Burgundy murders the Duke of Orléans

1407 · Event

Hired killers cut down the mad king's brother in a Paris street on the orders of his cousin John the Fearless of Burgundy — who admits it, has a theologian defend tyrannicide, and walks free. The Armagnac–Burgundian civil war that follows tears France apart just as Henry V comes of age across the Channel; Burgundy will fight beside England for twenty years.