20 - Bonds Broken by Battle, Bite and Bridge

At the end of the first decade of the 1400s, everything seemed to be going peachy for John the Fearless, the Duke of Burgundy. He had resisted a large rebellion and maintained his centralising influence over most of the low-countries as well as nurtured and made official the alliance his father had created with the other major powerbase in the low countries, the Count of Holland. By the end of the second decade of the 1400s, however, fate, in the forms of an English army with long-bows, a mad dog, and a treacherous bridge, would intervene and John would be dead. With their departure from the scene, the fate of the low countries would once again be thrown into the realms of uncertainty. With thanks to Pieter Wiemken, Mark Lemke, Thomas Davern and Kiri for becoming Patreon subscribers. SHOW NOTES: https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/episodes/historyofthenetherlands/episode-20-bonds-broken-by-battle-bite-and-bridge PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/historyofthenetherlands TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/historyofNL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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