American Reacts Henry V: England’s Greatest Warrior King

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Yeah I’ll react to that sure okay hey guys let’s learn Henry the 5th one of the kings that I have heard isn’t there a Shakespeare play called uh anyways it’s a king of England that I know very little about and I want to learn let’s learn preemptive like

Original link to the video top of the description my name’s Connor if you’re new go/ biographics or just click the link in the description below and now today’s video King Henry V too famous to live long England n lost a king of so much worth those are the immortal words of

William Shakespeare used to describe our subject in today’s video King Henry V had a short life and an even shorter Reign so why is he remembered as one of England’s greatest monarchs three simple words Battle of adenor widly considered one of England’s greatest victories against perennial enemy France it turned

The tide in the 100 Years War and poised Henry to become the Dual monarch of both Nations whether or not this actually happens well let’s find out as we explore the life and the reign of Henry V Henry was born at Monmouth castle in the Welsh town of the same name hence why he is also commonly known as Henry of Monmouth strangely enough nobody’s really sure when he was born although we know that he eventually became King Shakespeare did write a play about him

Right okay he did all right so this was written in 1599 which means to Shakespeare the Hundred Years War like how how far before him writing the play did this occur 300 250 years and he was not in the line of succession at first so nobody bothered to record his birth in

The official records the two most frequently used St nobody’s really sure when he was born although we know that he eventually became king he was not in the line of succession at first so nobody bothered to record his birth in the official records the two most frequently used dates are September the

16th 1386 and August the 9th 1387 Henry was the eldest of six children to Henry balling Brook September baby we the best mared ban his mother and was the oldest of six children to Henry balling Brook and Mary de ban his mother died in 1394 after giving birth to her final child

While his father took the throne of England by force from his cousin Richard II and became King Henry IV in 1399 once his father ascended to the throne he named Henry of Monmouth as his air and granted him several titles such as Prince of Wales and Duke of Lancaster

Although he did not expect it Henry embraced his new role considering it his Destiny to one day rule over England and conquer France he was enthusiastic when it came to learning all aspects of government but he was absolutely enthralled when it came to military matters that being said he was still a

Young man one with absolute wealth power and privilege and he’d like to use them to his Advantage when it came to letting his hair down several medieval sources described Henry as being somewhat of a party boy in his youth or an acidious cultivator of lasciviousness to use contemporary viance however it seems

That he got over his wild teenage phase pretty fast by the time he ascended to the throne he was better known for his piety than his partying from a young age it became clear that Henry was a skilled Warrior and Commander his father King Henry IV not only encouraged his son’s

Interest in all things military but practically demanded it he knew that all the books and training in the world were no substitute for the real thing so he thrust his son into the heat of battle from an early age this was partially done out of sorry I hit myself in the Family

Jewels down there contemporary and that that was not fun however it seemed that he got over his wild teenage phase pretty fast and by the time he ascended to the throne he was better known for his piety than his partying from a young age it became clear that Henry was a

Skilled Warrior and Commander his father King Henry IV not only encouraged his son’s interest in all things military but practically demanded it he knew that all the books and training in the world were no substitute for the real thing so he thrust his son into the heat of

Battle from an early age this was partially done out of necessity since King Henry IV had to contend with several rebellions during his Reign and he needed all the good commanders that he could get his hands on Prince Henry of Monmouth distinguished himself at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 when he was

Only 16 years old against his former guardian and teacher Sir Henry Hotspur Percy although Hotspur had originally been an ally of Henry IV and helped him seize power from Richard II he eventually rebelled and managed to amass a large army of people who wanted the king gone from the throne the battle

Turned into a decisive victory for King Henry IV after hotspo was killed in battle but the king almost lost his Heir when Prince Henry of Monmouth was injured in battle and this wasn’t any paper cut either the 16-year-old Henry nearly died after being shot in the head

With a freaking Arrow when he was brought to the hospital Henry still had the arrow embedded deep in his skull but he made a miraculous recovery thanks to the Royal surgeon John Bradmore and as a unique treat Bradmore not only man didn’t this also happen at uh uh Hastings with with

