Gilles de Rais was innocent

While writing my book, and indeed in this blog, I always avoided following the various Jehanne alternative narratives down their various rab...

My previous essay on the case for the defence deliberately did not address the grounds to suppose that there was some kind of plot against ...

Almost everything we think we know about Gilles de Rais has come from corrupted sources and is false. Briefly, up until the late 19th centur...

Where did the King come into the plot? Was he jealous of Gilles' showy wealth, too? This is another recent myth, put about by people...

Why would Jean V have gone to such trouble to frame him? Gilles was broke and had already sold the Duke the two border castles he particul...

Do we know for certain that Gilles was homosexual? We know few things for certain about Gilles de Rais. Everything we are told about his...