The Assassination of Orléans: The Rise & Fall of a Medieval Detective

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Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On the eve of the worst winter for over a century and with France on the brink of war with the English, the 1400s in Paris were a tumultuous period. With a mentally unstable king and a collection of dukes, lords and nobles all vying for power in the background, catastrophe was only a single assassination away. Which is exactly what happened on the night of St Clements Day, 1407, when the Duke of Orleans was jumped by a gang of mysterious hooded men on his way to the palace, leaving the head of the investigation with a difficult choice to make, turn a blind eye to the crime and forgo any semblance of integrity, or uphold the law and throw the country into civil war. SOURCES Adams, Tracy & Rechtschaffen, Glenn (2013) Isabeau of Bavaria, Anne of France, and the History of Female Regency in France. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 8, Fall 2013. Jager, Eric (2014) Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris. Little Brown & Co. NY, USA. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, check out betterhelp.com/darkhistories to get 10% off your first month.------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	On the eve of the worst winter for over a century, and with France on the brink of war with
0:05.2	the English, the 1400s in Paris were a tumultuous period, with a mentally unstable king and
0:11.2	a collection of juke's lords and nobles all vying for power in the background, catastrophe
0:16.4	was only a single assassination away.
0:19.1	Which is exactly what happened on the night of St. Clement's Day, 1407, when the Duke
0:24.0	of Oliar was jumped by a gang of mysterious hooded men on his way to the palace, leaving
0:29.2	in the head of the investigation with a difficult choice to make, turn a blind eye to the crime,
0:34.6	and forgo any semblance of integrity, or uphold the law, and throw the country into civil
0:39.9	war.
0:40.9	There's a dark history, but the facts are worse than fiction.
0:45.9	Hello and welcome to Dark History, Season 7, Episode 17, I'm Ben your host as always,
0:54.3	and it's lovely to be back, I hope you're well.
0:57.2	This episode is sponsored as always, well, not actually as always, but sometimes by Better
1:02.5	Help.
1:03.5	I'm just going to chuck this in here, it's not a full ad, so you are interested in getting
1:06.0	involved with Better Help.
1:07.0	I do have a code, you can use it, it's betterhelp.com forward slash dark histories, but with
1:12.8	that corporate guff out the way, shall we move on to something actually fun and talk about
1:16.8	an episode.
1:17.8	This one is called the assassination of Oliar, the rise and fall of a medieval detective.
1:24.9	At the dawn of the 15th century, France was a divided and challenging place to live,
1:32.3	with the population still reeling from the Black Death that killed so many less than 50
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