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Although he had to withstand early conspiracies by dissident parties, Henry V\'s accession was chiefly notable for the reactivation of the English claim to the French throne. France was vulnerable because of a civil war between the Dukes of Orleans and Burgundy, and Henry was able to capture the port of Harfleur in 1415. He then marched a small army through France but was caught by a considerably larger French army at Agincourt. Henry defeated the French against the odds and it ended it in a massacre with Henry capturing key French nobles (including the Duke of Orleans). The victory assured Henry of the reputation and finances to continue the war. In 1417, Henry V again landed in France and besieged and took Caen. In January 1419, Rouen fell to English forces and with that the whole of Normandy - perhaps the richest province in France - was under English control
.The King of France, Charles VI, had fallen under the control of the Burgundians, who negotiated the Peace of Troyes with Henry in 1420. The English king married Charles\'s daughter Katherine, and was recognised as Regent and heir to the French kingdom in Paris. Henry died in 1422, still trying to implement the treaty by conquering the rest of France.
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