Dual monarchy of England and France so allowed Bedford to concentrate in Normandy. Some Englishmen who feared an English government in France were opposed to the idea of Henry's being crowned in France before his coronation in England. During Henry's coronation as king of England in 1429, poems by John Lydgate were read to stress further Henry's dual inheritance of England and France. A direct link was made between Henry and his grandfather, Charles VI. The painted pedigree paralleled Henry's descent through his mother, Catherine of Valois, from Saint Louis, and his descent on his father's side from another saint, Edward the Confessor. This was not
Henry VI of England the full cycle of consecutive history plays performed, for several years, by the English Shakespeare Company; Edward Jewesbury in the 1995 film version of "Richard III" with Ian McKellen as Richard; James Dalesandro as Henry in the 2008 modern-day film version of "Richard III"; and Tom Sturridge as Henry to Benedict Cumberbatch's Richard III in the 2016 second BBC series "The Hollow Crown", an adaptation of "Henry VI" (condensed into two parts) and "Richard III". Miles Mander portrayed him in "Tower of London", a 1939 horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III. As Duke of Cornwall,