The Battle of Agincourt took place in Northern France just over 600 years ago in 1415, and was a major English victory in the Hundred Year’s War as well as a source of inspiration for Shakespeare’s Henry V. Henry V’s victory at Agincourt started a new period in the war. Henry V married the French king’s daughter, and their son, later Henry VI of England and Henry II of France, was made heir to the throne of France as well as of England.