To be fair, though, the Lancastrians were avoiding the Plantagenet name like the plague for the most part -- not wanting to remind anyone of the fact that Henry IV usurped the throne from the last anointed Plantagenet.
While I have no doubt that Henry V did not take kindly to insults (which obviously he did not, as many tennis balls and even more dead French soldiers can attest), I don't think this qualifies.
As far as my research has unearthed, Richard of York was the first person to bring up the Plantagenet name when he claimed the throne in 1460. Even Richard II didn't really use it, though he used the broom device as a heraldic symbol. Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI seemed to think of themselves primarily as Lancastrians, as a divergence from the old (and corrupt) order of the Plantagenets. Even Henry VII insisted on referring to himself as a Lancastrian heir, not a Plantagenet or Tudor heir. Only the Yorkists specifically used the Plantagenet name as far as I've seen.
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Date: 2009-11-10 01:29 pm (UTC)While I have no doubt that Henry V did not take kindly to insults (which obviously he did not, as many tennis balls and even more dead French soldiers can attest), I don't think this qualifies.
As far as my research has unearthed, Richard of York was the first person to bring up the Plantagenet name when he claimed the throne in 1460. Even Richard II didn't really use it, though he used the broom device as a heraldic symbol. Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI seemed to think of themselves primarily as Lancastrians, as a divergence from the old (and corrupt) order of the Plantagenets. Even Henry VII insisted on referring to himself as a Lancastrian heir, not a Plantagenet or Tudor heir. Only the Yorkists specifically used the Plantagenet name as far as I've seen.