John of Eltham, earl of Cornwall (d. 1336)
John of Eltham (1316 - 1336), earl of Cornwall; second son of Edward II and Isabella of France.
View full articleJoan of the Tower, queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
Joan (1321 - 1362), queen of Scots, consort of David II, king of Scots; second daughter of Edward II and Isabella of France. Froissart normally calls her ‘Isabella’.
View full articleJoan of the Tower, queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
Joan (1321 - 1362), queen of Scots, consort of David II, king of Scots; second daughter of Edward II and Isabella of France. Froissart normally calls her ‘Isabella’.
View full articleEleanor of Woodstock
Eleanor of Woodstock (1318 - 1355), countess of Gueldres; daughter of Edward II, king of England, and Isabella of France. She married Reginald II, count of Gueldres in 1332. In Book III of the Chronicles Froissart erroneously calls her ‘Isabella’, while in the ‘Rome’ version of Book I she is variously called ‘Jeanne’ (§ 2) or ‘Katherine’ (§ 19).
View full articleReginald III, duke of Guelders (d. 1371)
Reginald III 'the fat' of Gueldres (1333 - 1371), duke of Gueldres; son of Reginald II of Gueldres and Eleanor of Woodstock. He married Marie de Brabant, lady of Turnhout.
View full articleReginald III, duke of Guelders (d. 1371)
Reginald III 'the fat' of Gueldres (1333 - 1371), duke of Gueldres; son of Reginald II of Gueldres and Eleanor of Woodstock. He married Marie de Brabant, lady of Turnhout.
View full articleEleanor of Woodstock
Eleanor of Woodstock (1318 - 1355), countess of Gueldres; daughter of Edward II, king of England, and Isabella of France. She married Reginald II, count of Gueldres in 1332. In Book III of the Chronicles Froissart erroneously calls her ‘Isabella’, while in the ‘Rome’ version of Book I she is variously called ‘Jeanne’ (§ 2) or ‘Katherine’ (§ 19).
View full articleReginald III and Edward of Guelders
This refers to the two sons of Reginald II, duke of Guelders from his second marriage to Eleanor of Woodstock, Reginald III of Guelders and Edward of Guelders.
Reginald III, duke of Guelders (d. 1371)
Reginald III 'the fat' of Gueldres (1333 - 1371), duke of Gueldres; son of Reginald II of Gueldres and Eleanor of Woodstock. He married Marie de Brabant, lady of Turnhout.
View full articleEdward, duke of Guelders (d. 1371)
Edward, duke of Gueldres (1336 - 1371) count of Gueldres; second son of Reginald II of Gueldres and Eleanor of Woodstock. He married Katherine of Bavaria. He and his brother, Reinaud III of Gueldres, both sons of Reinald II, duke of Gueldres, and Eleanor Plantagenet, princess of England. He died on 24 August 1371 in the battle of Baesweiler, leaving their sister, Marie of Gueldres, as the heir to the dukedom. Therefore Froissart must be referring to William of Juliers, the husband of Marie of Gueldres as the duke of Gueldres.
View full articlePhilip 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.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleKing Philip IV the Fair of France (d. 1314)
Philip IV of France (1268 - 1314), called 'the Fair', king of France, king of Navarre through his wife Jeanne I of Navarre; son of Philippe III, king of France, and Isabella of Aragon. He married queen Jeanne of Navarre.
View full articleIsabella of France, queen of England (d. 1358)
Isabella of France (1295 - 1358), queen of England, wife of king Edward II; daughter of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne de Champagne, queen of Navarre.
View full articleEngland
Island kingdom bounded to the west by the Marcher lordships and the (still contested) principality of Wales conquered by Edward I; English lordships included parts of modern south Wales (from southern Pembrokeshire through Swansea, Cardiff and on towards Gloucester in England); bounded to the north by the kingdom of Scotland, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel; included Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to the south-west. Population up to the Black Death of 1348-9 approximately 4 million souls.
King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
Edward II (1284 - 1327), king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. He was the youngest son of king Edward I of England and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. He married Isabella of France.
View full articleLouis X the Quarreler, king of France and Navarre (d. 1316)
Louis X (1289 - 1316), king of France (1314 - 1316); son of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne of Navarre, queen of Navarre. He became king of Navarre on his mother’s death in 1305. He married 1) Marguerite de Bourgogne 2) Clémence d’Anjou. He died 5 June 1316. As Louis’ posthumous son and heir, Jean I did not live long after his birth, Louis’ brother Philip, count of Poitou, inherited the throne.
