The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (1470s)
Execution of Christian prisoners by Bayezid I after the Battle of Nicopol in 1396
The beheading of Olivier de Clisson
Battle of Sluys, 1340
Battle of Crécy, 1346
Battle of Neville's Cross, 1346. English victory over the Scots outside Durham.
Death of Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants Revolt in London, 1381
Battle of Nicopol, 1396
Richard II meets the rebels in 1381
Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men), a masquerade ball held in January 1393 in Paris at which Charles VI of France performed in a dance with five members of the French nobility. Four of the dancers were killed in a fire caused by a torch brought in by a spectator.
"Fire at a masked dance"
Charles VI attacking his knights
Louis de Gruuthuse before an astronomical clock
Battle of Beverhoutsveld in Froissart's Chronicles
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