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Jane
de Belleville
Jane de Belleville
was a French noblewoman who turned against her country when her
beloved husband was executed by the French as a spy. With vengeance
in her heart, she sided with the English in the 1345 invasion of
Brittany. Seeking to enter the fray herself, she purchased and prepared
three ships with money from the sale of her worldly possessions.
She was a ruthless mistress of revenge at sea and on land, and no
ship nor town near the coast of Normandy was safe from her wrath.
With a flaming torch in one hand and a sword in the other, she must
have been a fearsome sight to behold, as she burned whole Norman
villages to the ground.
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