Episode 89 - The Great Company

In this episode, we look at the situation in the Languedoc, the movements of the companies out of Gascony and into Auvergne, then the Loire, Saône and Rhône valleys, and the rise of the Great Company of the Arnaud de Cervole, the Archpriest Dates: 1355 Last raids of the Count of Armagnac into Gascony; first company comes out of Gascony into Auvergne 1356 Arnaud d'Albret takes Felletin Duke of Bourbon buys back Felletin  1357 New Gascon attacks in Auvergne Archpriest moves into the Dauphiné July 13 - Archpriest begins attack on Provence Pope hires Count of Armagnac October - Armagnac marches near Aix and attacks 2 castles 1358 January - Count of Armagnac replaced by Count of Poitiers as lieutenant of the Languedoc; Bertucat d'Albret takes Sermur; Priovençal rebels restart their fight February 21 - Archpriest takes Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Beaume March - Archpriest plans on taking Marseille April - Archpriest changes his mind and heads north May - Meeting of the Estates-General of the Languedoc; Bertucal d'Albret is paid to leave Sermur September - Pope buys off the Archpriest