Godwinson or someone and they had to make that tool or is this where they had to do it man to save the prince’s life but also wrote a treat us detailing his treatments which still survives to this day here is how the surgeon described the ordeal the son inir was struck by an

Arrow next to his nose on the left side during the battle of shrewbury the arrow entered at an angle and the head of the air forceed Arrow remained in the furthermost part of the bone of the skull for the depth of 6 in first I made

Small probes from the pith of an elder well dried and well stitched in putrified linen the length of the W I hope not putrified linen purified not putrified big difference these well dried and well stitched in putrified linen the length of the wound these probes were infused

With rose honey BS after that I made larger and longer probes so that I continue to always enlarg these probes until I had the width and depth of the wound as I wished and so after I prepared a new some tongs small and Hollow and with these the width of an

Arrow I put these tongs in at an angle in the same way as the arrow had first entered then placed the screw in the center and finally the tongs entered the socket of the Arrow Head then by moving it to and fro little by little I extracted the arroe head and then I

Cleanse the wound with a so it like goes in like this and then it gets in the arrowhead and then goes like that to grip the Arrow Head and then and then pull it out it’s pretty ingenious syringe full of white wine and placed in new probes made of Wads of flax soaked

In a cleansing ointment and from the second day I shortened the said wads every two days and thus within 20 days the wound was perfectly well cleansed and afterwards I regenerated the flesh with a dark ointment and note that I always anointed him on the neck every

Day in the morning and evening with an it’s it’s so genius because instead of like sealing up the wound where it’s going to like rather than sealing up the wound at the entrance after you get it out and then have it heal from the inside and then maybe cause some complications and

Infection having it like shortening it and having the very base heel and then on top of that heel and on top of that heel all the way to the top that’s super smart the wound was perfectly well cleansed and afterwards I regenerated the flesh with a dark ointment and note

That I always anointed him on the neck every day in the morning and evening with an ointment to soothe the muscles and placed a hot plaster on top on account of fear of spasm which was my greatest fear and thus thanks to God it was perfectly cured as you might imagine taking an

Arrow to the face in the middle of a battle and living to talk about it and Henry some serious bragging rights with his soldiers this was his first fight and already the prince developed a reputation as a mighty warrior even with the dorky bow haircut that he tended to

Sport and it didn’t take long before Prince Henry was back in the saddle both figuratively and literally ready to take part in his next conflict yeah I had the bll haircut when I was like uh four five five years old repping that not as I guess fully bald on the side B haircut

That he didn’t to Sport and it didn’t take long before Prince Henry was back in the saddle both figuratively and literally ready to take part in his next conflict this one wasn’t so easily solved though in 1400 the Welsh leader Owen glinder instigated a Revolt with

The goal of ending English rule in Wales he turned into a formidable foe who kept King Henry IV busy for years to come and in a way even bested him as he sounded all the energy from the English king who felt his body begin to fail him even

Though he was still in his late 30s as a result of this Henry of Monmouth Ed taking a more active role in his father’s government aided by his uncles with free reign the prince decided to switch tactics when it came to dealing with glinder instead of the traditional

Raids and skirmishes he adopted a war of attrition by setting up garrisons in strategic locations to cut off his enemy supply routes this forced the Welsh leader to retreat into his main strongholds which Henry then attacked with Siege weapons meanwhile he also offered pardons to gl’s allies many of

Which took them when they saw the tide turning against them in 1409 glinder lost his last of safety har CLE and was forced to retreat into the mountains from there he conducted the occasional raid but he wasn’t a serious threat anymore oh Englander disappeared completely from the historical record in

1412 and his ultimate fate remains a mystery it said that only his direct descendants know the location of his final resting place and they’re not in a sharing mood as far as Henry of Monmouth was concerned he impressed a lot of people with his military and ministerial

Skills despite his young age by 1410 the prince had become the deao ruler of the country as the commander of so was that the arrow to the head story that I’m thinking about or was there two or even three instances of this of a kingly you know princely person getting shot in the

