Talbot, with his dog, presenting the Talbot Shrewsbury Book to Margaret of Anjou and Henry VI, 1445. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and 1st Earl of Waterford, c.1384/1387 - 1453, aka Old Talbot. English military commander during the Hundred Years' War. Henry VI, 1421 - 1471. King of England. Margaret of Anjou, 1430 - 1482. Queen of England as the wife of King Henry VI. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.