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Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Paternal Family Tree: Hood
On 12th December 1724 Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood was born to [his father] Samuel Hood (age 33).
On 25th August 1753 [his son] Henry Hood 2nd Viscount Hood was born to Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood (age 28). He married 10th September 1774 Jane Wheler Viscountess Hood and had issue.
On 10th September 1774 [his son] Henry Hood 2nd Viscount Hood (age 21) and [his daughter-in-law] Jane Wheler Viscountess Hood (age 20) were married.
On 25th June 1777 [his father] Samuel Hood (age 86) died.
On 20th May 1778 Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood (age 53) was created 1st Baronet Hood of Catherington.
1784. James Northcote (age 37). Portrait of Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood (age 59).
In 1796 Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood (age 71) was created 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley in Warwickshire with a pension of £2000 per year for life.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 27th January 1816 Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood (age 91) died. His son Henry (age 62) succeeded 2nd Viscount Hood of Whitley in Warwickshire, 2nd Baronet Hood of Catherington. [his daughter-in-law] Jane Wheler Viscountess Hood (age 61) by marriage Viscountess Hood of Whitley in Warwickshire.
On 22nd August 1918 Ellen Touzalin launched the battlecruiser HMS Hood, named after Admiral Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood, an ancestor of her former husband Rear-Admiral Horace Hood.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Tremor Hood 
GrandFather: Alexander Hood
Father: Samuel Hood