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The assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans took place on November 23 1407 in Paris.

Background

Under the reign of Charles V, French generals like Bertrand du Guesclin had steadily regained ground lost previously to the English in the Hundred Years' War. At the same time England was suffering from serious political disturbances and border threats at home. These two factors led to a truce being declared in 1389.The Hundred Years' War was a truce. The English patient underwent a reconquest of territory taken by valiant captains (as Bertrand du Guesclin ), during the reign of Charles V of France , and face serious political unrest.

The new king of France, Charles VI, had sunk into madness, and by 1392 France was being ruled by a regency council composed of the grandees of the kingdom and presided over by Queen Isabeau^[1]. With the death of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, power shifted away from his son, John the Fearless, and towards the king's brother, Louis of Orléans, who was rumoured to have had a relationship with the queen^[1]. Louis had the Burgundians expelled from the council and took the lion's share of the royal treasury, which he used to break up the Duke of Burgundy's territorial possessions of Flanders and the Duchy of Burgundy by purchasing the Duchy of Luxembourg.

Trapped and weakened, John the Fearless decided he must kill his rival.

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References

^ ^a ^b Alban Dignat, 23 novembre 1407: Assassinat dans la rue Vieille du Temple, herodote.net

[Dignat-1] Alban Dignat, 23 novembre 1407: Assassinat dans la rue Vieille du Temple, herodote.net

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 Trapped and weakened, John the Fearless decided he must kill his rival.
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-On [[23 November]] [[1407]], the Duke of Orleans will visit the Queen Isabella, who gave birth shortly before, at the Hotel Barbette, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris.
+==Results==
-Thomas Courteheuse him know that King [[Charles VI]] urgently awaits at the Hotel Saint-Paul.
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-He is stabbed to its output by a dozen masked thugs led by Raoulet Anquetonville of which is a henchman of the Duke of Burgundy. The servants and guards who escorted him are powerless to protect him. The Duke of Burgundy has the support of the population of Paris and the University, he was seduced by promising the establishment of an order similar to that of 1357. Can take power, he can publicly confess the murder. Far from hiding away, John the Fearless had prepared a eulogy tyrannicide by the theologian Jean Petit, University of Sorbonne.
-==Consequences=
-King Charles VI of France, to appease the warring factions following the assassination, called the Duke of Burgundy and the children of the deceased, February 28, 1409 (date nouv st.) Chartres: it also instructed the Count William IV of Hainaut (beautiful brother of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy) to ensure, at the head of 400 men at arms and 100 archers, protecting each of the delegations when he travels and commit to identify themselves sides of the party eventually assaulted.
-April 15, [[1410]], at [[Gien]], at the wedding of [[Charles d'Orleans]] (the son of the murdered Duke) and [[Bonne of Armagnac]], the great kingdom of these conspire against the Duke of Burgundy. The [[civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians]] which follows does not end until thirty years later, with the signing of the [[Treaty of Arras (1435)]]. [[Assassination of John the Fearless|John the Fearless is himself assassinated]] by the Armagnacs in [[1419]].
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