. Historical portraits ... ian family, which ruled in the Low Countriesand had great influence over all the north of France. At lastin 1420 the poor King of France gave up the struggle and concludedat Troyes a peace, by which he recognized Henry as Regentand heir of France and gave him his daughter Katharine to in 1421 Henry and Katharine landed at Dover, and inJune Henry had to return to his sorry task of holding down hisprospective kingdom of France by the sword. His last act wasthe capture of Meaux, during the siege of which he becameseriously ill. He died at Vincennes on August
. Historical portraits ... ian family, which ruled in the Low Countriesand had great influence over all the north of France. At lastin 1420 the poor King of France gave up the struggle and concludedat Troyes a peace, by which he recognized Henry as Regentand heir of France and gave him his daughter Katharine to in 1421 Henry and Katharine landed at Dover, and inJune Henry had to return to his sorry task of holding down hisprospective kingdom of France by the sword. His last act wasthe capture of Meaux, during the siege of which he becameseriously ill. He died at Vincennes on August 31, 1422, in thethirty-sixth year of his age. It is before all things as a conqueror that Henry V is pre-eminent. That he reallv believed his claim to the French crownto be founded in justice seems, in the case of such an intelligentman, to be impossible; but it suited him to say that he believedit. In the prosecution of this claim he spared no pains and intendedto make his conquests permanent. He covered the whole of this. HENRY V From the picture in the National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown Face /. S HENRY V 9 ambitious policy with a mantle of religion, which may have beenfanaticism or may have been hypocrisy, but which, at any rate, wasan essential part of the popular and plausible Lancastrian always said that he intended to unite the crowns of the twogreat Western nations with a view to a crusade for the deliveranceof the Holy Sepulchre ; he was a considerable reader of religiousand crusading literature, and he took a keen interest in thehealing of the schism then existing in the Western Church. Sucha character, backed up by a firm hand in domestic administration,made Henry not only a successful and popular ruler at home, butalso to some extent a national hero to after generations. Of hisabihty on the battle-field and especially in siege-craft there canbe no doubt; but his legacy to his country was a reopening ofthe terrible French war, and this again bequea
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