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The Stonyhurst Chronicles is a book about the Hundred Years' War and was itself in the Hundred Years' War!
The manuscript pictured on the left has an extraordinary history. A copy of Froissarts Chronicles made around 1410-1414 for an unknown French knight, it was captured by an English knight during the Hundred Years' War and brought back as a trophy.
Sir John Arundell of Lanherne (1367-1435) came from an ancient Cornish family. Knighted at the coronation of Henry IV in 1399, he served on the Agincourt campaign and became very wealthy from the wars in France.
An idea of the size of Sir John's retinue is provided via an indenture of 1418 in which he agrees with his warleader the duke of Exeter to provide 364 men-at-arms and 770 archers.
The manuscript remained in the Arundell family for 500 years. In 1835, James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1785-1834) bequeathed it to his old school, Stonyhurst College.
This rare, genuine medival manuscript of Froissarfs Chronicles is kindly loaned to the exhibition by Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.
The Stonyhurst Chronicles is a book about the Hundred Years' War and was itself in the Hundred Years' War!
The manuscript pictured on the left has an extraordinary history. A copy of Froissarts Chronicles made around 1410-1414 for an unknown French knight, it was captured by an English knight during the Hundred Years' War and brought back as a trophy.
Sir John Arundell of Lanherne (1367-1435) came from an ancient Cornish family. Knighted at the coronation of Henry IV in 1399, he served on the Agincourt campaign and became very wealthy from the wars in France.
An idea of the size of Sir John's retinue is provided via an indenture of 1418 in which he agrees with his warleader the duke of Exeter to provide 364 men-at-arms and 770 archers.
The manuscript remained in the Arundell family for 500 years. In 1835, James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1785-1834) bequeathed it to his old school, Stonyhurst College.
This rare, genuine medival manuscript of Froissarfs Chronicles is kindly loaned to the exhibition by Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.