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Assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans

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named Jacob was killed trying to protect the Duke. The Duke's hand was cut off and his skull split by an axe. The Duke of Burgundy had the support of the Parisian and University populations, which he had known how to win over by promising the establishment of an ordinance like
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G. Wymans, « Inventaire analytique du chartrier de la Trésorerie des comtes de Hainaut », aux A.E. Mons, n° d’ordre (cote) 1290, Editions A.G.R., Bruxelles, 1985, p. 271. (Or. sur pch.; sc. ébréché avec
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Upon his departure, he was stabbed by about fifteen masked thugs led by Raoulet d'Anquetonville, who was a henchman of the Duke of Burgundy. The valets and guards that escorted him were unable to protect him. An
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In order to appease the combatants following the assassination, King Charles VI of France called the Duke of Burgundy and the children of the deceased to Chartres on 28 February 1409. He also charged
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On 23 November 1407, the Duke of Orleans went to visit Queen Isabeau, who had given birth a little earlier, at the Hôtel Barbette on the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris.
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on 23 November 1407 in Paris, France. The assassination occurred during the power struggles between two factions attempting to control the
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Assassination of the Duke of Orleans, showing the Duke's mutilated hand and his dead esquire.
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His authority thus weakened, John the Fearless decided he had to kill his rival.
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de Charles (VI) roi de France au comte Guillaume (IV) de Hainaut. In,
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2014 photograph of the site of the assassination of the Duke of Orleans
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steadily regained territory previously lost to the English in the
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that ensued went on for thirty years, until the signing of the
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In the midst of these power struggles, Philip's successor,
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23 novembre 1407: Assassinat dans la rue Vieille du Temple
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awaited his urgent presence at the Hôtel Saint-Paul.
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Index

Louis I, Duke of Orléans
assassinated
regency
Charles VI
Isabeau of Bavaria
Duke of Burgundy
Philip the Bold
John the Fearless
open warfare
assassination of John the Fearless


Charles V
Bertrand du Guesclin
Hundred Years' War
Charles VI
Queen Isabeau
Philip the Bold
Duke of Burgundy
John the Fearless
Louis of Orléans
Flanders
Duchy of Burgundy
Duchy of Luxembourg
Charles VI
esquire
that of 1357
Jean Petit
Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
Count William IV of Hainaut

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