1419 In England

Events from the 1410s in England.

Incumbents

*Monarch – Henry IV (to 20 March 1413), then Henry V

Events

* 1410
** Owain Glyndŵr continues his rebellion against England, although a costly English raid into rebel-held Shropshire is believed to have led to the capture of a number of rebel leaders.
* 1411
** 30 November – Henry IV dismisses Henry, Prince of Wales and his allies from the royal council.
* 1412
** May – England allies with the Armagnac party in return for help in regaining control of Aquitaine.
** Owain Glyndŵr cuts through the King's men and captures, later ransoming, a leading Welsh supporter of King Henry's, Dafydd Gam, in an ambush in Brecon. However, this is the last time that Owain is seen by his enemies.
* 1413
** 21 March – Henry V becomes King following the death of his father Henry IV in the "Jerusalem" chamber of Westminster Abbey.
** 9 April – coronation of King Henry V at Westminster Abbey in a snowstorm.
** December – body of Richard II of England re-interred at Westminster Abbey as a gesture of reconciliation.
* 1414
** 9 January – a Lollard rebellion in London is suppressed.
** 27 April – Henry Chichele enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
** August – Henry V claims the throne of France.
**Durham School is founded as a grammar school by Thomas Langley, Prince-Bishop of Durham.
* 1415
** 5 August – Southampton Plot to depose Henry V in favour of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March fails and the ringleaders are executed.
** 13 August – Hundred Years' War: Henry V begins an invasion of Normandy.
** 22 September – Hundred Years' War: English capture Harfleur.
** 25 October – Hundred Years' War: Henry V is victorious over the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
** Henry V offers a pardon to the fugitive Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, but it is refused.
** Twickenham Monastery founded; the last new English monastery of the Middle Ages.
* 1416
** 1 May – Hundred Years' War: French fleet blockades Harfleur.
** 15 August – Hundred Years' War: Harfleur relieved, following a naval battle in the estuary of the Seine.
* 1417
** 23 July – Hundred Years' War: Henry V leads an army of 12,000 men on a new invasion of Normandy.
** 12 August – Henry V begins writing his official correspondence in English, marking the beginning of its restoration as the official language of Government in England.
** 8 September – Hundred Years' War: English capture Caen captured and executed.
** John Capgrave writes ''Chronicle'', a history of England since the creation.Now in Cambridge University Library.
* 1418
** 18 February – Hundred Years' War: English capture Falaise.
** 30 July – Hundred Years' War: English Siege of Rouen begins.
** 22 August – Hundred Years' War: English capture Cherbourg.
* 1419
** 19 January – Hundred Years' War: Rouen falls to the English, who take control of Normandy.
** 30 July – Hundred Years' War: English capture Pontoise.
** 13 October – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for the last time.
** 25 December – Hundred Years' War: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, allies with England against France.

Births

* 1411
** 21 September – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the throne (died 1460)
* 1415
** 3 May – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1495)
** 12 September – John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Duke (died 1461)
** William Worcester, topographer, antiquary and chronicler (died c. 1482)
* 1416
** 26 October – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490)
* 1417
** 23 November – William FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, politician (died 1487)

Deaths

* 1410
** 16 March – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (born c. 1373)
** 13 September – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (born 1389, France)
** John Badby, martyr (year of birth unknown)
** John Gower, poet (born c. 1330)
* 1411
** September – Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge (born 1390)
* 1412
** Walter Froucester, Abbot of Gloucester
* 1413
** 25 January – Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (born 1345)
** 20 March – King Henry IV (born 1367)
* 1414
** 19 February – Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1353)
** 1 September – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer (born 1369)
* 1415
** 19 July – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (plague) (born 1359)
** 5 August – Southampton Plot ringleaders (executed)
*** Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (born c. 1375)
*** Thomas Grey (born 1384)
*** Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (born c. 1376)
** August or September – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (killed in battle) (born 1367)
** 13 October – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (born 1381)
** 25 October (Battle of Agincourt)
*** Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (born 1394)
*** Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (born 1373)
* 1417
** 4 September – Robert Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury (year of birth unknown)
** 14 December – John Oldcastle, Lollard leader (year of birth unknown)
* 1418
** 25 November – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (born 1401)
* 1419
** 3 September – Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter and Lord Chancellor of England (born 1344)
** 17 December – William Gascoigne, Chief Justice (born c. 1350)

References

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