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Mar 11, 2019 · Tristan Hughes. 11 Mar 2019. @ancientstristan. In August 1453 the 31-year old English king Henry VI suddenly suffered an extreme episode of mental illness, causing him to descend into a state of complete withdrawal. For over a year he proved unresponsive to anything – even the news that his wife had given birth to their only son failed to ...
- Tristan Hughes
Mar 3, 2019 · The Madness of King Henry VI. Faced with extreme pressures, the ruler of England suffered a complete breakdown. But beware modern diagnoses of medieval mental health. In the summer of 1453 the 31-year-old king of England, Henry VI, bade farewell to his pregnant wife Margaret of Anjou and set out on a judicial tour of the West Country.
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Abstract. Henry VI, King of England, at age 19 founded Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. At 31 he had a sudden, dramatic mental illness in which he was mute and unresponsive. Before, he had been paranoid, grandiose, and indecisive. After, he was apathetic with deterioration of ability, drive, interest and self-care, and hallucinations ...
- Nigel Bark
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constitutional crisis. Henry VI’s long incapacity from late July to December 1454 and his subsequent lapses in the spring and autumn of 1455 had even more dramatic consequences. Indeed, if, as seems likely, he never fully recovered what had at best been a rather tenuous hold on reality, his mental health might reasonably be described as
- When Henry’s wife, Margaret of Anjou, visited the king’s bedroom, they were sometimes joined by “trusted attendants” Pious, simple and puritan. This is how Henry VI is often described by historians and scholars.
- He experienced a mysterious illness that lasted 18 months. In August 1453, Henry VI fell into an inertia that lasted 18 months. Some historians believe he was suffering from catatonic schizophrenia, a condition characterised by symptoms including stupor, catalepsy (loss of consciousness) and mutism.
- He was the youngest person to become king of England – and the first (and only) English monarch to be crowned king of France. Henry became king of England on 1 September 1422, at nine months of age, following the death of his father, Henry V. A regency council governed the country until 1437, when Henry was considered old enough to rule.
- He tried to stop the Wars of the Roses by implementing a ‘Love Day’ So devoted was Henry to the idea of peace, he once attempted to instigate a ‘Love Day’ to help reconcile the warring factions of the Wars of the Roses.
Mar 30, 2020 · In early August 1453, Henry (1421–1471), ineffectual King of England and France, ‘the Founder’ of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, was ‘smitten with a frenzy and his wit and reason withdrawn’, reputedly due to an unexpected fright – news of defeat at Castillon on 17 July 1453, with the loss of nearly all English holdings in France.
Mar 27, 2019 · The mental illness of monarchs has been a fruitful subject for historians – witness the debate on the cause of the insanity of George III. In Henry’s case, however, his affliction was not merely inconvenient for England’s ruling political caste: it led directly to a 30-year civil war and the violent deaths of thousands.
