Henry V
Henricus V
King of England · Lord of Ireland · Heir of France (1420)
1386 – 1422
Biography
Reopened the Hundred Years' War and won the most celebrated English victory of the conflict at Agincourt in 1415, where his outnumbered army shattered the French chivalry. The Treaty of Troyes recognized him as heir to the French crown and married him to Catherine of Valois. He died of dysentery in France at thirty-six, never living to wear the French crown his treaty had secured.
Events
On 25 October 1415, Henry V's exhausted and outnumbered English army won the most lopsided victory of the Hundred Years' War. Trapped between the woods of Agincourt and the marshy Tramecourt valley, the heavily armored French knights bogged in mud while English longbow arrows fell among them at a thousand-volley-per-minute rate. Casualty estimates vary wildly but the French lost much of their nobility; the English lost perhaps a hundred dead.
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