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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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Paternal Family Tree: Cornwallis
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Jones 1681
On 28 Nov 1722 [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis (age 22) and [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis were married.
On 31 Dec 1738 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis (age 38) and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
On 23 Jun 1762 [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis (age 62) died. His son Charles (age 23) succeeded 2nd Earl Cornwallis, 6th Baron Cornwallis.
On 14 Jul 1768 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 29) and Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis were married. She by marriage Countess Cornwallis. He the son of Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis.
On 28 Jun 1769 [his daughter] Mary Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 30) and [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 19 Oct 1774 [his son] Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 35) and [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 14 Apr 1779 [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis died.
Between 28 Sep 1781 and 19 Oct 1781 the 1781 Battle of Yorktown was fought was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington (age 49) and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over British Army troops commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis (age 42).
Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and Charles Gould aka Morgan 2nd Baronet (age 21) were captured.
Around 1782 Thomas Gainsborough (age 54). Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 43).
Around 1783 Thomas Gainsborough (age 55). Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 44).
On 01 Dec 1785 [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis died.
In 1786 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 47) created new Garter Knights as follows:
601st Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn (age 18),
602nd Ernest Augustus King Hanover (age 14),
603rd Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex (age 12),
604th Adolphus Hanover 1st Duke Cambridge (age 11),
605th William Elector of Hesse (age 42),
606th Henry Somerset 5th Duke Beaufort (age 41),
607th George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham (age 32),
608th Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 47).
In 1792 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 53) was created 1st Marquess Cornwallis.
Around 1792 Arthur William Devis (age 29). Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 53).
1795 John Singleton Copley (age 56). Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 56).
On 17 Apr 1795 [his son] Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis (age 20) and [his daughter-in-law] Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon (age 51) and Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon (age 47). He the son of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 56) and [his former wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 25 Mar 1802 the United Kingdom and the French Repulic signed the Treaty of Amiens bringing to an end the War of the Second Coalition. The peace laster for fifteen months only.
The Treaty was signed by:
Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 63), United Kingdom
Joseph Bonaparte (age 34), French Republic
José Nicolás de Azara, Spain
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Batavian Republic
On 05 Oct 1805 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis (age 66) died at Gauspur, Ghazipur. His son [his son] Charles (age 30) succeeded 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, 3rd Earl Cornwallis, 7th Baron Cornwallis. [his daughter-in-law] Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis (age 28) by marriage Marchioness Cornwallis.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cornwallis 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Cornwallis 1st Baron Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Meautys 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 2nd Baron Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ashburnham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ashburnham 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Beaumont 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 3rd Baron Cornwallis 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Playstead
GrandFather: Charles Cornwallis 4th Baron Cornwallis 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fox of Farley Wiltshire 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Stephen Fox
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christian Palfreyman
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fox Baroness Cornwallis
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Whittle of the City of London
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Whittle
Father: Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Butler 11th Earl Ormonde 4th Earl Ossory 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Butler Countess Ormonde and Ossory 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sydenham 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Butler 1st Earl Arran 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Preston of Whitehill in Midlothian 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Butler 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Charlotte Butler Baroness Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Ferrers 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Ferrers 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Lusty" Pakington 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Pakington Countess Chesterfield
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Ferrers Countess Arran 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Carlton 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Dudley Carlton 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Carlton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Townshend
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Townshend 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Stanhope Baroness Berkeley 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Townshend 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nathaniel Bacon 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Bacon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Gresham 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Joseph Ashe 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend
Mother: Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Walsingham Baroness Pelham Laughton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Pelham 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Gamage Countess Leicester 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney Baroness Pelham Laughton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Jones of Stowey Somerset
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Jones
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jones