TW: rape and violence. Rejected Princesses is a series of illustrations of badass women from history whose stories wouldn’t make the cut for animated kids movies. They are illustrated in a contemporary animation style. And they even have a book, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics. This is the story of 15th century legend, Marguerite de Bressieux, The Black Knight Who Hunted Rapists, told by Rejected Princesses:
“At the close of the Hundred Years’ War, one woman gets a footnote in the histories, but it’s a hell of a footnote: her name was Marguerite de Bressieux, and she hunted rapists. For more info, and my attempts to unravel whether this is pseudohistory or not, check out the full entry here.”
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Source: Rejected Princesses
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics book available here! “Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep. A brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog.”
(via: Rejected Princesses facebook)
Margurite de Bressieux does not appear in Wikipedia
Not all things factual are added to Wikipedia.
There’s an entry about her at https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/marguerite-de-bressieux-d-1450 however
I imagine loads of female history doesn’t appear in Wikipedia, given that history is written by the winners and they tend to be men.
and also given that Wikipedia is only 21 years old… while French history is…
So add her.
Oranges didn’t hit France until 200 years after the hundred year war, so unless their pennant was a splotch of orange as in they impaled the color, and not the fruit, I’ll enjoy this for the heavily embellished tale with maaaaaaybe a grain of truth in it that it is.