1440s in England

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Events from the 1440s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Henry VI

Events

• 1440
  • 7 July - Hundred Years' War: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury recaptures Harfleur from the French.
  • 12 September - King Henry VI founds Eton College.
• 1441
  • 2 April - King Henry VI founds King's College, Cambridge.
  • 19 September - Hundred Years' War: French capture Pontoise and Île-de-France.
• 1442
  • 19 January - Eleanor Cobham, wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, convicted of treason and witchcraft.
  • 11 June - Hundred Years' War: France invades Gascony.
• 1443
  • 23 April - Perpetual truce signed with Burgundy.
  • 13 May - John Stafford enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • August - Hundred Years' War: 8,000 strong expeditionary force under John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset lands at Cherbourg.
• 1444
  • 22 May - The Treaty of Tours, signed between England and France, secures a truce in the Hundred Years' War for 5 years.
  • A serious fire occurs at Old St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• 1445
  • 23 April - Henry VI marries Margaret of Anjou.
  • 14 July - Hundred Years' War: Negotiations for a peace treaty begin in London.
• 1446
  • 26 June - Hundred Years' War: Henry re-asserts his claim over Brittany.
  • 25 July - Henry lays the foundation stone of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
• 1447
  • 18 February - Duke of Gloucester arrested for treason. He dies five days later.
  • 9 December - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York appointed as the King's representative in Ireland.
• 1448
  • 11 March - Hundred Years' War: England cedes Maine to France.
  • 16 March - Hundred Years' War: Peace negotiations break down over the issue of English control over Brittany.
  • 23 October - Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Sark.
  • Queen Margaret of Anjou founds Queens' College, Cambridge.
  • Earliest known reference to Morris dance in England.
• 1449
  • 24 March - Hundred Years' War: English capture Fougères in Brittany.
  • July - Hundred Years' War: French invade Normandy.
  • 29 October - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to the French.
  • Earliest known grant of a patent in England, by Henry VI to John of Utynam for the introduction of coloured glass manufacture.

Births

• 1440
  • approximate Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1503)
• 1442
  • 28 April - King Edward IV of England (died 1483)
  • 27 September - John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1491)
  • Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (died 1483)
• 1443
  • 17 May - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died 1460)
  • 31 May - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (died 1509)
  • John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Lancastrian leader (died 1513)
  • Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (died 1449)
• 1444
  • John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (died 1476)
• 1446
  • Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, politician (died 1508)
  • William Grocyn, scholar (died 1519)
• 1449
  • 21 October - George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (died 1478)

Deaths

• 1440
  • 30 September - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, soldier and politician (born c. 1362)
  • 13 November - Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland (born c. 1379)
• 1443
  • 12 April - Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 1364), having served since 1414, the longest ever in this office
• 1444
  • 27 May - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, military leader (born 1404)
• 1445
  • 5 June - Leonel Power, composer (year of birth unknown, between 1370–1385)
  • 11 June - Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (born 1424)
• 1447
  • 23 February - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (born 1390)
  • 11 April - Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor (born 1377)
  • John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (born 1395)
• 1449
  • Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (born 1443)