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Henry VI was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne at the age of nine months upon his father's death, and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards.
HENRY VI, King of England, son of King Henry V. and Catherine of Valois, was born at Windsor on the 6th of December 1421.. He became King of England on the 1st of September 1422, and a few weeks later, on the death of his grandfather Charles VI, was proclaimed king of France also.
Burial. He died on 21st May 1471 while imprisoned in the Tower of London and was buried at Chertsey Abbey and later moved to St George's chapel, Windsor. It had been Henry VII's intention to bring the body to Westminster and establish a shrine but this came to nothing and the new Lady Chapel at the Abbey became the burial place of Henry VII. A ...
Mar 3, 2019 · 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. Pausing at Clarendon hunting lodge in Wiltshire, the king ‘suddenly was taken and smitten with a frenzy and his wit and reason withdrawn’. The symptoms of this sudden ...
Nov 9, 2009 · In 1422, Henry VI succeeded his father Henry V and became King of England—at just nine months old. Thanks to his father’s military conquests, Henry VI also became the disputed King of France.
When Henry VI King of England was born on 6 December 1421, in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, his father, Henry V King of England, was 35 and his mother, Catherine of Valois, Queen of England, was 20. He married Margaret d'Anjou on 23 April 1445, in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
May 12, 2022 · On 21 May 1471, King Henry VI of England died. Henry holds several significant records. He is the youngest monarch to ascend the throne of England, becoming king at the age of 9 months after the death of his father, Henry V, in 1422. Henry then ruled for 39 years, which is not a record, but is a significant tenure for a medieval monarch.