num_pages: 3
description: The all-conquering King Henry V is dead and the throne is occupied by his infant son, Henry VI. The good Duke Humphrey of Gloucester has been appointed protector, but a struggle for power soon develops between the young king's Lancastrian relatives and the powerful house of York under Richard Plantagenet. Meanwhile the French, led by Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans, threaten to win back the territories lost to Henry V.
language: English
title: Henry VI, Part One
titlecomplete: Henry VI, Part One
characters: Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester, General of the French Garrison at Bordeaux, Sir John Fastolf, Vernon of the Yorkist (White Rose) Faction, Master Gunner's son, Sir Thomas Gargrave, Jean de Dunois, A Papal Legate, A Lawyer of the Temple, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, Sir William Glasdale, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Basset of the Lancastrian (Red Rose) faction, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Jeanne d'Arc, Master Gunner of Orléans, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Charles VII of France, Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, Nicholas Watton, Lord Mayor of London, Eleanor Cobham, Margaret of Anjou, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Sir William Lucy, Countess of Auvergne, Henry VI of England, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Jacques Darc, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, René of Anjou, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 8601
places: England
series: Henry VI, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy, Wars of the Roses
publisher: Blackstone Pub