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((Short description|1419 murder in Montereau, France))
((more citations needed|date=November 2012))
((Infobox civilian attack
| title            = Assassination of John The Fearless
| location         = [[Montereau-Fault-Yonne|Montereau]], [[France]]
| date             = ((start date and age|1419|9|10|df=y))
| image            = John the Fearless assassination.jpg
| caption          = Miniature showing the assassination, painted by the Master of the Prayer Books
| target           = [[John the Fearless|John The Fearless]]
| type             = [[Assassination]], [[stabbing]]
| fatalities       = 1
| perpetrators     = [[Tanneguy du Châtel|Tanneguy du Chastel]], Jean Louvet, and their men-at-arms
))

[[John the Fearless]], Duke of [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]], was assassinated on the bridge at [[Montereau-Fault-Yonne|Montereau]] on 10 September 1419 during a [[parley]] with the French [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]] (the future [[Charles VII of France]]), by [[Tanneguy du Chastel]] and Jean Louvet, the Dauphin's close counsellors.

== Context ==
((Main|Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War))
The assassination took place during the [[Hundred Years War]]. Two rival factions, the [[Armagnacs]] and the [[Burgundian (party)|Burgundians]], vied for power within the French regency council headed by the queen, [[Isabeau of Bavaria]]. The Duke of Orléans and leader of the Armagnacs, [[Louis I of Orléans]],  is said to have gained an advantage by becoming the queen's lover, with the subsequent allegation that Charles VII was the Duke of Orléans' illegitimate son. John the Fearless, sensing that he was losing power, had Louis of Orléans assassinated in Paris in 1407. This event led to a [[civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians]]. When the English invaded Normandy, John the Fearless manoeuvred to deal with them carefully, because the [[Low Countries]], which belonged to him, were dependent on the supply of English wool for the production of draperies. Therefore, he only sent a few troops to fight them. He profited from the war by taking power in Paris, supported by the academics and artisans. However, since the English had crushed the French knights at [[Battle of Agincourt|Agincourt]] in 1415, putting an end to the civil war was urgent.

[[John the Fearless]] and the [[Charles VII of France|Dauphin Charles]] met on 8 July 1419, at Pouilly-le-Fort, then again on 11 July, when they agreed the [[Treaty of Pouilly-le-Fort]]. On 19 July, their forthcoming reconciliation was celebrated in Paris with a [[Te Deum]]. That, however, was delayed by an English attack which, progressing along the course of the Seine, seized [[Poissy]] on 31 July and threatened Paris. The Duke of Burgundy had the royal family evacuated to Troyes, in the East.

Finally, John and Charles agreed to seal their alliance on the bridge across the Seine at [[Montereau-Fault-Yonne|Montereau]] on 10 September 1419.

== Motives ==
((Main|Assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans))
* The Armagnacs could not tolerate a rapprochement between the Dauphin and the Burgundians, which would diminish their influence.
* They wanted to avenge the [[Assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans|assassination of Louis of Orléans]] (1407), their former leader.
* It was suspected but not proven that John the Fearless was also behind the deaths of two of Charles's brothers, Louis and John.

== The assassination ==
[[File:Assassinat du duc de Bourgogne.png|thumb|right|Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, on the Bridge of Montereau, in 1419. — facsimile of a miniature in the "Chronicles" of Monstrelet, manuscript of the fifteenth century, in the Library of the Arsenal of Paris.]]
On 10 September 1419, the Dauphin and John the Fearless, with their men-at-arms, arrived on the two banks of the Seine, on either side of the bridge of Montereau. John the Fearless was informed that his life was in danger, and his entourage increased its watch in order to protect the duke. The same was done for the Dauphin. In the middle of the bridge, carpenters had put up two barriers with a door on each side, creating an enclosure for the meeting. It had been agreed that the two rivals would enter the enclosure, each with an escort of ten people, and that the doors would be closed during the meeting. Each of the ten men had taken an oath. Despite the arrangements that had been made, the Duke of Burgundy had second thoughts about the meeting.

The atmosphere was tense. The Duke knelt with respect before the Dauphin, who feigned indifference. Rising, John looked for support by putting his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"You put your hand on your épée in the presence of His Highness the Dauphin?" one of the Dauphin's companions, Lord Robert of Loire, asked him. [[Tanneguy du Châtel]] did not wait for this pretext to deliver an axe blow to the Duke's face, crying "Kill, kill!" There was then a scramble, according to a narrative given afterwards by Jean Séguinat, the Duke's secretary, to the commission of inquiry appointed by the Burgundians. Men-at-arms rushed into the enclosure through the door on the Dauphin's side, which had been kept open. The Duke was stabbed repeatedly, while the Dauphin, at a distance, remained impassive.

According to some accounts, the corpse of the Duke of Burgundy had the right hand cut off as the Duke himself had done twelve years earlier to his cousin, the Dauphin's uncle [[Louis I of Orléans]]. The Dauphin was pointed out as the principal instigator of the assassination of the Duke of Burgundy. Despite his denials and excuses, he could not clear himself.

== Consequences ==
((Main|Treaty of Troyes))
[[File:Virgin with Chancellor Rolin-Detail.jpg|thumb|''[[Madonna of Chancellor Rolin]]'' by [[Jan van Eyck]], dating from around 1435 (detail). A bridge in the painting has been suggested to have been the location of the assassination. The Treaty of Arras, concluded by Nicolas Rolin, (sitter of painting) on 21 September 1435, contained a decree to the effect that a cross in memory of the assassination be erected on the bridge. The years between the murder and the recently concluded Treaty can be read in the number of floor-tiles between the arcade and the picture-plane.<ref>Norbert Schneider. The Art of the Portrait: Masterpieces of European Portrait-painting, 1420–1670. Taschen 2002. pp. 36–39</ref>]]
This act would have catastrophic consequences for France, already greatly weakened by struggles for power and the [[Battle of Agincourt|French defeat at Agincourt]]. The new Duke of Burgundy, [[Philip the Good]], made an alliance with the English; John the Fearless had always avoided this, though he had observed a benevolent neutrality towards them and promptly benefited from their aid, e.g., in order to gain power in Paris. This led to the [[Treaty of Troyes]] a year later, which gave the crown of France temporarily to [[Henry V of England]]. The [[Armagnacs]] contested this treaty, but at the time controlled only the south-east of the country.

== John's skull seen by Francis I ==
In 1521, during a visit by [[Francis I of France]] to the Burgundian capital, a monk presented the skull of John the Fearless to the King of France, saying to him, "Sire, this is the hole through which the English entered France."

== Notes ==
((reflist))

== Bibliography ==
*Françoise Autrand ''Charles VI '', Fayard, 1986.
*Paul Bonenfant, ''Du meurtre de Montereau au traité de Troyes'', Coll. Mémoires de la classe des Lettres et Sciences morales et politiques, tome LII, fasc. 4, Bruxelles, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1958.

== Sources ==
* ''Le Meurtre de Jean Sans Peur sur le pont de Monterau'' (Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, 15th century, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris)
* [[Philippe de Commines]] [http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/chroniq/comm/C4_09.htm#C409_07_01 The assassination of John the Fearless] (15th century)

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[[Category:15th-century murder]]
[[Category:Hundred Years' War]]
[[Category:Assassinations in France|John]]
[[Category:1419 in Europe]]
[[Category:1410s in France]]

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