Château de Chinon succession to the French throne. The war ended in 1453 when the English were finally ejected from France, but in the early 15th century the English under King Henry V made significant territorial gains. The Treaty of Troyes in 1420 made Henry V the heir apparent to the French throne but when the French king, Charles VI, and Henry V died in the space of two months in 1422 the issue of succession was again uncertain. The English supported Henry V's son, Henry VI who was still a child, while the French supported recognised Charles VII, the Dauphin of France.
Line of succession to the former Russian throne On August 8, 1922, Nicholas was proclaimed as the emperor of all Russia by the "Zemsky Sobor" of the Priamursk region, convened in Vladivostok by General Mikhail Diterikhs. At the time, Grand Duke Nicholas was already living abroad and consequently was not present at the "Sobor". Two months later the Priamursk region fell to the Bolsheviks. Nicholas and Dmitri never publicly proclaimed themselves pretenders, but Cyril Vladimirovich assumed on 8 August 1922 the position of "curator of the throne". On 31 August 1924 he proclaimed himself Cyril I, Emperor of all the Russias. With the assumption of the Imperial title