• Episode 89 - The Great Company

  • Jan 31 2022
  • Length: 21 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 89 - The Great Company

  • Summary

  • In this episode, we look at the situation in the Languedoc, the movements of the companies out of Gascony and into Auvergne, then the Loire, Saône and Rhône valleys, and the rise of the Great Company of the Arnaud de Cervole, the Archpriest

    Dates:

    1355
    Last raids of the Count of Armagnac into Gascony; first company comes out of Gascony into Auvergne

    1356
    Arnaud d'Albret takes Felletin
    Duke of Bourbon buys back Felletin 

    1357
    New Gascon attacks in Auvergne
    Archpriest moves into the Dauphiné
    July 13 - Archpriest begins attack on Provence
    Pope hires Count of Armagnac
    October - Armagnac marches near Aix and attacks 2 castles

    1358
    January - Count of Armagnac replaced by Count of Poitiers as lieutenant of the Languedoc; Bertucat d'Albret takes Sermur; Priovençal rebels restart their fight
    February 21 - Archpriest takes Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Beaume
    March - Archpriest plans on taking Marseille
    April - Archpriest changes his mind and heads north
    May - Meeting of the Estates-General of the Languedoc; Bertucal d'Albret is paid to leave Sermur
    September - Pope buys off the Archpriest

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