Philip the Good is tired of the Hundred Years War. He’s tired of the destruction, he’s tired of the death, and he’s tired of his ally’s inability to defend his lands. But the Duke of Burgundy finds himself trapped by an oath not to make a separate peace with the increasingly powerful French Court of Charles VII.
Time Period Covered: 1431-1435
Notable People: Philip the Good, Charles VII of France, Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, Arthur de Richemont, Yolande of Anjou, Charles of Anjou Count of Maine, Charles I Duke of Bourbon
Notable Events/Developments: Peace Conference of Auxerre (1433), Peace Conference of Siene-Port (1433), Fall of Georges de la Tremoille, Peace Conference of Nevers (1435)
Left: Cardinal Niccolo Albergati as painted by Jan van Eyck. Albergati had attempted to end the Hundred Years War back in 1422, and in 1431 he returned to France to try again. The Cardinal was a patient and able diplomat, but the French and English were intransigent.
Right: Charles I Duke of Bourbon, a brother-in-law of Philip the Good.
Sources
Philip the Good by Richard Vaughan
The Hundred Years War: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption
The Congress of Arras 1435: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy by Joycelyne Gledhill Dickinson
Charles VII by Malcolm Vale
Medieval Flanders by David Nicholas
The Promised Lands by Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier
A Companion to the Council of Basel ed. by Michiel Devaluwe, Thomaz M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson
The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France by Juliet Barker
Grand Dukes of the West 