On This Day In Royal History . 2 June 1420 . King Henry V married Catherine of Valois . . ◼ Henry V had been king for seven years when he married Catherine of Valois, daughter of King Charles VI of France. . ▪️ On 2 June 1420, Henry married Catherine at the Parish Church of St John or at Troyes Cathedral. . ◼ It was a supremely triumphant affair, attended by nobles & royalty from both England & France, & King James I of Scotland, a long-term but honoured prisoner in England, was also present. . ◼ Henry, now aged thirty-two, was at the height of his popularity & the coronation of his attractive nineteen year old queen was a cause for great rejoicing. A contemporary French chronicler, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, remarked that from the time that Catherine arrived at Dover ‘she was received as if she had been an angel of God.’ . ◼ Catherine gave birth to a son named Henry (later King Henry VI of England) on 6 December 1421 at Windsor. Her husband never saw their child. During the siege of Meaux, he became sick with dysentery & died on 31 August 1422, just before his 36th birthday. . ◼ Catherine was not quite 21 & was left a queen dowager. Charles VI died a couple of months after Henry V, making the young Henry VI king of England & English-occupied northern France. Catherine doted on her son during his early childhood. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1420 #d2jun #RoyalWedding #HenryV #KingHenryV #HenryVofEngland #KingHenryVofEngland #CatherineofValoise #History #HouseofPlantagenet #HouseofLancaster #EnglishMonarchy #OTD #BritishMonarchy #Historyfacts #Instahistory #Royalhistory #Wedding #Medieval #Weddingceremony #Troyes #France #Historyfacts (at Troyes, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8WyyyjDo1/?igshid=1rvpmymg60h83