5. An English King for France

Conflicts between the houses of Burgundy and Orléans continued. This time John, Duke of Burgundy, was assassinated by one of the Dauphin’s party. As a reaction to that, his heir allied with Henry, coming to terms in the Treaty of Troyes in 1420.

Henry V of England married daughter of the Valois King so automatically he became his heir. In return, England would continue the war against Orléans and their allies, which included the Dauphin. Decades later, in Wide’s records, a monk said: “This is the hole through which the English entered France”; when he was observing the skull of Duke John. The Treaty allowed the English and Burgundian to seize largely the north of France while the south was still under the control of the Valois heir to France and the Orléans faction. In August 1422, Henry died and shortly after the mad French King Charles VI followed. Consequently, Henry’s nine-month-old son became king of both England and France with north France acknowledgement.