John the Fearless and Louis of Orleans Declare a Truce (It Won't Last)
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, agreed to a truce brokered by the Duke of Berry to end their violent rivalry for control of the French crown. Three days later, Burgundy's agents assassinated Orleans on a Paris street, igniting the Armagnac-Burgundian civil war that would devastate France for a generation.
November 20, 1407
619 years ago
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