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political events

Joan of Arc enters Compiègne outside Paris May 23 and is taken prisoner along with her brothers. She is delivered to Jean de Luxembourg, who has besieged Compiègne and whose courtiers include the 40-year-old Picard nobleman and chronicler Enguerrand de Monstrelet. The latter witnesses her interview with Philippe le Bon, duc de Burgundy, and she is then handed over to the English, who imprison her in a tower at Rouen, intending to discredit her. Charles VII makes no effort to save Joan, nor is any interference made by John Plantagenet, duke of Bedford (see 1431).

Philippe le Bon, duc de Burgundy, mortgages the revenues of Holland and Zeeland to three members of Zeeland's noble Borselen family (see 1428). Jacoba of Bavaria secretly marries one of them (Franz, lord of Zuilen and St. Maarensdijk) as part of a scheme to end Burgundian sovereignty in Holland (see 1432).

Poland's nobility and clergy recognize the infant son of Wladyslaw II Jagiello as heir to the throne in March, and the king agrees to a limitation of his royal power, an accord that marks the beginning of an elective monarchy in the nation. Zbigniew Oleshnicki, bishop of Kraków, has represented the nobility as well as the clergy in negotiating with the king.

Lithuanian national leader Vytautus the Great dies at Trakai October 17 at age 80, having broken the power of the Teutonic Knights but failed in his efforts to gain the country's crown.

Thessalonika falls to the Ottoman Turks of Murad II and begins nearly 500 years of Turkish rule (see 1423; 1913; Sofia, 1385).

art

Painting: Mosaics for Venice's Church of San Marco by Italian painter Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono), 33, a member of the painters' guild since age 18. Uccello has contributed to the growing understanding of linear perspective.

Sculpture: David (bronze) by Donatello.

music

Flemish composer Gilles (Egidius) Binchois, 30, joins the chapel of Burgundy's Philippe II (le Bon), where he will remain until his death in 1460, writing Church music and secular chansons that will attract so much praise that by 1437 he will have become canon at Cassel, Mons, and Soignes.

food and drink

The Spanish wine house Valdespine at Jerez de la Frontera begins producing sherry. It will survive as the oldest sherry bottlers, winning a reputation for its manzanilla, fino, dry amontillado, medium amontillado, dry oloroso, medium olorosa, palo cortado, and sweet sherries.

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