Trial By Combat

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In 1386 France, Jean Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris faced each other in a fight to the death. The two were former friends turned bitter enemies. Le Gris was accused of a terrible crime, and the courts determined that only God could determine the guilty party. Support Noble Blood: — Bonus episodes and scripts on Patreon — Merch! — Pre-order Dana's book, Anatomy: A Love Story — Sign up to join Dana on the Mary Shelley Pilgrimage in April

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0:00.0	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Myelt from Aaron
0:05.8	Manky.
0:06.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:16.3	It was 1386, just a few days after Christmas, and the ground at the dueling field set up
0:23.1	behind the Abbey de Samarindeshams was hard with frost.
0:28.2	Thousands of people had poured in from Paris for this spectacle.
0:32.1	They had been there since dawn, rubbing their hands together for warmth, watching the
0:36.9	rising sun, waiting for the moment the event would begin.
0:43.2	Stands were erected on either side of the field, massive constructions with wooden rails
0:48.6	and staircases.
0:50.5	One stand was for foreign nobles visiting France.
0:54.2	They were, of course, seated according to rank.
0:57.7	A second stand was for members of the French court.
1:01.7	The third set of stands, the most central, was reserved for the king himself, the young
1:07.2	Charles VI, and his highest ranking nobility.
1:11.2	He had insisted that the duel be delayed until his return from Flanders so he could witness
1:17.2	it.
1:18.8	Beneath the stands for the nobility were benches for merchants and commoners, although
1:23.6	most of them were forced to stand at ground level, face to face with the wooden wall that
1:29.3	had been built around the dueling arena.
1:32.2	They tried to find a spot where they could see through the planks of wood.
1:37.3	The dueling grounds in a suburb of Paris were originally designed for jousting.
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