Philip fears that Molay's curse is to blame soon enough, he suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses during a hunt, and dies days later. Forty days after Molay's execution, Clement dies of fever shortly thereafter, Mahaut's lady-in-waiting Béatrice d'Hirson arranges for Nogaret's painful death by means of a poisoned candle. Jeanne, innocent of adultery herself but complicit in the scandal, is imprisoned indefinitely. Marguerite and Blanche are sentenced to life imprisonment for their crimes, and their lovers Gautier and Philippe d'Aunay are tortured and executed. When Philip's self-serving persecution of the Knights Templar ends with the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay being burned at the stake, Molay curses his accusers-Pope Clement V, Nogaret and Philip himself-to the 13th generation. Philip's younger brother Charles, Count of Valois, resents the power and influence of the common-born Guillaume de Nogaret, Philip's prime councillor and keeper of the seal, and Enguerrand de Marigny, Philip's coadjutor.
Robert's own motive is to avenge himself on Jeanne and Blanche's mother, his great aunt Mahaut, Countess of Artois, who he believes has stolen his rightful inheritance. Philip's daughter Isabella, Queen of England, plots with the ambitious Robert of Artois to catch the wives of her three brothers-Marguerite, Jeanne and Blanche-in their suspected adulterous affairs.
Le Roi de fer (1955)(English title: The Iron King)įrench King Philip the Fair rules with an iron fist, but is surrounded by scandal and intrigue. Between 20, HarperCollins reissued the entire series in print and audiobook, including the last installment The King Without a Kingdom, which had never previously been published in English. The initial six books were first issued in English (translated by Humphrey Hare) between 19, by Rupert Hart-Davis in the United Kingdom and by Scribner's in the United States, with periodic reprints through the 1980s. The first six novels of Les Rois maudits were published in France by Del Duca between 19, and the final volume was released by Plon in 1977. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War. Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, the series begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar.
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