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(The gift of tennis balls also appears in Shakespeare's Henry V and in film adaptations of it, including The King; the play and other versions of the story refer to a tun of tennis balls.) Henry raises an army and invades France, and the king of France agrees to pay the tribute and give Henry "the finest flower that is in all France" for his wife.
Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe.
Henry V invaded France following the failure of negotiations with the French. He claimed the title of King of France through his great-grandfather Edward III of England , although in practice the English kings were generally prepared to renounce this claim if the French would acknowledge the English claim on Aquitaine and other French lands ...
Henry V of England invaded France following the failure of negotiations with the French. He claimed the title of King of France through his great-grandfather Edward III, although in practice the English kings were generally prepared to renounce this claim if the French would acknowledge the English claim on Aquitaine and other French lands (the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny). [5]
However, under the treaty, Henry instead took the title "heir (héritier) of France" in place of king of France. [34] For Henry V, successfully pursuing the claim to the French throne and establishing a Lancastrian "dual monarchy" of England and France had become a key objective because it would secure the prestige and position of the new ...
Before his death, Henry V had named his brother John, Duke of Bedford regent of France in the name of his son Henry VI, 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 , as the sickly Charles VI, whose heir he had been named, survived him by ...
Turning east, he then besieged Rouen, then considered to be France's second city. The desperate Siege of Rouen lasted from July until January 1419, but its capture secured the whole of Normandy as a base from which he could press on towards Paris. Henry finally died in 1422 at the Siege of Meaux. [13]
Henry went on to take all of Normandy apart from Mont-Saint-Michel, which withstood a blockade. [7] [10] Rouen became the main English base in northern France, allowing Henry to launch campaigns on Paris and to the south. [5] [11]