Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Prince: The Finances of ‘the young lord Henry’, 1386–1400
- 2 Henry V's Establishment: Service, Loyalty and Reward in 1413
- 3 Henry V, Lancastrian Kingship and the Far North of England
- 4 Henry V's Suppression of the Oldcastle Revolt
- 5 Religion, Court Culture and Propaganda: The Chapel Royal in the Reign of Henry V
- 6 ‘Par le special commandement du roy’. Jewels and Plate Pledged for the Agincourt Expedition
- 7 Henry V and the Cheshire Tax Revolt of 1416
- 8 Henry V and the English Taxpayer
- 9 Henry V, Flower of Chivalry
- 10 War, Government and Commerce: The Towns of Lancastrian France under Henry V's Rule, 1417–22
- 11 Writing History in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Goodwin's The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth (1704)
- Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
2 - Henry V's Establishment: Service, Loyalty and Reward in 1413
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Prince: The Finances of ‘the young lord Henry’, 1386–1400
- 2 Henry V's Establishment: Service, Loyalty and Reward in 1413
- 3 Henry V, Lancastrian Kingship and the Far North of England
- 4 Henry V's Suppression of the Oldcastle Revolt
- 5 Religion, Court Culture and Propaganda: The Chapel Royal in the Reign of Henry V
- 6 ‘Par le special commandement du roy’. Jewels and Plate Pledged for the Agincourt Expedition
- 7 Henry V and the Cheshire Tax Revolt of 1416
- 8 Henry V and the English Taxpayer
- 9 Henry V, Flower of Chivalry
- 10 War, Government and Commerce: The Towns of Lancastrian France under Henry V's Rule, 1417–22
- 11 Writing History in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Goodwin's The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth (1704)
- Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
Summary
That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.
(William Shakespeare, Henry IV, pt II, Act V, scene v)To whom did Henry V turn to help establish his rule in the early years of his reign? This, in essence, is the question which I shall address in the following discussion. It centres on the dynamics of the transition of power and the relative balance between continuity and change that can be observed by considering who the ‘winners’ and who the ‘losers’ were in 1413. The subject of who Henry retained in his company once he became king holds special interest in light of his reputation as a play-boy Prince who kept bad company and lived a life of excess. There is the well-known account in the Brut which suggested that Henry had a lot of growing up to do in 1413. Fully aware of his shortcomings, Henry is said to have purged himself of those who had led him astray during his more carefree days as Prince – men who had addressed him with the sort of inappropriate familiarity for which Richard II had been criticized at the end of his reign – before surrounding himself with only those individuals who he could count on to give him sound advice and counsel.
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- Henry VNew Interpretations, pp. 35 - 76Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013