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- BIOGRAPHY
While regent of England for Henry V in 1415 during the king's first French campaign John, Duke of Bedford, led a fleet to repel a French raid in 1416. In 1417 he brought Sir John Oldcastle to trial and execution for treason and heresy.
In 1422, after the death of Henry V, John became protector of England and regent of France. The royal council gave him active authority in France while his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, exercised immediate authority in England.
In 1423 he married Anne of Burgundy, daughter of Jean 'the Fearless', Duke of Burgundy. In 1424 John won a great victory at Verneuil but returned to London in 1426 to settle a dispute between his brother Humphrey and the chancellor, Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester.
In 1427 he returned to France where, in 1431, he permitted Jeanne d'Arc to be burned as a witch and arranged to have Henry VI crowned King of France in Notre-Dame. On 14 November 1432 he lost his wife and, on 20 April 1433, married Jacquetta of Luxembourg. However, he was unable to stem the tide of the French recovery in the 1430s and died in 1435 a disappointed man.
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1389 - 1435 (46 years)
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