Gilles de Rais was innocent

At Orléans in 1434 Gilles de Rais  is supposed to have signed an infamous procuration, or deed of attorney, that put the management of his f...

 Ne craignez point la mort de ce monde, ce petit trépas...   Illustration by Robbie Ward from the short film  The Martyr

Time for another Bluebeardery and Copypasta post, I think, as we've been serious for a long time. Some people come up with the most biz...

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

[This is an extract from  The Martyrdom of Gilles de Rais . The tale is written in my own words, as it seemed wrong to steal an existing ver...

One of the most spectacular set pieces in the allegations against Gilles de Rais is the ferrying of forty decaying cadavers downriver, from ...

One of the set pieces of the trial is the case of Jean Hubert, aged fourteen, son of Jean and Nicole Hubert, who went missing in 1438. Georg...