Michael Jones

You can say that if you break your oath, you're exempted from the normal laws of war, but it's a nasty incident.

But I argue very strongly it didn't happen like that at all.

Because going back to what I've been saying about divine protection, the prince, after the Spanish expedition, thought, why am I ill?

Why is the war going wrong?

Because I have sinned, we have sinned in supporting this murderous psychopath, Pedro the Cruel.

And now we've lost God's favor.

So everything is about trying to win that favor back.

And the prince actually negotiates

for clemency to be shown towards towns or cities that through that they aren't being backed militarily, they think of going over to the French.

But I argue that it's a slur, propaganda slur.

And I think the one point I would make here is that when the prince does die in 1376, a year before his father dies,

The French sold a solemn memorial mass for him.

They hold a requiem mass.

It's never done for anyone else on the English side.

And Valois Chronicler says, you may think this is very strange that we're doing this for a mortal enemy, but he represented something far greater.

The aspiration, the model of knighthood that we all aspire to.

Well, if he'd just murdered thousands of innocent civilians, I don't think that was going to happen.

So I've argued very strongly that we need to see the prince in a different light.

Well, I used quite a lot of new documentary material.

So Limoges was divided up into two parts, the cité, which was a poorer part controlled by the bishop, and the château, which was the richer merchant quarters.