Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 184, Edwards Foreign Glory.

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You know, it has been sad over the last many episodes.

It has been sad, I have been sad, because I have fallen into a rhythm of a hundred year

war conversations and since the death of the Duke Bedford, there has been no opportunity.

Either that or it has been a stream of miserable defeats.

And so it is with some pleasure at Ladies and Gentlemen that I am able to start an episode

talking about the good old threesome of France, Burgundy and England.

Though actually, like the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, this is actually a trilogy

in four parts, since we must welcome a fourth member to the story.

So give it up for Brittany.

So what did I start with a bit of a reprise of some of the territories and characters

involved in all of this stuff?

Let us start with Louis XI of France.

Louis was born in 1423 and was therefore 47 in 1470.

It had been born in Bourge.

Are you gasp?

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