Posts Tagged ‘Henry VI’
23 APRIL 1445
Wedding of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou
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25 MARCH 1458
‘Love Day’ at St Paul’s. An attempt at reconciliation between the opposing Yorkists and Lancastrians, loyal to Henry VI, to resolve the feud resulting from the 1st Battle of St Albans (22 May 1455). Then, on Lady Day (25 March), the King led a “love day” procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral, with Lancastrian and Yorkist nobles following him, hand in hand, among them Richard, Duke of York, with Queen Margaret of Anjou.
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23 MARCH 1430
Birth of Margaret of Anjou, daughter of Rene, Duke of Lorraine and Anjou, and niece of King Charles VII of France, at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine. Married to Henry VI of England.
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16 DECEMBER 1431
Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris
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6 DECEMBER 1421
Birth of Henry VI of England at Windsor
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6 NOVEMBER 1429
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24 MAY 1444
Proxy marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou.
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21 OR 22 MAY 1471
Death of Henry VI in the Tower
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Richard Duke of York Knighted
On Whitsunday, 19 May 1426, Henry VI was knighted in St Mary de Castro, Leicester, by his uncle, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford. Then the only four-year-Richard, Duke of York, old Henry knighted 44 others, foremost among them Richard, duke of York (father of Edward IV and Richard III).
Source:
William Arthur Shaw, The Knights of England. Vol.1. Sherratt and Hughes, London, 1906, pp.130-132
Dorothea Preis
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