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1400s 1400s in England Events from the 1400s in England.-Events:* 1400** January - Henry IV quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II restored as King....  | 1410s 1410s in England Events from the 1410s in England.-Events:* 1410** Owain Glyndŵr leads a failed rebellion against England.* 1411** 30 November - Henry IV dismisses Henry, Prince of Wales and his allies from the royal council.* 1412...  | 1420s | 1430s 1430s in England Events from the 1430s in England.-Events:* 1430** 23 May - Hundred Years' War: Following the Siege of Compiègne, Joan of Arc is captured and imprisoned....  | 1440s 1440s in England Events from the 1440s in England.-Events:* 1440** 7 July - Hundred Years' War: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury recaptures Harfleur from the French.** 12 September - King Henry VI founds Eton College.* 1441...

Events

• 1420
  • 21 May - Henry V of England
    Henry V of England
    Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster....
    
     and Charles VI of France
    Charles VI of France
    Charles VI , called the Beloved and the Mad , was the King of France from 1380 to 1422, as a member of the House of Valois. His bouts with madness, which seem to have begun in 1392, led to quarrels among the French royal family, which were exploited by the neighbouring powers of England and Burgundy...
    
     sign the Treaty of Troyes
    Treaty of Troyes
    The Treaty of Troyes was an agreement that Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France. It was signed in the French city of Troyes on 21 May 1420 in the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt...
    
    , making Henry heir to the French throne.
  • 2 June - Henry marries Catherine of Valois
    Catherine of Valois
    Catherine of France was the Queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422. She was the daughter of King Charles VI of France, wife of Henry V of Monmouth, King of England, mother of Henry VI, King of England and King of France, and through her secret marriage with Owen Tudor, the grandmother of...
    
    , Charles's daughter.
  • 17 November - Hundred Year's War: Melun
    Melun
    Melun is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Located in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, Melun is the capital of the department, as the seat of an arrondissement...
    
     surrenders to the English.
  • Henry's flagship, the Grace Dieu
    Grace Dieu (ship)
    Grace Dieu was launched in 1418 as the flagship of Henry V of England and was one of the largest ships of her time. She sailed on only one voyage, and spent most of her life laid up in the River Hamble, where in 1439 she was struck by a bolt of lightning and burnt.-Construction:She was built to a...
    
    , enters service.
• 1421
  • 23 February - Coronation of Catherine of Valois as Queen Consort
    Queen consort
    A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...
    
    .
  • 21 March: Hundred Years' War
    Hundred Years' War
    The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...
    
    : English defeated by the French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
    
     and Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
    
     at the Battle of Baugé
    Battle of Baugé
    The Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and the Franco-Scots on 21 March 1421 in Baugé, France, east of Angers, was a major defeat for the English in the Hundred Years' War...
    
    .
• 1422
  • 2 May - Hundred Years' War: Meaux
    Meaux
    Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located east-northeast from the center of Paris. Meaux is a sub-prefecture of the department and the seat of an arondissement...
    
     surrenders to the English.
  • 31 August - Henry VI
    Henry VI of England
    Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...
    
     becomes King of England aged 9 months following the death of his father Henry V. His uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
    Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
    Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Pembroke, KG , also known as Humphrey Plantagenet, was "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of king Henry IV of England by his first wife, Mary de Bohun, brother to king Henry V of England, and uncle to the...
    
     acts as his regent in England.
  • 21 October - Henry VI becomes King of France following the death of Charles VI under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes. His uncle John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
    John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
    John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, KG , also known as John Plantagenet, was the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England by Mary de Bohun, and acted as Regent of France for his nephew, King Henry VI....
    
     acts as his regent in France.
  • 30 October - Charles the dauphin defies the Treaty of Troyes to be declared Charles VII of France
    Charles VII of France
    Charles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent, the Duke of Bedford, ruled much of France including the capital, Paris...
    
    .
• 1423
  • April - Hundred Year's War: England allies with Burgundy and Brittany
    Brittany
    Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
    
     against France.
  • 31 July - Hundred Years' War: The English defeat the French and Scottish at the Battle of Cravant
    Battle of Cravant
    The Battle of Cravant was an encounter fought on 31 July 1423, during the Hundred Years' War between English and French forces, a victory for the English and their Burgundian allies. After the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, the English king was permitted to occupy all the country north of the Loire...
    
    .
• 1424
  • 17 August - Hundred Years' War: The English led by the Duke of Bedford defeat the French and Scottish at the Battle of Verneuil
    Battle of Verneuil
    The Battle of Verneuil was a battle of the Hundred Years' War, fought on 17 August 1424 near Verneuil in Normandy and was a significant English victory.-The black time:...
    
    .
  • 16 October - Duke of Gloucester invades Hainault
    Hainault
    Hainault is an area in the London Borough of Redbridge in north east London. It is a suburban development located north east of Charing Cross...
    
