The Blind King’s Charge

Medieval Europe · 26 August 1346

The Blind King’s Charge

At Crécy the flower of French chivalry rides into English arrows

John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, was about fifty and completely blind, and near the village of Crécy in Picardy, on the evening of the twenty-sixth of August, 1346, he asked to be led into the middle of a battle…

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