Death of Henry V and the Anglo-French succession crisis

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1. 1422Château de Vincennes · VincennesHenry V fell ill in camp after the fall of Meaux (May 10, 1422); scholars generally consider dysentery the most likely cause. In June he led his army toward Corbeil, but his illness relapsed and he was carried back to the Château de Vincennes. On his deathbed he amended his will, naming the Duke of Bedford regent of France and the Duke of Gloucester to assist with English affairs. Henry V died in the early hours of August 31, aged 35, after a reign of nine years. His body was later returned to England and buried at Westminster Abbey on November 7.
2. 1422London · LondonOn the day of Henry V's death, his only son Henry VI, aged just nine months, legally succeeded to the English throne, becoming one of the youngest monarchs to take the throne in English history. Because the king was a minor, England required a regency. Parliament rejected Gloucester's claim to full guardianship of the realm in the will; after negotiation, on December 1, 1422 it appointed Gloucester Protector, chief guardian, and regent, though his powers were limited to England itself. Bedford, in France, nominally stood at the head of the regency. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, was charged with the young king's education.
3. 1422Paris · ParisFrance's Charles VI died on October 21 at the Hôtel Saint-Pol in Paris. Under the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, the disinherited dauphin Charles was legally barred from succession, and Henry V's son Henry VI became heir to the French throne. The Valois faction, however, refused to recognize the treaty on the grounds that it had been signed under duress and the king was of unsound mind, and the dauphin proclaimed himself Charles VII at Bourges. After Charles VI's funeral, Bedford symbolized the French regency by preceding the realm's sword, and on November 19 formally swore in as regent before the French Estates-General, reaffirming his commitment to uphold the Treaty of Troyes. The Anglo-French dual-monarchy configuration was thus established, but disputes over the legitimacy of the succession ran through the remainder of the Hundred Years' War.