Rather, they trampled it underfoot, robbing and pillaging the peasants’ goods”. In no way did they defend their country from enemies. They subjected and despoiled the peasants and the men of the villages. The nobles despised and hated all others and took no thought for the mutual usefulness and profit of lord and men. Thieves and robbers rose up everywhere in the land. … all went wrong with the Kingdom, and the state was undone. The king, however, together with his youngest son was taken as prisoner to England. Before the king was captured with his immediate entourage, he had succeeded in sending the Dauphin, the future Charles V, away. Then in 1355 he was sworn in as regent, after the English took his father, John II, and his younger brother as prisoner at the battle of Poitiers. At seventeen he was already militarily engaged in connection with a rebellion by the King of Navarre, Charles the Bad, against his father. Twelve years old he was married to his cousin, Jeanne de Bourbon, with whom he had eleven children. In 1349 the last dauphin – dolphin – of Viennois sold his rights to the French king on condition that the designated heir to France in the future would carry this honour in his arms.Ĭharles had an eventful youth. Charles was the first heir to the French king, who was styled Dauphin de Viennois.
He was born at a time, when the 100 years war had just broken out. Nevertheless, he succeeded in creating one of the first Late Medieval CourtsĬharles V of the House of Valois was born in January 1338 as the eldest son of John II and Bonne de Luxembourg. Charles V was King of France during the first phase of the 100-years war and in the aftermath of the Black Death.
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