It was on this day in 1343 that the French nobleman Oliver de Clisson was convicted of treason and beheaded, his head hung on the gates of Paris. Many saw the trial trumped up, and the conviction and execution an act of injustice for which the king was directly responsible. No one more so than his wife, Jeanne de Clisson. She took her children to Paris and showed them their father’s head, returned to her estates, sold them, raised an... Read more