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KING JOHN'S REIGN BEGINS

from JEAN LE BEL'S CHRONICLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

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How King Philip and his son remarried, and King Philip died soon after and the Duke of Normandy was crowned king.

Not long after the adventure in which King Edward saved the castle at Calais from treachery, the Queen of France – King Philip's wife and sister to the Duke of Burgundy – passed from this world. So too did the lady Bonne, wife of the Duke of Normandy and daughter of the most worthy and noble-hearted king who ever lived, the King of Bohemia. I don't know which of these two ladies died first, though many people say it was lady Bonne – I'm not sure why or if they're right. In any event, the father and son were both widowed fairly soon after each other and remarried equally soon. And the father took a fair young damsel whom his son was keen to have! But he preferred to take her for himself, for she was as gracious and as beautiful as a man could rightly wish – but he was her cousin german. She was the daughter of the King of Navarre who died in granada during the King of Spain's siege of Algeciras, and the sister of Navarre's present king (of whom you'll hear great wonders in due course). The son meanwhile, the Duke of Normandy, followed his father's advice and married the Countess of Boulogne; she was the widow of his cousin german, the young Duke of Burgundy who had died by great misfortune at the siege of Aiguillon.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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