View full articleKing Philip IV the Fair of France (d. 1314)
Philip IV of France (1268 - 1314), called 'the Fair', king of France, king of Navarre through his wife Jeanne I of Navarre; son of Philippe III, king of France, and Isabella of Aragon. He married queen Jeanne of Navarre.
View full articleLouis X the Quarreler, king of France and Navarre (d. 1316)
Louis X (1289 - 1316), king of France (1314 - 1316); son of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne of Navarre, queen of Navarre. He became king of Navarre on his mother’s death in 1305. He married 1) Marguerite de Bourgogne 2) Clémence d’Anjou. He died 5 June 1316. As Louis’ posthumous son and heir, Jean I did not live long after his birth, Louis’ brother Philip, count of Poitou, inherited the throne.
View full articleKing Philip V of France (d. 1322)
Philip V of France (1292/3 - 1322), called ‘the Tall’ (‘le Long’). He was the second son of Philip IV, king of France, and Jeanne of Navarre. He was first count of Poitou, then king of France and Navarre when he succeeded his brother Louis X’s infant son to the throne. Philip married Jeanne, countess of Burgundy, but did not have a surviving male heir. Therefore his brother Charles succeeded him as king of France. Charles also succeded him as king of Navarre, even though Philip IV had stipulated that Navarre should be inherited by his niece Jeanne of Navarre, should he die without male offspring. In all the versions of Book I except the ‘A’ version Froissart gives Philip the sobriquet ‘le Bel’ instead of ‘le Long’ (§ 3); in the ‘Rome’ version he also calls him ‘le Grant’ (§ 7).
View full articleKing Charles IV of France (d. 1328)
Charles was born at Creil on 18 June 1294 as the third son of King Philip IV of France and Jeanne of Navarre. In January 1308 he was married to Blanche of Burgundy. He was made count of La Marche in 1314. He succeded as king of France and king of Navarre on 3 January 1322, after the death of his elder brother, Philip V, and was crowned on 11 February in Rheims. In May of the same year his marriage was annulled and he then married Marie of Luxemburg on 21 September 1322. She gave birth to a son in March 1324, but the infant died soon after, and Marie survived him only by a few days. Charles married a third time, to Jeanne of Évreux, on 5 July 1324. When he died, on 1 February 1328, he had only one living child, a daugther Marie from his third marriage. The children born out of his first two marriages had died in childhood and so had the first daugther from his third marriage. The queen, Jeanne of Évreux, however, was pregnant when her husband died, and she give birth to a posthumous daughter, called Blanche. He was the last king of France of the direct Capetian line. As Charles died without male offspring, he was succeeded to the throne of France by Philip VI of Valois, the son of his maternal uncle Charles de Valois.
View full articleKing Philip IV the Fair of France (d. 1314)
Philip IV of France (1268 - 1314), called 'the Fair', king of France, king of Navarre through his wife Jeanne I of Navarre; son of Philippe III, king of France, and Isabella of Aragon. He married queen Jeanne of Navarre.
View full articleKing Charles IV of France (d. 1328)
Charles was born at Creil on 18 June 1294 as the third son of King Philip IV of France and Jeanne of Navarre. In January 1308 he was married to Blanche of Burgundy. He was made count of La Marche in 1314. He succeded as king of France and king of Navarre on 3 January 1322, after the death of his elder brother, Philip V, and was crowned on 11 February in Rheims. In May of the same year his marriage was annulled and he then married Marie of Luxemburg on 21 September 1322. She gave birth to a son in March 1324, but the infant died soon after, and Marie survived him only by a few days. Charles married a third time, to Jeanne of Évreux, on 5 July 1324. When he died, on 1 February 1328, he had only one living child, a daugther Marie from his third marriage. The children born out of his first two marriages had died in childhood and so had the first daugther from his third marriage. The queen, Jeanne of Évreux, however, was pregnant when her husband died, and she give birth to a posthumous daughter, called Blanche. He was the last king of France of the direct Capetian line. As Charles died without male offspring, he was succeeded to the throne of France by Philip VI of Valois, the son of his maternal uncle Charles de Valois.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleIsabella of France, queen of England (d. 1358)
Isabella of France (1295 - 1358), queen of England, wife of king Edward II; daughter of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne de Champagne, queen of Navarre.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleKing Edward II of England (d. 1327)
Edward II (1284 - 1327), king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine. He was the youngest son of king Edward I of England and his first wife Eleanor of Castile. He married Isabella of France.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articlePhilip 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.
View full articleIsabella of France, queen of England (d. 1358)
Isabella of France (1295 - 1358), queen of England, wife of king Edward II; daughter of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne de Champagne, queen of Navarre.
