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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Effigy of Isabel d'Angouleme, Queen of King John is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
ISABEL D'ANGOULESME was the third and last wife of King John. She was daughter and inheritrix of Aymer Earl of Angoulesme. Her mother was Alice, daughter of Peter Lord of Courtenay, fifth son of Louis le Gros. She was married to King John in the first year of his reign, and crowned his queen on the 8th of October. She had issue by him, Henry (afterwards Henry III.); Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans; Joan, married to Alexander the Second, King of the Scots; Eleanor, married to William Mareschal the younger, Earl of Pembroke; then to Simon de Montfort, the celebrated Earl of Leicester, who was slain at the battle of Evesham; and lastly, Isabel, who became the sixth and last wife of Frederick the Second, Emperor of Germany.
Surviving King John, she married Hugh Brun, Earl of Marche, and Lord of Lusignan and Valence, in Poitou. By him she had several children, some of whom were much advanced by Henry the Third, their half-brother, as William de Valence, created Earl of Pembroke; and Athelmar, raised to the Bishopric of Winchester. On the death of the Earl of Marche she took the veil at the monastery of Fontevraud, and was at first unceremoniously interred in the churchyard of that place; her body was however taken up by order of her son, Henry the Third, and the effigy which is delineated placed over her remains.
Details. Plate 1. The camise, fermail, patterns on the border of the tunic and girdle. Plate II. Pattern of the border of the mantle.
