Henry VI of England in accordance with the Treaty of Troyes of 1420, he became titular King of France upon his grandfather Charles VI's death. His mother, Catherine of Valois, was then 20 years old. As Charles VI's daughter, she was viewed with considerable suspicion by English nobles and was prevented from playing a full role in her son's upbringing. On 28 September 1423, the nobles swore loyalty to Henry VI. They summoned Parliament in the King's name and established a regency council to govern until the King should come of age. One of Henry V's surviving brothers, John, Duke of Bedford, was appointed
Henry VI of England fear was the possibility of another noble utilizing the mentally unstable king to further their own agenda. According to the "Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV", an official chronicle favorable to Edward IV, Henry died of melancholy on hearing news of the Battle of Tewkesbury and his son's death. It is widely suspected, however, that Edward IV, who was re-crowned the morning following Henry's death, had in fact ordered his murder. Sir Thomas More's "History of Richard III" explicitly states that Richard killed Henry, an opinion he might have derived from Commynes' Memoir. Another contemporary source, "Wakefield's Chronicle", gives