Medieval Match.com? James I, Joan Beaufort and the King’s Ransom
Medieval Match.com? James I, Joan Beaufort and the King’s Ransom. Professor Richard Oram. James’s progressively increasing importance in England from 1420 accelerated rapidly after Henry V’s death at Vincennes outside Paris on 31 August 1422. James, who had remained with the English king after the successful capture of Dreux and foray to Beaugency, was in…