Charles of Orleans, Part One

07/30/23 • 39 min

Welcome to the first of what looks to be six episodes about Charles of Orleans. To say he had a jam-packed life would be a bit of an understatement. By the end of this first episode he's barely fourteen. I am so happy to share this often overlooked man whose life had a huge impact on the end of the Hundred Years' War and French history in general. Plus, there's some poetry coming up in a few weeks! Get bonus content on Patreon

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Welcome to a new miniseries. This will be spanning a huge time period and I'll be using it as an excuse to cover Salic Law and its impacts in a bit more detail. I'll be looking at three men whose fathers and brother's weren't kings, but whose sons were. Well, technically one was a king, but jure uxoris (meaning by the right of his wife). In addition I will also cover one woman who came the closest to ending Salic Law for royal succession. This first episode is a lot of genealogy, but worth it. I'm including detailed family trees on social media. For the full text of Salic Law please see here: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/salic.asp Get bonus content on Patreon

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Princes of the Blood

In this week's This Too Shall Passed I take a look at the French tradition of making a huge group of men princes. As always, sorry for my French pronunciation. Get bonus content on Patreon

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