Louis d’ Orleans
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In Paris at the end of the 14th century the unfortunate Duchesse d’Orléans , Valentina Visconti, was accused of using witchcraft upon the mentally ill Charles VI, and of poisoning his Dauphin, Charles. I doubt she was guilty of either. It was all politics and sneaky enemies. Isn’t it always? Louis d’Orléans was himself…
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Ten medieval scandals….!
Alice Perrers, Bal des Ardents, Banquet of Chestnuts, Benedict IX, Borgias, Cadaver Synod, Charles VI, Charles VIII, cross-dressing, Edward II, Edward III, Formosus, France, Heloise, Ingeborg of Denmark, Isabella de Valois, Italian Wars, Italy, John Rykener, Louis d’ Orleans, Medici bank, Papacy, Peasants’ Revolt, Peter Abelard, Phillip II, Phillip IV, Piero de Medici, prostitution, Richard Lyons, scandals, Stephen VI, Tour de Nesle, Vatican City, William Latimer“….What are the scandals that made headlines in the Middle Ages? Kings and Popes would be involved in some of the craziest stories of sex and corruption that would make today’s news seem quite tame. From a cross-dressing prostitute to the trial of a dead Pope, here are ten almost-unbelievable medieval scandals….” Well, you’ll find…
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Joan of Arc and Les Soldats
Armagnacs, Azincourt, Battle of the Herrings, Bauge, Blois, Bluebeard, Burgundians, Carl Dreyer, Charles VII, Clement de Fauquebergue, Compiegne, Etienne de Vignolles, executions, France, George Bernard Shaw, Gilles de Rais, Henry Cardinal Beaufort, heresy, Jean Anouillh, Jean Benedetti, Jean Dunois, Jeanne d’Arc, John Duke of Bedford, John Earl of Shrewsbury, le Mans, Loire, Louis d’ Orleans, Mark Twain, mass murder, Orleans, Otto Preminger, Parlement de Paris, prophecy, Rheims, Siege of Paris, siege of Rouen, Sir John Fastolf, St. Catherine, St. Michael, Thomas Kenneally, Verneuil, William Duke of Suffolk, William Glasdale, witchcraftToday marks the 587th anniversary of the death of Joan of Arc, burned at the stake at Rouen, France. As the flames engulfed her, she clutched a cross made of sticks to her bosom, fashioned by an ordinary English solder. “Jesus!” was her last word. She was 19 years old. In 1920, almost…
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