#hundred years war

[fozzoyeur]

[illustratus]

Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops

by Jules Prater

[eve-to-adam]

I had a moment of enthusiasm and it shows.

Henry V x Catherine of Valois sketches.

[medievalistsnet]

New Medieval Books: Documenting Warfare: Records of the Hundred Years War, Edited and Translated in Honour of Anne Curry

[theoscarsproject]

Henry V (1989). In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Kenneth Branagh has truly been collecting Shakespeare roles like infinity stones for more than 30 years. 7/10.

[m3dieval]

I love that Desmond Seward's A Brief History of the Hundred Year's War has helmet illustrations for each chapter and they change based on the era.

[a-turtle-dove-on-my-breast]

Thanks @hilda-dewitt for this great piece of work depicting Louis I of Anjou and Marie of Blois, great-grandparents of Margaret of Anjou. Louis I of Anjou was the founder of the Angevin cadet branch of the House of Valois, and Marie of Blois was the first of a series of powerful women in the House of Valois-Anjou.

I really found their story to be full of fun and drama. After King John II of France was taken prisoner in the Battle of Poitiers, Louis broke the Aragonese marriage contract arranged by his father to marry Marie, the daughter of one major claimant to the ducal throne of Brittany, neighboring his appanage of Anjou. His desire to meet his wife pushed him to end his hostage career in England prematurely on his own, and more or less led to the decision of John II to return to captivity, lol. While Marie's father fell in battle six months after John the Good's death in London, the couple remained close and intimate throughout their lives. Louis served as a leading military commander in his elder brother Charles V's reconquest of southwestern France during the second phase of the Hundred Years' War. He was also a loyal friend and protector of Bertrand du Guesclin, who fought for Marie's father before entering service for the Valois. However, due to his role in the 1378 tax revolts and his overambitious claim to the throne of Naples, Louis remained a controversial figure in France, and his past accomplishments were little appreciated. After Louis's death in the unsuccessful march to Naples, Marie continued their quest for the Neapolitan crown, and, after a tough fight against opposing claimants, secured for their seven-year-old son Louis II the County of Provence, which was in a personal union with the Kingdom of Naples. She acted as regent for Louis II during his minority, and arranged the marriage between him and Yolande of Aragon.

[the-angry-acrobat]

all battles are first won, or lost, in the mind

[dreamconsumer]

Charles VII, King of France.

[littlehistorian]

He received the Honor of Richmond in England from his father, as the English kings refused to allow Bretons to bear the title of count.

He was also Duke of Touraine, Count of Dreux, Étampes, Montfort, and Ivry, and Baron of Parthenay in 1415, but the grant would not be effective until 1427.

John V pursued a policy that accommodated both English and French parties. When he signed the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, which ousted Charles VII, he authorized his brother Arthur to fight under the French banner.

[medievalsnippets]

"Item : that anyone, no matter the state, condition or nationality he is from, as long as he is of our party, shall wear a sign of arms of St George, large at the front and another at the back, for the peril of being injured or killed by lack of wearing it ; (he who injures or kills him shall not wear one for him [unsure - T.N.]) ; and that no enemy shall wear the sign of St George, unless he is prisoner or other ; under penalty of death."

Richard II Durham ordnances 1388 (Ashmole 856)

[illustratus]

Battle of Agincourt by Alphonse de Neuville

[eve-to-adam]

"This is my most precious jewel. Don't you like it?"

Henry V x Catherine of Valois.

[medievalistsnet]

New Medieval Books: Chronicle of King Charles VII

[lordmartiya]

Another reason for me to be pissed at Astruc's treatment of Jeanne d'Arc is Bertrand de Poulengy.

You're likely to be asking "Bertrand who?", and for a good reason: this French knight appears in the chronicles only twice and in minor capacity, first as one of the knights that tried to convince Robert de Baudricourt to get her an audience with the Dauphin, thus earning the job to actually escort her to Chinon when her ability to predict the outcome of a battle she couldn't know would happen convinced Robert to give her the audience, and later as a witness at her rehabilitation trial. He's so little known I even had trouble spelling his name correctly.

So, why am I bringing this gentleman up? Because the show did. In her first on-screen appearance, a time displaced Jeanne calls for Gilles (the far better known Gilles de Rais) and Robert, and since the only known things about Bertrand are that he was an early supporter of Jeanne and spent enough time with her on campaign to serve as a witness at her rehabilitation trial (and that during said trial he was 63) he was the perfect choice to be the Black Cat holder. But instead Astruc had to come up with his INSULT to Jeanne that portrays a man with little power on the verge of just giving up (the Dauphin Charles, who only trusted Jeanne because he was already sending what little troops he still had to Orleans and this bloodthirsty peasant that said to be on a mission from God couldn't literally do things worse, and only became King Charles VII of France because Jeanne not only lifted the siege but opened the way to the coronation city of Reims) and a literal child (Henry VI of England. Who was six during the Orleans campaign) as warmongers that were destroying Europe out of ambition.

I would have some choice words for Astruc, but I'd rather tell them to his face.

[vesseloftherevolution]

A very belated

Happy St Crispin's Day!!

Henry V was the Shakespeare play I fell in love with, so here is "my" Henry V, the wonderful Alex Hassell.

"This day is call’d the feast of Crispian:

He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,

Will stand a’ tiptoe when this day is named,

And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

He that shall see this day, and live old age,

Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,

And say, “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,

And say, “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,

But he’ll remember with advantages

What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,

Familiar in his mouth as household words,

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,

Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.

This story shall the good man teach his son;

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,

From this day to the ending of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered⁠—

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he today that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,

This day shall gentle his condition;

And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,

Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here;

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."

- Henry V, Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 3