Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and claimant to the French throne from 1422 to 1453 under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. He became king of England at th
Miniature in the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1444–1445
Henry VI upon his accession, shown being placed in the care of the Earl of Warwick
A mid-15th-century depiction of Henry being crowned King of France at Notre-Dame de Paris on 16 December 1431
Henry VI with his wife, Queen Margaret of Anjou, receiving the book from Earl of Shrewsbury, as depicted in the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1444–45
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
Henry VI of England
…from 1422 to 1453 under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. He became king of England at the age of nine months, following the death of his father, Henry V, and inherited the French claim upon the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France. Henry VI's claim to the French throne was increasingly…
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