Henry V

Question 1

Battle of Shrewsbury

Answer 1

1403
-survived an arrow to the face in battle

Question 2

Long Parliament

Answer 2

1406
-Parliament appointed Henry to lead royal finances
-he brought royal expenditure under control (during father’s illness)

Question 4

crowned

Answer 4

1413 (26 yrs old)

Question 5

Oldcastle rebellion

Answer 5

1414
-Oldcastle = Lollard (imprisoned for his book)
-plot to remove him from throne (gov. + church exaggerated level of threat to link Lollardy with treason)

Question 6

Lollard beliefs

Answer 6

-priests aren’t sacred (no authority to give sacraments)
-money and God shouldn’t intertwine (don’t glorify God via wealth) - tax shouldn’t go to the Pope in Rome
-Bible should be in English, not Latin

Question 7

Southampton plot

Answer 7

1415
-plot to replace HV with Edmund Mortimer, earl of March (rightful heir)
-led by earl of Cambridge (Mortimer’s brother)
-Scrope + Percy support

Question 8

Southampton plot fall

Answer 8

Edmund Mortimer, earl of March betrays the plot
-Cambridge + Lord Henry Scrope executed

Question 9

capture of Harfleur castle

Answer 9

1415
-French surrendered

Question 10

Agincourt

Answer 10

1415
-French outnumbered English by over 2X
-English + Welsh had skilled archers to attack from a distance
-also had 6 feet stakes to protect them from French cavalry
-had little and light armour

Question 11

Agincourt luck

Answer 11

-clay fields (thick, wet, heavy soil slowed them down)
-wasn’t spotted when going to Nestle and coming back north to cross river
-French in narrow field + heavy metal armour
-Chivalric code

Question 12

archers in Agincourt

Answer 12

English + Welsh = 7K
French = 1K

Question 13

prep back home for Agincourt

Answer 13

-neutralise Percy’s by giving some land back
-James I captive
-alliance with Brittany
-neutralised Welsh (recruiting Welsh armers + Glendower disappeared)

Question 15

parliament reward for Agincourt

Answer 15

give him £300K

Question 16

siege of Rouen

Answer 16

1419
-Capital of Normandy
-Normans give him £50K homage as their feudal lord

Question 17

assassination of John the Fearless (duke of Burgundy)

Answer 17

1419
-French kill him out of revenge for assassination of duke of Orleans
-Burgundian alliance against common Armagnac rivals

Question 18

Burgundian alliance

Answer 18

1419
-Burgundy wants independence from France

Question 19

Treaty of Troyes

Answer 19

1420
-marries Catherine of France (princess of mad King)
-produce an heir
-disinherit Dauphin by giving Henry V throne of France after King’s death

Question 20

Henry V death

Answer 20

1422
-of dysentry before Charles VI dies