Quentin Maillart

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ID: I18248

Name: Quentin MAILLART

Sex: M

Birth: ABT 1485 in Beugnies, France

Death: AFT 1558 in Beugnies, France

Father: Mathieu MAILLART b: 1453 in Beugnies, France

Mother: Catherine PILLOT b: ABT 1458

Marriage 1 Laurence UNKNOWN

Married: 1505

Children

Thomasse MAILLART b: ABT 1506 in Felleries, France

Michel MAILLART b: ABT 1507 in Felleries, France

Jehanne MAILLART b: ABT 1508 in Felleries, France

Gilles MAILLART b: ABT 1510 in Felleries, France

Nicolas MAILLART b: ABT 1512 in Felleries, France

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Events in Europe at this time: 1485 Henry VII begins the Tudor dynasty in England

King Charles's son the Dauphin fled to the south leaving northern France in the hands of the English and the Burgundians. In 1422 he became Charles VII but he ruled only southern France.

However in 1429 the tide turned. A woman named Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc) led a French revival. Joan was a very strange person. She wore men’s clothes and she claimed she heard voices. However she must have been gifted in some way because she persuaded the French king to let her lead troops in the battle of Orleans in 1429. The English were besieging the town but they were driven back. The Burgundians captured the unfortunate Joan in 1430. They handed her over to the English who burned her as a heretic in 1431.

However the French fight back continued. By 1453 the English had been driven out of all France except Calais.

The defeat of the English brought the French kings control of Aquitaine, Normandy and Burgundy. Other parts of France also came under the king's control. Provence was absorbed in 1482. In 1491 Charles VIII (1483-1498) married Anne Duchess of Brittany and the region lost its autonomy. By the end of the 15th century France was a strong, centralised kingdom.

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