Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... France , caused by the refusal of King Philip Valois to restore to Edward his father's forfeited fiefs in Ponthieu , Guienne and the Agenais . During the past half - century France had become by far the most powerful state in western ...
... France , caused by the refusal of King Philip Valois to restore to Edward his father's forfeited fiefs in Ponthieu , Guienne and the Agenais . During the past half - century France had become by far the most powerful state in western ...
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... France and Picardy rose and avenged themselves on their feudal rulers with massacre , torture and rape . Under the circumstances , all attempts to ransom the King and conclude a peace with England broke down . The only terms Edward ...
... France and Picardy rose and avenged themselves on their feudal rulers with massacre , torture and rape . Under the circumstances , all attempts to ransom the King and conclude a peace with England broke down . The only terms Edward ...
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... France . As its overlord he was entitled , and morally bound , to pronounce judgment on the appeals . - In January 1369 Charles formally summoned the Black Prince as a peer of France to appear in person at Paris . The Prince was taken ...
... France . As its overlord he was entitled , and morally bound , to pronounce judgment on the appeals . - In January 1369 Charles formally summoned the Black Prince as a peer of France to appear in person at Paris . The Prince was taken ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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