The Hundred Years War

INSTANT

Jeanne de Clisson Facts: De Clisson led the Black Fleet, whose black ships with blood-red sails terrorized the English Channel in the Hundred Years War.

PEOPLE

Philip IV Facts: When Philip caught his daughters-in-law having affairs, he threw them in prison—but the knights they slept with suffered much worse.



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