Head and then getting the arrow head out by the surgeon is this that story it was that the story or is there another one I’m thinking of okay of the royal Council by 1410 the prince had become the deao ruler of the country as the commander of the royal Council but he

Soon found himself at odds with his father the two of them disagreed over policies specifically when it came to France and although the prince had his supporters his father was still the king and his word was Final fed up with his son’s eager and rious nature King Henry

IV dismissed him from the council entirely in 1411 however he did not take any more drastic steps such as naming a new air this meant that for the prince it simply became a waiting game one that didn’t take very long on March the 20th 1413 Henry IV’s unknown Affliction

Finally claimed his life after years of poor health the following months Henry theth was s the new king of England now that Henry was The Man In Charge he adopted a conciliatory approach let bygones be bygones he thought as he wanted to rule over a United Nation and also move away from

His father’s Legacy as many regarded him as a bit of a tyrant Henry restored titles and properties to many noblemen who had been dispossessed by his father Chief among them Edmund Mortimer who had been for allying himself with Henry hearts for Percy Mortimer had been air presumptive to King Richard II so he

Would have ruled England if Henry IV had not taken Power by force even now he still had the second strongest claim to the throne after Henry the so it was a shoot is that the Lion Heart one big gamble he still had the second strongest

Claim to the throne after Henry V so it was a big gamble on behalf of the new king to release Edmund Mortimer from prison let alone restore his old Authority fortunately for Henry the gamble paid off Mortimer knew not to bite the hand that fend him instead of

Fighting again over the top position and possibly dying or ending up in prison once more mortim is okay with playing second fiddle and became one of Henry’s most trusted counselors he remained loyal even after the King’s death and served part of the Regency Council to Henry’s infant son who became the new

King of course not everyone was a fan of Henry V F as is often the case when a new ruler takes power especially one so young there are people who see it as an opportunity to sew the seeds of chaos thinking that the unestablished inexperienced King will be a bit of a

Pushover there are two such instances during Henry’s Reign that we should cover before getting to his Shenanigans in France first the were the lards recent religious movement initiated by Theologian John wer a few decades earlier up until Henry’s Reign they were mostly tolerated but he felt they were

Starting to gain too much traction so he wanted to stop their momentum by arresting some of their more prominent members instead the lards decided to fight back and an uprising to place in 1414 led by one of Henry’s closest friends s John Oldcastle previously the king had even stayed old Castle’s

Execution when he had been sentenced to death for heresy but for the night his beliefs trumped his friendship with the King yet a few hundred conspirators tried to sneak into Henry’s Palace in Disguise but their poorly planed plot had already been uncovered by the king’s spies and they proved no match for the

Troops waiting for them or Carson himself managed to escape while his co-conspirators were all hanged or burned at the stake but his freedom was only tempor sorry so heresy was just like saying something that went against whatever version of Christianity they had is that what heresy is Blas heresy

And if that is that’s insane I would go crazy I’d be executed not because I’d want to be executed but because I just wouldn’t if I like wait this doesn’t really make much sense what’s going on at this part like heresy I would I’d go crazy okay sorry

Three years later oras was cap oh that that would be me that’ be me right there captured and executed by being burned alive over a slow fire lovely the other conspiracy against Henry the fth took place in 1414 and was known as the Southampton plot or the Cambridge plot

Named after its main instigator Richard of coins third Earl of Cambridge here alongside Lord scrope and S Thomas Gray were noblemen still loyal to the former King Richard II who believe that his air the aforementioned Edward Mortimer was the rightful King of England their plan was to assassinate Henry thus Paving the

Way for Mortimer to claim the throne they didn’t get a chance to establish how they were actually going to do this because their little Intrigue was soon exposed to the King by none other than Edmund Mortimer himself as we said the former air had consigned himself to the

Role of sidekick as soon as he was informed of the plot he was like I want nothing to do with this you people are going to get me killed so he went straight to the king and told him everything swearing that he had nothing to do with it for

I respect it for him the king believed him as far as the other three were concerned though despite calls for clemency wait were they were they doing that on his behalf and then he went over there of sidekick up assassinate Henry thus Paving the Mortimer to claim the