    ; Bishop Henry Beaufort takes control of government in England.
• 1425
  • April - Duke of Gloucester abandons his failed invasion of Hainault.
  • 10 August - Hundred Years' War: Le Mans
    Le Mans
    Le Mans is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region.Its inhabitants are called Manceaux...
    
     surrenders to the English.
  • 30 October - Henry Beaufort tries to occupy London.
• 1426
  • 6 March - Hundred Years' War: The English defeat the French at the Battle of St. James
    Battle of St. James
    The Battle of St. James was fought on 6 March 1426 between England and France. The English were led by John, Duke of Bedford, while the French were led by Arthur de Richemont. It was right after the war of saint James. The English were victorious....
    
    .
  • 12 March - Henry Beaufort resigns as Lord Chancellor
    Lord Chancellor
    The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
    
     and leaves the country.
• 1427
  • Lincoln College, Oxford
    Lincoln College, Oxford
    Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated on Turl Street in central Oxford, backing onto Brasenose College and adjacent to Exeter College...
    
     founded.
• 1428
  • 12 October - Hundred Years' War: English commence the Siege of Orléans
    Siege of Orléans
    The Siege of Orléans marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. This was Joan of Arc's first major military victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt in 1415. The outset of this siege marked the pinnacle of English power...
    
    .
  • Henry Beaufort, now a Cardinal, returns to England and preaches a crusade against the Hussite
    Hussite
    The Hussites were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus , who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation...
    
    s.
• 1429
  • 12 February - Hundred Years' War: at the Battle of the Herrings
    Battle of the Herrings
    The Battle of the Herrings was a military action near the town of Rouvray in France, just north of Orléans, which took place on 12 February 1429 during the siege of Orléans. The immediate cause of the battle was an attempt by French forces, led by Charles of Bourbon, Count of Clermont, to intercept...
    
    , English forces under Sir John Fastolf
    John Fastolf
    Sir John Fastolf KG was an English knight during the Hundred Years War, who has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as in some part being the prototype of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff...
    
     defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk
    William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
    William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, KG , nicknamed Jack Napes , was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England.He also appears prominently in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2 and other...
    
     at Orléans
    Orléans
    -Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
    
     from attack by the Comte de Clermont
    Charles I, Duke of Bourbon
    Charles de Bourbon was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.He was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired...
    
     and John Stuart
    John Stuart
    John Stuart may refer to:*Sir John Stuart, 4th Baronet , MP for Kincardineshire*John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762–1763...
    
    .
  • 8 May - Hundred Years' War: The French under Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc
    Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
    
     lift the Siege of Orléans.
  • 11 June–12 June - Hundred Years' War: The French defeat the English at the Battle of Jargeau
    Battle of Jargeau
    The Battle of Jargeau took place on June 11 - 12, 1429. It was Joan of Arc's first offensive battle. Shortly after relieving the siege at Orléans, French forces recaptured the neighboring district along the Loire river...
    
    .
  • 15 June - Hundred Years' War: The French defeat the English at the Battle of Meung-sur-Loire
    Battle of Meung-sur-Loire
    The Battle of Meung-sur-Loire took place on 15 June 1429. It was one of Joan of Arc's battles following relief of the siege at Orléans. This campaign was the first sustained French offensive in a generation in the Hundred Years' War.-Background:...
    
    .
  • 16 June–17 June - Hundred Years' War: The French defeat the English at the Battle of Beaugency.
  • 18 June - Hundred Years' War: The French defeat the English at the Battle of Patay
    Battle of Patay
    The Battle of Patay was the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of the Hundred Years' War between the French and English in north-central France. It was a decisive victory for the French and turned the tide of the war. This victory was to the French what Agincourt was to the English...
    
    .
  • 6 November - Coronation of King Henry VI
    Henry VI of England
    Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...
    
    .
  • The right to vote in elections to the House of Commons
    British House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
    
     is restricted to men with forty shillings freehold property.

Births

• 1420
  • 24 November - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
    John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
    John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham.In 1461 he was made a Knight of the Bath....
    
    , politician (died 1473)
• 1421
  • 25 July - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
    Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
    Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort.-Family:...
    
    , politician (died 1461)
  • 6 December - King Henry VI of England
    Henry VI of England
    Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...
    
     (died 1471)
• 1422
  • probable - William Caxton
    William Caxton
    William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England...
    
    , printer (died c. 1491)
• 1423
  • 24 August - Thomas Rotherham
    Thomas Rotherham
    Thomas Rotherham , also known as Thomas de Rotherham, was an English cleric and statesman. He served as bishop of several dioceses, most notably as Archbishop of York and, on two occasions as Lord Chancellor...
    
