"I am the Sire de Coucy": the dynasty

Born to woe: the century

Youth and chivalry

War

"This is the end of the world": the black death

The Battle of Poitiers

Decapitated France: the bourgeois rising and the Jacquerie

Hostage in England

Enguerrand and Isabella

Sons of iniquity

The gilded shroud

Double allegiance

Coucy's war

England's turmoil

The emperor in Paris

The papal schism

Coucy's rise

The worms of the earth against the lions

The lure of Italy

A second Norman conquest

The fiction cracks

The siege of Barbary

In a dark wood

Danse macabre

Lost opportunity

Nicopolis

Hung be the heavens with black.