Henry VI’s campaign to confirm himself as King of France
looked to be in trouble after the Duke of Brittany switched sides.
byEdward Hall?-1547
The Hundred Years’ War
Away to Your Own Country
As the Duke of Bedford and other English captains were besieging
Orleans, they received a startling letter from a seventeen-year-old girl.
byJoan of Arc?1410-1429
The Hundred Years’ War
St John of Beverley at Agincourt
Following the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, King Henry V instructed
the Church of York to recognise the contribution of one of her eighth-century bishops.
byThe Convocation of the Church of York1416
Character and Conduct
A War of Words
A few years before the Battle of Agincourt, the Duke of Orléans
challenged King Henry IV to meet him in Bordeaux for a winner-takes-all joust.
fromHolinshed’s Chronicles1577
Character and Conduct
A Stout Answer
A few weeks after a large French raiding party had been driven away from
the Isle of Wight, another flotilla arrived from across the Channel demanding money with menaces.
fromHolinshed’s Chronicles1577
Character and Conduct
Up Before the Bench
As a young prince Henry V was ‘fierce and of wanton courage,’
Thomas Elyot tells us, but there was one man with courage to match his.