By Margaret L. Kekewich
Ren? of Anjou is healthier identified to English language readers because the father of Margaret, queen of Henry VI. Ren?'s failure to make solid his declare to the dominion of Naples or to provide his daughter an honest dowry condemn him as a loser. but he's nonetheless remembered in his lands of Anjou and Provence as "good king Ren?." This e-book discusses his occupation and popularity together with his contemporaries and posterity within the context of his relations fortunes, patronage of the humanities and the crises that beset Europe: conflicts in the Catholic Church, the Empire, Italy and the Hundred Years warfare.
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73 Beaucourt, 3, pp. 46–7. Lecoy de la Marche made light of the affair, René, I, pp. 130–1. 74 Basin, Charles VII, 1, p. 179. Anjou, Bar, Lorraine and Provence 33 the adolescent pawn of his great uncle and his father-in-law until the late 1420s. No sooner had they died than he launched on the campaign to secure Lorraine for himself and his wife that ended in his imprisonment. The long negotiations for his release and the draconian financial penalties exacted by Burgundy have already been discussed.
Vale, Charles VII, pp. 35–9. It was a considerable achievement to detach Richemont from Burgundy as he was married to duke Philip’s sister Marguerite, duchess of Guyenne. 39 Monstrelet, 4, pp. 184–5, 199–205; Jean de Waurin, Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, ed. W. P. Hardy, 6 vols (London: 1864–91) 5, pp. 96–7. 40 R. Planchenault, ‘La Conquête du Maine par les Anglais: la campagne de 1424–1425’, Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, 81 (1925): 3–31. A. Griffiths, The Reign of Henry VI: the Exercise of Royal Authority, 1422–1461 (London: 1981) pp.
Contamine (Paris: 1999) pp. 81–98. 17 Beaucourt, 3, p. 45. 18 M. Aurell, ‘Conclusion’, Autour de Marguerite d’Écosse, p. 229. 19 Orliac, p. 58. , pp. 119, 134–5. 21 By the time he wrote, Anjou was ruled by the kings of France so he presumably would derive no personal gain from doing so. He was also in a good position to recover local memories and opinions of the queen and her son. The enormous amount of patriotic fervour, supported by mountains of scholarship, devoted to the phenomenon of Joan of Arc has tended to obscure the contribution made by Yolande to the recovery of France.