Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Jacques Bonshommes

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Paris

Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris grew out of the French curia Regis from the middle years of the thirteenth century to administer justice with powers delegated to it by the king. As such it became a sovereign court, with its seat close to the royal palace in the nation’s capital. Meeting regularly, it dispensed justice to cases heard on appeal from local courts and, in a few instances, cases considered in first instance. Later, in the fifteenth century, a number of other courts with similar powers were established in major provincial centres.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris grew out of the French curia Regis from the middle years of the thirteenth century to administer justice with powers delegated to it by the king. As such it became a sovereign court, with its seat close to the royal palace in the nation’s capital. Meeting regularly, it dispensed justice to cases heard on appeal from local courts and, in a few instances, cases considered in first instance. Later, in the fifteenth century, a number of other courts with similar powers were established in major provincial centres.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon (d. 1404)

Pierre II de Valois (1340 - 1404), count of Alençon, son of Charles II d'Alençon and Marie de la Cerda. He married Marie Chamaillard, viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne in 1371.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris grew out of the French curia Regis from the middle years of the thirteenth century to administer justice with powers delegated to it by the king. As such it became a sovereign court, with its seat close to the royal palace in the nation’s capital. Meeting regularly, it dispensed justice to cases heard on appeal from local courts and, in a few instances, cases considered in first instance. Later, in the fifteenth century, a number of other courts with similar powers were established in major provincial centres.

Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris grew out of the French curia Regis from the middle years of the thirteenth century to administer justice with powers delegated to it by the king. As such it became a sovereign court, with its seat close to the royal palace in the nation’s capital. Meeting regularly, it dispensed justice to cases heard on appeal from local courts and, in a few instances, cases considered in first instance. Later, in the fifteenth century, a number of other courts with similar powers were established in major provincial centres.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

Marguerite of Thibouville

Second wife of Jean IV de Carrouges.

Paris

King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)

King Charles VI of France (1368 - 1422); son of king Charles V of France and Jeanne de Bourbon. He married Isabeau de Bavière in 1385.

Sluys

Sluys (Fr. Écluse, Dutch Sluis), today a silted-up port to the west of Bruges.

England

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 Charles VI of France (d. 1422)

King Charles VI of France (1368 - 1422); son of king Charles V of France and Jeanne de Bourbon. He married Isabeau de Bavière in 1385.

Sluys

Sluys (Fr. Écluse, Dutch Sluis), today a silted-up port to the west of Bruges.

Parlement of Paris

The Parlement of Paris grew out of the French curia Regis from the middle years of the thirteenth century to administer justice with powers delegated to it by the king. As such it became a sovereign court, with its seat close to the royal palace in the nation’s capital. Meeting regularly, it dispensed justice to cases heard on appeal from local courts and, in a few instances, cases considered in first instance. Later, in the fifteenth century, a number of other courts with similar powers were established in major provincial centres.

Paris

Jean of Carrouges

Jean IV de Carrouges. Died in 1396 at the battle of Nicopolis.

Jacques Le Gris

Squire, counsellor and confidant to Pierre II de Valois, count of Alençon. Died 27 September 1386.

John, duke of Berry

John duke of Berry (1340 - 1416), third son of king John II of France and Bonne of Luxemburg, brother of king Charles V of France, and uncle of king Charles VI. John married Jeanne d'Armagnac, the daughter of count Jean I and sister of count Jean II. John of Berry, with his brother Philip, duke of Burgundy, were dominant figures in the French kingdom and in French politics during most of Charles VI's reign, first due to the minority of the king, and later because of his insanity.

Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)

Philippe, known as 'the Bold', duke of Burgundy (1342 - 1404), fourth son of Jean II of France and Bonne of Luxemburg. The duke of Burgundy was a prominent figure in the government of France during the reign of his nephew Charles VI, especially after 1392 when the king began to suffer from recurring bouts of insanity that gave the dukes of Berry and Burgundy the opportunity to seize power from Charles VI's trusted administrators, known as the Marmousets. Philippe married Margaret de Male, countess of Flanders, and this marriage eventually not only reunited the duchy of Burgundy with the 'free' counties of Burgundy and Artois, but also brought the wealthy counties of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel under the control of the duke of Burgundy. Thus this marriage alliance, and the consequent marriages of the duke of Burgundy's children, created the basis for the Grand Duchy of the West, a quasi-independent state rather than a mere fief of the French crown.

Louis II, duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)

Louis II, duke of Bourbon (1337 - 1410); the eldest son of Pierre I, duke of Bourbon, and Isabella de Valois. He was king Charles VI's maternal uncle, and he married Anne d'Auvergne in 1371.

Olivier IV de Clisson (d. 1407)

Olivier IV de Clisson (1336 - 1407), one of the most important of the Breton barons, son of Olivier III de Clisson and his second wife Jeanne de Belleville. He was raised at the court of Edward III of England to which he escaped with his mother after his father was executed as a traitor to the French crown. He fought on the English side, together with Jean IV de Montfort, the future duke of Brittany, at the battle of Auray in 1364. But as he was not rewarded for his services as promised by the Black Prince, he became reconciled with the French crown in 1367 and became a 'good Frenchman’ before succeeding Bertrand du Guesclin as supreme commander of the French armies as constable of France in 1380. He became one of the most powerful men in France. He was not, however, always well-regarded by his contemporaries.

King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)

King Charles VI of France (1368 - 1422); son of king Charles V of France and Jeanne de Bourbon. He married Isabeau de Bavière in 1385.

King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)

King Charles VI of France (1368 - 1422); son of king Charles V of France and Jeanne de Bourbon. He married Isabeau de Bavière in 1385.

Paris

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