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Jul 14, 2021, 14 tweets

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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