From 1340, English monarchs, beginning with the Plantagenet king Edward III, asserted that they were the rightful kings of France. They fought the Hundred Years' War, in part, to enforce this claim, b
Henry IV, the first Lancastrian claimant
Edward IV invaded France in 1475 ostensibly to overthrow Louis XI
Henry VII launched an invasion of France in 1492 "for the recovering of his right there"
Edward III of England
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
English claims to the French throne
…reign at war with the Valois kings but never secured the crown, although his main concern was to protect his French fief of Gascony. His great-grandson, Henry V, following his crushing victory at Agincourt, was able to impose the Treaty of Troyes on the French in 1420. This stipulated that he and his heirs would…
Henry as Prince of Wales in the Regiment of Princes, c.1413 (MS Arundel 38)
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