Guillaume de Tignonville

Which brings us back to a man we are going to meet properly in a moment.

Guillaume de Tignonville, Provost of Paris, the two clerks of 1407.

A few weeks before the murder of the Duke of Orléans in the autumn of 1407, Tignonville's officers arrested two young men accused of serious crimes, including highway robbery and murder.

Their names were Léger de Moussel, a Norman, and Olivier Bourgeois, a Breton.

Now we come to one of my favourite characters in all of medieval history.

A man who, if you squint a little, looks like he wandered out of a 1940s detective film and into the 15th century by mistake.

Guillaume de Tignonville, Provost of Paris.

Tignonville was a knight from a family of modest standing, not one of the great princely houses.