Ask someone of the most notable figures in the 15th century and they may respond with: Jeanne d’Arc, Cosimo de Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, or those involved in the War of the Roses in England. However, there is one figure that is less recognizable, and yet he is personally connected to all those figures and events. That man is Rene d’Anjou, or ‘Good King Rene’.
A quick glance of his titles is enough to convince anyone that he held a significant amount of power, though some of his titles were titular, holding no real authority. He was: Count of Bar, Count of Provence, Count of Piedmont, Count of Guise, Duke of Calabria, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Anjou, King of Hungary, King of Sicily, King of Aragon, King of Valencia, King of Majorca, King of Sardinia and most resonant of all, the King of Jerusalem. He was also listed as the Ninth Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion, or Priory of Sion, right after Nicholas Flamel (Leonardo da Vinci is listed as the Twelfth).
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