“We’ve talked about Troyes or the Treaty of Troyes before, haven’t we? And this is where you met Brother Richard.”
“Yes. The Treaty of Troyes was the ugly arrangement made by the King of France, the Dauphin’s father, or more to the point by Isabeau, the Dauphin’s mother, and the King of England and the Duke of Burgundy. As I told you, that Treaty named Henry V of England as heir to the French throne and specifically excluded the so-called Dauphin as heir. It stated that no treaties or peace were to be made with him. It implied that he was not really the son of the King of France. The suggestion that he was illegitimate was endorsed and perhaps even suggested by his mother. The Treaty also contained a clause arranging for the marriage of Henry V to Catherine, daughter of the French King an
