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Henry V of England was an English king, born on September 16, 1387. He was knighted twice. The first was at the age of 12, in the middle of an Irish battlefield (1399), by the sword of Richard II. The English king took young Henry to combat as a hostage to ensure the good behavior of his father Henry of Lancaster, a political opponent of the crown.
Prisoner and all, the boy demonstrated his courage against the Irish rebels, which earned him this first accolade. The second opportunity was by his father Henry IV (who had already overthrown and had Richard II murdered and usurped the throne), one day before Richard II's coronation and his own ascension to the Principality of Wales.
The following year, 1400, Henry IV sent his son to suppress a great rebellion by a Welsh chief who claimed the principality for himself.
In less than two years, the young man managed to put down the rebellion, including the armies of two English chiefs who had joined him. From the Welsh warriors the young Enrique would learn the guerrilla tactics that he would later apply in France.
On the death of Henry IV (March 20, 1413), Henry ascended the throne as Henry V, and from the beginning of his reign it was his main objective to claim for England the French possessions that he considered his own: the duchies of Aquitaine, Guyenne, Gascony and Normandy, which at that time meant, more or less, a third of the kingdom of France.
Henry V dies at the Castle of Vincennes, on August 31, 1422, sixteen days before his 35th birthday. His body was taken to England and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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