Poison and crown. Dryon M.

Maurice Druon, the reading public knows primarily from the saga "Damned Kings", which revealed the gloomy secrets of the Middle Ages. Behind each work of the cycle there was painstaking work in the national archive, the study of documents written in archaic French or in Latin. “Poison and Crown” continues this series of historical frescoes, which opened with the novels “Iron King” and “Prisoner of Chateau-Gair.”

... half a year after the death of Philip the Beautiful. Under his reign, France was a great power. But the son of the Iron King Louis X - the monarch is weak and inept, and now the rebellious barons sow the turmoil in the province, officials are plundering the state treasury. The country is hungry.

Although it is possible, this is just a curse of the great master of the Templar Order...