Henry of England VI of Lancaster

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. He was a king of England 1422 - 1461(though with a regent until 1437) & then from 1470 - 1471, and a claimant to the Kingdom of France from 1422 - 1453.
Henry was the only child and heir of King Henry V of England and therefore great things were expected of him from birth. He succeeded to the throne at the age of nine months on 31 august 1422, when his father died. His mother, Catherine of Valois, was then only twenty years old and as the daughter of King Charles VI of France was viewed with considerable suspicion and prevented from having a full role in her son's upbringing.
On 28 September 1423, the nobles swore loyalty to Henry VI. They summoned Parliament in the King's name and established a regency council, Henry IV's youngest son and Henry VI's uncle, was appointed Protector and Defender of the Realm and the Church until the King came of age, but his appointment was revocable by the Council at any time. His duties were limited to keeping the peace and summoning and dissolving Parliament. Bishop Henry Beaufort (Cardinal from 1426), Henry V's half-uncle, had an important place on the Council. Henry IV's elder surviving son, John, Duke of Bedford, was the senior regent, having been appointed Regent of France (in charge of running the ongoing war) as well as replacing Gloucester as Regent of England whenever Bedford was personally in the country.
From 1428, Henry's tutor was the 13th Earl of Warwick, whose father had been instrumental in the opposition to Richard II's reign. Henry was also influenced by Henry Beaufort. The young king came to favour a policy of peace in France.
Henry's half-brothers, Edmund Tutor, the sons of his widowed mother's relationship with Owen Tudor, were later given earldoms. Edmund Tudor was the father of Henry Tudor, later to gain the throne as Hnery VII of England.
Henry was eventually crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey on 6th November 1429 a month before his eighth birthday, and King of France at Notre Dame in Paris on 16 December 1431. However, he did not assume the reins of government until he was declared of age in 1437\emdash the year in which his mother died.

Henry married Margaret of Anjou. (Margaret of Anjou was born in 1429 and died in 1482.)