Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine (original) (raw)

Article contents

• Infancy and accession, 1422
• Childhood and the protectorate, 1423–1429
• English and French coronations, 1429–1432
• The king's adolescence, 1432–1436
• The ending of the minority, 1436–1437
• Early personal rule: the problem of France, 1437–1444
• A Christian prince
• The king's household and advisers
• Henry's marriage, 1444–1449
• Unrest and rebellion, 1449–1450
• Political divisions, 1450–1453
• The king's illness, 1453–1454
• The approach of civil war, 1454–1456
• Failing kingship, 1456–1459
• Henry's downfall and captivity, 1460–1470
• The restoration and death of Henry VI, 1470–1471
• Estimate
• Sources
• Archives
• Likenesses

National Archives of the United Kingdom, Public Record Office, London

All Souls College, Oxford

English Historical Review

National Portrait Gallery, London

King's College, Cambridge

T. Rymer & R. Sanderson, eds., Foedera, conventiones, literae et cuiuscunque generis acta publica inter reges Angliae et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes, vel communitates, 20 vols. (1704–35); 2nd edn, 20 vols. (1726–35); 3rd edn, 10 vols. (1739–45); new edn, ed. A. Clarke, J. Caley, & F. Holbrooke, 4 vols., RC, 50 (1816–69); facs. of 3rd edn (1967)

J. Strachey, ed., Rotuli parliamentorum ut et petitiones, et placita in parliamento, 6 vols. (1767–77)

Chancery records (Public Record Office)