This is the second volume of a comprehensive chronological history of
fifteenth century England. This four-volume set begins in 1397, a necessary
prelude to the rise of Henry IV, and carries through to 1509 and the
death of Henry VII. The series includes inter-related chronologies of Scotland,
Wales, Ireland, France, Burgundy and Brittany. Volume II covers from 1423
and the beginning of the reign of Henry VI, through to 1449, as the English
lose most of their French empire. In the process, it covers most of the last years
of the final phase of the Hundred Years War, as the English struggle to hold
on to their French conquests, and lays some of the groundwork for start of the
Wars of the Roses. It covers land and naval battles, parliaments and great council
meetings, and the lives and deaths of many hundreds of prominent English,
Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, Burgundian and Breton persons.
