King Henry V

1386 – 1422 · Generation XIX · King of England (r. 1413–1422) · House of Plantagenet

Henry V of Monmouth (1386–1422). King of England (r. 1413–1422). Married Catherine of Valois in 1420. Agincourt, 1415; dead of dysentery at thirty-five with France almost in hand. Blooded at sixteen at the Battle of Shrewsbury and hardened in the Welsh campaigns against Glyndŵr, he took up the old English claim to the crown of France as soon as he was king. Harfleur fell to his first expedition and Agincourt made his legend; from 1417 he set about winning Normandy, a duchy out of English hands for some two hundred years. France's civil war gave him his opening: with Burgundy as his ally he dictated the Treaty of Troyes to Charles VI, under which the Dauphin was cut out of the succession and Henry himself would rule as regent and follow Charles on the throne. Instead he died first — by seven weeks — and the intended union of the two crowns fell to his infant son. In England he proved a forceful ruler, restoring order, cooperating with Parliament, bringing English into the business of government, and putting down the Lollards.

One of 23 people of House of Plantagenet (1126–1485) in this archive. The longest-reigning English house, counting its Angevin beginning and the rival Lancaster and York branches that fought the Wars of the Roses.

Line of descent: King William I The Conqueror → King Henry I → Matilda the Empress → King Henry II → King John → King Henry III → King Edward I Longshanks → King Edward II → King Edward III → John of Gaunt → King Henry IV → King Henry V.

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Parents

• King Henry IV (1367 – 1413)
• Mary de Bohun (1368 – 1394)

Partners

• Married Catherine of Valois (1401 – 1437) in 1420 — one child together

Children

• King Henry VI (1421 – 1471)

Life

• 1386 — Born
• 1413 — Henry accedes to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of his father, Henry IV
• 1414 — Henry adopts the claims of Edward III to the French crown
• 1415 — Henry thwarts the Cambridge plot, an attempt by a group of nobles to replace him on the throne with his cousin, Edmund Mortisner, Earl of March.
• 1415 — Henry renews the war against France in order to win back territories lost by his ancestors. After a five-week siege, he captures Harfleur the leading port in north-west France.
• 1420 — Married Catherine of Valois
• 1420 — Henry marries Catherine, daughter of Charles VI. Under the treaty of Troyes, Henry will become King of France on the death of Charles VI.
• 1421 — Birth of Prince Henry, later Henry VI.
• 1422 — Died
• 1422 — Henry V dies in France of dysentery before he can succeed to the French throne. King Charles VI of France dies the following month, leaving Henry VI, Henry’s 10-month-old son, as King of France and England.