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Authors: Desmond Seward
Henry V As Warlord
Desmond Seward
Copyright © 2013, Desmond Seward
This edition first published in 2013 by:
Thistle Publishing
36 Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BU
For Michael and Daphne Dormer
Contents
Henry V, from a screen at York Minster begun about 1425. Like the statues of his immediate predecessors on the screen, this is undoubtedly a portrait.
(The Mansell Collection)
Henry V as a youth. From an early sixteenth-century copy of a lost original.
(The British Library)
(The British Library)
Henry V’s father-in-law, King Charles VI of France, with his counsellors.
(François Martin)
(Photographie Giraudon)
A room well known to Henry V – the ruins of the dining hall of Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
(John Cooke Photography)
(S. Mountgarret)
(Photographie Giraudon)
(Photographie Giraudon)
Line Illustrations
It was Mr Michael Dormer who first suggested that I write this book. I am most grateful to him.
I am indebted to Count and Countess Pierre de Montalembert, and Count Artus de Montalembert, for valuable information about memories of the Hundred Years War in Normandy and Maine and for permission to reproduce the photograph of their château of Lassaye. I owe special thanks to Susan, Viscountess Mountgarret for help with research, for reading the typescript, for much photography, and for driving me to many sites in France associated with Henry V and his campaigns. I am also indebted to Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick for reading the proofs.
In addition I would like to thank the staffs of the British Library and the London Library for help and guidance on innumerable occasions, and also the honorary librarians of Brooks’s, Mr Piers Dixon and Mr John Saumarez Smith.
1387 | Born at Monmouth on 16 September. |
1394 | Death of mother. |
1398 | His father, Bolingbroke, is banished. |
1399 | Accompanies Richard II to Ireland. |
1400 | Richard II is murdered. |
1402 | He and Hotspur recapture Conwy in spring. |
1403 | Appointed King’s Lieutenant on the Marches of Wales. |
1405 | Plot to place Earl of March on throne. |
1406 | Appointed Lieutenant of Wales. |
1408 | Earl of Northumberland defeated and killed at Bramham Moor. |
1409 | Harlech surrenders. |
1410 | Becomes head of the King’s Council during father’s illness. |
1411 | Father recovers and dismisses him from the Council. |
1412 | English expedition to France to help Armagnacs. |
1413 | Henry IV dies in March and he becomes king. |
1414 | Lollard rising crushed in London. |
1415 | Southampton Plot to murder him and place March on throne. |
1416 | Emperor Sigismund visits Henry in England. |
1417 | Invades Normandy in August. |
1418 | Captures Falaise in February. |
1419 | Rouen surrenders in January – English overrun all Normandy. |
1420 | Treaty of Troyes with Charles VI and Philip of Burgundy – recognised as ‘Heir and Regent of France’. |
1421 | Spends January in Normandy. |
1422 | Continues siege of Meaux which surrenders in May. |