Henry VI of England Henry's arms were those of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of three points. Henry VI of England Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne at the age of nine months upon his father's death, and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather Charles VI shortly afterwards. Henry inherited the long-running Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), in which
In the Neolithic Age In the Neolithic Age "In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of "The Idler" and in 1896 in his poetry collection "The Seven Seas". The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right." The poem was published in the December 1892 issue of the literary magazine "The Idler" as the introduction to Kipling's article "My First Book", with the title "Primum Tempus". Kipling experimented with a variety of