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Henry V (1413 – 1422 AD)
In his youth, Henry was merely the son of Henry Bolingbroke, a prominent noble at court. When Henry seized the throne and deposed Richard II, the young Henry became heir apparent and was granted the title ‘Prince of Wales’. During his father’s declining years, Henry took over aspects of the administration himself, and led a military campaign to put down the rebellion of Owain Glendower. From 1408 Henry had to take over the reins of power from his father, despite some resistance from elements of the royal court. He was crowned Henry V on 20th March 1413, the day after his father’s death.

Henry developed a policy of pardoning previous plotters and political outcasts in order to free himself from the worry of dealing with disaffected nobles. He suppressed the Lollards, a religious reform movement, in England but otherwise tried to outmanoeuvre his enemies through compromise. He re-introduced English as the language of court and government, overturning more than three centuries of Anglo-Norman French dominance.

Henry campaigned vigorously to bring the long-standing French war to a conclusion, regarding it as an obstruction to his diplomatic aims on the continent. His convincing victory at Agincourt in 1415 promised a swift end to the conflict, which he pursued with campaigns in Normandy and besieging Paris in 1417, forcing the French to acknowledge the right of the English king to the throne of France. Four more years of conflict in northern France occupied Henry until he contracted dysentery in 1421 and died soon after while besieging Meaux, near Paris.

King Henry’s only son was also named Henry, from his marriage to the French princess Catherine of Valois.

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