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Time & Tales Podcast

Time & Tales Podcast

Date de sortie : 2025-11-25
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Date de sortie : 2025-11-25
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The Saint and The Sinner: Joan of Arc vs Gilles de Rais

The Saint and The Sinner: Joan of Arc vs Gilles de Rais

In 1440, a worried mother in Nantes reported her missing son—last seen led into the residence of Baron Gilles de Rais, Marshal of France and one of the richest nobles in Europe. Her testimony opened the door to one of the darkest criminal cases of the
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Gilles de Rais, medieval noble and alleged serial killer, was once a war hero who fought beside Joan of Arc. In 1440, a missing boy in Nantes led investigators to the baron’s estates, where rumors of vanished children surrounded one of the richest men in France. This dark history podcast episode follows his rise from hero of Orléans to infamous killer, walks through the trials and testimony, and asks how his story helped shape the later Bluebeard legend.
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Episode Sources (No Order):
Primary records & contemporary compilations
Ecclesiastical & secular proceedings (Nantes, 1440) – translated excerpts (indictment; Henriet & Poitou confessions). Famous Trials (Douglas O. Linder) hosts faithful English translations from published French editions:“Indictment of Gilles de Rais.”“Confession of Henriet (valet of Gilles de Rais), Oct. 23, 1440.”“Confession of Poitou, Oct. 1440.”Joan of Arc documentary corpus (for Orléans, Reims, and related 1429–31 material):Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses, ed./trans. Régine Pernoud—English ed. (uses trial & chronicle testimony).“Letter to the English” (22 Mar 1429), English translation from Quicherat, with notes; Joan of Arc Archive.“Royal Financial Records for Twenty Harkebusiers at Orléans, 1429” (payments record translated from Journal du siège d’Orléans); Joan of Arc Studies – Primary Sources Series.Hundred Years’ War treatiesTreaty of Troyes (1420) – translation and analysis (Anne Curry, University of Southampton).Scholarly syntheses & reference works
On Gilles de Reis (biography & trial analysis)Benedetti, Jean. The Real Bluebeard: The Life of Gilles de Rais (1971). English monograph; accessible via Internet Archive.Ross, Lia B. “Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais.” In Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (De Gruyter, 2012), pp. 359–402.(For historiography & cultural afterlives) Brill chapter overview touching Gilles and late-medieval context.On Joan of Arc, Orléans campaign, and sourcesPernoud, Régine. Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses (reliance on primary testimony; context for 1429 campaign and Reims).
Id. d’épisode : 1000738440741
GUID : 7d51fb83-b2af-45c1-bf1b-c0f9c2a96720
Date de publication : 25/11/2025 à 22:19:02

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Time & Tales Podcast — Dark History. Strange Lore. One Tale at a Time.
Welcome to Time & Tales Podcast — Dark History. Strange Lore. One Tale at a Time. Each week we bring you the spookiest tidbits from history and folklore. If macabre facts, eerie fables, and 4am rabbit holes are your natural habitat, you’re in the right place. New episodes every week, wherever you listen.
Prepared and presented by LaNae and CJ. One an author of dark fairy tales, fantasy, and folk horror; the other a skeptical engineer who keeps the evidence front and center. Expect the occasional. lighthearted clash!
If you’re ready for your next late-night obsession, this belongs in your queue.
As always, sources and links can be found in the show notes.
PODCAST THEME by RANDY LEE RIVIERE (randyleeriviere.com)
#history #folklore #darkhistory #fables

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