537–1547) · Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1603–1612) · Charles I (1612–1625) · Charles II (1630–1649) · Prince James Stuart "The Old Pretender" (1688–1689) · George II (1714–1727) · Prince Frederick (1727–1751) · George IV (1762–1820) · Edward VII (1841–1901) · George V (1901–1910) · Edward VIII (1910–1936)

v • d • e Dukes of Lancaster HM The Queen Henry of Grosmont (1351-1361) · John of Gaunt (1362-1399) · Henry IV (1399) · Henry V (1399-1413 – merged in crown)

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