Henry VI AD 1422-1461 (1st Reign) Gold Noble, London Annulet issue

Henry VI AD 1422-1461 Gold Noble, London, Annulet issue

King standing in ship holding shield and sword/ Royal cross in tressure

Annulet by sword arm and in one spandrel on reverse.

London mint

Extremely fine with wonderful crisp detail, slight clipping.

S1799, 31x33mm, 6.00g

Henry VI was the infant son of Henry V when he was crowned king in AD1422.  Later crowned king of France in Notre Dame, Paris in AD 1431 he later presided over the reconquest of all of his French empire with the exception of Calais by the time the Hundred Years war ended in AD 1453. A weak but pious and learned man he founded Eton College as well as Kings College, Cambridge and All Souls , Oxford. Married to a strong willed woman, Margaret of Anjou, he became increasingly unpopular. Eventually the Dukes of York and Somerset broke and away and the civil war which broke out in AD 1455 became known as the Wars of the Roses. Defeated Henry was deposed in AD1461 and succeeded by York’s son Edward IV. Later restored briefly in AD 1471 Henry was again deposed and this time killed.