Timeline Tuesday 1 August 1415

Events on Tuesday 1 August 1415 1

• 1415 Southampton Plot Conspiracy to replace Henry V with Edmund Mortimer uncovered before the Agincourt campaign A group of English nobles conspired to assassinate Henry V and place Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, on the throne before the king's planned invasion of France. Mortimer himself revealed the plot to Henry, and the ringleaders were swiftly tried and executed at Southampton in early August 1415. The episode removed a lingering Yorkist threat to Henry's rule just before he sailed for France.