    , cleric (died 1500)
• 1425
  • date unknown - Edmund Sutton
    Edmund Sutton
    Sir Edmund Sutton was a Knight of Dudley Castle and Gatescombe. Sutton was born in Dudley, the eldest son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley....
    
    , nobleman (died 1483)
• 1426
  • date unknown
    • William Brandon, nobleman (died 1485)
    • Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (died 1492)
• 1427
  • 9 September - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros
    Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros
    Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros of Helmsley was a follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses.-Family:...
    
    , politician (died 1464)
• 1428
  • 22 November - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
    Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
    Richard Neville KG, jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury and 8th and 5th Baron Montacute , known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, and military commander...
    
    , kingmaker (died 1471)
• 1429
  • 30 January - Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel
    Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel
    Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel, 5th Baron Maltravers . This Earl of Arundel was short lived.He was a son of John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel and Maud Lovell. His father died on 12 June 1435, leaving 6-year-old Humphrey as the 15th Earl of Arundel. Humphrey died three years later, at age 9...
    
     (died 1438)
  • 23 March - Margaret of Anjou
    Margaret of Anjou
    Margaret of Anjou was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471; and Queen consort of France from 1445 to 1453...
    
    , queen of Henry VI of England
    Henry VI of England
    Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...
    
     (died 1482)

Deaths

• 1421
  • 22 March - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
    Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
    Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, KG , also known as Thomas Plantagenet, was the second son of King Henry IV of England and his first wife, Mary de Bohun. He was born before 25 November 1387 as on that date his father's accounts note a payment made to a woman described as his nurse...
    
    , second son of Henry IV of England
    Henry IV of England
    Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland . He was the ninth King of England of the House of Plantagenet and also asserted his grandfather's claim to the title King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence his other name, Henry Bolingbroke...
    
     (killed in battle) (born 1388)
  • date unknown - John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel
    John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel
    John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, 3rd Baron Maltravers was an English nobleman.He was the son of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, and Elizabeth le Despenser, and became Baron Arundel on his father's death in 1390 and Baron Maltravers on his grandmother's death in 1405...
    
     (born 1385)
• 1422
  • 31 August - King Henry V of England
    Henry V of England
    Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster....
    
     (born 1387)
  • probable - Thomas Walsingham
    Thomas Walsingham
    - Life :He was probably educated at St Albans Abbey at St Albans, Hertfordshire, and at Oxford.He became a monk at St Albans, where he appears to have passed the whole of his monastic life, excepting a period from 1394 to 1396 during which he was prior of Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, another...
    
    , chronicler (year of birth unknown)
• 1423
  • 20 October - Henry Bowet
    Henry Bowet
    Henry Bowet was both Bishop of Bath and Wells and Archbishop of York.-Life:Bowet was a royal clerk to King Richard II of England, and at one point carried letters of recommendation to Pope Urban VI from the king....
    
    , Archbishop of York (year of birth unknown)
  • date unknown - Richard Whittington
    Richard Whittington
    Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...
    
    , Lord Mayor of London (born 1358)
• 1424
  • 31 December - Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
    Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
    Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, KG was an English military commander during the Hundred Years' War, and briefly Chancellor of England. He was the third of four children; the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford...
    
    , military leader (born c. 1377)
• 1425
  • 18 January - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, politician (born 1391)
  • 8 July - Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan
    Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan
    Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk was an English noblewoman and the wife of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. Through her eldest daughter, Margaret, she was an ancestress of Queens consort Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and the Howard Dukes of Norfolk.-Marriages and children:Lady...
    
     (born 1366)
• 1426
  • 31 December - Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter (born c. 1377)
  • 24 November - Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt (born 1364)
• 1427
  • 7 May - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr
    Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr
    Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr was the second son of Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr and Elizabeth de Welle, daughter of Adam, 3rd Baron Welles, and was intended for the church. In 1363, he received a dispensation, permitting him to be ordained at the age of twenty, and was made a canon...
    
    , churchman (born c. 1352)
  • 27 August - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr
    Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr
    Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West was the second son of Thomas West, 1st Baron West and Joan La Warr, half-sister and heiress of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr...
    
     (born 1395)
• 1428
  • 3 November - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury
    Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury
    Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, 6th and 3rd Baron Montacute, 5th Baron Monthermer, and Count of Perche, KG was an English nobleman...
    
    , military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1388)
  • probable - John Purvey
    John Purvey
    John Purvey was one of the leading followers of the English theologian and reformer John Wycliffe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. He was probably born around 1361 in Lathbury, then in Buckinghamshire, England. He was ordained a priest in 1377 and was a great scholar in...
    
    , theologian (born 1353)
• 1429
  • 30 December - Margaret Holland
    Margaret Holland
    Margaret Holland, Countess of Somerset was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent"...
    
    , noblewoman (born 1385)