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Daily Double: Agincourt

October 24th, 2009 Headsman

No medieval* battle in Christendom is better-known to the present-day hoi polloi than the Battle of Agincourt, that signal upset victory when young King Henry V and his invading English yeoman archers stunned a seemingly unbeatable force of French knights by outsmarting them like Belichik versus Martz.

This battle’s interpretive palimpsest — is it a parable of nascent capitalism? of national character? of technology? — has been much-bandied in the centuries since (and must weigh against England’s subsequent reversals in the Hundred Years’ War). This site’s interest is more parochial: the presence among the casualties of those who died by execution.

* If you want to call the early 15th century “medieval.” We stake no periodization claim.

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  • 1. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    [...] Henry V, when the disguised monarch goes slumming with the common soldiery on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt. [...]

  • 2. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    [...] Montagu’s surviving family had the verdict reversed within three years, which would have been a better deal for them had the family’s main branch not been wiped out three years after that at the Battle of Agincourt. [...]

  • 3. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 24th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    [...] Daily Double: Agincourt [...]

  • 4. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 25th, 2009 at 3:42 am

    [...] Part of the Daily Double: Agincourt. [...]

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