False Peace in France: Orleans Murdered Days After Truce
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, agreed to a formal truce brokered by the Duke of Berry to end their escalating rivalry for control of the French crown. Three days later, Burgundy's agents ambushed and murdered Orleans on a Paris street as he returned from visiting the queen. The assassination, which Burgundy openly admitted to and publicly justified, ignited the Armagnac-Burgundian civil war that devastated France for a generation and created the political chaos that England exploited during the Hundred Years' War.
November 20, 1407
619 years ago
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