50 Facts About Henry V of England

Henry of Monmouth, the eldest son of Henry IV, became heir apparent and Prince of Wales after his father seized the throne in 1399.

Henry V of England played a central part at the Battle of Shrewsbury despite being just sixteen years of age.

In 1415, Henry V of England followed in the wake of his great-grandfather, Edward III, by renewing the Hundred Years' War with France, beginning the Lancastrian phase of the conflict.

Henry V of England was married to Charles VI's daughter, Catherine of Valois.

Henry V of England was born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle in Monmouthshire, and for that reason was sometimes called Henry V of England of Monmouth.

Henry V of England was the son of Henry of Bolingbroke and Mary de Bohun.

Henry V of England even went on to grant pensions to composers due to such love for music.

Henry V of England led his own army into Wales against Owain Glyndwr and joined forces with his father to fight Henry "Hotspur" Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403.

An ordinary soldier might have died from such a wound, but Henry V of England had the benefit of the best possible care.

Henry V of England's treatment appeared in an anonymous Middle English surgical treatise dated to 1446, that has since been attributed to Thomas Morstede.

Henry V of England was described as having been "very tall, slim, with dark hair cropped in a ring above the ears, and clean-shaven".

Henry V of England's complexion was ruddy, his face lean with a prominent and pointed nose.

Henry V of England tackled all of the domestic policies together and gradually built on them a wider policy.

Henry V of England's reign was generally free from serious trouble at home.

Henry V of England was the first king to use English in his personal correspondence since the Norman Conquest 350 years earlier.

Cambridge historian Brett Tingley suggests that Henry V of England ordered them killed out of concern that the prisoners might turn on their captors when the English were busy repelling a third wave of enemy troops, thus jeopardising a hard-fought victory.

The victorious conclusion of Agincourt, from the English viewpoint, was only the first step in the campaign to recover the French possessions that Henry V of England felt belonged to the English crown.

The brewing nationalistic sentiment among the English people was so great that contemporary writers describe firsthand how Henry V of England was welcomed with triumphal pageantry into London upon his return.

Henry V of England's goal was to persuade Henry to modify his demands against the French.

Henry V of England lavishly entertained him and even had him enrolled in the Order of the Garter.

Henry V of England had intended to crusade for the order after uniting the English and French thrones, but he died before fulfilling his plans.

The leaders of Rouen, who were unable to support and feed the women and children of the town, forced them out through the gates believing that Henry V of England would allow them to pass through his army unmolested.

However, Henry V of England refused to allow this, and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town.

Henry V of England skillfully played one against the other without relaxing his warlike approach.

Those Norman French who had resisted were severely punished: Alain Blanchard, who had hanged English prisoners from the walls of Rouen, was summarily executed; Robert de Livet, Canon of Rouen, who had excommunicated the English king, was packed off to Henry V of England and imprisoned for five years.

Henry V of England was struck down again, with a debilitating fever, possibly heatstroke or a relapse of his previous illness.

Henry V of England was 35 years old and had reigned for nine years.

Shortly before his death, Henry V named his brother, John, Duke of Bedford, regent of France in the name of his son, Henry VI of England, then only a few months old.

Henry V did not live to be crowned King of France himself, as he might confidently have expected after the Treaty of Troyes, because Charles VI, from whom he would have inherited the crown, survived him by two months.

Henry's comrade-in-arms and Lord Steward, John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, brought Henry's body back to England and bore the royal standard at his funeral.

Henry V's death at thirty-five years of age was a political and dynastic turning point for both the kingdoms of England and France.

Henry V is remembered by both his countrymen and his foes as a capable military commander during the war against France and is one of the most renowned monarchs in English and British history.

Henry V of England is largely seen as a symbol of English military might and power, which inspired later kings and queens of England.

Henry V of England's victories created a national sensation and caused a patriotic fervour among the English people that influenced both the medieval English army and the British army for centuries.

Henry V is not only remembered for his military prowess but for his architectural patronage.

Henry V of England commissioned the building of King's College Chapel and Eton College Chapel, and although some of his building works were discontinued after his death, others were continued by his son and successor Henry VI.

Henry V of England contributed to the founding of the monastery of the Syon Abbey, completed by Henry VI during his lifetime.

Henry V of England faced a coup orchestrated by a relative and prominent noble, Edmund Mortimer, in the Southampton Plot, and in 1415 dealt with a Yorkist conspiracy to overthrow him.

Henry V was often a figure of literary imagination and romantic interpretations, often used as a traditional character of a morally great king in the works of many writers, playwrights and dramatists.

In Georgette Heyer's Simon the Coldheart Henry V of England appears as a minor character.

In other works, Henry V is the main character such as in Good King Harry by Denise Giardina.

Henry V of England is a minor character in Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell.

Henry V has been depicted in many historical films and operas such as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V played by Olivier himself, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Henry V of England appears in the 1935 film Royal Cavalcade, in which he was played by actor Matheson Lang.

Henry V appears as a major character played by Keith Baxter in Orson Welles's 1966 film Chimes at Midnight.

Henry V of England is played by Timothee Chalamet in 2019 Netflix film The King directed by David Michod.

Henry V of England is portrayed by Tom Hiddleston in the BBC television series The Hollow Crown.

Henry V is a character in the comic series The Hammer Man in the BBC comic strip The Victor featuring him as the commander of the hero, Chell Paddock.

King Henry V is a character in the video game Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War and in the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors in which he was featured as a paladin.

Together the couple had one child, Henry V of England, born in late 1421.