The King is dead, long live the King! With Charles VII no more and Louis XI now on the throne, the troubled Franco-Burgundian relationship has turned a page. Surely things will be all sunshine and roses going forward…
Time Period Covered: 1461-1463
Notable People: Philip the Good, Charles the Bold, Louis XI, Antoine Lord of Croy, Guillaume de Bische, Pierre de Breze, Richard Neville Earl of Warwick, Henry Beaufort Duke of Somerset
Notable Events/Developments: Coronation of Louis XI, Philip the Good returns to Paris, Redemption of the Somme Towns
Left: A Portrait of Louis XI. Right: Louis XI enters Paris after his coronation.
Sources
Philip the Good by Richard Vaughan
Louis XI: The Universal Spider by Paul Murray Kendall
Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500 Edited by Christopher Fletcher, Jean-Philippe Genet, and John Watts
The Illusion of the Burgundian State by Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin
A l’ombre du Pouvoir: Les entourages princiers au Moyen Age Edited By Jean-Louis Kupper and Alain Marchandisse
Les Croy, conseillers des ducs de Bourgogne by Marie-Rose Thielemans
Montee, crise, reorientation. Pour une histoire de la famille de Croy au xve siecle by Werner Paravicini
Royaute Francaise et Etat Bourguinon de 1435 a 1477 by Andre Leguai
The Life and Reign of Edward IV Volume I by Cora Scofield
Sir Richard Roos, c. 1410-1482: Lancastrian Poet by Ethel Seaton
Ouvres of Georges Chastellain Tome IV
Memoires by Jacques du Clerq
Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne, a present nomme Engleterre by Jean de Wavrin
