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The de Courcy Matter, Part II: The French side of the story….
Azincourt, Castile, Charles VI, Chronique de la traison et mort de Richard Deux Roy Dengleterre, deanery of st george, Edward III, Enguerrand VII de Coucy, Flanders, France, governesses, Henry IV, Ireland, Isabeau of Bavaria, Isabelle de Valois, jewel theft, Kathryn Warner, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, marguerite lady de coucy, master pol, Milford Haven, Order of the Garter, pensions, Richard II, Scotland, sir philip de la vache, The Chronicle of Jean Creton, usurpers, Wallingford, William Scrope, Windsor CastleI hope that by the time you read this article you will already have visited yesterday’s Part I, which relates the English version of Marguerite de Courcy’s return to France. She left England under the cloud of having lived far too high a life for a governess and of stealing some English royal jewels. These…
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The de Courcy Matter Part I: According to English records….
Anne of Bohemia, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, banishment, boulogne, Calais, Catherine de Valois, Charles d’Orleans, Charles VI, churches, dolls, France, gold harts, governesses, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VII, Hundred Years War, Ireland, Isabelle de Valois, jewel theft, John of Gaunt, Ladies of the Garter, Lancastrians, livery badges, marguerite lady de coucy, Owain Tudor, Richard II, Rockingham, St. George’s Day, Terry Jones, usurpation, Who murdered chaucerMarguerite, Lady de Courcy, was the French governess of Richard II’s second wife, the child-bride Isabelle of Valois. This article, Part I, tells the generally known English version of what led to Marguerite’s return to France. I will begin with Richard’s obligation to remarry after the death of Anne of Bohemia, with whom he had…
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