He is eight-years-old.ģ0 May: Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen for heresy.ġ6 December: Henry VI is crowned king of France in Paris by Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and Henry’s great-uncle. 1429Ġ8 May: The siege of Orleans is abandoned by the English.ġ7 July: Charles VII is crowned king of France in Rheims.Ġ6 November: Henry VI crowned king of England. He will be known in history as The Kingmaker. He is removed from his mother’s care.Ġ8 May: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick is recorded as the king’s ‘master’.Ģ8 November: Richard Neville, son of the earl of Salisbury is born. This is the year that Henry VI turns seven. The seventeen-year-old Duke of York is required to attend court rather than live wi th his aunt.

One master per child is to be paid for out of royal expenses. The heirs of the Crown’s tenants-in-chief (barons and above) who are in royal wardship during the minority are required to come to court for their education. She is given £40 pa to teach him courtesy and discipline. Parliament passed a law in 1423 making escape whilst under suspicion of treason an admission of guilt.Ģ3 April: Lady Alice Butler is appointed Henry VI’s governess. November 18 Henry VI comes to Parliament to hear the Speaker’s loyal address.Ģ6 February: Sir John Mortimer hanged, drawn and quartered for treason having attempted to escape the Tower whilst under suspicion of treason. November 13 King Henry VI leaves Windsor with his mother to sit on the throne for the opening of parliament. November Katherine of Valois arrives back in England with the body of Henry V. In areas outside English control Charles VI’s son becomes Charles VII. King Henry VI of England is proclaimed king of France. He is the third of the Lancastrian kings.Ģ1 October: Charles VI of France dies. The infant son of Henry V is acclaimed King Henry VI and ascends the throne without contest. This is attested by the people who were there at the time.ģ1 August: Henry V dies of dysentery at Bois de Vincennes. John, Duke of Bedford is named as being responsible for ruling France on Henry V’s deathbed. Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester is named executor – his influence will ensure that England is ruled by a council rather than by Humphrey. He names Duke Humphrey of Gloucester as his son’s protector and gives him responsibility for England. June: When Prince Henry is six months old Katherine of Valois leaves her son with his nurse and returns to France to re-join Henry V.Ģ6 August: King Henry V makes his will. Henry V marries Charles’ daughter.Ġ2 June: Henry V marries Katherine of Valois.Ħ December: Prince Henry, son of Henry V and Katherine of Valos, is born at Windsor. Henry V becomes the heir of Charles VI of France. Owen Tudor joins Sir Walter Hungerford’s retinue.Ģ2 May: Treaty of Troyes between England and France. 1415Ģ5 October: Battle of Agincourt – Henry V’s major victory over the French. Henry V ascends the throne – uncontested. His health had deteriorated steadily since 1411.

1413ġ3 March: King Henry IV dies after fainting in Westminster Abbey. Henry IV is attempting to control the number of descendants of Edward III who can make a claim on the crown. If a monarch has only one child – that child, irrelevant of its gender, will inherit everything in preference to a monarch’s grown-up brothers. 1406Īn act of Parliament entails the kingdom like any other personal possession. The earls of Huntingdon, Kent, Rutland and Salisbury plot to return Richard II to the throne and are executed.

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