Montjoy

Also known as: Montioie / Montioy king at armes · Family: France · Role: herald · First appears: Henry V 8

Life events

c. 1415 · Montjoy was sent to defy Henry V and announce that battle would soon follow.(Henry V 8)
- With: Henry V
- “and so Montioy king at armes was sent to the king of England to defie him as the enimie of France, and to tell him that he should shortlie haue battell.”
c. 1415 · Montioie acknowledged Henry V's victory, and Henry V named the conflict the battell of Agincourt.(Henry V 11 · 📍 Agincourt)
- With: Henry V
- “When Montioie by true and iust confession had cléered that doubt to the high praise of the king, he desired of Montioie to vnderstand the name of the castell néere adioining: when they had told him that it was called Agincourt, he said, Then shall this conflict be called the battell of Agincourt.”

enemies with Henry V “and so Montioy king at armes was sent to the king of England to defie him as the enimie of France, and to tell him that he should shortlie haue battell.”

with Henry V (Montioie came to Henry V to request information about the prisoners and burial for the dead.) “In the morning, Montioie king at armes and foure other French heralds came to the K. to know the number of prisoners, and to desire buriall for the dead.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.