History of the Battle of Agincourt

About the middle of the year 1414, Henry the Fifth, influenced by the persuasions of Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying injunction of his royal father not to allow the kingdom to remain long at peace, or, more probably, by those feelings of ambition which were no less natural to his youth and personal character, than consonant with the manners of the times in which he lived, resolved to assert that claim to the crown of France, which his great-grandfather, Edward the Third, urged with such confidence and success... She was asked to surrender the sovereignty of the duchies of Normandy and Touraine, and the earldoms of Anjou and Maine; the duchy of Britany and the earldom and lands of Flanders, together with all other parts of the duchy of Acquitaine; the territories which had been ceded to Edward the Third by the treaty of Bretigny; and the lands between the Somme and the Graveling, which were to be held by Henry and his heirs without any claim of superiority on the part of Charles or his successors. To these demands were added the county of Provence, with the castles and lordships of Beaufort and Nogent, and the arrears of the ransom of King John, amounting to sixteen hundred thousand crowns, two of which were equal to an English noble. The ambassadors also intimated that the marriage with Katherine would not take place unless a firm peace was established with France, and that two millions of crowns were expected as her dowry...