63. Jeanne de Clisson and the Black Fleet
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BOO! It’s spooky season, so I’m bringing you a chilling tale of piracy, treachery, and blood-soaked revenge. This week, we’re digging into the very beginning of the Hundred Years’ War, when a bunch of scheming men had their plans ruined by scheming women. We’ll learn about the War of Breton Succession, a.k.a. a teensy conflict that managed to explode into an international proxy war. Despite the strictures of medieval society, Breton women were claiming thrones, leading armies into battle, and taking to the high seas. Jeanne de Clisson, furious widow, turned her rage into a lifelong search for vengeance, and we are definitely going to dig into the gory details.
Episode 63: “Jeanne de Clisson and the Black Fleet”
Jeanne de Clisson, lady pirate:
Transcript
Sources:
- Vázquez, Germán. Mujeres Piratas. Spain, Editorial Edaf, S.L., 2004.
- Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas, Laura Sook Duncombe
- Visser, Nils, and Willeke Snijder. “The Flame of Britanny: Jeanne De Flandres.” Medieval Warfare, vol. 4, no. 2, 2014, pp. 33–38. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/48578335. Accessed 29 Oct. 2020.
- Petot, Pierre. “Le Mariage Des Vassales.” Revue Historique De Droit Français Et Étranger (1922-), vol. 56, no. 1, 1978, pp. 29–47. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43847859. Accessed 29 Oct. 2020.
- Chronicles, Jean Froissart
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- Woman: Women of mediœval France, by P. Butler. United States, subscribers only, G. Barrie & Sons, 1908.
- Vencel, Wendy, “Women at the Helm: Rewriting Maritime History through Female Pirate Identity and Agency” (2018). Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. 452.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/452 - Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger, ed. Ulrike Klausmann, Gabriel Kuhn & Marion Meinzerin, trans. Nicolas Levis, Black Rose Books, 1997
- A History of Piracy, Robert de la Croix, trans. Michael Ross, Manor Books, New York, 1978
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