Regency government, 1422–1437
The regency government of the Kingdom of England of 1422 to 1437 ruled while Henry VI was a minor. Decisions were made in the king's name by the regency council, which was made up of the most important and influential people in the government of England, and dominated by the king's uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and Bishop Henry Beaufort.
Image: Humphrey Gloucester
Image: BEAUFORT HENRY (+1447)1
Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne upon his father's death, at the age of nine months; and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards.
Miniature in the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1444–1445
Henry VI, aged nine months, 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
Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, as depicted in the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1444–45