Throne they didn’t get a chance to establish how they were actually going to do this because their little Intrigue was soon exposed to the King by none other than Edmund Mortimer himself oh God wait am I getting that right it’s like all right we’re going to put you on

The throne we got to assassinate this guy who’s your rival we can get you there okay I’ll be right back oh God as we said the former aood imagine like the I just imagine them like going to their execution and then seeing Mortimer who turned them in to help him and mor were

Just like being like Oh uh a nice day consigned himself to the role of sidekick as soon as he was informed of the plot he was like I want nothing to do with this you people are going to get me killed so he went straight to the king and told him

Everything swearing that he had nothing to do with it fortunately for him I mean I’m not saying it’s not reasonable but uh as far as the other three were concerned though despite calls for clemency it was off with their heads now the M England Sor it’s like who gave us in Mor had

Been settled Henry the was finally able to do what had always been wanting to do ever since he was still a counselor for his father invade France Henry’s war against France was part of the larger conflict between the two Nations known the 100 Years War which despite his name actually went on for 116 years it also wasn’t one continuous fight but rather a series of Wars separated by trues when Henry invaded France in 145 there been peace

Between the two sides for over 25 years ever since the time of his grandfather John of G who also spent most of his adult life can I stop talking because then I miss 145 was fight but rather a series of Wars separated by trues when Henry invaded France in 1415 there had

Been peace between the two sides Ides for over 25 years ever since the time of his grandfather John of G who also spent most of his adult life fighting the French the whole Affair kicked off thanks to Henry’s great-grandfather King Edward III of England who said in 1340

That he had the rightful claim to the French throne this was the kind of complicated and incestuous web of Bloodlines that the European Royals were really good at weaving but the gist of it was that Edward III had been the closest male relative to the deceased French King but he was related through

His maternal line the French however wanted someone related through a male bloodline so instead they chose Philip I 6 as their new king of France ever since then the English kings who followed Edward III gave themselves The Unofficial title of King of France just to signify that they had not abandoned

Their claim and that the guy who actually ruled France was just keeping the throne warm for them when Henry V took power he decided that he didn’t want his title to be merely honorific so once matters were settled in England he gathered his army and crossed the

Channel in 1415 his first Target was the port town of half it was a small but important settlement so it was heavily fortified and was able to withstand the English siege for over a month before its inevitable surrender on September the 22nd despite being a military loss

The siege of half Flur was a boon for the French the starters he gave the French King charl I 6 time to muster his troops but it also allowed a deadly wave of dantry to spread and wreak havoc through the English ranks casual the estimates are all over the map but they

Could have totaled a maximum of five ,000 soldiers from both disease and fighting considering that Henry’s initial Army was slightly over 11,000 troops that meant that he probably lost at least a third up to almost half of his army just besieging this little town all of a sudden Henry’s dream of

Conquering France seemed dead in the water but then something happened that bestowed Henry the reputation as one of the greatest military commanders in English history with his army decimated the King was forced to abandon his plan of attacking Paris instead Henry wanted to march to Cal and Retreat to England

To regroup the French of course had no intention of letting him leave quietly they saw their opportunity to crush their Foe and they were absolutely going to take it they met the English army at aenor has there ever been more iconic War sea Crossings during wartime in any bottle of water bottle of

Water bottle of water bottle of water uh body of water than the English Channel I mean there’s so many invasions or attempted invasions over this thing you have the Romans French and and then the English going the other way and then obviously D-Day World War II and I’m

Sure a lot more I’m not thinking of but um I’m sure there was a lot of like Korea to Japan type invasions um and uh of course the aanc I’m sure has a lot between turkey modern day turkey and Greece there is no definitive Source on

The size of the French army some claim 12,000 others all the way up to 30,000 suffice to say that it was significantly larger than more Henry was working with so the French military leaders regarded this fight as a mere bagel on October the 25th 1415 Henry proved them very

Very wrong let’s would they really shoot at each other this close or is this just like the artist wants to put it in frame start with the battlefield although we’re not sure of the exact location of the battle witness accounts said that Henry lured the French army into the

