The Patricians: duc Regnault de Chartres (1380 - 1444), Archbishop of Reims, Governor of Île-de-France, Chamberlain of the Anti-Pope John the 23rd, Grand Chancellor of France, Cardinal de Saint-Étienne-le-Rond - Author's 16th Great Grand-Uncle

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Archbishop of Reims Regnault de Chartres personally crowned Charles VII de Valois King of France during the coronation ceremony he conducted on 17 July 1429. Honored guest Joan of Arc looked on as her chosen heir apparent became King of France. Baron Gilles de Rais, her comrade-in-arms and companion, stood beside her.

Regnault was Joan's ardent supporter and confidant throughout most of that part of her life in which she played a political and military leadership role in France. He accompanied her during several or more battles she fought, including the last one at Siege of Compiègne that led to her capture by Burgundians on 23 May 1430.

Regnault's half-brother, Earl William de Flavy, was present as the township's military commander during the Siege of Compiègne. He's alleged to have refused to issue the command to lower the drawbridge to prevent her from entering the walled fortress after she retreated from the battlefield. The Burgundians subsequently captured her as a result. William's alleged treachery is all the more treacherous as she brought her army there to rescue him and his community from being overrun by marauding Burgundians led by Philippe the Good, founder of The Order of the Golden Fleece.

It's almost certain that William was ordered to prevent Joan from entering the fortress after the well-choreographed battle she was lured into fighting. Regnault likely gave him that command, perhaps on pain of his and his family's death if he failed to comply. Since she fell into the hands, ultimately, of the Lancasters, it's almost certain, as well, that they originally instigated the plan to capture her. Her erstwhile supporter King Charles either aided and abetted the scheme, or turned a blind eye to it since he had struck a truce with the Lancasters several months before her capture. Moreover, he refused to pay the ransom the Duke of Burgundy supposedly demanded her release. As a result, she was remanded to the custody of Bedford after he paid the ransom demand (or bounty).

Joan's conviction of heresy and summary execution was little more than a fait accompli. Cardinal Beaufort, who oversaw her trial and conviction, was Bedford's paternal uncle. I believe the Lancasters plotted her to death well before she was brought to trial. Furthermore, as Regnault also served as Charles VII's ambassador to King Henry VI Lancaster several years before her capture, the French king was probably a co-conspirator.

William Shakespeare (a.k.a. Earl Edward de Vere) characterised Joan as a treacherous and evil witch in his play Henry VI, Part One. As such, she deserved to be burned at the stake according to her pathos, or lack thereof. It's nevertheless interesting to note this glaring example of English popular sentiment towards her over 150 years after her death. We can thus safely assume that the Lancasters held her in the same light.

William de Flavy's wife Blanche had him murdered at Nesles Castle many years after Joan of Arc's martyrdom. Not that there was much love lost between them at any time before or during their marriage, particularly since William always egregiously maltreated her, and caused the untimely demise of her father, Robert Daurebruche (1400 - 1436). However, had she had known the circumstances surrounding his betrayal, she may have spared him his life (or may not). In either case, as his fate would have it, he was damned if he did and, most likely, damned if he didn't.

This was a particularly interesting post to develop and write because I happened upon Earl William de Flavy purely by accident. At the time of his discovery, I was merely wandering through one of the mystical pathways of my ancestry when I came across him in one of my maternal lineage trees. There's no mention of him and Regnault in mainstream historical accounts of Joan of Arc, at least insofar as their complicity in the Lancaster conspiracy to capture and kill her is concerned. Be that as it may, I assess that they both played an important role in the last act of her life. He closed the door to life for her but opened the gates to Heaven, which she always professed as her destiny after a short lifespan.

