Early battlefield tourism
In 1475 King Edward IV visited the site of the battle of Agincourt fought sixty years earlier. We know this thanks to a letter written by a John Albon to Thomas Palmer, esquire, of Holt in Leicestershire. We even know the exact day Edward and his lords, including the king’s friend and chamberlain William, Lord Hastings, were at the battle site – 27 July. Three days earlier a group of French captains had been at Agincourt.
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