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In this episode, we explore the routier campaigns in the Auvergne and Champagne regions of France, and try to understand how effective institutions help the French, and how the English are still working out the kinks of being routiers.

Mentioned in the episode:

Kings and Generals episode on the Mongols

Timeline:

• November 1358
• • Dury and Scott invade the Aisne Valley
• December 1358
• • 25 - Dury and Scott capture and ransom the Comte de Roucy and his family
• March 1359
• • (early) D’aubricourt, Albrecht and Audley take Pont-sur-Seine
  • (end of) Estates of the Languedoc
• April 1359
• • The routiers are ready to attack Reims (Dury and Scott from the north, d’Aubricourt, Albrecht and Audley from the south)
• May 1359
• • 24 - Estates of Auvergne
  • Thomas de la Marche sets up his headquarters at Saint-Pourçain
  • (end) Knolles reaches Saint-Pourçain
• June 1359
• • The lieutenants of Champagne gather an army near Troyes
  • 20 - Calveley near Puy-en-Velay
  • 23 - Battle of Nogent-sur-Seine
• July 1359
• • Knolles and Calveley massacre Puy-en-Velay
  • 29 - Knolles and Calveley reported 35 miles from Avignon
• August 1359
• • (early) Calveley cornered near Puy, then manages to escape; Knolles company retreats

In this episode, we look at some aspects of how fortifications are defended and the changes that the Hundred Year's War brought on.

Mentionned in the episode: Tod's Workshop

In this episode, King Jean and King Edward agree to a new treaty, one harsher than the previous. King Edward also holds weddings for two of his children. Meanwhile, as the Estates-General debates the new treaty, they also discuss a scheme from the King of Denmark.

Afterwards, we quickly explore medieval currency.

Dates:

1358

November: French fail to pay the first installment of King Jean’s ransom

1359

January: negotiations begin on Second Treaty of London

March 24: The Second Treat of London is sealed by both Kings

May 

• 19: Wedding of Margaret and earl of Pembroke / Estates-General open
• 20: Wedding of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster

June: 

• Estates-General reject Second Treaty of London
• French Government negotiated with Waldemar III and Scottish delegations
• Edward begins preparations for war with France

We see the routiers through the eyes of Hugues de Montgeron. 

Band invade the Nivernais, Orléans and Auxerre, but are stopped in Burgundy and Champagne.

1358

• April
• • Archpriest hired by Marguerite de Flandres to defend Nevers
• May
• • Bands take city and bridge of Meung
• June
• • 24: Beaugency is taken
• October 
• • Robert Knolles enters Orléanais
  • 31: the English take Chantecoq
• November
• • Archpriest leaves Provence
• December: 
• • Hugh de Montgeron flees his hut in the woods and makes for Sens

1359

• January 
• • 10: Knolles’ first assault on Auxerre
  • 12: Knolles’ men get beaten at Troyes
• February: 
• • Hugh de Montgeron is called back to his Priory
• March 
• • 10: Auxerre falls to Robert Knolles
  • Cardinals are robbed
• Fall

In this episode, we look at the situation in the Languedoc, the movements of the companies out of Gascony and into Auvergne, then the Loire, Saône and Rhône valleys, and the rise of the Great Company of the Arnaud de Cervole, the Archpriest

Dates:

1355
Last raids of the Count of Armagnac into Gascony; first company comes out of Gascony into Auvergne

1356
Arnaud d'Albret takes Felletin
Duke of Bourbon buys back Felletin 

1357
New Gascon attacks in Auvergne
Archpriest moves into the Dauphiné
July 13 - Archpriest begins attack on Provence
Pope hires Count of Armagnac
October - Armagnac marches near Aix and attacks 2 castles

1358
January - Count of Armagnac replaced by Count of Poitiers as lieutenant of the Languedoc; Bertucat d'Albret takes Sermur; Priovençal rebels restart their fight
February 21 - Archpriest takes Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Beaume
March - Archpriest plans on taking Marseille
April - Archpriest changes his mind and heads north
May - Meeting of the Estates-General of the Languedoc; Bertucal d'Albret is paid to leave Sermur
September - Pope buys off the Archpriest

In this episode, the Dauphin is invited back into Paris, and restores his relationship with the Parisians. Charles of Navarre surrounds Paris. The French can’t pay for their King’s ransom.

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Dates:

• July 31, 1358: Étienne Marcel dies
• August 1, 1358: Paris invites Prince Charles back; Charles of Navarre has a draft treaty with England drafted
• August 2, 1358: The Dauphin returns to Paris
• August 3, 1358: Charles of Navarre renounces his homage and attempted crowning
• August 4, 1358: Charles of Navarre occupies Melun
• August 22, 1358: Queen Isabella dies
• August sometime, 1358: Pope Innocent IV recalls his legates and asks them to help the Regent and the Companies make peace
• September 21, 1358: Stephen Cusington arrives in London with Charles of Navarre’s proposed treaty
• November something, 1358: French representatives inform London that they can’t pay the King’s ransom
• November 20, 1358: King Edward sends a message to the Dauphin, informing him that he is no longer bound by the treaty
• November 27, 1358: Burial of Queen Isabella
• December 6, 1358: King Edward orders the requisitioning of ships and the recruitment of archers 
• December 12, 1358: King Edward sends Stephen of Cusington and Richard Totesham to France with a reply to Charles of Navarre, and orders to get the companies under control

In 1357, during the siege at Dinan, Bertrand Du Gesclin was challenged to a duel - this is the story.