View full articleIsabella of France, queen of England (d. 1358)
Isabella of France (1295 - 1358), queen of England, wife of king Edward II; daughter of Philippe IV, king of France, and Jeanne de Champagne, queen of Navarre.
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleFrance
The kingdom of France, populated up until the Black Death of 1348-9 by 12-16 millions souls and including up to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Ile-de-France together with the apanages of Normandy, Anjou, Bourbon, Champagne, Valois, Auvergne and Languedoc, plus a number of important fiefs such as the counties of Blois, Nevers and Foix, and (from 1349) Montpellier and the Dauphiné; diminished from 1354 by the growing activity and influence in the Cotentin and other parts of Normandy of the king of Navarre, Charles of Evreux, and by English conquests resulting in an enlarged duchy of Guyenne (essentially Gascony; will become the principality of Aquitaine) stretching from the borders of the great and at times pro-English duchy of Brittany to the Pyrenees (save for the neutral county of Béarn) and eastwards to embrace the Poitou, Limousin and Rouergue (on the border with the Languedoc); Ponthieu and Guines are also in English hands. The French re-conquest under Charles V and Du Guesclin progressively drives the English from the realm, leaving them (by 1370-80) the ports of Calais, Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux and Bayonne, and a much-reduced Aquitaine. Brittany returns to French allegiance from 1365 onwards (Treaty of Guérande).
View full articleCharlemagne
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (c. 747 - 814), king of the Franks and Christian Emperor of the West; son of the Frankish king Pepin the Short. He did much to define the shape and character of medieval Europe and presided over what has become known as the Carolingian Renaissance. In Renaud de Montauban he is a vindictive and stubborn character.
View full articlepb 2 ret le preux roy Edouart d’Angleterre, de qui ceste histoire est commencee. L’autre eut nom Jehan d’Eltem et mourut moult jeune. L’ainsnee des deux filles eut a nom Ysabel et fut mariee au jeune roy David d’Escoce. Et par paix faisant. L’autre fille fut mariee au conte Regnault de Guerles, qui depuis fut appellé duc de Guerles, si comme vous orréz ci aprés en l’istoire se il vous plaist. Ce conte de Guerles eut de ceste dame deux filz, Regnault et Edouart, qui puis regnerent en moult grant puissance contre leurs ennemis.
SHF 1A-3 sync Comment Philippe de Valois par l’accort des XII pers fut couronné en roy, dont moult grans maulx advindrent au royaume de France et ailleurs.Or dit le conte que ce beau roy Philippe eut III filz avecques celle belle fille Ysabel, qui fut mariee en Angleterre au roy dont j’ay parlé ci dessus. Et furent ces trois filz moult beaus, des quelz l’un ot a nom Loÿs, qui fut au vivant de son pere roy de Navarre. Et l’appeloit on le roy Hutin. Le second eut a nom Philippe le Long. Et le tiers ot nom Charles. Et furent tous trois roys de France aprés la mort du roy Philippe, leur pere, par droitte succession l’un aprés l’autre sanz avoir hoir masle de leurs corps engendré par voie de mariage. Si que aprés la mort du derrenier roy Charles les XII pers et les barons de France ne donnerent point le roiaume a la suer germaine du dit roy Charles, qui estoit roine d’Angleterre, pour tant qu’ilz vouloient dire et maintenir, et encores veulent, que le roiaume de France est bien si noble qu’il ne doit mie aler a femelle ne par consequent au roy d’Angleterre, son ainsné filz, car ainsi comme ilz veulent dire, le filz de la femme ne puet avoir droit ne succession depar sa mere la ou sa mere n’a point de droit. Siques par ces raisons le XII pers et les barons de France donnerent de leur commun acort le noble roiaume de France a monseigneur Philippe, filz jadis de monseigneur Charles de Valois, frere jadis de ce beau roy Philippe dessus dit, et en osterent le roy d’Angleterre et son filz, qui estoit hoir mascle et filz de la seur du derrenier roy Charle. Ainsi ala le dit roiaume hors de la droitte ligne, si comme il semble a moult de gens, de quoy moult de guerres sont nees et advenues et grans destructions de gens et de païs ou roiaume de France et ailleurs, si comme vous pouvéz ouir ci aprés. Car c’est la vraie fondation de ceste histoire pour raconter les grans entreprinses et les grans faiz d’armes qui en sont advenues. Car depuis le temps du bon roy Charlemaine, qui fut roy de France et empereur d’Alepb 2 v
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