After Agincourt: Henry V's French Campaigns
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What happened after the Battle of Agincourt? How did Henry V's victory turn into a seven-year struggle of sieges, diplomacy, ambition, murder and missed destiny?
Matt Lewis is joined by W.B. Bartlett to explore a brutal and often overlooked phase of the Hundred Years’ War and why the post-Agincourt years matter so much to medieval, English and French history.
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| 0:00.0 | From long-lost Viking ships and kings buried in unexpected places to tales of murder, |
| 0:07.7 | power, faith, and the lives of ordinary people across medieval Europe and beyond. |
| 0:13.2 | Join me, Matt Lewis, Dr. Eleanor Jarniger and some of the world's leading historians, |
| 0:18.0 | as we bring history's most fascinating stories to life only on |
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| 0:27.2 | with a brand new release every week exploring everything from the ancient world to World War II. |
| 0:33.6 | Just visit historyhit.com forward slash subscribe. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello, I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves |
| 0:45.7 | into the greatest millennium in human history. We've got the most intriguing mysteries, |
| 0:51.5 | the gobsmacking details and latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings |
| 0:56.3 | to the printing press, from kings to popes to the crusades. We cross centuries and continents |
| 1:02.1 | to delve into rebellions, plots and murders to find the stories big and small that tell us how we |
| 1:08.9 | got here. Find out who we really were. We've gone medieval. |
| 1:19.6 | Imagine finding yourself standing in a muddy French field in October 1415. Exhausted, soaked, adrenaline only just beginning to wear off as your limbs start to shake. Your senses bombarded by sounds, smells and sights you've never experienced before. Death surrounds you. But somehow you're still alive. You survived what looked only a few hours ago like a hopeless situation. |
| 1:49.0 | One name is on the lips of everyone around you. |
| 1:52.0 | King Henry V has done it. |
| 1:55.0 | He saved you and defeated the vast French host. |
| 1:59.0 | Despite your fatigue, you take up the call with your comrades, for God |
| 2:03.6 | and King Harry. I wonder what those soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt |
| 2:09.6 | would have felt if they'd known that far from being the end, this was only the beginning of almost |
| 2:15.2 | half a century of grinding, debilitating war that England would ultimately lose. |
| 2:22.0 | Would you still cheer young Hal on? |
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