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Caroline
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Getting nowhere with this, I just dip into it once in awhile when I have nothing else to do... I'll read it eventually.
— Jan 05, 2016 09:35AM
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Rachel
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Just reading the first chapter of this just reminded me why I love Ian Mortimer.
— Oct 23, 2015 10:32AM
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Kalliope
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It was through the Nájera campaign that the prince precipitated the next stage of the 100 Years war.
— Oct 08, 2015 05:13AM
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Kalliope
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Nájera was a stunning military victory, but the prince had terribly miscalculated. Nájera is one of the clearest examples in medieval history of a tactical victory which proved to be a strategic defeat.
— Oct 08, 2015 05:12AM
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Kalliope
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On 3 April 1367, at Nájera, the (Black) prince and his Gascon army inflicted a crushing defeat on Enrique de Trastámara, who almost alone escaped the carnage and arrest of his army. Du Guesclin himself was captured, as well as Marshal Audrehem, whom the prince had previously captured and ransomed once already, at Poitiers.
— Oct 08, 2015 04:33AM
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Kalliope
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In 1365, aged 33, she (Edward's daughter - Isabella) finally chose Enguerrand de Coucy, a lord in England as a hostage for the fulfilment of the Treaty of Brétigny.
This Enguerrand is Barbara Tuchman's hero in her Distant Mirror:
— Oct 08, 2015 01:04AM
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This Enguerrand is Barbara Tuchman's hero in her Distant Mirror:

Kalliope
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Duke of Lancaster - it was probably his garters which had resulted in the emblem being adopted by Edward's chivalric order.
— Oct 08, 2015 12:50AM
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Duke of Lancaster - it was probably his garters which had resulted in the emblem being adopted by Edward's chivalric order.

Kalliope
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The first phase of the war was essentially a war of rival between Edward III and Philip de Valois, in which Edward's claim wa a means to an end, not an end in itself (unlike later stages of the conflict).
— Oct 08, 2015 12:47AM
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Kalliope
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Bue Edward did believe in the connection between God's will and the weather, six thousand dead horses and up to one thousand dead men in a hailstorm was a clear indication that God was not pleased.
— Oct 06, 2015 07:38AM
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Kalliope
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1357. Great tournament at Smithfield... The 17 year old Geoffrey Chaucer was very probably one of the many thousands who watched the tournament, as the future poet had become a page in the household of Elizabeth of Burgh, wife of the king's son Lionel.
— Oct 06, 2015 07:35AM
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Kalliope
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Battle of Poitiers, Froissart. 1356
— Oct 05, 2015 07:32AM
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Kalliope
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In Warwick the tomb of Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, and his wife Catherine, survives intact, replete with a full set of weepers, including portrait images of the Black Prince and probably of Edward himself.
— Oct 02, 2015 12:31PM
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Kalliope
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The 1352 Windsor clock needed a new bell in 1377, at which date it it was described as being called 'clokke', the earliest recorded use of the English word, derived fro the French word cloche, meaning 'bell'.
— Oct 02, 2015 12:25PM
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Kalliope
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At Westminster in 1351 Edward made a breakthrough, introducing what was probably the first English bathroom with hot and cold running water with one bronze tap for hot and another for cold.
— Oct 02, 2015 10:14AM
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