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Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord

1301–1364

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French cardinal and influential churchman of the fourteenth century. His career placed him within the diplomacy of the Avignon papacy and the wider politics of France, England and the Hundred Years’ War.

In Maurice Druon’s The King without a Kingdom, Cardinal Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord recounts the reign of John II, whose hostility towards Charles of Navarre and dependence on a narrow circle of favourites deepen France's political divisions.

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Historical periods linked to Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord

Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453 CE

Series

Series featuring Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (1 series)

The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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