page_title: Louis I, Duke of Orléans
section_title: Murder
hierarchical_section_title: Louis I, Duke of Orléans / Murder
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Meurtre du duc Louis d'Orléans, par le Maître de la Chronique d'Angleterre (enlumineur), (BnF)
context_page_description: Louis I of Orléans was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death. He was also, Duke of Touraine, Count of Valois Blois, Angoulême, Périgord and Soissons.
  Louis was the second son of King Charles V of France and Joanna of Bourbon and was the younger brother of Charles VI. In 1498, his heirs male inherited the French throne after the extinction of the Valois main line.
context_section_description: On Sunday 20 November 1407, the contending Dukes exchanged solemn vows of reconciliation before the court of France. But only three days later, Louis was brutally assassinated in the streets of Paris, by the orders of the Duke of Burgundy John the Fearless. Louis was stabbed while mounting his horse by fifteen masked criminals led by Raoulet d'Anquetonville, a servant of the Duke of Burgundy.
  An attendant was severely wounded.
  John was supported by the population of Paris and the University. He could even publicly admit the killing. Rather than deny it, John had the scholar Jean Petit of the Sorbonne deliver a peroration justifying the killing of tyrants.
  Louis' murder sparked a bloody feud and civil war between Burgundy and the French royal family which divided France for the next twenty-eight years, ending with the Treaty of Arras in 1435.
caption: Louis's assassination on the rue Vieille du Temple.
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