So what did we learn from Joan's experience? Bottom line, her extraordinary religious zeal, and heroism mobilized peasant support for the Valois monarchy in their 100 Years War struggle like not even King Charles VI or his son, nor anyone else in their noble caste for that matter could have done in their wildest imagination. Unfortunately for her, after the expenditure of her political capital, she became a political liability for either side of the battle line. So was she a tool of tyranny or a saint? All I can say in response is that she started a socio-political movement in France that would generate an ever-increasing political influence that continues to this day. If you want to know just how much, look around France at her memorials and ask the French people what they think of her life in terms of her influence on French history and their lives as a result.


Cardinal Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Reims, Grand Chancellor of France
Birth 1380 in Ons-en-Bray, France
Death 1444 in Tours, France

16th great grand-uncle LE ROY-MAULAY-LA POINTE-MOREAU-GIROUX-MERON-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

7th cousin 22x removed MAILLY-COUCY-CAPET-ROHAN-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

10th cousin 16x removed CLERMONT-MONTFORT-MONTMORENCY-LAVAL-LA ROCHE-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

10th cousin 19x removed NESTLE-MONTMORENCY-NORMANDY-CARRINGTON-SIMMONS-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

18th cousin 16x removed CLERMONT-MONTMORENCY-HOWARD-WOOD-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

stepson of 20th cousin 15x removed CHAMBLEY-CLERMONT-HARCOURT-NORMANDY-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

Wiki http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_...





Earl William de Flavy
Birth 1410 in St Malo, Illes Et Villaine, Bretagne, France
Death 1449 Murdered in Chateau en Nesles Tardenois

16th great grandfather LE ROY-MAULAY-LA POINTE-MOREAU-GIROUX-MERON-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

7th cousin 22x removed MAILLY-COUCY-CAPET-ROHAN-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

10th cousin 16x removed CLERMONT-MONTFORT-MONTMORENCY-LAVAL-LA ROCHE-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

13th cousin 16x removed DE NESTLE-DE CLERMONT-BAR LE DUC-BURDUNDY-BRETAGNE NORMANDY-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/46588...

10th cousin 19x removed NESTLE-MONTMORENCY-NORMANDY-CARRINGTON-SIMMONS-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

18th cousin 16x removed CLERMONT-MONTMORENCY-HOWARD-WOOD-COLLINS-
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

21st cousin 14x removed CHAMBLEY-CLERMONT-HARCOURT-NORMANDY-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD-COLLINS
http:/trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887/person...

husband of wife of 18th cousin 16x removed CLERMONT-MONTMORENCY-HOWARD-WOOD-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s008/f735407.htm

Wiki http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaum...

GENEANET: Jean (Guillaume) de Flavy, seigneur de Flavy, de Bazentin, de Famechon, de Frohen, de Mézières et de Fontaine-sur-Somme, Capitaine bourguignon
https://gw.geneanet.org/foullon?lang=...


OUR FAMILY HISTORY
http://johnsroots.com/getperson.php?p...


Charles VII de Valois-Capet, King of France
Birth 22 Feb 1403 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Death 22 Jul 1461 in Mehun, Cher, Centre, France

5th cousin 18x removed VALOIS-D'EVREUX-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

5th cousin 20x removed VALOIS-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

11th cousin 19x removed WITTELSBACH-HOHENSTAUFEN-HAUTEVILLE-NORMANDY-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

husband of 17th cousin 20x removed ARAGON-POITOU-MONTMORENCY-ROUGE-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

brother-in-law of 4th cousin 19x removed TUDOR-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s090/f215341.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_...




Henry VI Lancaster, King of England
Birth 06 Dec 1421 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
Death 21 May 1471 in Tower of London, London, England

6th cousin 16x removed FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

5th cousin 18x removed TUDOR-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

8th cousin 16x removed BOHUN-MARSHALL-WARREN-CARRINGTON-SIMMONS-COLLINS http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

12th cousin 17x removed PLANTAGENET-POITIERS-HOWARD-TRIPP
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

17th cousin 17x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

2nd cousin 3x removed of wife of 12th great grand uncle TUDOR-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s032/f165481.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI...


