Astral Codex Ten

Henry

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Henry

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Henry is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 17, 2025 and August 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “speculation on the topic - historians’ best guess is that Henry murdered someone at Oxford”; “Henry would serve as regent for him and inherit”. It most often appears alongside @tamaybes, @venturetwins, A16Z.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 17, 2025
  • Last seen: August 01, 2025

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Links For January 2025
January 17, 2025 · Original source
Here is some speculation on the topic - historians’ best guess is that Henry murdered someone at Oxford, the king tried to pardon him for political reasons, and Oxford decided they weren’t on board.
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August 01, 2025 · Original source
At that point the dominoes fell fast. The Armagnacs, under the (exceedingly poor) leadership of the Dauphin Charles and his (exceedingly inept) advisors, now the rump state of France, tried to fight multiple times; they called on Scotland for aid and got it and called on Castille and didn't.26 Every time they tried to fight they were beaten and Henry (now "The Conqueror") rolled down France, taking castles one by one and installing loyal members of the Burgundian party - now the collaborators' party - as governors. It looked as though the Hundred Years' War would soon be over.
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Then Charles the Mad died. Then Henry the Conqueror died. The new King of England, son of Henry and his newlywed queen, was not yet one year old.
And the third was that the English army depended on good leadership, and when Edward III died the English wouldn’t have it for another forty years, until Henry V took the throne. This two-generation timeskip provided enough time for the population to partially replenish and also for the French to completely forget Lesson Two, an error of memory which produced Agincourt.