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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4982572, member: 110504"]This is a bit of a stretch; hope people will be indulgent....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197059[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197060[/ATTACH]</p><p>France, Philippe VI, 1328-1350. Gros à fleur de lis, 1341. Inner legends: +PhILIPPVS REX /+FRANCORVM. (Duplessy, Royales, 263; cf.263A.)</p><p>In 1346, Philippe lost the Battle of Crécy to the forces of Edward III, under the commands of King Edward, his son, Edward the Black Prince, and Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. The Black Prince and Thomas went on to win a no less dramatic victory at Poiters ten years later.</p><p>The two battles were the first to involve English longbows trouncing French heavy cavalry, as happened again at Agincourt in 1415. Meanwhile, the earlier phases of the Hundred Years' War saw a level of destruction likely not seen in Europe in recent memory. Techniques were largely traditional --burning and pillaging-- but now, to a nearly unprecedented degree, they were pursued on a genuinely international scale. One chronicle mentions a captive French mayor who was taken to the top of a local church by an English official, from which he could see the fires of neighboring towns in every direction.</p><p>Thomas, a lineal ancestor, died of the Black Death in 1369, as the Black Prince would in 1376 (predeceasing his father by a year), in two of the resurgences of the plague which punctuated the second half of the 14th century. ...I always saw that as a bit of poetic justice. Here's Thomas's tomb, with his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Roger Mortimer, the infamous consort of Queen Isabella, estranged wife of Edward II. ...A lovely couple.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Thomas_de_Beauchamp%2C_Katherine_Mortimer%2C_Earl_Warwick.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> By wikipedia user Editornado, CC BY-SA 3.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12395320" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12395320" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12395320</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4982572, member: 110504"]This is a bit of a stretch; hope people will be indulgent.... [ATTACH=full]1197059[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1197060[/ATTACH] France, Philippe VI, 1328-1350. Gros à fleur de lis, 1341. Inner legends: +PhILIPPVS REX /+FRANCORVM. (Duplessy, Royales, 263; cf.263A.) In 1346, Philippe lost the Battle of Crécy to the forces of Edward III, under the commands of King Edward, his son, Edward the Black Prince, and Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. The Black Prince and Thomas went on to win a no less dramatic victory at Poiters ten years later. The two battles were the first to involve English longbows trouncing French heavy cavalry, as happened again at Agincourt in 1415. Meanwhile, the earlier phases of the Hundred Years' War saw a level of destruction likely not seen in Europe in recent memory. Techniques were largely traditional --burning and pillaging-- but now, to a nearly unprecedented degree, they were pursued on a genuinely international scale. One chronicle mentions a captive French mayor who was taken to the top of a local church by an English official, from which he could see the fires of neighboring towns in every direction. Thomas, a lineal ancestor, died of the Black Death in 1369, as the Black Prince would in 1376 (predeceasing his father by a year), in two of the resurgences of the plague which punctuated the second half of the 14th century. ...I always saw that as a bit of poetic justice. Here's Thomas's tomb, with his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Roger Mortimer, the infamous consort of Queen Isabella, estranged wife of Edward II. ...A lovely couple. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Thomas_de_Beauchamp%2C_Katherine_Mortimer%2C_Earl_Warwick.jpg[/IMG] By wikipedia user Editornado, CC BY-SA 3.0, [URL]https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12395320[/URL][/QUOTE]
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