Château de Vincennes
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The Château de Vincennes is a former fortress and royal residence next to the town of Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris, alongside the Bois de Vincennes. It was largely built between 1361 and 13
Donjon of the Château de Vincennes
Statue of King Saint Louis at Château de Vincennes
The château behind a boar hunt, by Limbourg Brothers or Barthélemy d'Eyck (1412–1416)
The château by Jean Fouquet (1455)
Henry V of England
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Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422. His victory at Agincourt in 1415 and his conquest of Normandy gav
Château de Vincennes
…until his madness, then was disputed by the two rivals of his succession, Philip the Good of Burgundy and Louis I, Duke of Orléans. In 1415 the army of Henry V of England defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt. The subsequent Treaty of Troyes in 1420 granted the château and the Île-de-France to the English, after…
Henry as Prince of Wales in the Regiment of Princes, c.1413 (MS Arundel 38)
Miniature of Henry's father, Henry IV, in the records of the Duchy of Lancaster, c.1402
Henry as Prince of Wales tries on his father's crown in a scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, engraving after Josiah Boydell, 1795
The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in Thomas Walsingham's St Albans Chronicle, c.1422