Henry V of England

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. He was the eldest son of Henry IV, and his victory at Agincourt in 1415 and his conquest of Normandy gave England the upper hand in the Hundred Years' War, leading by the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 to his recognition as heir and regent of France. At home he restored public order after the turbulence of his father's reign, worked closely with Parliament, promoted the use of English in royal government, and upheld a strict religious orthodoxy, crushing the Lollard movement. He died in August 1422, seven weeks before the ailing Charles VI of France whose throne he had been due to inherit, and was succeeded by his only son, the infant Henry VI. His later fame rests chiefly on his military prowess, celebrated in William Shakespeare's Henriad as one of the great warrior-kings of medieval England.