Throughout the later 1430s, Charles I Duke of Bourbon found his influence at the court of Charles VII falling day after day. Bourbon was not content to take his sidelining laying down, and so he began to plot, and when that failed he plotted again, and when that failed…
Time Period Covered: 1435-1442
Notable People: Charles VII of France, Charles of Anjou Count of Maine, Charles I Duke of Bourbon, John Bastard of Orleans Count of Dunois, John II Duke of Alencon, Louis XI of France, Jean Louvet, Arthur de Richemont Constable of France
Notable Events/Developments: Bourbon’s 1437 Plot, The Praguerie, Assembly of the Princes in Nevers (1442)
From Left to Right: Charles I Duke of Bourbon, Charles of Anjou Count of Maine, Louis XI of France as the Dauphin
Sources
Charles VII by Malcolm Vale
Louis XI: The Universal Spider by Paul Murray Kendall
Late Medieval France by Graeme Small
Later Medieval France by P. S. Lewis
The Hundred Years War: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France by Juliet Barker
Philip the Good by Richard Vaughan
The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
Grand Dukes of the West 