John XXIII

1370–1419

John XXIII was the Pisan antipope elected during the Western Schism. His authority depended on one of several competing papal obediences, and the Council of Constance deposed him while working to reunify the Latin church.

In Toby Clements’s A Good Deliverance, his confession moves through service in France, the Battle of Verneuil, encounters with Joan of Arc and the court of the antipope John XXIII, knighthood under Henry VI and imprisonment under Edward IV. Simon Fairfax’s A Knight and a Spy 1414 is set in 1414, Henry V’s government prepares for war with France while diplomacy and church politics pull England into the business of the Council of Constance.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to John XXIII

Late Medieval 1,300–1,499 CE Western Schism 1378–1417 CE

Series

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The Road to Agincourt- King’s Spy in Order

by Simon Fairfax 6 books 4.4

The Road to Agincourt: King’s Spy follows Sir James de Grispere through the final years before Henry V’s French campaign. Beginning under the failing rule of Henry IV and ending at Agincourt, the sequence combines court espionage, diplomatic missions, Channel piracy, Lollard conspiracy, the Western Schism and the…

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