Map of the Agincourt battleground. Taken from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas’ book
Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas’ 1827 work The History of the Battle of Agincourt, an in-depth account of the battle drawn from further contemporary accounts – and one which includes the ‘roll of the men at arms in the English Army’; or, to give the full description: the “names of the Dukes, Erles, Barons, Knights, Esquires, Serviteuers and others that wer with the Excellent Prince King Henry the Fifte, at the Battell of Agincourt, on Fryday, the XXVth Day of October, in the Yere of our Lorde God, 1415”.” Perhaps your ancestor was one of these men, Shakespeare’s “few…happy few…band of brothers”?
I wanted to finish sketching the main characters of the Wars of the Roses, but this thought was interrupted by an image of Queen Katherine de Valois, which was trying to cross my mind. Although her costume was inspired by an illustration which depicted this Queen, I really wanted to leave her hair on her shoulders, exactly as it is depicted in a manuscript. While she is fulfilling her most important role as Queen, it seems that her husband, Henry V, is just as busy conquering new territories!
As a personal note, I want to say that despite the fact that I admire the story between her and Owen Tudor, for one reason or another I prefer her with the King, hihi!
