Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- JEAN LE BEL'S CHRONICLE
- Prologue
- EDWARD III'S ACCESSION
- THE CAMPAIGN IN THE BORDERS 1327
- ‘THE BLACK DOUGLAS’
- THE CLAIMS TO THE FRENCH CROWN
- WAR WITH SCOTLAND
- THE WAR WITH FRANCE BEGINS
- 1340–58
- THE WAR OF THE BRETON SUCCESSION
- EDWARD AND THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY
- THE WAR IN BRITTANY
- EDWARD AND THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY
- THE WAR IN GASCONY
- CRÉCY AND CALAIS
- KING JOHN'S REIGN BEGINS
- THE PRINCE OF WALES'S CAMPAIGNS
- PLUNDER AND UPRISING
- EDWARD'S LAST CAMPAIGN
- Index
KING JOHN'S REIGN BEGINS
from JEAN LE BEL'S CHRONICLE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- JEAN LE BEL'S CHRONICLE
- Prologue
- EDWARD III'S ACCESSION
- THE CAMPAIGN IN THE BORDERS 1327
- ‘THE BLACK DOUGLAS’
- THE CLAIMS TO THE FRENCH CROWN
- WAR WITH SCOTLAND
- THE WAR WITH FRANCE BEGINS
- 1340–58
- THE WAR OF THE BRETON SUCCESSION
- EDWARD AND THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY
- THE WAR IN BRITTANY
- EDWARD AND THE COUNTESS OF SALISBURY
- THE WAR IN GASCONY
- CRÉCY AND CALAIS
- KING JOHN'S REIGN BEGINS
- THE PRINCE OF WALES'S CAMPAIGNS
- PLUNDER AND UPRISING
- EDWARD'S LAST CAMPAIGN
- Index
Summary
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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- The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel, 1290-1360 , pp. 209 - 222Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011