159 From Arras to Tours

The History of England

David Crowther

Europe, Queen, England, Medieval, Politics, Royal, History, Parliament, English, King, Modern, Early Modern, Monarchy

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🗓️ 9 August 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Through the late 1430's and early 1440's the situation in Normandy got no better, Alice Chaucer until a failed expedition convinced Henry and Suffolk that peace was required at any price. And the result was the Treaty of Tour and a royal marriage.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 159 from Arras to Tours.
0:23.2	Indeed to another weekly word from Kevin, author of the History of English podcast.
0:30.8	Last week we heard about the diplomatic disaster at Arras, the withdrawal of the Burgundian
0:35.6	Alliance and the death of Bedford. Today we're going to take things from 1435 all the way through
0:42.5	to the Treaty of Tours in 1444 and see how a new political structure began to emerge and how
0:49.6	the character of the new king began to emerge as well. Our stages set ladies and gentlemen for
0:55.4	some new players to tread the boards. But before any of that the English had to fight for their lives.
1:03.8	As soon as the news at Arras became known the French were on the offensive from Northern France.
1:10.7	The death of Bedford had not only deprived England of a leader at least approaching the
1:14.6	stature of Henry V. It also pulled away the keystone of the English defences in Normandy.
1:21.3	What Bedford had done had been to gather around him a group of leaders who owed him personal
1:26.2	allegiance and through them he controlled the network of captains who held land and fortresses
1:32.3	throughout English held France. With his death suddenly this chain of command was completely
1:38.4	dislocated. Now if these captains had owed allegiance to an office holder well that would have been
1:44.2	fine but their allegiance had often been personal to Bedford. The French swept down the coast
1:52.4	capturing Depp and a series of coastal fortresses all the way down to and including Half-Lure.
1:58.9	Rua, the capital of Normandy, was threatened with attack. In Paris the English watched as
2:04.9	fortress after fortress around the city fell and its position became more and more vulnerable.
2:10.8	In Calais the English took the news of Burgundian defection badly, very badly, the fact so badly
2:17.2	that the English in the town were given free reign to plunder the Burgundian merchants.
2:22.4	Philip the good was livid and as a result not only did he become an ally of the French king he now
2:28.3	became the enemy of the English. He declared war, he gathered an army, he started reducing nearby
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