At the court of the crazy king. The life of Valentina Milan, Duchess of Orleans
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The fate of Valentina Visconti, the Duchess of Orleans, can become a symbol of the most difficult period in the history of medieval France - the reign of Charles VI Crazy (1380-1422), the king from the Valois dynasty, which has lost his mind twelve years after his accession to the throne. From 1392 to 1422, France tore the greedy princes of royal blood, trying to rule on behalf of the mentally ill king. The royal court has become the focus of intrigues, secret conspiracy and coups. Especially fierce was the rivalry for power between the two cousins - the Duke of Burgundy John Fire and Duke of Orleans Louis, who was married to the heroine of the book, Valentina Wisconti. Valentina could not stay away from the struggle of the warring parties, later known under the names of Armanaki and Bourgins. Under the pressure of the enemies accused her of trying to poison Charles VI, she had to leave the royal court. Meanwhile, the struggle for power and influence reached its apogei in 1407, when John Fire ordered hired killers to wait on the street and kill his enemy, Louis of Orleans. Neither the killer nor the initiator of this high -profile crime was punished by royal justice. Moreover, they put themselves up by the saviors of the king and the kingdom from tyranny of Louis of Orleans and achieved justification. Valentina, who begged Karl VI of the punishment of the perpetrators, was defeated and died a year after her husband’s death. The author of the book, the French historian Emil Kola, represents the story of a woman in the era of a centenary war, putting forward the problem of power and society
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Publication Language:Russian
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ISBN:978-5-8071-0387-1
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