King John II of France (d. 1364)

Jean II (1319 - 1364), king of France (1350 - 1364), known as Jean le Bon or John the Good; son of Philip VI of Valois, king of France, and of Jeanne de Bourgogne. He was knighted on 2 October 1332 in Paris. He married 1) Bonne de Luxemburg 2) Jeanne d’Auvergne, countess of Auvergne and Boulogne. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.

Gascony

City of Angoulême

Philip VI of Valois, king of France (d. 1350)

Philip was born in 1293 as the eldest son of Charles I, count of Valois and Anjou, and Margaret of Anjou. He was engaged to Jeanne of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy in 1303 and married her in July 1313. In that year he became count of Maine. After his father’s death in 1325, he also became count of Valois and Anjou. He married his second wife, Blanche of Évreux, princess of Navarre, in 1350.

This should be Agen rather than Angoulême. This section is based on the Chronicle of Jean le Bel, who used the peculiar spelling ‘Agolem’ to refer to Agen. It is quite likely, as S. Luce has argued, that this orthography confused Froissart, who must have concluded that Angoulême was meant.

Jean Froissart, Chroniques, ed. by S. Luce, vol. III, p. XXIII–XXIV, note 7 and p. XXIX–XXX, note 6.