40.4 Charles VIII of France Invades Naples

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Charles VII leads his army into Italy to invade the Kingdom of Naples. He is invited into the peninsula by Ludovico Il Moro of Milan, concerned about aggression from Naples. Ludovico had expected the French to to travel to Naples largely by sea, and with a smaller force, not the full deployment of the French crown

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1:09.5	The Battle of Fornova, Part 4 of 5 part four of five. On the 30th of May, 1483, a new French king, Charles VIII, was crowned at the Cathedral
1:26.3	of Rem.
1:29.2	Three decades had now passed since the end of the Hundred Years' War, a conflict which had caused so much devastation to the
1:33.7	French countryside and destabilising of French politics. When Charles ascended to the throne,
1:40.3	at the same time that the Kingdom of England was still embroiled in a long-running civil war,
1:45.0	known as the War of the Roses, France was fast recovering her prosperity and confidence.
1:51.1	As described in the previous podcast on the Battle of Nancy 1477, Charles VIII's father,
1:57.5	Louis XVI, who reigned from 1461 to 1483, nicknamed the Universal Spider,
2:03.2	was a skillful and very cunning diplomat who helped destabilise a rival power centre to the east,
2:09.6	the Duchy of Burgundy.
2:11.6	Louis took advantage of the situation to seize numerous Burgundian territories, although his
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