Table of Events: Historical Information relating to Christine de Pisan's
Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

1418	Victory of the Burgundians over the Armagnacs. Entry of the Burgundians into Paris. The Dauphin Charles forced to flee to Bourges (and Christine to an 'abbye close').
1419	Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, Jean sans Peur, on the bridge at Montereau, 10 September. Philippe le Bon succeeds his father as Duke of Burgundy, and allies himself with Henry V of England.
1420	Treaty of Troyes. The Dauphin Charles disinherited, Henry V to marry Charles' sister Catherine and become King of France after death of Charles VI
1422	Death of Henry V and Charles VI. The Dauphin assumes title of Charles VII.
1428	Joan of Arc at Vaucouleurs in May. Siege of Orleans begun by the English on 12 October.
1429	Joan at Chinon, 23 February or 6 March; interrogation at Poitiers, March-April; relief of Orleans, 8 May; coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, 17 July; Charles and Joan at Vailly on 22 July, at Soissons from 23 to 28 July, at Chateau-Thierry on 29 July.
	Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc completed on 31 July

We gratefully acknowledge Professors Kennedy and Varty as well as Medium Aevum Monographs, who printed this work in monograph form in 1977. To order hard copies, send £7 ($13) to Dr. D.G. Pattison, Treasurer SSMLL, Magdalen College, Oxford OX1 4AU, U.K.

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