Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. It had never happened before in the country's history - and it would not happen again until 1940.
Into the void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of England, the victor of Agincourt, who conquered much of northern France before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months before he would have become King of France.
Following on from
Divided Houses (winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Hessel-Tiltman),
Cursed Kings is the magisterial new chapter in 'one of the great historical works of our time' (Allan Massie).
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps, Plans and Tables
- Preface
- I: Paris 1400: A Time of Fortune
- II: Divided Island: England, 1399–1402
- III: The Pirate War, 1402–1404
- IV: The Duke of Orléans, 1404–1405
- V: Gascony and Wales, 1405–1407
- VI: In the Rue Vieille du Temple: The Road to Civil War, 1407–1411
- VII: Unwelcome Friends: The English in France, 1411–1413
- VIII: The Cabochians: Revolution in Paris, 1413
- IX: Henry V, 1413–1414
- X: ‘With trety ye lose …’: Towards the Breach, 1414–1415
- XI: Harfleur and Agincourt, 1415
- XII: The Count of Armagnac, 1415–1417
- XIII: The Conquest of Normandy, 1417–1418
- XIV: The Siege of Rouen, 1418–1419
- XV: On the Bridge of Montereau, 1419–1420
- XVI: The Treaty of Troyes, 1419–1420
- XVII: Melun and Paris: Disaster at Baugé, 1420–1421
- XVIII: The Siege of Meaux: The Death of Princes, 1421–1422
- General Maps
- Royal House of France
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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