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.
