Henry V of Englang

Henry V of England

Henry V (August/September 1386/7 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his early death in 1422. He was the second English monarch of the House of Lancaster. Despite his short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France, most notably in his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, made England one of the foremost military powers in Europe. Immortalised in the plays of Shakespeare, Henry is known and celebrated as one of the great warrior kings of medieval England.

The uncertainty about Henry’s date of birth stems from the different ways of expressing it chosen by writers of the time. These are as follows: (a) a clear date, e.g. 16 September 1386 (John Rylands University of Manchester Library, French Ms 54). (b) Henry is said to have been in his twenty-sixth year (i.e. he was twenty-five years old) when he was crowned in April 1413. (c) Henry’s death on 31 August 1422 occurred in a particular year of his life (e.g. in the thirty-sixth year of his age (i.e. he was thirty-five years old). First English Life of King Henry the Fifth, ed. C.L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1911), p. 182). If he was born on 9 August, this gives the year as 1387, if on 16 September (the feast of St Edith, as some contemporaries pointed out), Henry must have been born in 1386. See C.L. Kingsford, ‘The early biographies of Henry V’, FAIR, 25 (1910), 62. (d) Writing in 1896, J.H. Wylie chose August 1386 (History of England under Henry the Fourth (4 vols, London, 1884 98), iii, 323-4). W.T. Waugh, author with Wylie of The reign of Henry the Fifth (3 vols, Cambridge, 1914-29, iii, 427), claimed 16 September 1387 as ‘correct’. The Times used to favor 16 September; the Independent recorded both the August and September dates (for 1387). [Henry V, Christopher Allmand, Early years, note 2]

Our choice is 16 September 1387.

See Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole Ms 393, fos 109-11; Ms 192, pt iii, fos 26-36; and M. Carey, ‘Astrology and divination in later medieval England’ (Univ. of Oxford D.Phil, thesis, 1984), p. 19.
See also : Courting Disaster, Carey, p. 253.

almutens

speculum

recall : DOM is the planet nearest from MC. MO and SA are unfortunate.

rays

- worst ray : MO square Sa
- best ray : MA conj JU

parallels

hyleg - alchocoden

notes :
- MO square SA = -25 (lesser years of MO) because of the affliction of the two planets.
- there is no ray between SA and SU, but three dignities (term, tri and Exn).

primary directions

- square SU (z) conj SA

Zodiacal converse direction of ray square SU.