[SunkenCiv]

Britains Real Monarch with Tony Robinson

• Richard III's DNA throws up infidelity surprise
• Does Richard III's DNA question Queen's right to the throne? Hunchback king's genetic comparison with distant cousins reveals an illegitimate child in royal family tree

[2banana]

Sounds like mostly the traitors were executed.

[mass55th]

Edward is supposed to be a great-uncle of mine. His brother John of Gaunt is my 17th great-grandfather with Katherine Swynford.

[robowombat]

Good synopsis. Froissart as with almost all historians of his time couldn't count or more precisely liked to jazz up his text with grossly inflated numbers of dead.

The Black Prince was a fine battle captain well liked by his men and a popular figure in England. His forces looted and plundered across France in the same manner all armies did then. At Limoges he was carried in a litter to the site. He may have been dying from either abdominal cancer or diabetes , considering the sketchy description of his final illness. Whatever it was it was painful and protracted. His insistence on being at the site of the siege says a great deal about his soldierly qualities.

[Twotone]

“According to the chronicler Jean Froissart...”

Sounds like this guy would be at home on CNN.

[RoosterRedux]

I've got a copy of Froissart's Chronicles and a couple of old chronicles of some of the Crusades. It's incredible to read first hand (sort of) of the goings on at those times.

I have read Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror many times and highly recommend it. Brings the 100 Years War to life.

[Jim W N]

So let me see.

Is this article about Edward the III, Shakespeare’s ultimate murdering bad guy?

And from whence did Edward the Longshanks appear? - (Edward the ____) - another Edwardian bad guy.

[colorado tanker]

Another example of what AG Barr recently said, that history is written by the victors. In this case by Froissart.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Woah, it’s Baldric.