1. J. Watts, Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship (Cambridge: 1996) p. 222.
2. C.T. Allmand, Lancastrian Normandy, 1415–1450: the History of a Medieval Occupation (Oxford: 1983) pp. 39–40.
3. R.A. Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to Charles X (Chapel Hill, London: 1984) pp. 68–93. By the late fourteenth century the principal of inalienability had been incorporated into the coronation oath.
4. See Griffiths, Henry VI, p. 443 for the first point and B. Wolffe, Henry VI (New Haven, London: 1983) p. 172 for the second.
5. C.N.L. Brooke and V. Ortenberg, ‘The Birth of Margaret of Anjou’, Historical Research, 61 (1988): 357–8.