John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Plantagenet
Birth 1389
Death 1435

5th cousin 17x removed FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

4th cousin 19x removed TUDOR-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

7th cousin 17x removed BOHUN-MARSHALL-WARREN-CARRINGTON-SIMMONS-COLLINS http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

11th cousin 18x removed PLANTAGENET-POITIERS-HOWARD-TRIPP
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

16th cousin 18x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

1st cousin 4x removed of wife of 12th great grand uncle TUDOR-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s006/f688426.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_...


Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester - illegitimate son of John of Gaunt Plantagenet-Lancaster
Birth 1376 in Chateau, De Beaufort, Meurthe Et Mosel, France
Death 11 APR 1447 in Winchester, Hampshire, , England

4th cousin 18x removed FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

3rd cousin 20x removed TUDOR-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

10th cousin 19x removed PLANTAGENET-POITIERS-HOWARD-TRIPP
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

15th cousin 19x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

3rd great grand uncle of wife of 12th great grand uncle TUDOR-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

brother-in-law of 6th cousin 18x removed BOHUN-MARSHALL-WARREN-CARRINGTON-SIMMONS-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s046/f461997.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Be...


Philippe "The Good" Bourgogne III, Founder and 1st Sovereign Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Birth 30 Jun 1396 in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France
Death 15 Jun 1467 in Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

5th cousin 19x removed VALOIS-CAPET-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

9th cousin 15x removed HAINAUT-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

9th cousin 20x removed WITTELSBACH-D'AVESNES-HOLLAND-SIMMONS-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

11th cousin 19x removed BRABANT-D'EVREUX-CHAMPAGNE-HAINAUT-MONTMORENCY-DE LEON-DE ROUGE-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

11th cousin 20x removed WITTELSBACH-WELF-PLANTAGENET-NORMANDY-D'AVRAHCHE-FITZHUGH-EGERTON-WILBRAHAM-DOANE-MARSHALL-TRIPP-OUTWATER-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

5th great grandfather of husband of 1st cousin 13x removed LANNOY-WARREN-BARTLETT-SPRAGUE-TRIPP-OUTWATER-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/630129...

paternal grandfather of husband of 11th cousin 13x removed DELANO-BOURGOGNE-WITTELSBACH-HAINAUT-ANJOU SICILY-BURGUNDY-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

husband of 1st cousin 18x removed FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

husband of 5th cousin 18x removed AVIZ-PLANTAGENET-CAPET-D'EVREUX-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

brother-in-law of 3rd cousin 17x removed LANCASTER-BOHUN-FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s056/f041371.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_I...


SOURCES

Joan of Arc Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

Siege of Compiègne Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of...

Pope Eugene IV Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Eug...

Henry VI, Part One Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI...

Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural...

The Maid of France
Being The Story Of The Life And Death of Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) http://www.maidofheaven.com/joanofarc...

Great Men and Famous Women http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books...

Companions of Joan of Arc http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/com...

Joan of Arc's Companions-in-Arms http://jean-claude.colrat.pagesperso-...

Jeanne d'Arc http://www.jeanne-darc.info/p_multime...

William de Flavy's "Confession" http://www.stjoan-center.com/2012-fro...

Guillaume de Flavy, capitaine de Compiègne; contribution à l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc et à l'étude de la vie militaire et privée au 15e siècle http://archive.org/stream/guillaumede...

The London Saturday journal article - William Flavy http://books.google.co.cr/books?id=OY...

Nesles Castle http://www.casteland.com/puk/castle/p...

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joan of Arc: Her Story

Saint Joan of Arc

Archbishops of Reims: Pope Sylvester II, Antonio Barberini, Hincmar, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine

Reims, La Cathédrale Notre Dame

The 100 Years War

Henry V

Henry VI, Part 1

King Henry VI, Part 2

King Henry VI, Part 3


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