Treaty of Troyes

The treated of Troyes is the treaty marking English supremacy during the Guerre One hundred Year old. Signed the May 21st 1420 in the cathedral of Troyes, it expects that the king Charles VI of France after his death would have as a successor the king of England, Henri V.
In this treaty, it is Philippe III of Burgundy which represents the interests of France because Charles VI, which is insane, the country does not direct directly any more since 1392. Philippe the Good and Henri V of England form an alliance against the Dauphin Charles, future Charles VII.
Legitimacy to be succeeded of the supposedly dolphin is denied, because of its " crimes énormes". One reproaches him in fact to have financed the assassination of the duke of Burgundy Jean without Peur, father of Philippe the Good, the September 19th 1419. The rumors concerning an illegitimacy related to an inaccuracy of the queen Isabeau are hawked by the Burgundian ones, but such an assertion cannot be registered without running up against the king de France.
Charles is deposed of all his titles, but preserves in fact the government of the South of France, refugee in Bourges. The signatories of the treaty agree in addition that Henri V will marry Catherine, the girl of Charles VI of Valois and Isabeau of Bavaria. He will be for this reason the only heir to the crown and will exert regency immediately. Charles VI thus bequeaths his crown to his son-in-law then possibly with a grandson with naître.
February 1st 1420, Henri V makes a triumphal entry with Paris in company of the king Charles VI and Philippe III. The University of Paris, with at its head the vice-chancellor Pierre Cauchon, and the General states of Langue of oil give their support to him by recording the treaty of Troyes.
Later, the lawyers having rejoined Charles VII will break the treaty of Troyes by saying that the Crown of France not belonging to king de France this one cannot thus have which it. It is a similar argument which is at the origin of the war of One hundred Ans.
The August 31st 1422 Henri V dies and is joined by Charles VI who dies the next on October 21st. The son of Henri V, ten months old, is proclaimed " king de France and of Angleterre" under the name of Henri VI. The Duc of Bedford ensures regency in France and puts the seat in front of Orleans, the last city in the north of the the Loire, which remains faithful to Charles VII.

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