Narrowest section of the field wedged between two wooded areas in order to make it harder for them to maneuver movement was also heavily impeded by thick and slippery mud caused by heavy rains there knowing that the French had a strong Cavalry Henry erected a row of

Sharp stakes in front of his soldiers to stop the enemy’s charge finally he employed his secret weapon the longbow in past battles the English Longbow had proven to be devastatingly effective so the French Knights had no choice but to wear heavy armor that was thick enough to stop the arrows froming through I

Mean sure why why didn’t they replicate the Longbow why if the Longbow is so effective even if you’re like oh we didn’t know what type of wood or string that you had to have killed some people with it that left it behind and then like reverse engineer that thing or see

What kind of wood but I you know the battle but to wear heavy armor that was thick enough to stop the arrows from piercing through supposed to be a gimme for the FR soon turned into an absolute bloodbath the rank andile soldiers were swiftly decimated by The NeverEnding hail of

Arrows whereas the heavily armored men at Arms were exhausted from moving through the muddy terrain and those who fell down found it almost impossible to get up again indeed a large part of the French army wait a second though cuz it’s not like a gun or even you have to

Learn how to use a gun you have to know how to use it as well well as the English so maybe not had not been killed but found it almost impossible to get up again indeed a large part of the French army had not been killed by sharp

English steel but by being suffocated in the mud or getting trampled by friendly forces when it was all said and done Henry stood triumphant next to a giant pile of corpses that numbered up to 6,000 Frenchmen whereas he only lost a few hundred soldiers himself it was an

Overwhelming Victory any way that you looked at it Henry still didn’t have an army big enough to take full advantage of it instead he returned to England where he was greeted as a hero and began making preparations for a new invasion in early 1417 Henry was ready to travel

To France again this time there were no hair raising skin of the teeth moments instead the king preferred a systematic series of sieges of strategically important cities on his way to Paris it took a lot longer and was nowhere near as exciting but it was effective nonetheless by 1419 Henry had taken can

Normandy and Ruan and Paris seemed like an inevitability he was aided by the fact that the French were dealing with their own internal stries and struggles for PA just because they a common enemy did not mean that all the various French factions played nice with each other

Quite the opposite in fact the Duke of burgundy one of the most powerful men in the country favored a diplomatic treaty with Henry because of this he was assassinated in 1419 by his enemies and his son Philip the good Allied himself with England and help to negotiate a

Treaty between Henry and Charles I 6 the king of France on May the 21st 1420 England and France signed the Treaty of Troys Charles I 6 disinherited his eldest son the Deon Charles iith and married his daughter Katherine of valir to Henry who became the new regions of France and had his

Bloodline recognized as a rightful successor to the French throne in other words Charles was allowed to remain King while he lived but once he bit the dust the crown Ed to Henry or his sons on paper Henry had accomplished his goals however he knew that actually getting the treaty inforced was another matter

Because there was an ongoing power struggle in France some factions had Allied themselves with the Doon and some kept fighting the English hoping to reinstate Charles iith as the air they even brought in the Scottish on their side since they were always down to kill a few Englishmen this left Henry no

Choice but to return to France in 1429 for his third military campaign this one however would prove to be his last at first things went well Henry Once Again adopted the sa strategy of prolonged sieges until his opponent surrendered but just like at half lure dentry swept

Through the English camp and the King himself fell prey to its noxious clutches ultimately it wasn’t the arrows or swords of his enemies that befell King Henry V but a lethal illness which took his life suddenly on August the 31st 1422 Henry was only 35 years old at

The time of his death and he was quickly followed by the French King who died two months later this meant that his infant son Henry V 6 became the new king of England and France but as you might expect a lot of people weren’t too keen

On the idea so the 100 Years War resumed once more so I hope you enjoyed today’s video quick plug here at the end if you enjoyed today’s biographics which has a lot of War content in it then I imagine you’re going to like my new channel War

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Just become a big deal when he when he became king he was already that way so very interesting I love learning about this stuff along with you guys hope you’re all doing well would appreciate if you lik to subscribed and hopefully I’ll see you next video bye guys