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Jeanne de Charney, born in 1339, lived in the time of Barbara Tuchman’s book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (1978).  The Hundred Years War was in full swing.  In 1348, when Jeanne was nine years old, the Bubonic Plague devastated France for the first time; it was a constant dread for the rest of her life.  Between 1307 and 1314, the Knights Templar were obliterated.  Beginning in 1308, the Catholic Church was torn apart by the Avignon Papacy, and then in 1382, by the Western Schism — two sitting popes: a pope in Avignon and a pope in Rome.  (The pope in Avignon was Jeanne de Charney’s 36-year-old nephew.)  In the summer of 1358, peasants, called the Jacquerie, rose up and horribly murdered French nobles, men, women and children.

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~ In 1339, Jeanne de Charney was born. 

~ In 1346, in the Battle of Crecy (the second great battle of the Hundred Years War), English

            longbowmen destroyed the elite of French knighthood.

~ In 1348, when Jeanne was nine years old, the Bubonic Plague devastated France for the first time; it

            was a dreaded, random occurrence  for the rest of her life. 

~ The Knights Templar (officially obliterated between 1307 and 1314) continued to rule in secret. 

~ In 1357, the Shroud of Turin appeared in Jeanne’s tiny family church in Lirey, France.

~ In 1358, in the summer, peasants, called the Jacquerie, rose up and horribly murdered French nobles,

            men, women and children.  

~ In 1382, the Catholic Church was torn apart by the Western Schism – two sitting popes: a pope in

            Avignon and a pope in Rome.  The pope in Avignon was Jeanne de Charney’s 34-year-old

nephew.

~ In 1429, the year after Jeanne died, Joan of Arc rescued French monarchy.

~ In 2013, The Mystery of the Shroud was published.  Written by a Giulio Fanti,

            a professor of mechanical and thermal measurement at Padua University, Italy, and

            journalist Saverio Gaeta, it claims to “prove” that the Shroud is that of Jesus.