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View Tree for Roger MulfordRoger Mulford (b. 1390, d. date unknown)

Roger Mulford was born 1390 in Cadbury, Devon, England362, and died date unknown.

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Knighted for saving King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt on October 25, 1415.

The Battle of Agincourt was a bloody victory of the English over the French in the middle period of the Hundred Years' War. Invading France from the estuary of the Seine in August 1415, Henry V of England took Harfleur in September and then decided to move through eastern Normandy, Ponthieu, and western Picardy to Calais. He had to march unexpectedly far inland to find a praticable ford over the Somme. When he had done so (October 19), large French forces under the constable Charles I d'Albert set out from Bapaume and from Péronne to intercept his retreat to the north. They finally caught the exhausted English army at Agincourt (Azincourt in the Pas-de-Calais); but the terrain there was thickly wooded with only 1,000 yards frontage of open ground, so that the French pursuers forfeited the advantage of their numerical superiority.

Preliminary attacks by the calvary were repelled by the English archers; and, when the main French assaults were launched by armored men across a sodden field, the lightly equipped and more mobile archers engaged their flanks with swords and axes and cut the assailants down. Three hours of battle ended in disaster for the French. The Constable himself, 12 other members of the highest nobility, some 1,500 knights, and about 4,500 men-at-arms were killed on the French side, whereas the English losses were negligible.

Henry V b. September 16, 1387, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales -- d. August 31, 1422, Bois de Vincennes, France), king of England (1413-1422) of the House of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt, he made England one of the strongest kingdoms in Europe.

Children of Roger Mulford are:
  1. +Thomas Mulford, b. 1420, South Moulton, Devon, England362, d. date unknown.
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