- prison. It now fell upon John's wife,
Joanna of Flanders, to lead the
Montfortist cause.
Deeming her
possessions in the east indefensible, she set up headquarters...
- territory.[citation needed]
Robert Bemborough, a
knight leading the
Montfortist faction which controlled Ploërmel, was
challenged to
single combat by...
- and
taking John prisoner. John's wife,
Joanna of Flanders, took up the
Montfortist cause and
fought on. As
France and
England had been
fighting the Hundred...
- Sir
Robert Bemborough (d.1351) was a
medieval knight who led the
Montfortist faction during the
Combat of the Thirty. This was an
arranged battle between...
-
Succession (part of the
Hundred Years' War), the town was
occupied by the
Montfortist faction,
supported by the English. The
rival French-supported
Blois faction...
- in a duel.
Fannu Mercadera Joanna of
Flanders (c. 1295–1374) led the
Montfortist faction in
Brittany in the 1340s
after the
capture of her
husband left...
-
captured by the
Montfortists. It is
apparently at this time that he
switched sides. As a
result of his new
prominence in the
Montfortist camp, his lands...
- Paris. It now fell upon John's wife,
Joanna of Flanders, to lead the
Montfortist cause. She set up
headquarters at
Hennebont in
southern Brittany, and...
- claim, and war ensued. Ironically,
while the
initial argument of the
Montfortist cause actually relied very
strongly on the idea that
Brittany should...
-
relieved the
siege of Hennebont. But the flow of
events went
against the
Montfortists in the face of the huge
military superiority of the French. By July Joanna...
