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What was the reaction to English monarchs using the title "King of France"?
After the Hundred Years War (or "wars") the English had been wiped off France, but English monarchs kept using their official title "King of France". As I understand, this was to ...
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Which Kings of France visited England?
Every English King from Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) to Edward IV (d. 1483) was in France at some point during their lives, almost all during their reigns, and some were born there.
These 'visits' ...
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Aside from Henry VIII, did a king ever take part in a joust as an unknown knight (incognito)?
The unknown knight would seem to belong in the realm of fiction - witness Gareth in Le Morte d'Arthur and Wilfred in Ivanhoe, among others - but incognito knights fighting in jousts or melees were not ...
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