Jean Froissart - Gallery

Gallery

All miniatures by Loyset Liédet, unless stated.

• Execution of Hugh the younger Despenser 1326. A miniature from the Gruuthuse copy of the Chronicle.

• Battle of Sluys 1340 in the Gruuthuse MS.

• Battle of Crécy, 1346 From a 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chronicles (BNF, FR 2643, fol. 165v).

• Battle of Neville's Cross, 1346. English victory over the Scots from the Gruuthuse manuscript.

• John the Good, king of France, ordering the arrest of Charles the Bad, king of Navarre; from the Chroniques of Jean Froissart.

• Battle of Poitiers 1356 (miniature of Froissart).

• Defeat of the Jacquerie
  9 June 1358 {BNF, FR 2643, fol. 226v, Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Flandre, Bruges XVe s}

• The Execution of Étienne Marcel and Jean Maillard 31 July 1358.

• Richard II of England meets rebels, 1381 in the lively if pedestrian style of Loiset Lyédet from the Gruuthuse Froissart

• Death of Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants Revolt 1381

• Battle of Roosebeke (1382) Les chroniques de Froissart, mid-15th century

• After the battle Roosebeke, Charles VI returns to Paris at the head of his army. The inhabitants of Paris negotiate with his envoys the terms of their surrender. Les Chroniques de Jean Froissart, mid-15th century

• Battle of Otterburn (1388). Miniature from Jean Froissart, Chroniques . BNF, fr. 2645, fol. 351.

• The Bal des Ardents, (The Ball of the Burning Men) 1393. Jean Froissart miniature of 1450-80

• Battle of Nicopol, 1396, by the Master of the Dresden Prayer book from the Gruuthuse Froissart

• Execution of prisoners after the Battle of Nicopol Ms. Fr 2646, attr. to the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book