Henry V and the Siege of Rouen

The siege of Rouen in 1418 was a brutal episode of medieval warfare, made worse by the fact that the city’s elderly and infirm were abandoned to a no man’s land. Daniel E. Thiery explains how the medieval mind justified such actions.

Massacre of the Armagnacs by the Bourguignons, Paris 1418, contemporary illustration from the 'Vigils of Charles VII' by Martial of Paris

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