Quick facts for kids Henry V |
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Posthumous portrait of Henry
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| King of England (more...) | |
| Reign | 21 March 1413 – 31 August 1422 |
| Coronation | 9 April 1413 |
| Predecessor | Henry IV |
| Successor | Henry VI |
| Born | 16 September 1386 Monmouth Castle, Wales |
| Died | 31 August 1422 (aged 35) Château de Vincennes, France |
| Burial | 7 November 1422 Westminster Abbey, London |
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Catherine of Valois (m. 1420)
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| Issue | Henry VI of England |
| House | Lancaster (Plantagenet) |
| Father | Henry IV of England |
| Mother | Mary de Bohun |
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Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), was the King of England from 1413 to 1422. He was born at Monmouth, Wales. It is not known whether he was born on 9 August 1386 or 16 September 1387.
Henry V was the son of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Mary de Bohun, who died before Bolingbroke became king.
During his reign, Henry increased his power as King of England and also took the title of King of France, over which English kings had been fighting for decades. He defeated the French at the famous Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Shakespeare wrote a play about that and made him important in other plays.
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Images for kids
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Henry, while Prince of Wales, presenting Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes to John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1411–13), British Library
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A gold noble coin of Henry V
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English chancery hand. Facsimile of letter from Henry, 1418
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Portrait of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1433
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The ratification of the Treaty of Troyes between Henry and Charles VI of France. Archives Nationales (France).
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Late 15th-century depiction of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Valois. British Library, London.
